Otaku are displaying their usual suggestibility in response to schoolgirls with guitars anime K-On!, and have launched into a guitar buying frenzy.
It transpires that the Amazon.co.jp “people who bought this also bought this” feature is displaying exclusively K-On! music and Blu-ray discs:
It appears any number of very ronery guitarists are now practicing, or possibly merely displaying, the Fender-Japan JB62/LH/3TS the nation over, with its $750 price tag no obstacle…
Doubtless the maker is rubbing its hand with glee at the patronage.
You can see the page in question here.
Of course, it may be the case that they are only looking, but not buying, but given what we have already seen this seems improbable.
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Ibanez Basses > Fender Basses
seconded
thirded...
Wut?
Music Man > all
other than the fact that a musicman costs well over 2000 bucks in australia, no thanks.
Rickenbackers and PRS are pretty fucking awesomes as well though.
Rickenbacker ftw!
too bad i play the guitar.
Wrong. Nothing trumps the Greatness of the Fender American Made P-Bass.
lonely otaku
I just noticed she was a lefty right now
Ritsu parodies it in the manga.
I remember when I stayed at a small hotel in Ochanomizu in 2006, I found myself unable to resist exploring the many musical instrument shops there, and found myself exiting one of them with an unusually-shaped 3000-yen ukulele under my arm and no clear idea of what had just transpired inside the building. The persuasion powers of some Japanese salespersons are truly fearsome.
Incidentally, the hotel in question can be found here [http://www.familyhotel.jp/]. It's really "just what it says on the tin": A very pleasant hotel, run by a friendly family who charge very reasonable rates (at least they did in August 2006). It even has a small bath in the basement. My only problem with it was that the only window in the very small Japanese-style tatami room I stayed in opened onto a wall less than a metre from the window, and as such the room was permanently shrouded in darkness no matter the time of day whenever the electric light was turned off - much like Takasu's place in Toradora as described in the first episode.
>much like Takasu’s place in Toradora as described in the first episode.
People might just start going there after you said that o_O
According to their site, the hotel has just finished a 12-month closure period for renovations last month (if I am correct and it IS the year Heisei 21). I hope it's only changed for the better.
Staff in Japan is so much more nice and smiling than in France that I feel bad if I do not buy something XD
I blame France for its salesmen who did not prepare me to that.
I thought I might try playing the guitar, but I know better. I'm probably going to get lazy after the first week.
Don't say 'lazy'!
lol
Because you're really crazy.
lol
If anyone plans to do a decent cosplay, they need the genuine guitar.
You know that 99% of the K-On fans are male otakus?
Why would they want to cosplay girls ...
Trust me, that's no barrier for most of them.
Somehow this gave me the idea for a genderbender version of K-On :P
Can someone imagine a trap Mio?
>Evil Laugh
it has already been done.
why doesn't yui's guitar not popular...
You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not the guitar people don't like, it's the character.
Mio FTW!
You're kidding right? It's les paul that is always overpopular.
Yui guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Cherry Burst and its worth about 3,000 usd. iam sure otakus can spend that money on better things
> iam sure otakus can spend that money on better things
People said that about us when we started buying figures...and look what happened >:P
An Epiphone Les Paul Cherry Burst is almost identical to Yui's genuine Gibson.
I have the Epiphone in question-- the resemblance is stunning.
It's a left-hand bass too. No doubt this is going to collect dust in a corner somewhere.
I sure hope it will. Yahoo Auctions should have some real bargains on these instruments, come the end of the anime/manga.
It's just as well. Hardcore people like me play 5-string basses anyway.
real hardcore people play the banjo!
truly hardcore people make banjos!
truly hardcore people make the strings for their instruments out of there pubes!!
truly hardcore people have somebody else do the manual labor of making the instrument for them and then try to buy it for as cheaply as possible off an auction site!!!
> truly hardcore people make the strings for their instruments out of there pubes!!
Are you referring to a short manga shown in YES! magazine around 10 years ago?
epically hardcore people play the guitar instead!!
Now what?
well in bass 5 string is kind of common but i play a 7 string guitar and i think is really hardcore all the time i play it people think im a freak
what about a 14 string guitar? lol
double neck bass/guitar hybrid!
Maybe the buyers of musical instruments discover the beauty that is play music.
More than half will probably never touch the instrument after a year. Sad.
Dunno should I cry or laugh...
*plays his bass... arone*
$750 seems a bit cheap for a real Fender guitar, is Fender-Japan different somehow?
Fender guitars are produced in America, Japan and Mexico, I think.
American models are usually the best/most expensive, followed by those from Japan and Mexico.
But Japan-made Fenders are the best, yes, average quality is better than on US-made Fenders. The hype drives prices up on US-made instruments. Mexican made are cheapest, don`t know their quality, bur since Fender put their name on them they should be OK.
Just stick to Guitar Hero, its much cheaper.
Otaku are one of the most easily swayed groups in the world.
These guys have no genuine desire to play music. They're just like those Pavlov's classical conditioning dogs who associated a metronome with food, but instead they associate a "love" to play guitar with their love for anime.
You mean operant conditioning. Fail
Pavlov's test on dogs wasn't operant conditioning, so, no, I believe I meant classical conditioning.
Are you dumb? Classical conditioning has nothing to do with this it's operant i'm just saying your use of terms is wrong as you don't know the definition for it. Gj? Go back to intro psych.
I believe “psyche” is the proper term you're looking for, dear sir.
You guys are having a relativily smart and gentlemens like conversation D:
GTFO XD
you're all fail
one for messed up info; another for falling prey to an anon; the other for sticking it's face where nobody gives a damn
No, women are the most easily swayed group of people in the world. They see something they like and buy with it without a second thought for cost or practicality. Get your facts straight.
I think that's why anon1 said "one of the most"
hey, I resent that! not true! not true at all! :D
Anyone that plays for these reasons won't ever come up with anything good.
Though, they won't even pick it up after buying.
Bro, I picked guitar after watching beck and right now I'm on quite decent level.
It's a different sort of incentive. Beck did it well, this moe nonsense is doing it wrong.
I must agree. That was a bit different.
Legend of Zelda made me want to play the flute, and I can play around lv4 pieces, runs take me forever to learn, but runs are hard on flutes D:
made me pick up a sword instead
This happens to me all the time. Watching an anime makes me want stuff related to the show. Like when I read Hikaru no go, I became obsessed with Go. I wonder if I'll get hooked on Mahjong since I'm watching Saki. Probably not since there's almost no Mahjong in Saki. Mostly fan service, just the way I like it. Anyway, I wouldn't buy a guitar but I have an urge to play guitar hero after watching K-on.
Well I became addicted to Mahjong cause of Saki.
And I can say now i quite know the rules :P
Mahjong is more arusing than the fanservice xd
Akagi is better for Mahjong.
It even teaches you how to cheat!
And how to be gar.
There's more Mahjong in Saki compared to fanservice then there is Music in K-On compared to moeblob moments, that's for damn sure. You must be watching different versions of these two shows or something cause from what I saw K-On's biggest problem as a "music anime" is that there's barely any music.
That's what makes this whole guitar boom thing so hilarious. The fact that Otaku have again been successfully bait and switched into buying a product that is only suggestively related to the show in question because said show carries the ever popular moe trend that 2ch will probably never get tired of.
I don't even think it owes to specified classical conditioning though so much as the ingrained tendencies of the Otaku subculture making it effortless for advertisers to suggest the link between guitars and moe by merely presenting a guitar as a premise behind the series without having to show it's merits and letting otaku desires do the rest of the work for them. It's the same premise as putting a model next to a car really. What does this model have to do with the expensive car? Nothing, but people will confuse the link between wanting to boink the model and wanting to buy the car just the same because of the way the human brain is wired and the subconcious knowing what response is desired of them.
Oh and I should also mention that Japanese culture is big on group mentalities and doing what is expected of someone and as such even if they come to the conclusion that all of this is set up for them to go out and buy a guitar then they will be far more likely to do so anyway then people of other cultures that place emphasis on the individual and where people are more likely to make the decision that although it is expected that they go out and buy the guitar, that they don't want one just because it appeared in some show they like along.
I don't believe I ever said there was music in K-On! I never said it was a music anime. It's a slice of life anime about the light music club. I personally like slice of life anime and wouldn't have it any other way. As for Saki, I was saying that as a joke about Saki's obvious fan service(which I like).
Really....well okay then, that makes sense to me.
Except that K-On! is based on a 4koma manga which it has been following with almost 100% accuracy until now. I highly doubt that Kakifly had boosting guitar sales in mind when drawing the manga. If you're going to blame someone for something, blame the otaku for mistaking the show's premise.
part of me scoffs: if I see a woman want to have sex with, and she's wearing a China dress, I'm not gonna go out and buy a China dress...
...and part of me does not scoff, since I've seen plenty of illogical people, and because sex-in-advertising seems to have been working for hundreds of years ...
... or not. There may be some other factor why the advertising works, and putting in sex is simply a tradition. (Coincidence is not causality.)
In my defense, I bought my Fender before watching K-On! ..and it's not a bass << ..*still waiting for it to arrive by delivery van though*
Any decent guitarist is going to feel ashamed at people for this. They're buying guitars because of an anime that barely's related to music for now, not because of their love of music.
Whatever, have stopped caring years ago.
My thoughts exactly.
I know that it's great for business, but I still feel as if it's a waste of instruments to buy them and never have them used.
Then you should be treating with guitar collectors with significantly more spite than these otaku who're only doing this to *one* instrument >_>
If that's the case, then it's no different than those otaku that buy every figure, even if they don't know shit about the character, just because it's "kawaii" (god I hate that word).
So you should only buy figures because you know of them, want to fap at them and call them your waifu?
Guitar collecters, majority of them, started buying guitars because they were immersed in the music world at first. Then, with studies they had less time to play but still had a growing attachment to music and instruments, but instead of playing they worked. With successful lives, they invested in buying guitars.
K-On guitar-buying-otakus here, majority of them, started buying guitars because it was 'moe' and a 'moe' character bought one. Period.
Don't get me started on how they use 'moe' so horribly too, heh.
-Looks at Jonas brothers playing power chords on genuine Gibsons-
Oh like any punk band ever has done differently.
This is why the Otaku market can be swayed to buy things so easily. Animes make decisions for them.
QUICK SOMEONE MAKE A LUCKY STAR LIKE ANIME ABOUT BUYING AMERICAN STOCKS.
Lol, sad thing is they're dumb enough to try and get into the stock business because of that.
OMFG that would be cheaper than obama's plan
This comment just won the internet. It's over, guys, let's go do something else.
and just we thought about taro aso's statement being something else, its nearly related... yep... moments like this will keep their economy running lol
that was obvious
Do not underestimate the power of otakus!! (≧▼≦)(≧▼≦)
Like even half of them are going to commit too learning how to play the guitar. They'll probable just put a K-ON sticker on it and put it on display in there already memorabilia saturated room of otaku related interest
Well I wouldn't get one.. I'm sure it will end up as another impulse buy and left in a corner to catch dust.
As for the japanese otaku buying them, lets see how it turns out. Don't just conclude that they'll put the guitar to waste.... Who knows you might see a sudden surge of guitar renditions of bgm by otaku in NND ^^" The determination of them in buying exclusive stuff is impressive. Lets see how they do in learning guitars~
K-On! People! (could resist) ^^
I keep telling you...
Mio is the Paul McCartney of this musical phenom!
It's because it's a left handed guitar, and she's just way too popular!
Next, they will be buying all of those expensive teapots, no doubt.
No doubt...
I already ordered a few...
say WHAT?!
lmao
I'm not surprised...
Ah mann...I must be a crazy otaku cause right after I saw k-on! for the first time, I brought me the same guitar Yui have 3 hr later and started taking lesson...ahh damn... well...sh*t happen..
Someone smart commented on my post on a possible subcategory of otaku called the 'guitaku [http://ghostlightning.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/axes/#comment-2372].' The trend described in this post seems to support it.
Well, "otaku" refers to a "fan" of any particular theme.. So correct form would be simply 'guitar otaku', it would be no subcategory.. :]
Interesting. Someone should create a series about moe rich girls buying real estate. They should call it "Real S!" (リルーエス！). and then all these otaku suckers will buy apartments by the millions!
Better:
Invest-in!: A slice of life series about four schoolgirls who resolve to show the financial powers of the world a thing or two by building a diversified portfolio of high growth securities...
Will the girls be able to master modern portfolio theory in time to weather the coming financial storm!?
Instant investment boom...
solved the financial crisis right there
QUICK WE MUST GREEN-LIT THESE SERIES :O
quick some1 write the story and make plans with kyoani
Yeah why is it always four girls, I don't get what the deal is with that specific number. Is it something like that being the maximum number of characters that producers think a moe otaku can keep track of, or is there some moe gimmick in that particular number that I am not getting.
I have not analysed this in detail, but I rather suspect it is required to be able to include several discrete archetypal characters and their interpersonal dynamics - tsundere, dojikko, fujoshi, etc. Not all of these can be combined into the same characters believably, not that this always stops them trying.
TVTropes did a great job describing and quoting four/five groups:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand
and
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FiveManBand/Anime
From K-On, I can say we have the Heroine, the Girly Girl (or the Chick), the Lancer, and the Smart One. Can ypou people identify them? ;)
Quick, inform KyoAni that Only They Can Save The Economy!
time to raise the price
dude fender teh sux... japanese need to get some ibanez going on!
that thunderous sound you heard was the simultaneous faceslap of John Paul Jones, Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, Jason Newsted, John Myung and a thousand other first-class bass players after reading that atrocity.
I'm not a Fender man by any means my favorite guitars are Jacksons, but you are talking bullshit.
I'm sure in actuality, the otakus are buying the guitar for their life sized K-On! figure that they're secretly building. lol
me want one to
I laughed when I noticed the guitar was tagged with "Keion"
There's no way any of them will actually take up guitar. They'll probably play with it for a week and just toss it aside. I can't even imagine a anime nerd taking guitar lessons. So sad that grown people get influenced to buy stuff from cartoons, especially something as expensive as a guitar. Jimi Hendrix must be rolling in his grave.
BTW, otaku means nerd, don't believe me?! Ask anyone fluent in Japanese.
nerd, geek, enthusiast, fanatic, obsess ... pick one
Nonetheless, it's a derogatory term. Just wanted to point out that if one calls themselves an "otaku", it's no different from calling yourself a nerd, felt like pointing it out because there are people who argue that it isn't the equivalent of being called a nerd. I figure they think that otakus aren't considered nerds in Japan or something....(they are)
This is actually the sense we use the term in on this site.
Hello, captain! Sashiburi dana!
I wonder if some guy from Fender approached KyoAni with a proposal to use this model in the show. He deserves a promotion.
nice now i can sell my bass guitar!!
Hmm.. I've been in the market for a bass guitar for a while now, anyways. Just haven't been able to mass enough money for it.
Already have an SG I barely ever play, however.
Last time I seriously played bass was when I was 10 years old. Played for 3 years straight, then after that just lost interest. 15 years later, I watched Beck. Just watched Koyuki's steady practice and determination to learn the guitar. I just felt inspired to play again.
Sold my POS Steinberger clone and bought a Squier Vintage modified J-bass(>$300 for a great sounding bass) just to get some practice . A few months later, I bought a Music Man HH Stingray and a Gibson Les Paul Studio. I have a hard time putting either instrument down after I've picked one up. Great fun.
otaku stupidity OVER 9000!!!!
I expected this to happen. =/ I'm probably not the only one, either.
All I can say is that I hope people are at least buying the correct version (left hand vs right hand) rather than just the left hand because Mio uses it. That way there's at least a little hope of them actually using it.
Btw, guitar > bass. Just to let you know. I mean, speed-picking is pretty hardcore. Chords aren't all that.
(But Mio > Yui.)
*sigh* It's not even a right handed guitar.... terrible terrible Amazon....
i remember borrowing a guitar
and it is not easy to learn from the scratch -_- and just from the net
i can see myself from the buyer of those >_<
Guitar is difficult to learn from scratch, it's actually really important to have a teacher, or a guide at the beginning, but after that it's best to just jam with other musicians and build your own style.
I play guitar and man, there's nothing like shredding on my les paul, and shifting over to a rhythm on my dano dc-12. I've only had three months formal lessons, everything else I"ve sussed out on my own and by playing in my band.
The point it, while it's fun, while it's a cool thing to do, these idiot otaku won't have anywhere near the obsession to keep going. Or the money. Fuckin' amps man, but lemme tell you, theres nothing better than a marshall stack.
moe marketing that guitar companies are profiting from it even though they don't use it
You know that that is Yomi and not Mio right? That's the Ga-Rei Zero Logo with K-On!
Bet all those otakus who bought the Fenders don't realise that they do not have amps. Then they'll go: "Where's the sound"?
Even if they did buy amps, they probably bought an amp for electric guitars.
Smart.
can't wait for the collective sound of guitar amp blowout by a bunch of otakus in Japan plugging in a bass....hopefully, they turn it up to 11...
http://www.youtube.com/user/kamituro
Infinitely superior.
That's just creepy!
Amazon sells guitars? I cant imagine them having a huge stock of them, especially that model. More than likely it's only sold a couple of guitars.
It's not being sold by Amazon itself, it's being sold by a third party (chuya-online).
this is sad..... using anime to promote crappy guitars and basses.
ESP GUITARS FTW.
seconded
Must i change my CRUISER for JBFender? )) But i prefer to buy Yamaha directly from Japan. Amiricans know nothing about how to make proper basses.
Don't Say Lazy single came out today!
http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Fender-American-Standard-Jazz-Bass?sku=515755
The American one is $1500! The Japanese version is a bargain in comparison. You can get the cheaper Mexican-made one for $650, but it won't have the tortoiseshell pickguard, so you might as well not bother.
Ya know reviewing eps 1 and 2, I'm pretty sure Mio uses a Fender Precision Bass, not the Jazz Bass. Which means all these otakus just bought the wrong bass.
*snickers*
Suckers.
actually, i think she does play the Jazz Bass, note where the knobs are positioned.
Makes me wonder how many Rickenbacker bass guitars got bought up from used-guitar shops after FLCL came out...
The Heritage Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Standard that Yui set up with deserves recognition, too.
it's a lefty bass... I hope they know what they're buying....
I, for one, bought a Casio CA-110 Keyboard ( http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/_inc/picview.cfm?synthid=931 ) because of K-ON. It was cheap overall, and also a very good keyboard for a total beginner like me.
At first, I thought first buying a bass (yeah, cos of Mio), but since I realised that it would be less fun and difficult playing it, I picked up the keyboard (plus I love Mugi's yurisness).
So far I can play FFVII, Evangelion, and Elfen Lied main songs, Fur Elise, and the Futurama OP... I really do not see how this cannot be be "healthy", since otherwise, I would be probably playing some eroge RPG and jacking off to it.
fender surely needed some advertising since ibanez own them in so many ways.
marketing win
Heritage Cherry Sunburst Les Paul is about $2300 USD so it's more expensive than the Fender version.
Prefer an acoustic guitar any day!