K-ON! “Empty Fetishism – Is Reality That Bad?”

I finished watching it just yesterday, and while it's quite typical for the genre, I actually found it to have an unexpected amount of freshness. All in all, there's nothing I could accuse this anime of... Well maybe except the fact that Mio was made as an uber "mai waifu <3"accumulating probably all possible moe traits making her feel way too unreal.

I liked K-On! It's relaxing and passes the time.

I liked Mio and Azu-nyan and Yui and... *fap fap fap*... wait, what ?

Whatever depth the show needed was completely made up by KyoAni... the manga has even less drama.

QFT

and you missed another thing. Maintaining that "attention whore" status for such people like this.

not every, dude.
but perhaps this one is.
"how could this kind of thing win people's heart just by offering such simple contents?"
or something like that.

Notice that he criticizes the anime but spoke about how the 4koma is better. He just doesn't like the anime and is asking us to go buy the manga!

Buy manga! Can you spect something else coming from a mangaka?

this is his weakest argument, coz the contents are pretty much the same.

K-ON! actually is nothing but empty moe moe fetishism.

I agreed some f, the manga is better. The anime is just a well animated big and shinning eyes characters series. Almost lke all of KyoAni...

It wasn't so bad to calified it as empty but the Manga is more funny!

combo breaker: i like pie!!!!!

Eh. His argument makes sense as it really is an anime about nothing. But as time has told, things about nothing are often better than things about something: E.G. Seinfeld in the 90s.

Or how about Azumanga Daioh? It was as much about nothing as K-ON is about nothing, and it's REEEEEEAAAALLY popular.

well said!

Yeah, K-ON! is extremely interesting and plot-driven, just like Lucky Star! ZOMG, I love them both! I love watching things that have so little subtext the viewer is forced to inject their own! That's what it means to be a good storyteller, after all.

*Collapses under weight of heavy sarcasm*

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The only incenst that's wincest is twincest!

understandable. that's just what this genre gives you, cant expect more. a certain characters, in certain situations, creating certain kind of dialogues.

i can enjoy this kind of things as long as i havent seen the jokes themselves anywhere else.

maybe this genre is just "not your thing"... perhaps...

remember the source material as well. 4komas by the very nature of their brevity require that they cut out all exposition and rely on readily identifiable traits (i.e. what people often automatically toss into the "cliche" category).

interesting story relative to Bakemonogatari = not really possible, only have 4 frames of content. but a story about random singular events is doable.

razor-sharp dialogue = K-on was pretty sharp...for the amount it had. but once again, if you were expecting Bakamonogatari where they can span a 5-6 minute period purely of face close-ups and dialogue between Hitagi and Araragi, the length of 4komas made that length of dialogue and that range of topic switching impossible.

great characters = once again, k-on had great characters for the amount of depth it was going to achieve in the source material. 4komas aren't going to have great soul searching journeys full of character exposition. they're going to have small easily identified puzzle piece bites of characterization that you have to fit together over time. you'll never get a full image of a character watching half an episode. you need to watch the breadth of the character's "life" from event to event.

contrast that to bakemonogatari, which was a series of novels, with the time and length to to talk and talk until you get every detail you could possibly want in a single sitting.

does that make 4komas a weak medium? no, i think that would be a pretty shallow thought. its no weaker than short stories are to novels. i've read 30-50 page short stories that had more soul to them than 500 page novels full of page-filling fluff.
its a different medium. with a different nature to what it can accomplish. that doesn't mean to have to like 4komas mind you. but it does mean comparing novels to 4komas, using the unique values of novels as your definition of all that is good, is a flawed analysis.

Using 4koma as an excuse doesn't change the fact that it sucks and doesn't have a story .

People complain about no story because K-on can't offer anything else to cover up this flaw. With the lack of story and everything else except from moe girls , it is just one big empty fetishism like what the title said .

@anon 06:27:
omg sir... please... stop complaining about lacking something that isnt supposed to be there. if u want a story, u are free to choose any other anime out there. this 4koma genre SHOULD NOT have such story u are talking about.

4koma contains pieces of moment, of course not a solid storyline. it is the way it should be. so, if this thing is what u define as "sucks", then yeah okay, i love this sucky thing...

YOUR BORING!