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Originally Posted by Ithekro
Well...with a movie budget they could actually animate a full concert (or at least match "God Knows" level animation) added with KyoAni's standard background artwork that is already at movie levels. The question though is what would it be about?
A simple rehash seems odd. A movie would require a plot of sorts, and there is rather little drama in K-ON. There are one or two chapters they skipped in the anime, but they have one more episode to cover those.
I can think of one piece of drama they've not done, but I hardly think they can make that a movie. Other options would be college stuff, Azusa's band, or perhaps just a standard story arc with a lot more on stage stuff...and the two or three songs we've not heard them play yet.
Or maybe a sequence of how or way they made the three ED music videos?
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A college/post-college arc would create drama and provide a plot for a movie. Let's say that, in spite of their best intentions, the girls go their separate ways.
For example: Azusa got wrapped up in managing
her keion-bu in her senior year. Let's say she forms a tighter bond with Ui, Jun, and whatever redshirt they find to fill that fourth spot (since, presumably, the work-ethic of Azusa's keion-bu would be
much better than in HTT's day.) She goes on to a different school, maybe takes up playing in a different band, or something. Mugi ends up studying abroad for a year. In Finland, or something. Mio and Ritsu grow distant over a boy, or just because they pick vastly different majors, or some other reason. Yui decides JWU really isn't for her, drops out, packs up Gitah, and goes backpacking in Europe.
So the girls go their separate ways. They keep in touch, but this "HTT" thing is as dead as the dodo. Then they get together for some reason. Maybe Sawako finally gets married, or one of them attains legal drinking age . . . a lot of things could work. They get to reminiscing about old times, and one of them goes, "Hey, wouldn't it be great if . . . " and gradually convinces the others to pick up their instruments again, and try to get the old band back together.
For the film's climax, the girls could perform at some small concert space. They give it their all, feel the energy of the crowd, and decide that maybe this "HTT" thing is worth pursuing after all. The movie could close with the girls together again, looking over their old high-school scrapbook, and plotting how they're going to get to Budokan.
The credits roll, and the ending can be taken as putting a neat little bow on the franchise, or leaving things open for follow-up OVAs or series depicting them as professional musicians, working towards the goal of headlining a show at the Budokan.