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View Poll Results: K-On!! (Second Season) - Episode 5 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 33 | 37.08% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 24 | 26.97% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 21 | 23.60% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 7 | 7.87% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 3 | 3.37% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 1.12% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
Voters: 89. You may not vote on this poll |
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2010-05-10, 04:10 | Link #141 | |
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2010-05-10, 04:21 | Link #142 |
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The only thing I can think of why we rarely see post-high school anime may be that any and all girls featuring in it would become full-fledged adults and thus might become less 'desirable'.
Still, there is so much potential for this particular series, given the overlap with music and the girls' desire to keep the band going well past high school and into college, it would be an enormous waste to leave a goldmine like that untouched.
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2010-05-10, 04:39 | Link #143 |
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It would be interesting to see what happens next, whilst I can see most of the girls going to univeristy I really cant imagine Yui going, having said that I cant really see her starting a band on her own, she doesnt have the drive to do it.
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2010-05-10, 06:34 | Link #144 |
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I wonder if it would be possible to both follow the main four on to the university, and also have Azusa, Ui and Jun as regular characters, keeping up the light music club. Or maybe that just result in a big mess. But even if the story sticks to Yui, Mio, Ritsu and Mugi (hmm, in these kind of discussions maybe there would be practical to have a specific nickname referring to the four of them only...), Ui would be bound to show up quite often anyway.
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2010-05-10, 08:11 | Link #145 |
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This was the best episode of the season - and four of the five main characters were MIA throughout. There is something wrong with that. I did love how Ui learned how to bat so easily, guess that family are hidden geniuses or something.
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2010-05-10, 08:17 | Link #146 | |
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2010-05-10, 13:08 | Link #147 | |
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Lucky*Star seems to be bopping around reasonably well handling 2 to 3 groups of people in a 4-koma context (basically bringing in whoever makes the joke funny, etc). Part of the interest in following the original four would be the obstacles in making the band work if they don't go to the same university (though I can see Mio ending up at Tokyo U. and the rest ending up at a music/arts school nearby... unless they talk Mio into "following her heart" instead of her pragmatic brain).
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2010-05-10, 15:40 | Link #149 | |
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Speaking of expectations, looks like next week I might get to tick off yet another notch on my All Girl Slice of Life episode plot checklist. That would probably complete it if it turns out to be the case. I wouldn't call it boring, just run of the mill to fault. If you have the pedigree of having watched even one All Girl Slice of Life series before this one and an inability to block out of memories of the previous one it's going to feel all too familiar.....just with the forced moe ratcheted up far higher than the volume of the music they are playing. That's the only thing I can see character wise that differentiates this from any All Girl Slice of Life series seeing as how the characters really have no personality or gravitas to call their own. It looked like they were going to have some extended character development in the very first episode of the first season (or at least like the show was building in that direction), but it almost seemed like they shifted gears quickly and we have what we have now. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2010-05-10 at 15:53. |
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2010-05-10, 22:18 | Link #150 | |
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Did like the episode a lot, can definitely see a split focus narrative between the older and younger members a la Lucky Star. |
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2010-05-10, 23:17 | Link #151 | |
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I have watched a LOT of anime over my years and I personally haven't seen anything that has taken the tiniest details and shown them from multiple people's perspectives as this did, up until now... if there is a show that has done it (and don't say Suzumiya Haruhi) I'd like to go watch it... |
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2010-05-10, 23:46 | Link #152 | |
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As for shows that do the multiple people's perspectives and incidental details, I'd say that Durarara is doing a much better job at that sort of thing and gets a huge plus for actually keeping things interesting. Then again that show actually has different things going on each week other than just girls being girls. The problem is yet again that I have just seen this concept presented by K-On done to death, and K-On alone is taking a concept that has already been run into the ground as of late and is driving it right to the center of the Earth at mach speeds. You're calling up these "everyday life" things like it's supposed to be something special or unheard of in anime, but it really isn't and I don't understand why people praise this sort of stuff like it's exceptional since there's practically an entire sub-genre of the slice of life genre dedicated to it. In fact there's even another show this season that I would say is milking the concept in Working! K-On practically does the "everyday life" thing every single week except it's a really idealized, escapist and cutesy picture of life, the same one I see in pretty much ever All Girl Slice of Life show. Again just doing "everyday life" is not going to cut it for me in terms of getting praise or me calling it anything other than run of the mill since I've seen it so many times by now in many different shows, sometimes in ways that challenge me as a viewer to focus and channel my interest towards the actions of the characters and sometimes not. If this episode was supposed to inspire something in me then it failed miserably at that as well. Anyway until I see this show actually do something that sets it apart I'm probably going to have the same comments every week. |
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2010-05-18, 14:19 | Link #158 | |
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So why stick yourself in this rut every week? Despite the slightly confrontational tone of this post, I really am interested. I barely have the time to watch shows I enjoy, let alone those I know are going to let me down. I can only assume you enjoy cultivating your supposed superiority by telling us we're wrong, that we shouldn't be enjoying something unless it's bravely redefining a medium. But really, bud, there's a line where criticism becomes cynicicm and you just start sounding like a dick.
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2010-05-19, 00:56 | Link #159 |
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Really enjoyed seeing things from the side characters' view. Yeah, you have to feel for Ui when she realizes her oneesan's not coming home for a while. And again, I also liked how Jun was fully developed in such a short period.
And Vexx's description of Ui was spot-on for me; a developing Yamato Nadeshiko and possible yandere. In a way her relationship with Yui is similar to that of the Hiiragi twins in how she deeply depends on her big sis, though it's interesting here in that Ui's obviously the more competent one...and yet she's still somewhat emotionally dependant on Yui. She's still the imouto in that sense. And of course Shana comes to mind with Azunyan. Anyway, about that last scene where they were playing with the hiragana (?) characters that make up the word K-On. At one point Ritsu rearranged the letters and said it was the name of "a demon that lives in the Tohoku region", among other things. Was that wordplay accurate? PS: Yamato Nadeshiko is obviously an archetype, but according to TVTropes, Audrey Hepburn came pretty close. |
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