{"id":2990,"date":"2009-06-18T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2009-06-18T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:23:59","slug":"k-on-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/k-on-12\/","title":{"rendered":"K-ON! 12: You mean there&#8217;s a thirteenth episode? (\u00b4\u0414\uff40)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2992\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618225035.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2992\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2992\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618225035.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heheh, nice joke!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So this episode in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Power of friendship<\/li>\n<li>Being in the K-ON has given Yui a purpose in life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224331.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2993\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224331.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really hate it when anime get right up in your face and tell you directly what a scene is trying to portray. \u00a0Yui gaining her balance was a very masterful few seconds. \u00a0Yui running to school with the guitar on her back while <strong>directly explaining to the audience<\/strong> how she was given something productive to do via the light music club was certainly not masterful. \u00a0I felt stupid just listening to her monologue. \u00a0KyoAni is basically spoonfeeding me information that I already know and have known for the past eleven episodes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/power-of-friendship.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2996\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/power-of-friendship.png?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh noes, we need Yui here even though Ui is so much better! \u00a0It&#8217;s meaningless to go out there and play a better song!<\/p>\n<p>TOMODACHITOMODACHITOMODACHI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224606.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2994\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224606.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RANDOM SAD YUI needed for reinforcement of &#8220;power of friendship&#8221; theme!<\/p>\n<p>So basically, Yui runs all the way from home to the school while delivering what might be the most boring speech I&#8217;ve ever heard in an anime about how she has finally found something that helps her be confident in herself and do something productive, and then she breaks down on stage for the sole purpose of promoting the power of friendship theme.<\/p>\n<p>What.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe this. \u00a0Could you make it any more obvious? \u00a0Hey KyoAni, just stick a sign above Yui&#8217;s head saying &#8220;POWER OF FRIENDSHIP&#8221; and instead of making her say &#8220;Come to think of it, I&#8217;ve always been troubling you,&#8221; modify the script to read &#8220;Come to think of it, I need to start crying right about now, completely forgetting my hour-long soliloquy, to continue on this ridiculous &#8216;power of friendship&#8217; farce.&#8221; \u00a0We might as well have yellow lights floating down from the ceiling and have Tomoya make a guest appearance on his way back to the past!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2995\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224627.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2995\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2995\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090618224627.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I lol&#39;d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/oh-god-please.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2991\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/oh-god-please.png?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe there are people begging for a second season.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky Star had no plotline, and it was good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">School life comedy + no plotline = success<\/p>\n<p>K-ON! tries to have a plotline, and it is bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">School life comedy + plotline = epic failure<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;especially when there is no balance between the random comedy naturally springing from a slice-of-life comedy and the drama needed to produce the plotline (rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, etc. all need some kind of dramatic thing to come into this world, you know!).<\/p>\n<p>tl;dr: <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">FAIL<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-Me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}