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Sources are conflicting as to whether or not K-On! was the origin of the phrase moé moé kyun. I've heard this phrase thrown around in some Japanese game shows and even Hong Kong game shows, although I am uncertain as to whether or not they predate K-On!. Moreover, I've heard from unverified sources that the phrase was inspired by a trend in Maid Cafés. I myself am inclined to believe that K-on! was not the origins of the phrase, although it certainly did help popularise it. As for its usage in Haganai, the fact that it is there implies that the phrase was probably not unique to K-On! (otherwise, feathers would fly with respect to intellectual property and so fourth ) I hope this sufficiently addresses your points
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@ForwardUntoDawn: Thanks for that info... really helped...
Now I need to ask this thread something. Is there a genderbent name for Nodoka, I mean what would be a male Nodoka be named? (ex: Yui=Yuu, Ritsu=Rikku). I need it for my "research". I kinda stumbled into the name "Okuda", And thought about the feasibility of a male named "Okuda Manabe" but I'm not very familiar with Japanese names, and I don't know if this is applicable for a first name for a boy (Okuda appears as a Japanese last name in most of my searches). please help me... thanks...
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There is no similar equivalent to Nodoka with respect to its written form. However, as Nodoka approximates to "peaceful" or "calm" in the name's meaning, we may choose a male name with a similar meaning that begins with an 'n' hiragana. These criteria are statisfied by the name Naoyasu, although how satisfactory this is will depend on your intents and purposes.
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Is this line in the American release?
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First: There's not really enough material in the two follow-on comics to make another movie. The movie worked because it had forty-one TV/OVA episodes to fit into. Making the follow-on stories into a movie has the problem of having to introduce all these new characters and their backstories, plus all the new settings, within the space of two hours. Second: While they could've made a TV series or OVA out of the two follow-on series ... a lot of effort was made to focus the series around the YuiAzu dynamic, or the character dynamics of the First Four. Neither follow-on really captures that. The high-school follow-on only has Azusa + miscellaneous characters, and is pretty much a rehash of original K-ON! The college follow-on has the First Four, but it takes place in college ... a place anime directors these days simply don't like to go to. It, too, also rehashes a lot of K-ON! plot standbys; and has the added problem of heavily diluting the character dynamics of the First Four with their experiences in the college music club. Third: Both follow-on series were relatively poor sellers. Also, KyoAni allowed the production staff of K-ON! to produce an original show of their own, which floated similar art style and was of the same character-driven light-and-fluffy slice-of-moe-life genre as K-ON! ... which also did poorly. Fourth: KyoAni has, at last count, three projects in the pipe. Four if you count the Chunnibuyo recap movie. For that reason alone, I wouldn't have expected a K-ON! related TV announcement for at least another year.
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I agree with GMT.
On the one hand, I have missed K-On a bit lately, but on the other hand, at least this is one franchise that won't be drove into the ground due to its popularity. Some anime franchises go on well beyond their "best before" date, and I don't think that's the case with K-On! Both K-On!!'s finale episode and the movie effectively ended things on a high note, and it wasn't a painful slog getting there. But take some cheer. Maybe one day the show will get re-made, Rozen Maiden-style.
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K-On! is the romanisation of 軽音 (Keion), or light music. Technically, this is supposed to be the working title. Kanij, however, is derived off Chinese glyphs and thus, is more complex. Katakana is used for transcribing foreign words into Japanese, and since "light music" is not of foreign origin, Katakana is not used. Thus, we are left with Kanji and Hiragana to deal with.
Hiragana has had a long history of usage and is also the most commonly used. As such, it is likely the writing system that viewers have the greatest familiarity with; while I'm not totally sure, a study found the Japanese prefer Hiragana over Katakana, citing the former as giving a warmer feeling to the text owing to the curving aesthetics of Hiragana characters. Because Hiragana is the first writing system Japanese children pick up, it is the one that is most familiar and thus, most friendly-looking. Hiragana is also the writing system that introductory Japanese courses teach. Contrast Keion written as (けいおん) with (ケイオン): the latter is more angular and rough, whereas the former is gentler in appearance. Incidentally, kanji is the last writing system taught, being the most complex to master (unless one had previous experience with the writing system). K-On! isn't a complicated anime by any stretch, so using Kanji to represent the title would subtly undermine the anime's atmospherics. We now apply this logic to K-On!, a simple, heartwarming anime about a group of high school girls and their halcyon life as high school students. Using Hiragana would imply that the anime itself would be simple, laid-back and fun, descriptors that rather fit what we see nicely.
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In case anyone here watched Accel World, I'm pretty sure the girl at 8:32 of episode 18 (Leading Role) of season 2 who told Mio to talk louder was voiced by the same person who voiced Noumi. I find this interesting considering the two characters are of different gender, but I guess that isn't too uncommon in the world of voice acting.
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K-ON. What can I say about this one...for one, I have known about it since long ago, but only just recently watched it last month. The style, the way they do everything; it feels DIFFERENT from most anime and I can think up a few solid reasons:
1) The animation style. Unlike most anime that always aims for detail, some doing it flawlessly; K-ON sacrificed the detail, slightly, in order to give more fluid movement to the characters. This includes their realistic tripping on things, the other characters' reactions to that incident and much more. Truly, their animation style is unique; K-ON ALWAYS feels like a movie due to its atmosphere. Also, I rarely see the characters on a standstill where they only move when they are talking or pulling comedy routines; like they always move around whenever someone is speaking. If they were aiming for realism, they have it spot on. 2) The humor itself. They really tried to go for the most simple approach, and nailed it. They do not try to add drama often at all, and its mostly ALL comedy. It gets a tad boring at times, you would think; but really it DOESN'T. I can not describe why, but it always feels fresh every episode. I am pretty certain they studied real high school girls, or a girl was a writer; because they just make the humor feel as though you are watching a real group of high school girls in their every day life. 3) Finally, the music. Well most anime do have memorable soundtracks, this one took on a musical approach to its story and that is what turned me off the most from watching it when I first saw it: I like the characters, but I thought it was all gonna be about the music. In reality, it's the COMPLETE opposite: they do jack (...) on the music most of the time, it is hilarious! They all have natural talent of writing songs, and none of them practice whatsoever. They do still sing full songs in some episodes, but it's not annoying where it's every single episode or there are like two to four songs per episode. What I mean is, it's not a musical anime; it's mostly comedy and all of the characters that play in their band have natural talent. Perhaps, Mugi has the most since she practiced since she was young, same could be said with the others too. Come to think of it, I guess Yui is the only one with natural talent given she reached professional guitar level in just a few episodes! But yeah, K-ON is really good. After watching all of it, I mean ALL of it I even saw the OVAs and the movie; I can safely say it is a great recommendation if you just want comedy and none of the drama. When they do have drama, it's usually in the most calm way possible: a sad scene. Like when a character is leaving, or when they are having a heartwarming moment; usually nothing ever happens where a character gets injured, someone is being a bully or anything. So again, don't be fooled. It is true it is all about music and some episodes even dedicate it to such, but most of the time they mock the idea of practicing and it's just basic high school comedy in its rawest form. Give it a watch if you have the time, it is one of those rare shows where you won't ask for more because it delivers a hefty thirty-nine episodes, two OVAs and a movie. It ends well, and does not need any more productions. Even learned a piano song from the anime, and it gives me goosebumps every time I play it especially on a grand piano. |
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2011's K-On! The Movie acted as a swan song for the K-On! franchise, providing one final chance for Houkago Tea Time to go on an adventure with one another before the next step of their journey began. When the movie premièred, it was to overwhelmingly positive reception, and I myself had noted the movie excelled in its aim of portraying how a token of gratitude would go on to set in motion events that left Yui, Ritsu, Mio, Mugi and Azusa with lifelong memories of the time they'd spent together. While it is understandable that K-On! The Movie is not going to be for everyone, one egregious rant stands out for me; I'd been cleaning out my hard drive and found the following passage stored to a text file. Upon reading through it, memories returned to me: I'd been taken aback that anyone could agree with it, and I remember now that I'd saved said rant with the intention of refuting every point that was raised, but never got around to it until now. I wished to revisit this exercise with the aim of trying to gain a better understanding of what about this rant, if any, makes it worthy of even the remotest bit of consideration.
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In this way, exploring London, its attractions and culture was never intended to be K-On! The Movie's primary objective. Instead, the musical history and backdrop of London is meant to provide Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Mugi a more subtle source of inspiration: as they travel, they begin to really see anew why Azusa is so special. The setting was therefore utilised in a meaningful way, to demonstrate that Houkago Tea Time is who they are no matter where they are in the world, because it is the people, and not the place, that makes them unique. The focus, if any thing, is spot on, and London serves to provide a minor bit of inspiration for each of Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Mugi to help them with their intended graduation gift for Azusa. Quote:
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With all of this in mind, there is nothing to agree with in this rant. The London trip was well-chosen (in universe, to show that Houkago Tea Time makes the most of things, and how no matter where they are, they're mindful of those around them, and out of universe, to pay homage to the musical styles that influenced the music in the series). The series never "tricked" anyone: the goal was to simply have music as being a catalyst for growth, not have it be an end-all detailed enough to act as a technical manual on how to play pop music). On the off chance that there are those who do agree with the rant, I would therefore be curious to understand the reasoning behind why that rant has any merits at all, least of all being something worth defending or agreeing with. It is one thing to dislike a work for failing one's personal expectations (which are subjective), but quite another when a rant aims to disingenuously insult and mock those who put so much effort into creating work that was evidently enjoyed by a large number of people. I accept and welcome opinions from all sides of a spectrum provided they are rational and fair, but if one expects agreement despite having just spent a few hundred words insulting a work's creators, they’d better be prepared to work very hard for said agreement.
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https://forums.animesuki.com/showthr...87#post4276687 All in all, I don't think there was really much point in doing a point-by-point rebuttal to someone's review from 9 years ago. Even if you had given the rebuttal at the time, it's not like you're going to change their mind anyway. The movie was simply not for them because the whole franchise was not for them. It's not written in such a way that they can appreciate or engage with -- a fundamental mismatch of expectations and results. Basically what you're trying to convey in your rebuttal is this whole show is about the characters and their developing relationships with each other. All the other "stuff" that happens is the setting and a catalyst to develop the characters -- it matters in as much as they tried to bring some authenticity to it, but it's not really the point. At the same time, that's exactly what the person you're back-hand-replying to hated about it -- that's why they called it "disingenuous." Really, this is the whole nature of subjectivity -- viewing the same thing but seeing it in a different way. There are definitely other people who will watch K-On and have the same reaction he did because they are just wired a certain way or experience media in a certain way. In that sense, his review is not as "misguided" as you think -- to people on the same wavelength, what he's saying will make sense to them. But it's just one perspective. I'm not really sure that much of what he said was objectively untrue (if overly strongly-stated, perhaps), but to those who enjoyed it, it's like they experienced something completely different -- because they did, when you take perspective into account. No matter how pointed or strongly-worded someone's review is, it's just an opinion. And sometimes finding someone whose perspective is the most opposite of your own can be just as useful as finding someone whose opinions you tend to agree with.
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