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K-ON 13

The gag about Ritsu's 'love letter' was my favourite of this episode - both funny and sweet. Though I keep thinking that Mio must have been thinking of Ritsu when she composed those lyrics.

Overall, a light and fluffy series that kept me entertained each week. I would liked to see more Mugi Vision and Raising Heart Yui (that we saw in the first and twelfth eps) but no major complaints.

K-ON 12

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.

K-ON 11

Jaalin wondered:

The bit with Yui fixing up her guitar was normal K-ON fare, which was totally fine and pretty fun, but what the hell was up with the Ritsu bit?

The whole Ritsu x Mio doramaz seems to be KyoAni original material; I didn't see anything about this up to Chapter 25 of the source material which Gordonator confirms. I thought that part was rather non-4komaish but Mikotoism 'could even feel the 4komaness of this episode.' Actually there were substantial changes from the 4koma. Yui did not offer Mio unto the Sawa-chan God of Maintenance. And Mugi did not use of awesome Korruption Kollusion Nepotism powers to get Yui free maintenance for Gitah.