K-on!

[Lizarazu]

K-ON!




Alternative title: けいおん！ (Japanese)
Keion!

Anime:

Type: TV;
Genres: comedy, slice of life, seinen;
Themes: bishoujo, moe, music, school;


Running time: 24 minutes per episode;
Number of episodes: 13 (12+1 extra);
Vintage: 2009-04-02 to 2009-06-25


Studio: Kyoto Animation
Director: Naoko Yamada

Opening:

"Cagayake! GIRLS" by Aki Toyosaki with Yoko...

Ending:

"Don't say ''lazy''" by Yoko Hikasa with Aki...

Story Plot

Four High school girls, first year, decide to get to life the music club and that's how the make a band:

For the four ones, Yui is the last one that joins and at first she thought that she will just play the castanets but finaly she will be the one at the guitar.
Because the club becomes popular again and everybody like them, another girl wants to join. Nakano Azusa it's an year younger than the rest of the band members but she is good at playing the guitar.
The story continuate with the bands funny experiences and trainings.
The seria ends with a final show at which Yui comes a little late and also forgots the guitar, but everything worked just fine.

Characters

Tainaka Ritsu aka Ricchan

- Drums -

Ritsu is somehow just like Yui: always funny and absent-mindedness. She is friend with Mio since they were little chids. Ritsu is the leader of the band but still she always forgot the important things and when it's time to training she always prefers to just seat and drink some tea.

Tsumugi Kotobuki aka Mugi

- Keyboards -

Mugi enters the band just for fun. Her family is very rich and she has a lot of houses on the beach. Mugi is the ones that brings the cookies and the tea in the band trainings.

Akiyama Mio
- Bass -

She is the smart member of the group, she has big grades at school and also she is the mature one. Everybody starts to like her and her wird lirics and also she get a fan club Mio.


Hirasawa Yui
- Guitar -

She is the giddy member of the group. At first, when she joined the music club, she didn't knew to play at any instrument, but the band decided that she should play at the guitar. With everybodys suporting, she actualy learned to play the guitar.

Nakano Azusa aka Azu-nyan
- Guitar -

She is the last member of the group. She decides to join after she sees the band's reprezentaition at the welcome for the new students.

Yamanaka Sawako

She is the band's councillor. At first she didn't wanted to do that but the members of the band found out the she was also in the club and she accepted after all. Sawako is a teacher, but she's lazy, imature and always absent-minded.

Hirasawa Ui

She's Yui's sister. She is younger and totaly opposite then Yui. Because they resemble a lot, one time when Yui was sick, she tried to take her place in the band.

Manabe Nodoka

Nodoka is Yui's friend for a long time. She is one of the school councillors.



Manga:

Author & Artist: Kakifly;
Year: 2007;
Status in Country of Origin: 3 Volumes (Ongoing);
Original Publisher: Houbunsha;
Licensed (in English): No


Personal thought: I Enjoied this seria. It's a funny one, the grafics are really good, the songs are cute and have nice lirics. And not to forgot to mention the very cute cibis. It's a short but good one. It's a *must see*; 10/10.

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~ ~ Basic informations from: ANN and Mangaupdates (the first for anime and the second for manga). ~ ~
~ ~ Plot and characters description: Lizarazu (me). ~ ~
~ ~ Pictures: the holy Google (yeah, right). ~ ~

[alex1_phang3]

Yeap, a must see for anyone that have connections with music in one way or another.

Me personally, a multi purpose percussionist in my old school's band(which I dislike staying due to various reasons)

[rjtayler]

An excellent review and nicely impartial. Good use of information and well presented. I am impressed and also like your prose style. Good use of available information. Well done. I look for more reviews from you in the future.

[Yiew]

I feel this is more of an advertisement style review rather than a critical one =P

I know everyone has there different style, but to someone reading it and who hasnt seen the anime, I believe its kind of, lacking in information about the story.
Character wise the general description is great, but they way the interact, their basis, etc etc isnt there.

Im not being mean, but it needs a slight more touch-up of information ^^
Otherwise, its very descriptive about the anime, i.e. running times, who produced it etc.

[Lizarazu]

Originally Posted by rjtayler

An excellent review and nicely impartial. Good use of information and well presented. I am impressed and also like your prose style. Good use of available information. Well done. I look for more reviews from you in the future.

Thanks for that. The only fact is that I've read more mangas than watching the anime, but I'll do for both of them.

Originally Posted by Yiew

I feel this is more of an advertisement style review rather than a critical one =P

I know everyone has there different style, but to someone reading it and who hasnt seen the anime, I believe its kind of, lacking in information about the story.
Character wise the general description is great, but they way the interact, their basis, etc etc isnt there.

Im not being mean, but it needs a slight more touch-up of information ^^
Otherwise, its very descriptive about the anime, i.e. running times, who produced it etc.

Maybe the story plot, the fact with the ending might be a spoiler but it's not something that important (from my view). Lacking in informations? Well, maybe I understand wrong that but you mean that are informations missing? It's like that fact with they way the interact, their basis, etc etc isnt there. I can just write all of them. It's like *watch the anime and see*.
Anyway, I, of one, will watch the anime again (because I wanna do that, I like it) and after, if I consider some important informations missing, I'll edit the review.
Hm, just that, the conections betweet the characters and their personality do all the fun and that the plot of the story. For me that seems to be the spoiler.

[Takanori_Yoshida]

I haven't watched it completely but I must say I've enjoyed it very much so far.
One of my new faves ^^