Sharp-eyed observers have spotted some very odd touches in Mio anime K-On! Most notably, the girls seem to be used to a life of true luxury, evident in all the episodes so far…
A Meissen cup and saucer worth $100:
A Wedgwood tea cup and saucer set ($90 each):
Another Wedgwood worth $65, from the “Harlequin Collection”:
A Herend tea cup and saucer worth over $200:
All this remains unidentified:
Quite an opulently furnished club room.
Either the girls have a privileged upbringing (as Tsumugi is said to have), or else the animators took the rather curious decision to base all their crockery on the most expensive Rakuten has to offer.Both seem likely.
Interestingly, they also apparently increased some of the prices of the instruments the girls received from the manga…
Another observer writes pointing out that the mathematics (not pictured) the girls are apparently working on in the third episode is more normally associated with university level maths courses than anything expected of high-schoolers… Perhaps an inappropriate reference?
More of the third episode:
All right this might work…
X^2 -XY – 6Y^2 + 2X + Y – 1 = 0
(X – 3Y)(X + 2Y) + 2X + Y – 1 = 0
Now, assume both the linear and the non-linear part goes to 0 at the same time, then you will have the following conditions:
1, X – 3Y = 0 and 2X + Y – 1 = 0
2, X + 2Y = 0 and 2X + Y – 1 = 0
For 1, since 2X + Y – 1 = 0 -> Y = 2X – 1
Then X – 3(2X – 1) = 0, X = -1/5
So Y = 2(-1/5) – 1 = -7/5, hence (-1/5 , -7/5) is a solution.
For 2, X + 2(2X – 1) = 0, X = 1/5
Then Y = 2(1/5) – 1 = -3/5, hence (1/5, -3/5) is another pair of solution.
I am doing this in my head so someone please check my work. The best is still to do a numerical approximation as the above method may not gives all the solutions.
Hope this helps.
so many comments here.
The reasons why K-On! popular lies here
Mio – Priceless
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s 2ch.
I thought they’re from high school… where in the anime does it say they’re learning university math o.O?
Artefact must add this at the end of the article:
“and a funny moe blob show slash music band: Priceless”
“There are money things can’t buy – like expensive ero dolls or l♥♥i figurins you can only buy through Ebay.”
“For anything else use MasterCard”
cheesy…
lolerz…
*There are many things money can’t buy*
There are very very few things money can’t buy.