Otaku are displaying their usual suggestibility in response to schoolgirls with guitars anime K-On!, and have launched into a guitar buying frenzy.
It transpires that the Amazon.co.jp “people who bought this also bought this” feature is displaying exclusively K-On! music and Blu-ray discs:
It appears any number of very ronery guitarists are now practicing, or possibly merely displaying, the Fender-Japan JB62/LH/3TS the nation over, with its $750 price tag no obstacle…
Doubtless the maker is rubbing its hand with glee at the patronage.
You can see the page in question here.
Of course, it may be the case that they are only looking, but not buying, but given what we have already seen this seems improbable.
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sad sad otaku
feel the beet
feel your ￡ονё
Ibanez Basses > Fender Basses
seconded
thirded...
Wut?
Music Man > all
other than the fact that a musicman costs well over 2000 bucks in australia, no thanks.
Rickenbackers and PRS are pretty fucking awesomes as well though.
Rickenbacker ftw!
too bad i play the guitar.
Wrong. Nothing trumps the Greatness of the Fender American Made P-Bass.
lonely otaku
I just noticed she was a lefty right now
Ritsu parodies it in the manga.
I remember when I stayed at a small hotel in Ochanomizu in 2006, I found myself unable to resist exploring the many musical instrument shops there, and found myself exiting one of them with an unusually-shaped 3000-yen ukulele under my arm and no clear idea of what had just transpired inside the building. The persuasion powers of some Japanese salespersons are truly fearsome.
Incidentally, the hotel in question can be found here [http://www.familyhotel.jp/]. It's really "just what it says on the tin": A very pleasant hotel, run by a friendly family who charge very reasonable rates (at least they did in August 2006). It even has a small bath in the basement. My only problem with it was that the only window in the very small Japanese-style tatami room I stayed in opened onto a wall less than a metre from the window, and as such the room was permanently shrouded in darkness no matter the time of day whenever the electric light was turned off - much like Takasu's place in Toradora as described in the first episode.
>much like Takasu’s place in Toradora as described in the first episode.
People might just start going there after you said that o_O
According to their site, the hotel has just finished a 12-month closure period for renovations last month (if I am correct and it IS the year Heisei 21). I hope it's only changed for the better.
Staff in Japan is so much more nice and smiling than in France that I feel bad if I do not buy something XD
I blame France for its salesmen who did not prepare me to that.
I thought I might try playing the guitar, but I know better. I'm probably going to get lazy after the first week.
Don't say 'lazy'!
lol
Because you're really crazy.
lol
If anyone plans to do a decent cosplay, they need the genuine guitar.
You know that 99% of the K-On fans are male otakus?
Why would they want to cosplay girls ...
Trust me, that's no barrier for most of them.
Somehow this gave me the idea for a genderbender version of K-On :P
Can someone imagine a trap Mio?
>Evil Laugh
it has already been done.
why doesn't yui's guitar not popular...
You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not the guitar people don't like, it's the character.
Mio FTW!
You're kidding right? It's les paul that is always overpopular.
Yui guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Cherry Burst and its worth about 3,000 usd. iam sure otakus can spend that money on better things
> iam sure otakus can spend that money on better things
People said that about us when we started buying figures...and look what happened >:P
An Epiphone Les Paul Cherry Burst is almost identical to Yui's genuine Gibson.
I have the Epiphone in question-- the resemblance is stunning.
It's a left-hand bass too. No doubt this is going to collect dust in a corner somewhere.
I sure hope it will. Yahoo Auctions should have some real bargains on these instruments, come the end of the anime/manga.
It's just as well. Hardcore people like me play 5-string basses anyway.
real hardcore people play the banjo!
truly hardcore people make banjos!
truly hardcore people make the strings for their instruments out of there pubes!!
truly hardcore people have somebody else do the manual labor of making the instrument for them and then try to buy it for as cheaply as possible off an auction site!!!
> truly hardcore people make the strings for their instruments out of there pubes!!
Are you referring to a short manga shown in YES! magazine around 10 years ago?
epically hardcore people play the guitar instead!!
Now what?
well in bass 5 string is kind of common but i play a 7 string guitar and i think is really hardcore all the time i play it people think im a freak
what about a 14 string guitar? lol
double neck bass/guitar hybrid!
Maybe the buyers of musical instruments discover the beauty that is play music.
More than half will probably never touch the instrument after a year. Sad.
Dunno should I cry or laugh...
*plays his bass... arone*