Sharp-eyed observers have spotted some very odd touches in Mio anime K-On! Most notably, the girls seem to be used to a life of true luxury, evident in all the episodes so far…
A Meissen cup and saucer worth $100:
A Wedgwood tea cup and saucer set ($90 each):
Another Wedgwood worth $65, from the “Harlequin Collection”:
A Herend tea cup and saucer worth over $200:
All this remains unidentified:
Quite an opulently furnished club room.
Either the girls have a privileged upbringing (as Tsumugi is said to have), or else the animators took the rather curious decision to base all their crockery on the most expensive Rakuten has to offer.Both seem likely.
Interestingly, they also apparently increased some of the prices of the instruments the girls received from the manga…
Another observer writes pointing out that the mathematics (not pictured) the girls are apparently working on in the third episode is more normally associated with university level maths courses than anything expected of high-schoolers… Perhaps an inappropriate reference?
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I remember that cake - its THE CAKE.
http://www.abload.de/img/dsc00782yv5j.jpg
to compare - heres the k-on cake:
http://www.abload.de/img/snapshot20090417200839durc.jpg
Well the scenes where in the snow mountain are look like REMEMBER11,
or all of this kind situration have common feeling:small wood shelf,old brown fire place……
The explanation for all of this is Mugi is moe~
Agreed!
That's because Tsumugi brought all the stuff in. Her family is super-rich, or something like that. Both facts were mentioned somewhere in the first two episodes.
And as for the math, I'm equal 13th grade now and I don't even remember when we took quadratic equations because it's far too long... so dunno. But maybe it's because I'm not studying an average school. And the K-on school is said to be sorta special, too, isn't it?
Too bad not one men will. Mugi will marry a woman.
It's explained in the manga that most of the exquisite cutlery are provided by Tsumugi, as well as the endless supply of cakes.
Tsumugi explains that her family often has guests coming everyday (for business-related stuff, no doubt), and would always end up with spare cakes.
If the observer commenting on the math is from outside Japan, then he may not be aware that high school math in most Asian countries DOES contain insane university-level maths.
I speak from personal experience, upon going to UK to study abroad, am delighted that their math courses are so much more simple than the hell that I have to put up with.
Seriously you should start watching this show before writing this garbage. Tsumugi Kotobuki is from a rich family, her farther owns many companies, hence her rich upbringing. Also, that is not Uni Math, that is high school algebra, I was doing that sort of math in 9th grade.
Ha ha ha... been reading sankaku complex for a while, might this be the first time comments get this messed up?
How many more times are people gonna remind Artefact that mugi brought the chinaware, and how many more people are gonna fail to see the comment that says the "univ level math" reference is not pictured here?
Gonna bookmark this page for a while...
LOL, and I posted my said "repeated comments" before coming upon yours.
Nah, not quite. Stuff like this happened a lot of times. Some people just POST what they think of. While some of them realized "Why the hell am I posting this? Everyone knows about this."
My grandmother approves of this display of fine crockery. Seriously, she owns a set of Meissen cups and saucers herself, which she was given at her 25th wedding anniversary.
very funny xD
University level of maths?! ROFL
Atleast it is still High-Shcool first class syllabus in Hungary. (I hope so that Japan holds atleast the same level too)
Wow,they even got a Hermes.They're young,rich and talented than Paris Hilton.
was it really college level math
from what i heard theyre talking about functions and a bit and algebra, they were doing polynomials....was it really college level? probably some mistake but probably a grade 11 math function
they did say in ep 1/2 that tsumugi brings all of the utensils from her house, and so this post is kinda epic phail
Haha Mugi's
woah woah woah
The math they are doing is middle school level here in Georgia.
Middle School = University?
I'm not an expert in any way, but I strongly suspect that the number of readers who failed to realise that the complicated maths mentioned in the article is not a feature of any of its pictures has to have broken some kind of record.
Hahaha... those cups would only worth a sum of $40 in Indonesia.... lol
no kidding
they have Tsugumi so I guess that's why they have those expensive wares lol
Uni Maths??? It's just factorising for god sake! That's why Yui could ace that test!
Artefact must add this at the end of the article:
"and a funny moe blob show slash music band: Priceless"
"There are money things can't buy - like expensive ero dolls or loli figurins you can only buy through Ebay."
"For anything else use MasterCard"
cheesy...
lolerz...
*There are many things money can't buy*
There are very very few things money can't buy.
All right this might work...
X^2 -XY - 6Y^2 + 2X + Y - 1 = 0
(X - 3Y)(X + 2Y) + 2X + Y - 1 = 0
Now, assume both the linear and the non-linear part goes to 0 at the same time, then you will have the following conditions:
1, X - 3Y = 0 and 2X + Y - 1 = 0
2, X + 2Y = 0 and 2X + Y - 1 = 0
For 1, since 2X + Y - 1 = 0 -> Y = 2X - 1
Then X - 3(2X - 1) = 0, X = -1/5
So Y = 2(-1/5) - 1 = -7/5, hence (-1/5 , -7/5) is a solution.
For 2, X + 2(2X - 1) = 0, X = 1/5
Then Y = 2(1/5) - 1 = -3/5, hence (1/5, -3/5) is another pair of solution.
I am doing this in my head so someone please check my work. The best is still to do a numerical approximation as the above method may not gives all the solutions.
Hope this helps.
so many comments here.
The reasons why K-On! popular lies here
Mio - Priceless
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's 2ch.
I thought they're from high school... where in the anime does it say they're learning university math o.O?
"Another observer writes pointing out that the mathematics (not pictured) the girls are apparently working on in the third episode is more normally associated with university level maths courses than anything expected of high-schoolers… "
Umm...Quadratic Equation is a subject learned before entering University though. High School year 1 and those who are taking Entrance to Japanese University exams will tackle the subject. ( EJU for short, for foreigners)
i dont think u guys learned this in school
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2023/loltdi.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_function
Yes, we all did.
nope
If u see next equation, Mugi-chan just factorised the x out. They dont even need to find x or y or know its a graph!
I am too lazy to watch the show but looking at your screenshot and assuming that the unwritten part of the equation is "= 0" what you have is a conic. Since B^2 - 4AC > 0 it's a hyperbola, and because it intersects at (-1, 0), it's degenerate. So you will have two lines defined by the equation that are easy enough to determine. That would just be simple analytic geometry, even if you had to knock out the xy term by rotating the axis. However this is assuming a fair bit of context for the screenshot.
It might be relevant to mention that the curricula in every country differ.
The pink one from the Harlequin collection is doubtful, but all the others look spot-on. Well played, chinaware-loving otaku.
Wealthy girls these days.... >_>
I learnead that math when i entered High Scgool i dn't see the difficulty to think it's college my opinion xD
dang it i wish i could get free rich people desserts with fancy tea :I
lol, and i thought it's just an anime :<
It is, but for some reason people are very interested in it.
didnt mugi already say in ep1 or 2 that the stuff was from her home
Those maths are taught in 8th grade where I come from.
saw something similar in the last episode of Hyakko, the girl was working on some calculus when she was supposed to be in grade achool -.-
That's because the girl is a prodigy. In the manga her character is expanded on a lot more.
And happy are those who manage to marry Mugi...
not only happy, but rich, powerful, and eatting delicious food/loli
Oh my, maybe i made the wrong mistake picking Yui D:
What?....I couldn't hear you across the giant hall and loooooong dinner table in Mugi's dining room- lol.
I love Eri Sawachika, Asuka Langley Soreyu, Saki Katsukabe, and Tsumugi Kotobuki...I love the light haired Princesses!! Plus they give mean head!
"...and eatting delicious food/loli"
Wait whut!? The Kotobuki (Tsugumi's) family are cannibals who eat lolis?
It's not really that late too change your pick though, i used to pick Kagami, and then i found that Misao is the most awesome.. and then again, i ended up with Hiyorin instead.
It should be:
"...and eating delicious CAKE"
Right?
and, by the way, I have just noticed, Mio is a left-handed guitarist. It's just really rare.
Well...she uses her right hand while jerking me off so...ya know.
*left-handed bassist~
I thought Mugi said she owned all of those dishes and food items, and that she brought them from home.
You thought right.
But you cant expect much from a sony fanboy.
Looked like early high-school math to me; basic algebra, after all. Toradora had Ryugi solving the linear behavior of a system of differential equations in one episode though, which strikes me as a bit more complex, and legitimately college-level math. At least that's what it looked like to me. (Maybe he was just doing basic linear algebra to solve systems, not Diff.Eq. at all, though -- didn't look too closely.)
Of course Tsumugi IS supposed to be well off, and all this stuff is hers. It doesn't strike me as odd in the least.
That said my knowledge of mathematics education IS limited, so I don't know for sure what the pacing is like there.
The more I watch it the more Yui looks like she has downs syndrome.
She's probably mildly autistic or have Ozbergers Syndrome, have Dr. House check her DNA for 'ragged red fiber #5'- this would explain her 'spacing out', lack of cordination while moving, and her desire for sweets. She'll be in a coma by her late 20's if she doesn't get a new liver.
Very nice Dr House pardody, really made me laugh :)
LOL - glad someone got it.
You thought that was odd?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZlxrP_79Q
Take it as you will, but it seems to me that either are pretty well off economically or the school has one hell of a budget.
This is quite expected.
I blame mugi for the good stuff, she said in one ep that she brought it all from home.
which also explains the unidentified status of the crockery at yui's home (as none of the items in these comparisons are from those scenes) as they going to be cheep things from a 100yen shop or something :)
possibly imitations? but i dun think japan has much of imitated goods unlike some other asian countries...
I noticed all the guitar gear, but who the hell picked out all the silverware?
A silverware/anime otaku?
I can't believe this topic has over 60 comments. Some 2ch troll would wander in here and be like....is this a joke?...they're talking about silverware and price comparisons?- lol.
I too want to know what the purple cake tastes like...I suspect it's a blueberry concoction?
oh look it's a recipe for Azuki beans...since this has become such an issue- lol.
It's azuki bean...something or another, I've been told it's got a flavor something reminiscent of cherry, but other than that I know almost nothing.
/facepalm
why would anko taste like cherry, its red bean in a jellyform,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yōkan]
Nothing you can't buy for $12.99 in chinatown D: I'm more curious as to what the purple cakes taste like
They're actually really expensive. Tsumugi's family is rich (her dad owns a motherfcking store, and that's probably just one of many). Honestly, I like knowing about this stuff, but treating it as some sort of shocking surprise is just a bit much...
It's great! (I generally like sweet things.) I had some years and years ago in college. A Japanese dorm-mate served it with tea.
It is crush azuki bean thats been solified and make into jelly. it's like a sweet dessert.
Hm, I assumed it had some sort of filling.
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Like a bean paste filled yukkuri?
Mugi explains the silverware, and the math explains the geniuses who work on K-On!
Take it any other way and the MOE god will destroy you dolphin.
Agreed.
Anyways, its pretty obvious from the first episode Mugi-chan is fucking rich.
See: "This is my first time eating fast food."
Also she says that she brought all of that kind of decorations from home. it would not be weird for her to bring cups & stuffs aswell...
agree
Nothings too good for MY Mugi-chan!...so they eat on 'expensive' flat ware big deal. I wanna know what kind of underwear they have!
I see what you did there.
I dont think thats good example, consider i had never had fast food about 2 years..then i had mcdonalds...KILL ME NOW! I DONT WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE D:
Knowing him, it's a "Kill me now! All of the lolis in this restaurant have boobs!"
Is that a "kill me now because I'm eating too much" or a "kill me now because I remember the horror?
That's uni level maths? But it's like, algebra.
Hence the X chord
yeah...the maths is nothing like college level stuff...but maybe the writer meant it s too challenging for a first year high school student.
Ehhhhhh.. I learned the stuff they're doing in 7th grade..
I would like to say this isn't University level math, haha, if math courses were that easy everyone would have a math degree and not have to go through partial differential equations or real analysis, or complex analysis.
those are University level math courses, where u have to calculate heat flow in objects or prove that the Euclidean metric on R^n is positive, positive definite and symmetric.
Seriously this stuff they did is pretty close to grade 8 or 9. I wonder who said it was Univ level? w/e school that is glad I'm not in it
Supposedly they were working on an implicit function; I wasn't referring to anything pictured.
quite sure they were factoring.
次の式を因数分解せよ。
Yeah, definitely factoring.
It's funny how the only one we can see that she got correct was multiple-choice.
its calculus more like differential equation i think... ^_^
Those look more like polynomial factoring to me. Something I've studied back when I was 13 but after ten years I've forgotten how to. :))