While I’m glad that, with my limited bandwidth, I can watch this series on Animax, it’s a bit inconvenient to adhere to the broadcast schedule (or even the repeats), particularly with Wimbledon on right now.
Ep 7. I loved how Nodame’s piano playing caused Chiaki to see his relationship with the S Orchestra in a new light and eventually allow them to work together to triumph over the hapless A Orchestra who also had to deal with Stresemann’s last minute sabotage. Not so hot on the Puri Gorota thing as I’m generally not too keen on anime within an anime – Gekiganger was probably my least favourite thing about Nadesico.
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Those of us who have already been spoiled via the light novel translations were probably smiling wryly to ourselves last week. But I do wonder if the feeling of realization by the unspoilt, back-pedalling on cries of filler WRT the previous episode, would have been sweeter; I still remember my surprised delight, after the ‘WTF is this?’ reaction to The Adventures of Mikuru. Though KyoAni probably expects that its primary audience has already been already spoilt rotten – as one of those, I have really enjoyed the execution of the contrast over a three episode arc thus far.
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H: Wow, that’s quite a posse you’ve got there, Nagi. I mean… a hawt meido is fine too but all those heavies. Isn’t it a bit much?
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Somehow when I post about something really late, I usually feel somewhat obliged to do the lit review – an abhorrence of repetition? Which we have yet to see wrt the Endless part of this episode as noted by Metanorn, toonleap and Onibaku while Omni regrets spoiling himself.
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For me, an anime’s end is often trumps its journey – particularly if I felt the ending or non-ending made a mockery of the journey. Such as the resets of School Rumble. I recall reacting badly to the final episode of the first iteration of Fullmetal Alchemist which continues to dampen my enthusiasm for the Brotherhood version. And my frustration with the Love Hina manga also placed a restraining order on any potential interest for getting into anything else by Ken Akamatsu.
But K-ON is not one of those shows where the ending matters to me. Unlike Azumanga Daioh’s clear teleological momentum towards the End of High School and beyond the event horizon into the possibility of the loveless and lovably dysfunctional futurama of Nyamo and Yukari-chan, to me, K-ON is about making friends, friends having fun together with lots of heart – with us voyeurs picking our favourite in the girl band.
Omo really hits the proverbial nail amidst the tl;dr haystack (Ed: Stop mixing metaphors.) when he said unto us:
I thought K-ON was a lot more fun once I realized the show is about band chemistry.
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