K-ON!! Airs On An Incredible 28 TV Stations
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 21, 2010 02:51 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Continuations, K-ON!, Kyoto Animation, Marketing, TV
The eagerly anticipated second season of K-ON! has been announced to be broadcast on a staggering 28 Japanese television stations, more than triple the average number for an anime series.
Normally the number of stations a new series will be aired on isn’t especially noteworthy, but in this case the sheer size of the new K-ON!!’s broadcast stations makes for an exception:
For comparison, reasonably popular series airing this season are Sora no Woto with 4 stations, Dance in the Vampire Bund with 6, Omamori Himari with 7, and Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu with only 3.
The first series of K-ON! only aired on 9 stations, so this huge jump in the number of networks airing the show should prove testament to just how hotly awaited the continuation of the Keion-bu’s story is.
Indeed, stores in Akiba right now are still bedecked with all sorts of banners and posters commemorating the 2nd season announcement (the other current big otaku celebratory events being for To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and Haruhi no Shoushitsu), so this new reveal only stirs the red-hot embers of otaku excitement even more.
Via TBS.
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I never understood the appeal of K-ON storywise, but it can't be denied that everything KyoAni touches turns into gold.
K-ON doesn't need a storyline. It has moe.
Because it's best to just watch and not think?
Every anime series needs an intruiging and complex story to be good. Yep. Geez, bunch of idiots.
it's always some complaint. I remember when there were people saying that please twins sucked because it took the whole series to reach the conclusion (the definition of a plot). K-on doesn't revolve around a continuous plot like that. It's actually a better example of the slice of life genre. There is no conclusion in life so the plots are just day to day events.
I can't see why there are so few that can take K-on as it is. It's about highschool girls hanging out and playing music. For better or worse, that's it-oh my god who is Busu-Kawaii and what is wrong with her face?!
What the hell.
RCC (中国放送) 未定
K-ON's being broadcast in China?
It refers to 中国地方 not China
中国地方 = Places in China
It just says 中国放送 which means broadcast in China.
No. It is written in Japanese not Chinese.
Chuugoku is a region of Japan. The 国 ("koku") refers to the old states/regions of Japan, like 四国. Similarly, there is 九州, etc.
It will be obvious from context which is meant, or the distinction will be written out explicitly as 中国地方 ("chihou" - "region"), etc.
Chuugoku is a province in Japan, the middle 'kingdom'. It uses the exact characters and pronunciation as China.
国 (noun)
1. [historical and fossilized definition] Region(s) under a granted authority by a higher ruler, king or general.
(国 from 中国, denoting a region within Honshu, is the fossilized usage)
2. [modern definition] state under the foundation of "citizen" ideas of European Romanticism and beyond: unified education system, established ethnic identity(ies), complete governmental intervention.
Right, so SBS-MBC : Korean broadcast as well?
CBC, Canadian broadcasting corporation :D
So the first to air K-ON!! practically monopolizes the viewers
For the confused OP:
http://www.jisho.org/words?jap=chuugoku&eng=&dict=edict [http://www.jisho.org/words?jap=chuugoku&eng=&dict=edict]
China is gonna go on a copy-fest.
Chinese K-On = ULTIMA-FAIL!
K-ON doesn't have a storyline. It's just moe. Unfortunately/fortunately it sells.
1 night slot for TBS
27 reruns... nice....
"We could sell absolutely anything"
=/
- anime industry : http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/02/09/anime-industry-laments-bust-we-could-sell-anything/
I don't understand why people have so much trouble accepting 'Slice of Life' series. These series have NO storyline and their appeal is usually their charming characters and humor.
Because those people don't have a life?
Ah, now everything becomes clear. Well, that's the internet for you.
Then shouldn't people be complaining the lack of
storyline in Lucky Star as well? What's so hard in NOT having a storyline in the first place? >_>
Because some ppl need to be entertained with bang bang and blood and hard driving and fist knock-outs and death rays and explosions and.... you get the idea.
Infantile minds. Why are they trying to watch anime in first place? Most anime is everything else but not that.
Not having own life can be a good explanation too. Hard to get interested of K-On!, Lucky Star and similar anime without ever having experienced slices of life themselves.
There's slice of life... and then there's moeblob slice of life.
The former is relateable, the latter is practically porn.
and porn sells, yes it does...
I don't see what's your problem with moeblobs. How do YOU even define MOE? Do you even know what you have a beef with?
Want to elaborate on what you mean by that? I enjoyed K-ON for the same reason I enjoy any other slice of life: It made me laugh and I could turn my brain off. What makes moeblob slice of life "porn", exactly? Having cute girls as characters? Get over yourself.
It's hard to enjoy with so god damn much nerd rage aimed in it's direction and the fact it's constantly rammed in your face no matter where you go.
I'll be honest, I liked it far more than Bakemonogatari. This probably makes be a moefag that has no taste and doesn't like the best anime evar to most people.
But at least I'm not a fucking sheep.
I liked Bakemonogatari for it's style of humor and storyline. I liked K-on for it's everyday simplicity and music. Then I went on the net...I hate everything now.
k-on? music?
you're watching the wrong show, mang
04:06
LOL. You may not be a regular sheep but with that name, avatar and attitude its obvious you're Just a regular old EMO. I'm sure you didn't like Bakemonogatari because all you emo friends liked it. and liked k-on because your emo friends didn't. All because you're so unique lol. GTFO or better yet go cut you self some more then GTFO.
Because K-On just ain't funny?
Slice of life=no story, my goodness. You have no idea what you are talking about child.
Exactly what I wanted to say! Every slice-of-life show has a story to tell, just using different plot devices. I'm a big slice-of-life fan (Azumanga, Aria, Genshiken, Hidamari, Niea_7, etc.) but even with its funny moments K-On kinda failed to pull me into the show as much as the above five.
You probably have to be involved in playing and singing music yourself to really enjoy K-On! fully. I enjoy it very much, i play musical instruments. I feel i`m home watching it.
Not really, I play a variety of Instruments (Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Violin) and the fact that Yui just suddenly LOL AMAZING AT GUITAR and small things like that annoyed me more than anything.
Still, it was a rather good anime.
K-On! like other school life genre, it doesn't need some grand picture in the background that drives the series forward. Actually it would be awkward to have one in this type of series.
However K-On! has charming characters as well as character developments to go with their high school life story revolving band music.
you forgot the "moe" factor in the anime. if it didn't have any moe shit in it, K-on! wouldn't sell at all.
Because they only touch moe blob shows which sell to indiscriminate otaku.
I knew I would've smelled a King Midas joke!
isn't that banned, along with human transmutation and opposing government?
Na I mean c'mon it's KyoAni
Buh-Zing!
(Just kidding Fellas XD)
Because we aren't being force-fed enough moe crap alredy.
Oh man. Maybe you should sue the anime industry for forcing you to pirate a TV show that only airs in Japan and not liking it. It's just unjust!
I can't wait for the second season, and not just for moe issues. I've actually gotten some pretty good laughs out of the series.
this is probably the initial popularity that haruhi2 would have had had they not dragged their asses on that.
agreed.
Sorry for the cold blanket. I think K-ON!! comes out too fast.
Given that the 12 episode (in fact, it's 10 1/2. Ep 11 and half of ep 12 were fillers) anime uses up all the material in the manga then (about the full 2 volumes of manga), I dun see how the second season gets enough materials. With the available materials only enough to run for 6 ep, it is likely that the S2 will be another Bleah or Narutard.
Please dun say things like, "The author will come out with the story faster". It takes 10 months for a single Tankoubon of K-ON! to come out, (The last volume, Volume 3 came out in Dec 2009. I anticipate the next volume coming out in Oct 2010) with the current serialization at the middle of volume 4, I really can't see how the author can come out with something so fast.
Hopefully it will crash and burn, and we can go back to caring about actually good anime like Eden of the East.
Would have been good except for your last four words.
Half a convoluted storyline made with a non-ending to utterly whore out some movies.
Idea, good. Actual product, shitty.
At least K-on!'s limited story made sense/was explained.
I still prefer Eden of the East over K-on!
Whatever lifeless prick...
I prefer both.... So go suck your balls.
The manga could have been well into the 5th volume by now if the mangaka had never put out those xx chapters.
Besides, I wouldn't mind if KyoAni did more filler if they can make it as good as the ova.
agreed, the OVA is what the last episode should have REALLY been, not that bullshit about them going to a fucking mcdonalds or something like that.
as a marketing sucsses in selling the anime.It would be better if they waited a little longer and releassed it when the manga has more story to it.And sometimes if you wait a little,people have more money to buy this anime,but not all.
Just making up stuff,could actually destroy the value of this anime if it doesn't follow the manga,rarely it happens that an anime is better if it didn't follow the manga.But certailny it does happen sometimes that an anime is better then the manga.Also having a different story in an anime then a manga,can make you want to buy the manga more.Thus why we sometimes get ruined animes if they didn't follow the manga.All a marketing issue.