Hideo Azuma, a highly prolific mangaka who has been called “the father of lolicon,” has attracted a great deal of interest and no small amount of support with his scathing criticism of moeblob anime K-ON!
He writes on his site:
I’m watching K-ON! It’s empty.
It has no gags, no nonsense, no humour, no ero, no guro and no story, nothing. It’s nothing but petty fetishism.
Is reality so unpleasant for the people making and watching this show?
It’s the same sort of grotesqueness you see at a maid café.
I read the original manga by Kakifly, it wasn’t a bad little 4 panel manga, pleasant and heartwarming. Capitalise on the original!
Still love K-ON!
I get the feeling that watching K-ON is a bit better than watching guro or people eating themselves literally in an unsexual manner, atleast I hope..
If your show doesn’t have character development, the least it can have is some solid comedy, but K-on fails at that too.
Yeah K-ON! is a epic fail for me… But “THIS SHOW IS ONLY FOR MOE FANS” and i respect that.
Peace my brothers
He has it right, the anime was a far lesser work than manga is. But I am myself biased as a manga otaku, so I will always believe the original work to be the best work.