“TV anime’s current system is stuck at a dead end” – so says this topical TV programme, but why are they holding up a picture of two K-ON! moeblobs?
The programme also presents some dubious statistics:
How many shows do you watch each week?
0 – 10%
1 – 30%
2 – 10%
3 – 11%
4 – 4%
5+ – 35%
What do you look forward to most in your anime?
1. Emotion – 42%
2. Adventure & action – 17%
3. Other – 17%
4. Comedy – 13%
5. Moe – 6%
6. Suspense/thrill – 5%
However, many suspect a bit of mass media media fabrication may be at play – no “ero” is present in the results, and most would expect the results for “emotion” and “moe” to be reversed.
That the industry built up around vapid moe has collapsed from oversupply and lack of quality is of course by now old news, not that this makes things any less painful for K-ON! fans.
Wow. What an accurate post.
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The Moe is not the problem, is the stupid freacks japan otakus.
Why should the ’emotion’ and ‘moe’ percentage be reversed? Note also the percentage that watches 5 shows or more a week versus those at 1 show.
What this says is the actual numbers of people who watch ‘moe’ are low, they’re just FANATICS who make up a far disproportionate volume/voice/market.
I might remind you that when magazines like Newtype do ratings of anime with the general public in Japan (NOT otaku!) the top titles are always still classics like Doraemon, Lupin or Gundam from 20 years ago. In the past ~10 years only Evangelion even registers on radar with the real Japanese public.
I found K-on entertaining as a watch-just-once anime. You guys painting it out as the embodiment of everything wrong in anime are exaggerating [Although I admit it adds to the problem], and are yourselves victims of Artefact’s own “fabrication of perception”.
Though I shouldn’t really say victims, for if you let Artefact’s opinion become your own without trying to form your own impression of it, then you’re just another cog in the machinery rather than the product.
How about I just say I got bored of it? Nothing interesting really happening, a pantsu flash there, a perverted moment here, etc. It keeps going for 13 eps or so.
They need to put more stuff out thats interesting and new, like Death Note for example.
but if the people say that K-ON is s♥♥t, that’s the proof that they really watched at least one episode 🙁
I wouldn’t say it’s ‘proof’ if they are doing what I think most are [not forming their own impression and instead adopting other’s opinion as their own], but it’s certainly a likely possibility. I acknowledge they could have genuinely disliked the series, but repeating the chant that “it’s s♥♥t” is hardly an indication of insight into a known topic [K-on in this case]
Also, in the same way a single chapter is not an accurate representation of a complete book, or a survey of 1000 people is not a representation of the opinion of 110 million people, a single episode does not accurately represent the whole series.
Be that as it may, I do not think K-on is anything more than a regular anime. Maybe ‘good’ if you take into account its target audience, but for me it’s regular.
Why are they holding K-ON up? Because it’s a mess of boring cliches.