Korg Unleashes K-ON! Keytar
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 25, 2014 14:09 JST
- Tags: Anime Goods, Anniversaries, K-ON!, Marketing, Music
Esteemed instrument maker Korg has lent a hand in celebrating K-ON!’s seemingly endless 5th anniversary by revealing a new Keytar inspired by the anime’s fuzzy-browed keyboardist Tsumugi Kotobuki.
The Keytar also comes with a strap and a stylized Houkago Tea Time bag, sure to give obsessed otaku an even larger incentive to empty their wallets – the instrument however is limited edition with only a mere 300 available for purchase, so those interested may wish to act fast lest they be reduced to buying the inevitable online auction supply at vast markups.
Inexperienced musicians can steadily hone their skills thanks to the inclusion of over 20 K-ON! songs including Happy!? Sorry!!, Cagayake!GIRLS and Don’t Say Lazy!
The Keytar will arrive in late December; those strapped for cash may wish to invest in a similarly themed credit card to fund the purchase…
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"K-ON!’s seemingly endless 5th anniversary", well of course anniversaries are endless, they pile up year after year... and five is not much. Sankaku should really work on their choices of words... they are always exaggerating and making everything sound as being either horrible or amazing -_-
everything is horrible or amazing, you should get high more.
Muscial instrument manufacturers have been sitting on a goldmine all these years with potential K-On licensed merchandise like this. Gibson and Fender already saw sales increases on the Les Paul and Mustang (if you can still get that red-headstock Japan model) as a result of K-On's popularity.
Smart move from KORG. I guarantee if I was for some reason a keytar player, I would be going nuts over this...
I'm surprised it took them this long, really. And it's not like they had no way of knowing: the AKG K701 headphones that Mio wore quickly sold many more copies than the manufacturer expected -- and that was back during the original run of the show.
I wonder how many right-handed otaku bought that $700 leftie Fender bass?
Now I want to see Tsumugi Kotobuki in a crossover keytar jam with Gene Belcher from BOB'S BURGERS.
This isn't even actually K-on! inspired at all. The RK model has been around since the 1980s. This is just a revival of that. Just another marketing technique I suppose to rope in new customers into the market. (Besides this looks exactly the same as the regular RK-100s models anyway.
They could have at least made a model with a special K-On! paintjob........
Korg what are you doing???
K-0N? what is this k-on thing,again?
It surprises me that someone could still remember the name of a specific chinese cartoon one month after its emission ended.
Rarity did it better. :P
people are gonna Korgasm /not
They were only late by like 5 yrs...
To be fair, developing stuff like that does take time.
developing is wrong word, convincing board members if it's profitability is what took 5 years.
Developing a pink bag with K-ON print on it takes time? Korg has been making Keytars since the 80's.
Yeah, Korg seems to be a few years too late to be doing something like this. Sometime during the second season would've been a great time to bring this out when popularity was still at an all time high. And the incentives they include to actually buy this are not all that impressive.
These limited editions are still going to sell fairly easy but the timing is a bit weird.
That's not a good thing KORG. K-on is for vaginas.