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:
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Nothing you can't buy for $12.99 in chinatown D: I'm more curious as to what the purple cakes taste like
It is crush azuki bean thats been solified and make into jelly. it's like a sweet dessert.
Hm, I assumed it had some sort of filling.
Like a bean paste filled yukkuri?
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They're actually really expensive. Tsumugi's family is rich (her dad owns a motherfcking store, and that's probably just one of many). Honestly, I like knowing about this stuff, but treating it as some sort of shocking surprise is just a bit much...
It's great! (I generally like sweet things.) I had some years and years ago in college. A Japanese dorm-mate served it with tea.
Mugi explains the silverware, and the math explains the geniuses who work on K-On!
Take it any other way and the MOE god will destroy you dolphin.
Agreed.
Anyways, its pretty obvious from the first episode Mugi-chan is fucking rich.
See: "This is my first time eating fast food."
I dont think thats good example, consider i had never had fast food about 2 years..then i had mcdonalds...KILL ME NOW! I DONT WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE D:
Is that a "kill me now because I'm eating too much" or a "kill me now because I remember the horror?
Knowing him, it's a "Kill me now! All of the lolis in this restaurant have boobs!"
Nothings too good for MY Mugi-chan!...so they eat on 'expensive' flat ware big deal. I wanna know what kind of underwear they have!
I see what you did there.
Also she says that she brought all of that kind of decorations from home. it would not be weird for her to bring cups & stuffs aswell...
agree
That's uni level maths? But it's like, algebra.
Hence the X chord
yeah...the maths is nothing like college level stuff...but maybe the writer meant it s too challenging for a first year high school student.
Ehhhhhh.. I learned the stuff they're doing in 7th grade..
I would like to say this isn't University level math, haha, if math courses were that easy everyone would have a math degree and not have to go through partial differential equations or real analysis, or complex analysis.
those are University level math courses, where u have to calculate heat flow in objects or prove that the Euclidean metric on R^n is positive, positive definite and symmetric.
Seriously this stuff they did is pretty close to grade 8 or 9. I wonder who said it was Univ level? w/e school that is glad I'm not in it
Supposedly they were working on an implicit function; I wasn't referring to anything pictured.
quite sure they were factoring.
次の式を因数分解せよ。
Yeah, definitely factoring.
It's funny how the only one we can see that she got correct was multiple-choice.
its calculus more like differential equation i think... ^_^
Those look more like polynomial factoring to me. Something I've studied back when I was 13 but after ten years I've forgotten how to. :))
I noticed all the guitar gear, but who the hell picked out all the silverware?
A silverware/anime otaku?
I can't believe this topic has over 60 comments. Some 2ch troll would wander in here and be like....is this a joke?...they're talking about silverware and price comparisons?- lol.
I too want to know what the purple cake tastes like...I suspect it's a blueberry concoction?
/facepalm
It's azuki bean...something or another, I've been told it's got a flavor something reminiscent of cherry, but other than that I know almost nothing.
why would anko taste like cherry, its red bean in a jellyform,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yōkan]
oh look it's a recipe for Azuki beans...since this has become such an issue- lol.
Take it as you will, but it seems to me that either are pretty well off economically or the school has one hell of a budget.
This is quite expected.
I blame mugi for the good stuff, she said in one ep that she brought it all from home.
which also explains the unidentified status of the crockery at yui's home (as none of the items in these comparisons are from those scenes) as they going to be cheep things from a 100yen shop or something :)
possibly imitations? but i dun think japan has much of imitated goods unlike some other asian countries...
one of the girls is the daughter of a powerful company, and she supplies all of the silverware and snacks. if you watched the show, you would know this.
I did know this, it was even written in the source.
Why the fook is a piece of glass shaped to carry water so expensive!?!?
Because they know people will buy it just because it is expensive.
You sell a coat for $10, rich people wont buy. Sell same coat for $250, rich people more likely to buy, sell same coat for $2,500 then you guarantee rich will buy it.
Not only rich people, but people who want to be considered rich
No. True rich people would probably ask you to give them a $9 discount on the $10 coat. :p
From where I'm from, the ones who dress up like rich people are the ones who aren't, and the ones who go to the mall wearing flip-flops are the loaded ones.
Seriously, that sounds cool.
I never seen anyone wearing flip-flops to a mall, lol. (Other than kids or an old couple) I'd use my school shoes.
Seems like you guys don't actually know any rich people.
filp flops in singapore's malls are everywhere~
mugi, the rich girl who is rich, said explicitly "i outfitted the club room".
the expensive dishware comes from her, it has nothing to do with all of the girls living in the crotch of luxury.
first mio's guitargate and now this ... try actually watching k-on arte, you may enjoy it :D
don't listen to him, it's really typical moeblob stuff.
Whats wrong with typical moeblob stuff?
UUUHHUUURRGGGG!...I just released some 'MOEblob stuff'...It's ok, Mio had tissues.
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