Haruhi-ON!
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 21, 2009 15:10 JST
- Tags: Character Design, Comparison, Haruhi, K-ON!, Kyoto Animation, Moe
The visual parallels between Haruhi and K-ON! continue to intensify, with viewers noticing more and more similarities…











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First season was so god damn sexy compared to this. Well the first season is god damn sexy. I frikin hate this k-on style... Kyo ani raped this anime already...
I think the point is that the Haruhi fans NEVER asked for Kyoani to kon-ify the character designs. We NEVER asked for an 8-episode Endless Eight, and we DID ask for Disappearance.
KyoAni is not only ignoring, but contradicting the fanbase. What the fuck is going on with them!?
They are going rebel against da fanbase D:
moe anime and fans of moe anime all should die
bring back real anime
But Yui is a cute good girl and Haruhi is a crazy bitch.
Even with the same style visually K ON is better, its more more.
This is a travesty!
But really I don't care, except for how the characters almost always seem to be crossing their eyes now.
wow, sure took some of the guys to notice the similarities :P
some bunny tooth at some eternal eight already have obvious k-on expression there if any of us watch closely to the looping XD
An anime became more moe. What a disaster!
are you freaks still going on about this shit? Get the fuck over the art style.
Typical of the internet people. Just bitch and bitch.
They have improved the animation over some of the E8/Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody episodes. Still it couldn't have been so hard to use the original S1 animation style. Moeblobs were okay for K-On, but this is Haruhi.
今の方が何となく優しそうで可愛いかな
ちょっと違和感あるけど
I guess fans are still butthurt bitter about E8 that they even tend to cherry pick stuffs just to release their angst over the whole season. Well can't blame them. If you're expecting something great with that rage inside you. Good luck....
Having more expressions is a good thing isn't it?
i had felt that k-on was created to capitalize on the success of haruhi, specifically the enoz part.
nothing wrong with that.
good episode since it had a great song and was totally unexpected.
an all girl band has a lot of appeal.
for some reason my brain thinks k-on is the band enoz.
k-on and haruhi characters are in the same universe so they all go to the same school.
the day of that festival yui and azusa could not make it so they got haruhi and yuki to fill in.
might have been an interesting crossover.
you would occasionally see the other show in the background, especially the surreal exploits of sos brigade from k-on point of view.
from time to time they would bump into each other,
maybe even something that happens in one show greatly affecting the other show.
then they could have haruhi 2nd season which would also explain what they saw in k-on (except getting k-on getting stuck in haruhi's endless eight)
Johannes Krauser II on k-on was pretty funny though
I already noticed at Bambo rhapsody, Mikuru looked so ... different.
Time to lose : http://imagik.fr/uploads/110624
Fucking kyoani...
K-ON! is a decent anime, has a fairly unique plot but in the end it reminds me of silly high schoolers doing random stuff more then it reminds me of a music animation. K-ON looks new but it's also old, it reminds me alot of lucky star and azumanga. Haruhi in the other hand took it to the next level, it's so insane it's amazing, you can actually think while watching it, you try make sense of apparently senseless things, props to the novel author on the matter.
K-On! is shit.
And what I hate most is Kyon-kun facial expression, previous one was better
when did people care about been the same art style if it look good then okay
I think she looks 10x better as a k-on clone...
I prefer the placement of the newer eye design but the angularity of the original. Gives Haruhi a more serious and less "moe moe look at me let's copy k-on" look.
oyi... did they forget to look at Itou Noiji's design chart? Seriously, it was perfect for the show.
K-On Haruhi just doesn't work IMO. It looks like it blinked into Shoujo or something...
OMFGGG i agree DX..
i hate this k-on style ):
ruined the wonderfull touch of Noiji/Noizi ito ):
Now we need a sequel... Haruhi-ON! Oratorio Tangram.
I prefer 'KY-ON!'
As I posted before. Why are they going all crazy about this? They're both from the same animation company, so it isn't all that surprising if the drawing looks similar since drawing will change over years. Anyways, I prefer the new art style anyways. More cuter, more moe.
Not to mention, I went back to an old season 1 DVD and the only change I see on Haruhi (apart from the image being flipped here on the web) is that the outside lines around the eyes are lighter.
I think a more valid argument is that the K-On chartypes are just rip-offs of the designs in Haruhi Season 1.
Who fuckin' cares.
The Itoh-derived originals felt original, and yet realistic, like a lighter GiTS:SAC almost. I loved all the ugly people in the background of the 'movie'.
K-ON!, and to some extent the new season, feels like moefication by committee.
Even Taniguchi is noticeably cuter, now. That's just wrong.
Well, so much for their plan to seamlessly weave the new episodes in among the old!
Aya... A few K-ON! immitations are fine I guess... but if this is going to spread to the future KyoAni, I'm going to lose some faith in them.
i hate this new direction haruhi is going in. i'm not even watching the new arc now. 1. i already read it 2. i'm sure kyoani will somehow find a way to fuck it up
I don't understand why you would start watching Haruhi 2 in the first place if "I've already read it" is a reason to drop. You've already read ALL of them.
To Anon, it's nice to see that what you have read gets animated, to check if it meets what the novel implied, now the topic is based on the character designs so the "i've already read it" reasons does not bear any weight to the question.
Pay attention, please.
What? Did you even read the post being replied to?
My Bad, was referring to the outer anon, sorry inner anon.
I would have tolerated this if it were another studio.
But why Kyoani?
Who is the loser who is directing the new season?
Yummy
Haruyui Combo!
I can see similarities between the styles, but the Haruhi style has distinct differences. I don't understand what the problem is.
We've noticed these similarities since Bamboo Rhapsody...
But even in Bamboo Rhapsody, it's not as evident...
It just blares out at us now...
My question is, in all honesty, no biased opinions or false accusations...
Is this just KyoAni style?
Or are they really going after the K-ON design?
this so called "K-ON" style should actually be called "Munto" style...seriously guys....they did it first, too bad no one watched it.
Also the animation may not be the same as season 1 (which was imo one of the best animation ever) but its still good animation anyways, better than a lot of the shitty animation on other series right now.
To me this animation makes them look closer to Noizi Ito's original designs, so I dont think they look bad.
I don't really care either way. It is still a good looking anime. As long as I don't have to watch another Akikan style thing, I will be fine.
yea you are right the designs loo more similar to originals,and the designs are not bad its just akward to see the difference between episodes, but to be realistic this is for money, k-on gave them money for its moe designs, and lets accept it we all would do it for the money
And there is supposed to be something wrong with this?
There is, but it's not worthy to care about it, because it's faggish.
Are people complaining about two works from the same studio looking like . . . they came from the same studio?
Simpsons and Futurama anyone?
Haruhi is a LightNovel, K-ON! is a 4koma manga, they are both different in the desing and author, the studio should keep at least a bit of the original character desings, Simpsoms and Futurama are original works...I guess lol.
And while the style was similar. Leela didn't look like Marge, Fry didn't look like Homer, Bender didn't look like Bart.
And I'd also like to point out that Mad House did Black Lagoon, Gunslinger Girl, Ultraviolet: Code 044 and Devil May Cry to name some relatively recent works. Style is similar, but the characters don't morph into one and other, like they are in this particular Haruhi/K-On case.
However Simpsons & futurama had both the same studio & creator.