K-On! Movie

I had the impression that the movie would be the final move by Kyoani to milk whatever's there left to milk from this franchise. You can't blame me for being skeptical, right? K-on, being a slice-of-life with trace amounts of comedy, doesn't seem to be a good base for an original movie plot. While I do think that Aria (a slice-of-life) had a pretty good movie, K-on isn't exactly the "healing" type, so it can't create something similar.

But boy, it was so good! The K-on fanboy in me had almost fizzled out, but the movie seems to have brought him back to life. I never realised I missed the girls so much until I see them do the silly stuff they used to do.

And what would you know, they did have a working plot after all. It might be a rehashed idea they've used in S2, but it didn't bother me. In fact, towards the end, the movie even teared me up a little.

So moe I died

There won't be a point to check out this movie if you aren't already a fan, so I'll say this: the movie would be damn worth it. It compressed everything awesome about the franchise in it's 100 minutes. No matter who your favourite character is, there'll be plenty of screen time for each of them. It's full of the cute and fluffy goodness, plenty of comedy, and there's even quite a bit of original HTT music as well. It even works as an extremely satisfying conclusion to the franchise as well. (unless, of course, they decided to animate the university sequel)

It was the ultimate treat for a K-on fan like me.

Minami beat Yui. WTF. Haqua beat Azusa!

(Again, I'm talking about the Saimoe 2011. Click for source)


The three main K-ON girls are beaten in the first round? This is bullshit! That's it, I'm calling this round of Saimoe a fluke.

Now will you please excuse me, I going to murder me some fanboys.

(FYI, Azusa fucking won the tournament last year, and Mio was in the group finals. Yui was runner-up in 2009. The only K-ON girls left are the imouto, the club leader and the sensei, and I doubt they'll make it very far)

Ika-Musume beat Mio

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Specifically, in the most recent Saimoe.

Source.

Mio was, in fact, a finalist in one of the previous Saimoe. She didn't even made it past the first round this time. Am I too naive and thought that it's a given for K-ON characters to make it extremely far in the tournament?

Picspam K-ON! Pilgrimage Sakuragaoka Girl's High School/Toyosato Elementary School

Cute pic right at the Toyosato Station

Nearly two months ago I was backpacking through Japan alone, and being an anime fan I feel the need to make an anime pilgrimage, as promised in the final post in my previous blog. So... not much to talk about, enjoy the photos.