(L) K-On! Manga discussion

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

If the later chapters are any indication, I'd say Kakifly's character design is slowly edging towards Horiguchi Yukiko's anime version. One wonders if they're pressured to do this to cash in on the popularity of the anime...

It seems to be a natural tendency of most manga if the anime appears while it is running. There's also a natural evolution to most author's drawing style as they improve.

[Lord of Fire]

It's probably a bit of both. The artist improves over time AND adapts to the anime style a bit more.

A good indication of the latter is when Kakifly started drawing Yui with her tights. For a while, that was an anime-only thing (and ironically, the reverse now seems to be happening, though that could be just a summer thing).

[bhl88]

Jun-chan's initiation by Yui is so cute

[Vexx]

Just as a reminder to folks, the K-On! manga collection has been licensed by Yen Press. The first volume is due out December 2010 and the second is due out March 2011.

http://yenpress.us/k-on-by-kakifly/

Yen Press is licensing some really profit-risky manga and light novels so please show them support if you like the series.

[Afternoon Tea]

quick question does the Manga Follow the anime?? I rarely read manga but just im wondering

[OZ7UP]

Originally Posted by CaptnAwesomee

quick question does the Manga Follow the anime?? I rarely read manga but just im wondering

It's usually the other way around, where the anime follows the manga. K-On! isn't an exception to this (after all, some of the episodes are an amalgamation of several short manga "stories"), but they did dabble in some completely original material not found in the manga.

[Sparvid]

Well, the anime follows the manga. Although the chapters are so short that plenty is added to the anime. The latest episode is a good example, where virtually every line from the manga is used, but then they added the scenes with Azusa's dreams and the festival at the end to get it to full length.

My updated index of manga chapters and how they break into anime episodes:

Spoiler:

Volume 1:
Chapter 0 - Ritsu, Mio and Mugi join the Light Music Club
Chapter 1 - Yui joins
Chapter 2 - Yui buys Gitah
Chapter 3 - Yui begins to learn how to play the guitar
Chapter 4 - Yui has to retake exams
Chapter 5 - Vacation on the beach (and some practice too)
Chapter 6 - Sawako-sensei's secret history revealed
Chapter 7 - Choosing a singer for the school festival
Chapter 8 - School Festival
Chapter 9 - Christmas party at Yui's house
Chapter 10 - New Year at the shrine
Chapter 11 - Deciding to play at next fair to attract new first year members
Chapter 12 - Practicing for the concert
Chapter 13 - Ui and her friend check out the club

Volume 2:
Chapter 14 - Azusa sees the concert and decides to join
Chapter 15 - Azusa finds out how the time is spent during club meetings
Chapter 16 - The birth of Azu-nyan
Chapter 17 - Azusa learns of Yui's general lack of knowledge of musical terms
Chapter 18 - Mio helps Ritsu study for a test
Chapter 19 - Summer vacation training camp, with added Azusa
Chapter 20 - Azusa and Ui hang out during summer
Chapter 21 - Gitah needs cleaning
Chapter 22 - The band gets a name
Chapter 23 - Yui catches a cold
Chapter 24 - Festival concert
Chapter 25 - End of winter term tests
Chapter 26 - New Year's party at Yui's house
Chapter 27 - Fourth wall-breaking celebration of the upcoming K-On! anime

Volume 3:
Chapter 28 - Visiting the shrine at New Year's Day
Chapter 29 - To help Mio with her shyness, the girls get jobs as waitresses
Chapter 30 - Mio is being followed
Chapter 31 - How Azusa spent her Valentine's Day
Chapter 32 - Spring cleaning of the club room
Chapter 33 - Third year begins with a concert
Chapter 34 - How Nodoka met Yui, and choosing universities
Chapter 35 - School trip to Kyoto
Chapter 36 - Rain season forces Yui to leave Gitah at school overnight
Chapter 37 - Practicing in the summer heat
Chapter 38 - Ritsu and Mugi go on a date hang out during summer break
Chapter 39 - The girls go to a music festival
Chapter 40 - Azusa, Ui and Jun hang out during summer
Special - How Mio met Ritsu

Volume 4:
Chapter 41 - The girls write new songs
Chapter 42 - Casting of Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 43 - School festival: Shakespeare and a concert
Chapter 44 - Deciding on universities
Chapter 45 - Azusa alone with Mugi
Chapter 46 - Taking care of Sawako
Chapter 47 - Studying for exams
Chapter 48 - Ritsu has a boyfriend?
Chapter 49 - Christmas party
Chapter 50 - Helping Yui study at New Years

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Season 1:
Episode 1: Chapter 0-1
Episode 2: Chapter 2-3
Episode 3: Chapter 3-4
Episode 4: Chapter 5
Episode 5: Chapter 6-7
Episode 6: Chapter 8
Episode 7: Chapter 9-10
Episode 8: Chapter 13-14, part of 11 (Mio's refusal to sing, moved to right before the concert)
Episode 9: Chapter 15-17
Episode 10: Chapter 19-20
Episode 11: Chapter 21-22
Episode 12: Chapter 23-24
Episode 13: part of Chapter 25 (Yui trying to play Gitah while wearing gloves), otherwise original
Episode 14: part of Chapter 26 (New Years celebration at Yui's house), otherwise original

Season 2:
Episode 1: Chapter 33
Episode 2: Chapter 32
Episode 3: Original
Episode 4: Chapter 35
Episode 5: part of Chapter 35 (coming home from the class trip), otherwise original
Episode 6: Chapter 36
Episode 7: Chapter 30
Episode 8: Chapter 34 & Special
Episode 9: part of Chapter 25 (studying for and doing the end of term tests), otherwise original
Episode 10: Original
Episode 11: Chapter 37
Episode 12: Chapter 39
Episode 13: Chapter 40

[krko]

Originally Posted by CaptnAwesomee

quick question does the Manga Follow the anime?? I rarely read manga but just im wondering

The anime has changed a lot of things not limited to: (Spoilers)

Spoiler for Well this IS the manga thread:

First Volume has;
A skipped chapter about Yui being in danger of failing to graduate next year.
The LMC has a sleepover prior to their first performance that kyoani decided to skip.
There was no ricebowl
Second Volume:
The reason Asuza got interested in join the club is because she watched videos of said performance. (and then watched the recruitment concert)
Their second cultural fest performance sucked due to Yui not being able to practice due to sickness. (Ritsu never got sick)
and more

[Vexx]

Aye.... just to be explicit, the 4-koma comic (from the magazine it appears in) is the SOURCE material for everything. It is being collected into manga volumes (3 so far) in Japan. There are scanlations "out there on the Net" and Yen Press is starting their licensed english-translation manga this fall. The anime production is an adaptation of the manga. The anime sometimes adjusts the gags for story flow and, of course, has provided us with a fair amount of anime-only new story bits with the input of the author of the manga. There's a few little bits from the manga which did not get into the anime adaptation.

I use the term "anime-only" when the author is involved or the writing staff has actually produced something worthy of the source... the term "filler" is more derogatory and usually applied to non-source anime adaptation that does not enhance or progress the storyline.

[winhlp32]

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-5742.html

Looks like theres a chance the manga could be pulling an FMA...

Keyword: final live

[Meatrose]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-5742.html

Looks like theres a chance the manga could be pulling an FMA...

Keyword: final live

Yup, but I would rather say that both FMA and K-ON! pulled a Toradora!. ^^

It seems as if these things are getting more and more common lately. I hope it's a trend that's here to stay as I have grown tired of the lame "the source material i still running so nothing is concluded and no one knows if there will be another season" kind of endings.

Not that K-ON! would be a show that would really suffer from that, just stating my general opinion on the matter.

[Pachael]

Oh no! Ritsu's plucked Mio's strawberry again - hit her Mio~

It does look like kakifly and Kyoani are planning for a finish frankly by September.

[kitten320]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-5742.html

Looks like theres a chance the manga could be pulling an FMA...

Keyword: final live

Huh? Do you mean that manga might end soon?

[krko]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-5742.html

Looks like theres a chance the manga could be pulling an FMA...

Keyword: final live

That's... damn sad. I was really looking forward to seeing the girls in college. It'll also waste all of kyoani's set-up for the second generation of the Light Music Club. Not to mention the most epic ending I can see for the K-On would be Hokago Tea Time rocking up Budokan.

It's strange, really, that if a very plot driven show I like is ending, I get excited. But when a character driven show like K-On is ending leaves me depressed for days.

Ray of hope: there's a question mark after the words Last Live. Please let this just be a misdirection trick by Kakifly.

[Jimmy C]

Sooner or later, they'll have a last live event in high school and that will be that. What they'll do as a band post-high school is another story.

[Proto]

Unfortunately the question marks doesn't go over the live itself but, roughly translated,

Their last live, will it be a success?

Only chance would be that it means that it is the last concert of their high school, as the opening statement goes...

"At least we meet the last school festival of their high school years life..."

[kankyo]

Originally Posted by winhlp32

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-5742.html

Looks like theres a chance the manga could be pulling an FMA...

Keyword: final live

Relax, there's no need to panic.

This is just an advertisement for the volume 4 of the manga and it talks about their last high school festival which had their last concert (of high school) and Romeo and Juliet play. All of that has already happened (in the fall) and right now it's winter in K-ON! manga world.

This is nothing new for those of us who follow the latest scanlated chapters. There's no indication on that page that the manga ends.

[Proto]

Well, all the Japanese comments in there are panicking the same way we are in here.

[Vexx]

well... it could ALSO mean that after they graduate, a new series is starting up pertaining to their college years. Something tells me this is too profitable a vehicle to just end.

HTT: the college years.

[krko]

Originally Posted by kankyo

Relax, there's no need to panic.

This is just an advertisement for the volume 4 of the manga and it talks about their last high school festival which had their last concert (of high school) and Romeo and Juliet play. All of that has already happened (in the fall) and right now it's winter in K-ON! manga world.

This is nothing new for those of us who follow the latest scanlated chapters. There's no indication on that page that the manga ends.

Hopefully, that's true or I will weep like its the ending of Azumanga Daioh again.

EDIT: Upon rereading the manga: the website of the university there're entering. I don't know how the fact that its a real university affects the odds of the ending coming though.
EDIT2: pics

Spoiler for mejiro campus:

Spoiler for Nishi-Ikuta Campus: