The latest addition to K-ON!’s pantheon of moeblobs is Sumire Saito, who fans have not unreasonably noted is virtually a carbon copy of gentleman’s favourite Tsumugi Kotobuki, save for the caterpillar eyebrows.
For those not familiar with the new status quo, Sumire Saito is one of Azunyan’s moeblob minions, appearing only in the newly published Azunyan high-school spin-off manga, whereas the other ‘blobs continue on in the new K-ON! at university.
Incidentally, unlike Tsumugi, Sumire is clearly identified as a blonde and blue-eyed Caucasian (or “a foreigner” as the manga puts it) by Azusa and company, though one mysteriously bearing a Japanese name and seemingly devoid of barbarian mannerisms.
The fan reaction:
“Mugi is finished you guys!”
“She’s so cute!”
“Damn, isn’t she cute?”
“What’s this throbbing in my chest?”
“Sumire-chan! So cute!”
“I’ll trade in my Mugi for that one.”
“Sayonara Mugitards.”
“Kakifly: ‘If I make Mugi cute she’ll look like this…'”
“They fixed her weight and eyebrows.”
“She’s cute but as a character she’s a bit lightly characterised…”
“She’s not plump enough.”
“Does she have money though, money?”
“A blonde tea-drinker! She’s ripped off Mugi too much!”
“One is uni, the other school, so they can coexist!”
“Wait, if you fatten up her eyebrows, she’s totally Mugi!”
“Gross, she’s ruined. We can do without them.”
“Mugi-chan is crying!”
“She can’t win against Mugi!”
She is Mugi, the only survivor of her species. All hate can go to E.P.A. for sure.
Azunyan will get her own flat-chested K-on, with blackja… Pardon, loli and moe.
She only favors Tsumugi because of the blonde hair blue eye aspect other than that im pretty sure that she is not a mugi clone and besides its almost impossible to clone an angel to begin with.
MUGI FOREVER! EYEBROWS FOREVER!
Kidding me? All they did was put Mio in Mugi’s body… That’s stupid… You can’t beat Mugi. She’s the goddamn greatest thing!!! FFF, she even got naked for us!
does she got a villa?
Sounds similar with “Sato” Sumire.
Kaki-Fly is probably a fan of AKB48.
reminds me of Lacus Clyne and Meer 😛
both are fantastic 😛
Sumire Saito doesn’t have Mugi-Vision.
Fuck you, Mugi is forever.
mugi is still mai waifu
what nonsense. Mugi-sama FOREVER!!!
Stick with Mugi, MUGI FTW!!!
Mugi is still the best in my books!!
Sumire looks like the result of Mugi-chan and Mio-chan fusing together. xD
Peronally I thought she looked like a blonde blue eyed Mio
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
MOE-DESU!
o wait, I didn’t do this when Mugi appeared. so Sumire is better.
2 Finnish blondes. How sweet.
Hmm….did Mugi bleach her hair? Or is she half?
Ill stick to mah Mugi no matter what! >.<
Bitch has nothing on Mugi.
Mugi has softer hair…and Mugi is Mugi. No one can ever be like her. Mugi is love.
That said, I’m looking forward to Sumire…she reminds me of Mio^^
wow, the creativity of K-ON!! sure is shocking.
Make a carbon copy character, change one detail.
Done.
she looks more like a palette swap of Mio than Mugi
May be she is Mugi’s relative.
Great god…..Here comes a new challenger !
Interesting addition to K-On! characters lineup, and great fun they can exist in 2 parallel universes, regular high school and university.
I must get more info of Sumire, though, before i have more informed opinion of her. She looks cute, but i am a big fan of Tsumugi, and nothing stops me from liking both!
Hahaha, all your moeblobs are replaceable!
Softenni ^_^
Also the Moe Evolution keeps evolving
Kami is right ^_^
Mugi chan!!!!! T_T, Mire looks moe style but Mugi is must moe, kawaii, cute, sweet!!!!! well…..Mugi i`ll miss u!!!! >_<
Nada! ni siquiera una vil calca, superara a mugi-chan ♥
Honestly….
I don’t get it o.o
So she’s a combinaison of Mio attitude and Mugi appearance?
…Sorry but that’s not very orginial for a new character.
5 bucks says she plays bass.
The arsonist says she plays bass,… I say she is the new precussionist!
So lets call her the BAM BAM Girl!
. . .
MUGI IS STILL MY #1!!!
I don’t want to sound like an ass, but Mugi was not an original character to begin with. Her character design is identical to Saati from AI ga tomaranai (or A.I. Love You in English).
ever heard of archetype?
it seems that Mire is an improvement of MugiO_O
Fuck these anti-Mugi people. CATERPILLAR EYEBROWS ROCK.
After takign a look at the pictures of Sumire Saito, I just wonder if there will be some phenomina similar to “Mio is my wife”, “Azunyan is my wife” => “Sumire is Mine – Nobody can tocu her!”
Honestly, just because she has blonde hair doesn’t make her a copy of Mugi.
/sigh Japanese people…
The only thing superior about Sumire is that she’s flat chested.
She looks more like a Blonde Mio if you ask me.
I approve. The only problem of this manga is that it will inadvertently be shorter than it’s spin-off. The first one had 3 high school years of “material”, this one will be a third of that, considering Azusa’s already in her third year. Too bad lol
A conflict appears in the continium of Kon ^_^
To love the eyebrows or to not 😀
who expect lol, K-on is not famous for his originality.
I really hoped that she will be voiced by Hayami Saori & become the main vocalist of Azusa’s HTT. However, judging from Kyoani’s preferences of casting newcomers, it’s almost impossible.
I like SanK-ONku Complex
Mugi uses Charm. It’s Super Effective!
I have so much less respect for K-On now for completely copying one of its OWN CHARACTERS!
Lazy designers are lazy.
Do the Guttenberg! (german for copy & paste)
Mugi is cuter 😀
But Mire is prettier 😀
She’s cute indeed, but a Mugi is fine too.
ahhh! i cant wait to see what kind of equipment will she playing XD
well, all they need is a bassist or a drummer. Pick your choice.
ahhh!!! i cant wait to see what equipment she will playing
I’d say mugi is fatter too
Cute but still no Mugi.
I still prefer Mugi <_<
“What’s this throbbing in my chest?”
I think this anon meant, “What’s this throbbing in my pants?” *Corrected*
Tsumugi wins again.
Looks like Mio with yellow hair.
“Hello, my name is Kate.”
It’s not Mugi without the eyebrows. If they wanted her that way, they should’ve started the series off with her like that. Just a plain overseas girl with huge boobs. I could get that kind of girl anywhere. Mugi is different, therefore adorable. It’s like if you take Lindsay Lohan’s alcoholic/slutty ways away, she’s just another girl at the bar. We like Lindsay Lohan BECAUSE she’s fucking stupid.
what the f#ckin different between her and Mugi..
they are like the same character, with a little modification
Out with the old and in with the new.
So then 10 years down the line, we find out that Sumire and Mugi have the same father, because he conducted ‘business’ overseas.
This reeks of failed attempt to clone Ana or Kate.
Mugi all the way!! i just love those eyebrows!
Nobody can replace Mugi…
Even if she is a shameless rip…
How they dare threat Mugi’s status!!!
Mugyuuuuuuuu!!!
She would look less like Mugi if the creators for once did they’re research on Americans. Its annoying to see Americans portrayed with only straight blond hair, blue eyes, and white fair skin. Caucasians have multiple hair colors, different hair textures/types, and eye colors and they’re not the only race that exists in America.
For the people really pointing out the VERY small differences are lying to themselves. This form of lazy character design is almost unacceptable. She looks exactly like Mugi. (With lighter and messier hair.) Couldn’t the artist put more effort in her design to make her standout more? (Have yet to see a curly haired K-On! girl…)
Not only that, Mugi still is cuter.
“For the people really pointing out the VERY small differences are lying to themselves. This form of lazy character design is almost unacceptable. She looks exactly like Mugi. (With lighter and messier hair.) Couldn’t the artist put more effort in her design to make her standout more? (Have yet to see a curly haired K-On! girl…)”
Fucking AGREED
My heart is broken! Had to split it in two for two girls.
But Mugi is unique. The fact that she innocently wanted to cool her hands to be warmhearted, and how she planned those pillow fights and scares in the club room, that made her invaluable.
As for Sumire, I know she’ll find a way to sneak into my Mugi collection.
Mugi and Mire are my cuppa tea
well, for me more like the sweets and tea.. and I bring the milk ;D
This is no different than Mio + Asuza. It is ok if they look similar.
if u take away all of the K-ON girl’s hair, they are almost similiar, but only mugi will stand out and that’s becouse of her adorable eye brows. she is unique in her own way no one can replace her.
If they both had hot sex together then no one will complain
Well, Mugi too seems a lot with Belldandy.
I think i came without even fapping when i saw this news.
OH YEAH. BEEBABELUBAP.
how to maek new characters?!
1. taek old characters
2. strip them of characterristic features
3. ????
4. Profit!
Ironically your right.
Now all they need to do is make her voiced by Kana Hanazawa in the anime, and the Infinite Stratos invasion will be complete 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDm_VIuleY
It has to happen >:P
http://i.imgur.com/9S2yz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ixz8h.jpg
agreed
What difference? The fact remains that all of them share the same features, save for the hair style, eye colour and eyebrows. The author just changed bits and there you have it, a new character.
When I saw the first picture I really thought she was Mugi then I noticed the lack of eyebrows and was shocked that they would use an almost identical character, in shape and design at least, but what can we expect when that is apparently what the people want. Then I rationalized it and thought, well if this one turns out to be a lesbian then at least Mugi gets a girlfriend
She looks like a Mio+Mugi Hybrid, lol.
I wonder what would a Yui+Ritsu would look like 🙂
My thoughts exactly.
I just shit brix. Is she… MIO AND TSUMUGI’S LOVECHILD?! I don’t know what to believe in anymore!
THIS IS….
I’m more into Sawa-chan!
Sumire’s definitely but she’s still nothing compared to Mugi imo.
Mugi is better…
But, this Sumire, has the all powerful YURI-GOOGLES(TM) of Mugi?
No way! No flipping hell! No way in flipping hell can she be superior than my Mugi-sama!
Anyway, copying my comment in Sankaku Channel; Why, Kakifly? We have so much chance of seeing Ichigo repeating her year as an excuse or a new meganekko character to be the fourth member yet you just used the same palette from Mugi and Mio. It’s not just lacking of new stuff, it’s also making both Mio and Mugi in the University part ended up being less special.
Am I the only one who considers her a BLONDE mio -_-
She’s…she’s EVEN CUTER THAN MIO!
superior.
““One is uni, the other school, so they can coexist!””
As long as they don’t meet eye to eye, there be at least balance in the universe.
The moeblobs are evolving…now an even cuter form has appeared.
NOOOOO!!! Not Mugi!!! Azu-nyan better not come across some rival like Kirino and Kuroneko and everyone will start loving the rival
Mugimon digivolve to… Sumiremon!!!
Love it X3
I spewed Dr. Pepper on my screen when I read that LOL
Dr. Pepper and Time travel…That would fix the Mugen, I mean Mugi problem!
Looks like Sawa-chan has a new Mugi-chan to love with!
i mean its only the intellectual beverage made for the chosen you know?
Dr.Pepper? Have yo been watching Steins;Gate?
at first glance i thought the article’s pic was a fan art mugi but then i realize the brows wasn’t there so i got curios. she’s not mug lol she’s both mugi and mio for cryin’ out loud. a shy blond hair type. if that doesn’t ring any bell to you, then you need to watch K-On again.
Whats this bulging in my pants?
Pour some boiling hot water to solve the bulging.
Only one way to find out Anon.
I take both.
this is an easy one …i’ll take both…..
“One is uni, the other school, so they can coexist!”
-right, as long they don’t meet at the same place at the same time the universe won’t explode
Mugi’s voice can’t be beaten!! Samire is cute though.
Nobody can replace my love for Mugi!
Looks too composed.
Everyone loves mugi for her ‘crack face’ whenever cake is involved.
I love both Mugi and Sumire!
They’re so alike!Love how they react to things too
Mugi > this imposter. Always.
She’s frickin adorable. Mugi’s eyebrows and attitude are what makes her Mugi. Sumire seems like the shy type, which most poeple are just a sucker to.
Mugi is popular cuz of her uniqueness. Sumire will be popular cuz they used traits of popular anime girls for her.
I love Mugi, and I’ll surely end up loving Sumire too.
And imo, Sumire with Mugi brows does not look like Mugi at all.
Anyone else think she looks like a cross between Mugi and Mio?
More like a lovechild of Mugi and Mio if you ask me. Or maybe Sumire is the long lost daughter of Mugi and Sawako.
ehh… sure she look cute and a shy type thats a WIN, but mugi is a YURI thats a BIG WIN (/=3=)/
I can’t wait for the fan-arts of both Tsumugi and Sumire to surface in Pixiv…
Preferably some lulzy parody and humorous ones like both of them being half-sisters or something, haha~
I beg to differ, its no contest. Mugi is much more “demure” also Mugi is much more sophisticated.
This young lass is in a class all her own. Just that her hair is blonde and has normal eyebrows,… and She doesn’t have a rack like Mugi does.
Biggest difference, her tits aren’t as big as Mugi’s tits.
The Azunyan Arc is totally a story onto itself. Why even compare it, they’re both done by the same artist.
Besides, Mugi’s family owns a chain of Music Stores. What does this youngster have to offer to the storyline? Beside more moeness
Its like comparing Honda’s with Ducatti’s
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I totally agree with you and see it the same.
I like Mugi too with her eyebrows…
But I wonder what will 2ch react if some “pretending to be a black guy” calls “Sup Sumire!” due to her being a foreigner-like?
mugi is still my number 1!!!!!
Sumire is like Mugi in shy mode
agree??
it would be moe scandalous if Sumire chan, were actually a boy.
Thanks to Arte picking just the right pics.
You’re saying MioXMugi?
I… I want to believe that’s Himeko dying her hair blonde, sneaking inside and disguising herself as a third year student.
But then again, Himeko’s sex hair is one of the strong point why she’s one of the top popular mob characters so I wouldn’t like it if that’s her new hair.
You and I both know that we won’t ever see Himeko again. Not in the official manga or anime anyway.
Personally, I wouldn’t want them make Himeko somehow being a musician as well just to fit he clique(I prefer her seeming to have no serious interest in musical instruments), but I wish Houkago Teatime was shown to interact more with their classmates outside the band so we could see her more. The frank way Himeko talks to Yui seems to suggest that they’re pretty much acquainted with each other.
Jun, although a musician, clearly didn’t give a fuck about any of them except Mio and she looked like just a mob character in season 1. Yet it was her they chose to become prominent in season 2. It ain’t fair!
Sadly,that’s the Kakifly’s decision to make…
I’d certainly like to see the other classmates have more screen time
I agree with what you’ve just said. So sad but true. I guess we can only be a little glad that the anime came up with an altered RoMio and Juritsu arc where we at least get to see some of the classmates getting SOME lines, screentime and in fact being useful (blowing kiss to Shizuka-chan).
I do like Jun so I have nothing against her becoming a regular supporting character and getting her own Character Song Album.. though it makes me wonder why on earth Fumie didn’t get the same treatment, despite she’s the longest lasting mob character since season 1.
Those cat ears are shopped btw.
I think they’re comparing the wrong girl. Mugi just has no shame at anything she does. She’ll always look like a big-sister in my eyes. The kind that doesn’t seem to have any shame doing something. XD
While Mire’s portrayal makes her look more like a shy/embarrassed Mio type.
The only trait Sumire has that is similar to Mugi is the hair color. Heck they don’t even have the same Hair color!
Their skin tone is different, and no one else in K-ON ever had her hair style.
Mio’s is long, straight and Hime-cut. Mugi’s is fluff-wavy long and straight. Sumire’s got some spikes and is also straight and long, kinda like Char’s :3
And I agree with Shippo~
I was talking about physical traits, but yeah, you’re right. I didn’t mention that to make my point seem more agreeable~
well,she has Mugi’s trait,brewing tea(cakes too,maybe)
So then she’s just designed after Tsumugi to rip off Mio’s character?
Combining character traits like this isn’t a good thing.
I agree with what you said
But Sumire looks a bit like Mugi
A bit is an understatement.
I donno, man. She just look too much like a Mugi without the large eyebrows. Also, why must there be 2 foreigners with the same gold hair and the same unnatural ability to do anything?
I guess I can skip the Pinoys since they obviously view most of them as little more than gorillas, but what about those dark-haired Brazillian chicks? Hell, the brunettes? I had business appointments with a few gorgeous jet-black-haired French. Let’s not forget the blacks too.
ahhhh! i cant wait to see what kind of equipment will she playing XD
not to mention that they didn’t just thin her eyebows but seemingly also her chest size… seriously Mugi is the best ^^
I am STILL a Mugi-lover! I can room in my otaku heart for blondie also. If she’s shy then really she’s a Mio-Mugi hybrid.
A shy ditzy blonde foreigner? vs. a worldly light haired Japanese women up for anything? They are Nothing alike. Can’t wait for the Sumire & Mugi scissoring dojinshi
Ohohoho~ Both is fine~
yes this is win why chose when you can has both
Win
MAI WAIFU FOREVAH!
I’m really digging this “new mugi” though, she seems to be the shy type while Mugi-tan is the innocent ojousama type.
Can’t wait for the official art and fanart of them, because it’s obvious artists will put them together 😀
It’ll be like a yuri game of spot-the-difference.
They might look a like but I wouldn’t say carbon copy, you misleading little triangle you!
She looks smaller, thinner, her hair is longer, her eyes are wider, totally different; blonde hair is not carbon copy, in that case Azusa is a carbon copy of Mio.
Loli version of Mugi
Loli is not a synonym for cute, you idiot
@Anon 21:32
Sorry but that’s actually a plus on my side~~ ^^”
A★
A “+”
I saw what you did there :3
As a DFC fan i have to give you a “+”
Cállate mexicano pendejo….
Shy tipe is popular because it makes you think is the kind of women you can shut up with a bitchslap 😉
Just make five Mio’s and K-On tards are happy.
Mio is overrated
Sup Mugi
lol a k-on world without mugi?.. mire is a mugi copy and just adjusted for azusas company. to be honest she reminds me to an older alternative version of coppola from Ichigo Mashimaro. “foreigner” “cute” “blonde”.. well I didn’t read the manga till yet (don’t worry will read it, I want to be updated here ;D)
So this so called new character is a MUGI + MIO ripoff hmmm… Where have I seen a manga like this where basically all characters look very much like other aside from the hair.
A slimmer, Mio-like Mugi with eyebrows that don’t resemble a gorilla’s? Fuck yes. Best K-On character ever.
Mmmmmh… So she’s a foreigner… Does she look like Osama Bin Laden then?
I don’t think you got the line “All foreigners look alike” right dear sir.
Need an explanation? Common sense.
She needs thicker eyebrows, kiba, and shitting dick nipples.
shitting dick nipples….?
Believe me, you don’t want to see that.
Damn i had to look it up.
SURPRISE! Characters with the exact same face look the same!
Any character in the same anime in every anime have the same basic face shape.
I honestly can’t believe that anyone is accepting of this bland tripe copypasta character.
U MAD?
Yeah, actually I fucking am. I’d like to think that kakifly could at least put in SOME sort of effort into the character, but no, I can’t even ask for that.
Kyoani manages to throw out hundreds of new characters that all look mostly unique and the best Kakifly can do is a tea-drinking/brewing Tsumugi without Tsumugi’s eyebrows.
I mean, is this a fucking joke? I guess K-ON!! can’t work unless it has a black haired, two brown-haired and blonde-haired characters? If not for the fact that they already put Ui on the organ/piano, she’d probably be playing the piano.
She may as well be named Status Quo!!! And it’s really this blatant lack of effort and/or lack of subtlety that bother’s me. She’s literally cut from the same brush of the character, and it astounds me that people are actually okay with this shit. It’s pretty bad enough that he doesn’t do anything with Tsumugi other than yuri jokes and being a plot device. If you want another chance with character, go fix her up, not copy ther same damn character
You know, I’m not expecting much from the manga, but goddamn, the bar’s been set so fucking low, we’ve struck oil. Unless this is some masterstroke by Kyoani to make the manga so bland that S3 kills the competition, then it’s pretty disappointing that you literally can get away with this bullshit just by name of your series alone.
All I’m asking for is the basics of writing and characterization 1 0 fucking 1, and I can’t even get that from K-ON!
TL:dr. Sumire is a copypasta design ripped right out of DA, and I can’t believe people like this bullshit
Yes, I’m actually a fan of the series, hence why I’m so disappoint.
>> it astounds me that people are actually okay with this shit
You’re new to anime aren’t you?
No. Actually, I stopped watching Gundam to get away from this sort of crap.
I just thought it would be different for something as basic as K-ON!! Just design a new character and personality, just as easy as that, right?
Well. No
Not even here.
“Mugi’s hair is blonde
Sumire’s hair is yellow”
Rendezvous_68, you have to be a giant asshole if you think that makes a character difference.
Also, I say I don’t like the lack of originality about Gundam and then you say I’m a SEED fan of all things? It’s like you’re not even trying.
“I honestly can’t believe that anyone is accepting of this bland tripe copypasta character.”
^Are you serious..? I see the resemblance but they have NO identical traits whatsoever. That flood guy way above is right.
Mugi’s hair is blonde
Sumire’s hair is yellow
Mugi has long wavy hair, front, side and back
Sumire has long, somewhat spikey hair at the back, and short on the sides. Almost exactly like Char’s
Attitudes/personalities are entirely different too.
Mugi’s rich, daring, shameless.
Sumire’s not rich, shy, innocent.
Gundam has tons of different designs. Every timeline switches the designs entritely. You must be a Gundam SEED tard.
I’m a great fan of K-ON!! and Gundam(excluding SEED).Well,if you aren’t the kind who loves K-ON!!,just ignore it
Why would I even care if I didn’t remotely care about K-ON!!
Why is any attempts at criticizing this thoughtless garbage character met with WELL YOU NEVER REALLY LIKED IT THEN?
↑This.↑ How moronic does one have to be to reuse a character-design from the same title?
Also, without her eyebrows Mugi is nothing but a shadow of her former self.
More moeblobs= profit
Kakifly is raking it in!
I think Sumire’s prettier without that shitty brows.
And moeblobs are cookie cutter characters anyway.
i think its like Highschool of The Dead, u can still make a story of it without the zombies but not without the boobs…
well ya she is prettier without.. but mugi without their brows isn’t a mugi
yea…she’ll turn to a glob of something(S2)
Virtually all K-ON! girls have exactly the same face.
Quite a common case: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/01/26/spot-the-difference-all-12-characters-have-the-same-face/
Just saw Ore-tachi… and thought: Same girl/series again?
Any character in the same anime in every anime have the same basic face shape. It’s the details like structure, hair and eyes that make the difference.
And Sumire’s details are far different from Mugi imo.
Yeah there are some animes where only the hair and eye color differs, it is annoying. But I disagree that this is the case in most of the good animes.
Bullshit. Most anime is good at making their characters look different. Take away the hair and you wouldn’t be able to tell the K-ON characters apart.
Oh? There may be a few, from “good anime” as other anon says, but would you please provide me with an example? If ever you read this or even feel like it.
I disagree with your “most anime” though.
But yes, I did say “Any character from the same anime in every anime”, so I may be wrong in my part.