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.
The closest thing I could find, in the U.S., to this is this \/.
Fender ’60s Jazz Bass (Right handed, unfortunately, couldn’t find a left handed model.)
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0131800306
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender–60s-Jazz-Bass-502778-i1473335.gc
Heritage Cherry Sunburst Les Paul is about $2300 USD so it’s more expensive than the Fender version.
Prefer an acoustic guitar any day!
marketing win
fender surely needed some advertising since ibanez own them in so many ways.
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.