K-ON! is Still One of My Favorite Anime OAT

This post contains slight overview and spoilers to the series, but I assure it won’t ruin your first time watching if you haven’t watching it yet! :)

‘K-ON!’ (or Keion) is not just anime girls goofing around in their high school years. It’s actually an ‘over-engineered’ anime adaptation from Kakifly’s ‘K-ON!’ manga.

I watched Keion some time at the end of my junior high school years. OOMF actually recommend me to watch Keion because it’s like Asian Kung-fu Generation band that some of my friends and I currently listen to. Hirasawa Yui’s Les Paul is pretty much like Kensuke Kita’s Les Paul and they’re both the lead guitarist of the band, but OOMF get the idea that Yui is pretty much like Masafumi Gotou. That aside, I watched the main series to the end, but I haven’t completed Ura-ON! (low budget comedic sketch extras) yet.

If you look around YouTube or some web articles, Keion too is one of the most overanalyzed and studied anime. They’ll talk about how good Keion at its video narration, direction, and other story compositions, or they would talk about how Keion helps themselves to keep on living. “Simple things matter,” or “Cherish every little things that happened to your life.” Though there’s some solid criticism towards the series too, so it’s not like the series is flawless; completely perfect in any side anyhow. Keion just really grows well on people’s heart.

I’m not really that experienced to give deep analysis to a piece of cinema. To me, Keion’s story delivery is Goldilocks of not too boring and not too stimulating to watch to. Some of the early episodes is quite engaging enough for me to continue watching to the end. I think what people would not like about Keion is Japan anime moe and cute girls doing cute things, or the story having not enough conflict to be engaging. I have no problem nor to be embarrassed to consume moe anime girls and all. The story’s conflict level is probably enough for people that have tough IRL occupations and don’t want to be stressed by media that they want to consume.

I’m not a fictophilia nor putting every media that I’ve consumed to my entire personality. So far, one character that I’ve set her as profile picture or use a lot on the internet is Kotobuki Tsumugi, because she has eccentric wealthy girl trait and funny character design. But as reasonable and logical minded young man, I’ve never spotted any romantic chance with a freaking fictional character, I’m glad that I’m not getting it.

I watched the Keion’s main series, the movie, special episodes, some VAs interviews, practices, and their musics. I usually listen to “Ho-kago Tea Time II” album disc two that contains their cassette recordings from ‘K-ON!!’ (the series’ second season) episode 23. They have about 11 original songs that are canon to the story, i.e. songs that they made during the story and not something like anime opening nor ending songs. Some of the songs have their writing process and all put in the series’ story, that’s why I’m so attached to their original songs. You’ll have one song that practically comedic and will have you smirk every time the punchline from the song played, and you’ll have the most emotion heavy song that stays in your head rent free for some long time.

Keion is not drama musical, so the songs will be delivered by performing or practicing, just like musical band is. That works for me, because I and some other fellows in my generation love to hear raw recordings, demo, or some alternative way of recording of our favorite musician. Keion actually have a lot of music products, like songs that played with Azusa or before Azusa, songs with other member as the vocalist, their specific personal character album, and so on.

Kyoto Animation actually innovate really well on Keion, they made whole lot of commodities to sell, from anime series, anime songs, physical merchandises, and much more that I can’t think nor mention right now. They’re not necessarily take one person’s intellectual property and made buncho slops like nowadays profit-above-all driven corpo, but they’re adapting it so people would like it even more and grow a genuine connection.

I wanted to write this because I recently watched Linda Linda Linda, but we’ll talk about that on some other time. I appreciate you all for reading my writings.

and I really appreciate you for reading to the end, if you have any feedback for something like mistypes, inaccuracies, any kind of corrections, or just want to give your thoughts, feel free to contact me directly! Thank you, really!