K-ON! Schoolgirls No More?
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 13, 2009 23:08 JST
- Tags: Continuations, K-ON!, Mio Akiyama, Moe, Schoolgirls
The girls of K-ON! look set to graduate from high school and begin attending university, an arrangement which avoids eternal schoolgirl status but also robs them of one of their key moe credentials.
This suggests the girls may attend university together, though the extent of any such storyline is not clear, and whether the manga will give rise to any further anime even less so.
Fans of generic moe blob anime and manga will no doubt notice a strong parallel between K-ON! and Lucky Star, which also had its girls graduate from high school…
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I would kill to be that popsicle right now.
I'd kill you and your country just to be the stick that holds the popsicle...
I hope that they are still united in the university!!!
I'm game, are you?
I will never get the whole moe craze.....
This looks very promising. I'd like to see their relationships develop some more.
since when did graduating from high school become a reference to anything?
or does it mean I'm currently referencing LS this year 0_o
"Fans of generic moe blob anime and manga"
At least someone acknowledges what this is.
I thought they planned on going to different universities and what will happen to Azu-nyan and Sawa-chan after they graduate? Will they still be in a light music club in uni?
Mugi-chan I love you, bring on university! Fact: People who hate K-ON! and Lucky Star usually like Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball Z.
but i like all 4 of which u stated
Not to detract from the point, but this also happens in Azumanga Daioh... at the end of the series (atleast the manga) they graduate from High School and it's implied they move on to college
That and a whole bunch of other anime/manga set in high-school. But don't let that spoil all the K-on! hate for you.
Does every post on this site have to ridicule its readership? Stay classy, sankaku complex, the fox news of anime.
You can still be moe and be in college. We don't like moe girls BECAUSE they are underage, we like girls because they are moe... and for whatever reason most moe girls happen to be schoolgirls. I'd be perfectly fine with university age moe girls. In fact, I'd prefer it... they just don't make enough.
i can only see upsides to this:
1) delicious college yuri
2) delicious yuri rivals
3) delicious azu-nyan cameos
i can imagine them meeting other groups, or maybe make it locally, and maybe even budokan. it would nice to see a rising star comedy without the eventual super drama.
Ui, dont forget Ui! Why, why not love for reliable imouto!!!! ><
I don't mind, I think it's realistic, they can't be in highschool forever, but that doesn't make it any less Moe to me.. I mean, come on, they're not like 16 going on 30 afterwards.. I still hope they continue it, I'll read it!
I guess any new K-ON porn will now be legal in Canada.
They're now over 18 you can fap to them now.
Lucky Star + K-On! girls in same university = moegeddon. Halve the production costs and double the viewers.
A bit of lesbian experimentation in the mix couldn't hurt either.
Moe blob pantsu loli prostitute sex paipan oppai idol
Considering all the fucking brainless hysteria that Kannagi caused when it seemed like she had already been 'enjoyed' I actually WANT more anime to go past high school get boyfriends and make it plain they have been 'enjoyed'.
I want to ruin as many fucking retarded 'wife' notions as possible.
I want to horrify otaku as much as possible.
I want to see all the single losers out there forced to recon with their precious 2d illusions having 2d boyfriends instead of them :)
Boyfriends in K-on? Have fun waiting for that. Plus if a character has a boyfriend, that won't stop otaku from claiming that character as their wife.
Yeah like it was the case with Kannagi... Oh, wait...
According to Spica anyone who uses the word “moe” is most likely a pervert anyway :}
MOE NO MOAR
I don't see why the girls going to university means they'd be losing their moe. They're still the same girls, only they grow up a little. Do slice-of-life (comedy) shows ALWAYS need to be around high school girls?
But that aside, assuming Kakifly pushes forward with the story and has them attend university, does this mean the band will not be disbanded? If so, how does Azusa fit in the picture, considering she will still be in high school when the rest graduates? Will they find a way to get her in or do they have to find someone else to take her place?
A second season of the anime would be nice too. I loved the first one, so more is always welcome.
God they're graduating
Manga/Anime grows up too
Technically university still is school.
Ah K-on, stupid nerd anime for sad fuckers who fap to underage girls
I seriously hate you moe loving retards.
I love you too.
why so cruel, we didn't even hate you for being gay
Woah, woah, there's something wrong with being a nerd and fapping to loli now? I think you came to the wrong sie
Moe wasn't bad to begin with, it's the otaku that made it look ''bad''.
Don't just blame the "lovers", blame the haters too, stamping anything that has cute characters as Moeblob. I mean seriously, Toradora (Romance) = Moeblob, Haruhi (Sci-fi/Supernatural) = Moeblob, Kannagi (Slice of Life/Supernatural) = Moeblob, Railgun (Action/Slice of Life/Sci-fi) = Moeblob, and so on...
true that, according to those cases u mentioned there, moeblob = quality animes. so, why hate moeblob now?
aww hell naw
Krauser will rape em later
LONG LIVE KRAUSER II!
Can't rape the willing.
I slap you mutherfucker
AHAHAHHAA i can totally see that
shud anime lucky star cast going to uni rather than k-on.... cant picture miyuki and tsukasa going to the same uni tho...
I liked K-on but have little desire to see more anime, Lucky Star however.........PLEASE MORE!!!
if those moe rockers start rockin' seriously like the guys of BECK do, i'll set my eyes on the continuation
More Lucky Star? You're kidding, right?
The show (like K-ON) has run out of highschool. The 4koma never went that far, making a season 2 all filler.
All filler means even more episodes where they do nothing but discuss the proper way to eat some type of food, insert really obvious seiyuu jokes, and overall be really boring.
The "cute girls do cute things while nothing important happens" formula does not work in an after-highschool setting. Unless you want Lucky Star in the City. guuhhhhhhhhk
TL;DR Lucky Star 2 sounds like the worst idea ever.
I totally agre with u,lucky star was boring as hell, I don't really understand why is too popular
Lucky Star is popular for the following reasons:
1. It follows a very moe formula. The girls are cute and the actions are cute.
2. It reminds some anime otaku's of their own highschool days. Hanging out with your friends and talking about random things. Even if your the biggest otaku in the group, you still lived life with your friends, and many people found a connection because of that.
3. Adding on to my last statement. The series starts off with the girls talking together about normal and random things friends tend to simply talk about. The camera sets you up as if you are sitting with them silently. So after a few episodes a feeling of friendship between the watcher/reader and the characters start to form.
4. Konata really catches the mind of the anime otaku well. Their is a certain filter in her head that takes every normal things she hears, and then she relates it to anime naturally. This sensations makes Otaku's think (oh I so totally do that) when she blurts out something that doesn't make since to her friends right away, until you relate what she said to anime.
5. The entire show brilliantly creates a psychological attachment to the characters via, listening in on their trivial conversations, and the anime fan's feelings of relating to Konata's antics. People tend to love the characters because in a short period of time, they feel like they are more your classmates then animated characters.
This makes it an awesome piece of fiction that successfully makes the viewers happy to watch it. (putting Lucky Star at #1 on my favorite anime lists)
(also Lucky Channel is just too funny ^_^
KyoAni will milk it like they did Haruhi and people will lap it up. Of course Haruhi got much worse, whereas K-On! and Lucky Star were shit to begin with.
I guarantee a new anime series of both.
To Chris: Lucky Star is good BECAUSE nothing happens you moron! -_-
Nah. If LS can make use of Soujiro and Nanako-sensei (eg; those parts where she got drunk and overslept for 2 days and how she got all her long blog entry she typed wiped out due to server error) scenes as interesting skits, there's exactly no doubt they'll animate the girls' daily life as an adult or college student.
"...robs them of one of their key moe credentials."
As long thy don't touch or change any of their personalities while creating more music for album sake, I'm cool with that.
I'm pro-K-ON and you can defame this post if you hated the sound of "Moe..Moe..KYUN!" ringing in ur head...
True; I won't stop demanding for more Lucky Star anime until I see more Misao and Hiyorin.
Agree
I'd like to see more FMP too, the novels get really awesome later on (presuming they don't waste the enitre series on very merry christmas)
Agreed, a season 2 of K-on would be nice but I much rather see a season 2 of Lucky Star instead.
I lol'd
So the manga is still in full bloom? When is S2 coming out?
Not that i could stand to watch that empty moe fanservice crap past episode 6.
I don't see how the empty fanservice after episode 6 differed from the empty fanservice throughout the whole series. I enjoyed it as whole.
Was there anything but fanservice, anyway?
there was some drawing style that has become so popular that every successive anime is now dying to imitate it
there was damn good music.
oh shi-
I also wonder about that with Lucky Star. In manga they've graduated. But in the latest manga, it looks like they still wear their sailor uniform. Anyone can explain?
The whole thing turned out to be a dream Konata was having. She wakes up and everything goes back to normal.
(Not a troll)
fuck college girls, too old for my taste
>fuck college girls
Don't mind if I do.
College girls also mean a lot of 'experimentation' between gal-friends without the risk of being arrested for underage stuff.
then FUCK YEAH!!!
college means bigger breasts & mature sex xD
in manga vol.7 they really are graduate n go to univ.
most of the time they gather in someone room,n do the usual chit chat. not much change in the story thou,n sumtime they appear as a high school student too
Them attending university is something I'd definitely like to see.
I, too, would like to see them in university.
What about Azusa, I wonder? It looks as though she'll be alone (for a year at least).
She still has Ui.
And that fatty friend of theirs, whatshername?
While most (that type of) people tend to call Lucky Star and K-ON! as unrealistic slice of life comedy series, I have to say; one thing that I found impressive about these two (as well some others out there) is that the characters actually grow up through out the series.
Other than that, being university students actually won't make them loosing any Moe-ness. Look at Hachimitsu No Clover for example, Hagu is an extreme generator of love :3
"Includes all items on 'moe' checklist" does not necessarily imply "character is attractive or interesting".
"K-On!" and "Lucky Star" (especially the "Lucky Channel" segments) were mildly amusing and sometimes funny. But they didn't cause the viewer (at least, not me) to actually care about the characters.
"Honey and Clover" did. I thought Yamaada was far more attractive than Hagu, but child-looking-females turn me off.
the gist of drama show like H&C is to make the audiences feel touched with the twisted romance and conflict. as for k-ON and LS, it's just either make you laugh (or 'moe overdose' as Konata's father said) to death or make you bored to death.
I really can't see K-ON or LS season 2 becoming like H&C...
Wait whut? Did you guys actually believe and demand LS to turn into a life drama anime like H&C? I can understand it on K-on but as for LS; it's already obvious since the birth of the first page of the manga that it will be a a series of random skits depicting ppl's normal daily life. Crying out for the lack of depths and tear jerking twists in that show is seriously just.. pointless.
I guess we should blame LS itself for not presenting a "This show is nothing but just about the average life of three sisters.." Warning note at the beginning of the series like what Minami-ke did, eh?
Death to Moe.
amen
Death to you, losers.
No, it didn't. Fag.
Dude, did I even say anything about this and that character is interesting than the others or something that implies that LS and K-on characters CERTAINLY top over the others? And how can you even be 100% sure that viewers (beside you) didn't care about the characters from those two former series just like they did with H&C?
Oh well, then again it's all just about opinions..
so what?
they'll just go from moe school girls, to moe college girls...
This site REALLY loves K-ON huh.....yep.
this is Sankaku.
But... K-on! is LOOOOVE!!!
Everybody knows Collage/University is a place to experiment.
"if you know what I mean"
right? right?
what is this i don't even?
Nothing wrong with some variety in wardrobe, why anyone would ditch this series or any other series due to lack of sailor uniforms means they obviously didn't read the manga for the characters or the story.
Moe can exist without sailor uniforms......I think?
Yui attend university?
Seriously. I'd imagine she'd be a freeter.
It was less work than high school for me, seeing as how I attended a rigorous boarding school that was hell-bent on maintaining its prestige. My sleeping hours doubled when I went to college.
It just means they're becoming fully legal to fap to in Canada.
Technically so is Lucky star and most Touhou characters by that definition.
But many a Canadian will be happy they can now fap to Mio without fear of the mounties showing up.
lucky star > K-on ;D since konata is an otaku which she is someone i can relate to, can't really relate myself to musicians
I don't see whats there to hate in K-on. Kon was made to be cute with moe girls playing music. Its a great anime of its genre.
Saying it sucks is like criticising a horror movie because its too scary... Don't watch Kon if you don't want to see it. And saying its a big pile of crap and you hate it, won't make K-on disappear.
Anyways I too rather see more Lucky Star than Kon, but I wouldn't be mad if I got both :P University moeblob FTW! xD
Ya lol. I always here people saying, "oh it has no plot". It's a slice of life. "moeblob blah blah blah". It's a seinen. I mean come on people. Why not complain action doesn't have enough romance.
Most negative comments of K-On! come from small boys who only want to see violent action. They have not discovered girls yet. Then there are gays...
My preference for sexy woman is definitely a curvy, big boobed milf, but i like to watch young cute girls too. They are so funny and charming!
i think youre living in fantasy too much.
"Most negative comments of K-On! come from small boys who only want to see violent action."
i hate k-on for its typical moe crap.
There's so much wrong with erochichi's that I don't know where to start.