
Desperate Kyoto Animation fans yearning for their next fix of KyoAni quality have ranked the titles they would most like to see made next, with selections ranging from wishful thinking to denial – although it would be hard to imagine at least one of their choices not being made.
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The adorable antics of Mio, Yui and Mugi have finally ended with the “grand finale” of K-ON!, disappointing many fans with its humdrum campus festival send-off and total lack of any surprise announcements – although one last sight of nekomimi maid Mio does provide them with some consolation.
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Manabe Nodoka, who didn’t make it to the top 25 most popular KyoAni girls and did not even get to accompany her friends to London, can at least count on this Alter statuette of her to soothe her bruised ego.
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As befits its status as “the best anime studio,” Kyoto Animation’s adorable parade of moeblobs are also clearly the best – at least as far as the tastes of Type B fans are concerned – and this has prompted them to assemble the definitive ranking of them.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2012 07:43 JST
- Tags: Auctions, Azusa, Conbini, Guitars, K-ON!, Moe, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu, Shopping

Even if the manga and anime are done with for now, the notorious mania of K-ON! fans for high priced guitars has reached the usual frenzied levels, with an Azunyan guitar bearing the signatures of all 5 seiyuu reaching ¥5,081,000 in mere days.
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The penultimate chapter of K-ON! has induced outpourings of despair amongst the poor fans of the series, not least because there is no prospect of seeing Azunyan graduate.
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Anime fans reveal which titles have lately been exercising their tear ducts, providing plenty of titles of no small emotional intensity – although presumably in the case of the surprisingly highly ranked K-ON! they were tears of moe-induced joy…
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K-ON! may just have been dumped, but this has not diminished the enthusiasm of Lawson for its regular K-ON! tie-ups, the latest of which has proved more extensive than ever.
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With the ending of K-ON! confirmed, speculation as to why it was dumped rages – and most seem to consider the problematic university setting as being at fault.
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Otaku are grappling with the prospect of the grim darkness of life without K-ON! (again), as the manga has just announced a sudden and unexpected finale.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 3, 2012 06:13 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Fashion, Hatsune Miku, Image Gallery, K-ON!, Moe, Otaku, Touhou, Weather

Wet weather has prompted otaku to consider the merits of ita-umbrellas (“ita-kasa” or “ita-gasa”), which as their name suggests are umbrellas with anime designs, though as with other public displays of otaku identity there is some resistance.
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When even a second season just isn’t enough, a third is called for – and anime fans still hankering for more supply a ranking of just which titles it is they demand be continued.
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