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Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama

Well yes of course I do otherwise I wouldn't be posting. If I didn't have the belief that I could be a critic I would keep mum like some of our lurker members. As for a bitter world, I don't know if that's the case, but I admit that I'm not a very emotional person nor do I really need to watch anime to feel better. I watch it because it's a little extra fun at the end of my day, but I'm normally very well balanced in terms of mood.




I can't speak for the female population because I am of course a male, nor will I try to, but yes of course I have been a teenager and still am a kid at heart in more respects then I would normally be willing to admit. I haven't given up on having fun nor will I ever, but excluding episode 08 I didn't have as much fun as I could have with K-On. It's good that many people had the best of times with this show, but unfortunately I can't sidestep the fact that in the end it just didn't mean a whole lot to me.

Now I have a question for some people. We've established and I think agreed upon, be it cynically or jubilantly, that:

- This show was trying to be a straight up moe series
- That it concerned itself little with character development
- That it just wanted to be "light and fluffy."

What if even in recognizing that as K-On's purpose a viewer still doesn't find it a satisfying show? What if a viewer doesn't find that these points about the shows nature warrant the serious reflection that Yui gave near the end of the episode and that it doesn't fit in with the whole light and fluffy nature of the rest of the series? What exactly did Yui expect the viewer to feel? What if the viewer didn't feel any sort of relation to her monologue nor did they feel it was well led up to to give it that sort of feel good vibe it was going for? Where does that put that viewer in a given user's eyes?



Pardon the intrusion, but I'll bite on this line of discussion. First I'll just say that I don't think the different types of approaches you talk about here are necessarily seperate and distinct. I'd like to think some of us have a marriage of both. It is possible to have a measure of tact while still reserving ones right towards an opinion and analysis that could prove unpopular at the end of the day.



Again I don't think that's necessarily the case at all. While I disagree with the idea that "emotional" and "intellectual" users are seperate and distinct, I'll play along with the idea and offer that emotional people can be just as threatening, offensive or defensive as an intellectual user who is concerned primarily with making their points heard. Also I think it's a little presumptious to assume that the more intellectual user can't recognize that for some liking something is enough for some don't you? Not sure I feel about categorizing users into two groups of "intellectual" or "emotional" and it kind of distracts from the discussion of the episode don't you think?



Again not really sure about this whole two and only two seperate and distinct schools of reaction to anime, but I'll continue to play along and just say that I don't really worry if people don't agree with me, I simply feel content when I know that they have listened to what I have to say. That's all we can ask for at the most basic level of discussion, that we listen to one another on a forum.



Again no middle ground, just polar personality types always at odds with one another? I think there's a hint of truth to the idea that everybody on some level wants people to be more like them, but I don't think there's all their is too forum discussions either. You are also forgiven, but it does worry me a little to hear that you see it as a neccesity to stamp out "these sorts of arguments" but to also feel that you've simplified the situation as well.



No argument here.



Same here. I'm willing to play it by ear and see where this whole thread and discussion goes for now.

Ah I see.
Meh, whatever.

I'd argue back but its not really worth my time.
Anyhow, I was also expecting them to perform Cagayake! Girls but Brush and Ballpoint Pen wasn't bad either.

Also, Yui's statement "This is our Budokan!" at this ep. might be a hint from KyoAni that there'll be no season 2.