TheAkiba » K-ON! http://theakiba.com Anime News and Reviews Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:09:57 +0000 en hourly 1 Ask the Commenters: Why do You Watch K-ON?http://theakiba.com/why-watch-kon/ http://theakiba.com/why-watch-kon/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:12:38 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=2190 MAL has an interesting topic on their forum regarding a comparative analysis of K-ON! fans with three other titles performed by ASCII Research Institute. ASCII concluded that the series received well to the general public, especially young women who don't watch Anime frequently. The research reveals that 37% of K-ON! fans are women while only 10% of the audience are female for Strike Witches 2.

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]]> MAL has an interesting topic on their forum regarding a comparative analysis of K-ON! fans with three other titles performed by ASCII Research Institute. ASCII concluded that the series received well to the general public, especially young women who don’t watch Anime frequently. The research reveals that 37% of K-ON! fans are women while only 10% of the audience are female for Strike Witches 2. This is reasonable since Strike Witches 2 is basically a fan service series for Lolicon and male and there seems to be few reasons that female should watch it. To prove my thought, around 70% of fans of Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler, 黒執事) are female.

Why are You Watching K-ON?

Furthermore, 15% of the audience of K-ON! don’t watch Anime frequently, while all the audience of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica are regular Anime fans. Well, to further illustrate the idea behind this, take myself as example, I did watch K-ON! but not the rest of the three titles. And at the same time the Mahou Shoujo Anime stays on my Hard Drive collecting dust.

Why do you watch K-ON? What’s the series special to you? Let us know!

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]]> http://theakiba.com/why-watch-kon/feed/ 28 K-ON! Movie ED Singing Unveilhttp://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-ed-singing-unveil/ http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-ed-singing-unveil/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:17:10 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1829 Anime series K-ON! has just unveiled their ending theme song for the movie on the official website. With a title of Singing, the ED is quite an impressive track compared with all the songs the cute band performed. Together with the opening theme and insert track Unmei wa Endless!, the ED will be released on December 7. We have talked about the movie of the series which is coming this December, with a story around the graduate trip of the club to London, the city of music. The trailer was already out, which provides you a bit insight of how the story is going to be.

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]]> Anime series K-ON! has just unveiled their ending theme song for the movie on the official website. With a title of Singing, the ED is quite an impressive track compared with all the songs the cute band performed. Together with the opening theme and insert track Unmei wa Endless!, the ED will be released on December 7. You can find the related order information on Amazon Japan.

We have talked about the movie of the series which is coming this December, with a story around the graduate trip of the club to London, the city of music. The trailer was already out, which provides you a bit insight of how the story is going to be.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-ed-singing-unveil/feed/ 4 Light Novel Kokoro Connect Anime Adaptation Announcedhttp://theakiba.com/light-novel-kokoro-connect-anime-adaptation-announced/ http://theakiba.com/light-novel-kokoro-connect-anime-adaptation-announced/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:11:27 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1605 If you "happened" to find that the thumbnail of this post reminds you of K-ON!, you get totally wrong. It is about light novel series Kokoro Connect which was green-lit for Anime. One of the highlight is that the illustration of the novel has a extremely similar character design which took me a while to identify. That is because the illustrator (Horiguchi Yukiko) of the light novel happened to be the same person as the character designer of Anime K-ON!.

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]]> According to the Gamers, light novel series Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト, lit. Heart Connect) is green-lit for Anime. One of the highlight is that the illustration of the novel has a extremely similar character design as K-ON! which took me a while to identify. If you take a look at the following promotion video without notice, you probably end up with a conclusion that K-ON! (けいおん) is going to have a love comedy series. That is because the illustrator (Horiguchi Yukiko, 堀口 悠紀子) of the light novel happened to be the same person as the character designer of Anime K-ON!. Similarly, the Anime of the series will be produced by Kyoto Animation, which more or less increase our confidence, even they produced something like Nichijou before. If you like the K-ON! cute style and like to see a short hair version of Mio and long hair version of Ritsu, wait for more updates coming.

Written by Sadanatsu Anda (庵田 定夏), Kokoro Connect is a 5-way love pentagon comedy revolves around three girls and two boys. At clubhouse room 401, there gathers “anything goes” members of the culture study society. Pro-wrestling otaku Taichi Yaegashi, mysterious beauty Iori Nagase, cool Himeko Inaba, the clown Yoshifumi Aoki and fancy-loving Yui Kiriyama found the noisy but calm days suddenly come to a halt. The personality switched among the members. The unnatural days of changinging into “someone” by getting back to “themselves” by becoming “someone else” has started! (Plot via MAL)

These are all the information we have currently. So far, still no idea in what type the Anime will be present. It could be either a TV Aime or a movie instead. Stay tuned, will bring more updates.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/light-novel-kokoro-connect-anime-adaptation-announced/feed/ 5 Extra One Episode K-ON!! Anime Keikaku in Novemberhttp://theakiba.com/extra-one-episode-k-on-anime-keikaku-november/ http://theakiba.com/extra-one-episode-k-on-anime-keikaku-november/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:08:30 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1451 According to the official website of TBS Channel in Japan, an extra K-ON! Anime will be aired this November. Titled Keikaku, the extra episode seems to be an unaired episode of the second season of the TV series, which is also included in the BD/DVD of the series. The website also mentions that the extra episode has a direct connection with the K-ON! movie coming this December. From the screenshot we can see, the episode will be the discussion of the destination of the graduation trip.

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]]> According to the official website of TBS Channel in Japan, an extra K-ON! Anime will be aired this November. Titled Keikaku (計画), the extra episode seems to be an unaired episode of the second season of the TV series, which is also included in the BD/DVD of the series. The website also mentions that the extra episode has a direct connection with the K-ON! movie coming this December. From the screenshot we can see, the episode will be the discussion of the destination of the graduation trip.

As we are all waiting impatiently for the arrival of the movie this December, however, for fans outside Japan, it is not possibile to get our hands on the footage in at least half a year. And at that time, we could probably talk about the rumor of the third season.

It also reminds me another rumor in the coming November, Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito which was rumored to be an OVA and will be released next month. Well, the possibility is a bit low in this case. We will keep you posted. Stay tuned.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/extra-one-episode-k-on-anime-keikaku-november/feed/ 8 K-ON! Movie Full Trailer Streamedhttp://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-full-trailer-streamed/ http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-full-trailer-streamed/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:43:00 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1238 The official website of TV Anime series K-ON! began streaming the full trailer for the movie which will be premiered on December 3rd this Winter in over 130 theaters in Japan. According to ACC, the trailer originally debuted in Japanese theaters on Saturday.

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]]> The official website of TV Anime series K-ON! began streaming the full trailer for the movie which will be premiered on December 3rd this Winter in over 130 theaters in Japan. According to ACC, the trailer originally debuted in Japanese theaters on Saturday. For more information about the coming movie, we have a roundup to take care of everything you may want to know about the movie.

K-ON! Movie

According to the official blog and news announcement, songs in the movie identified as below. The song in the trailer is the OP.

  • オープニング曲「いちばんいっぱい」 / OP: Ichiban Ippai
  • テーマ曲「Unmei♪wa♪Endless!」 / Theme Song: Unmei♪wa♪Endless!
  • エンディング曲「Singing!」 / ED: Singing!

Your can watch the full trailer on the official website here. Also some folks have uploaded the trailer to YouTube, you can watch it below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjrveVRF6g

[Links: Source, ANN]

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]]> http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-full-trailer-streamed/feed/ 4 K-ON! Movie Rounduphttp://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-roundup/ http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-roundup/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:16:50 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=1112 Recently we have received several pieces of news and related topics of the upcoming movie of TV Anime series K-ON! which will open on December 3rd in over 130 theaters in Japan. In this post, we gather all the information to help fans learn what they want to know about movie.

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]]> Recently we have received several pieces of news and related topics of the upcoming movie of TV Anime series K-ON! which will open on December 3rd in over 130 theaters in Japan. But for most fans outside of Japan, the BD/DVD release, in most cases, will be schedule around half-year after the premiere. In this post, we gather all the information to help fans learn what they want to know about movie.
K-ON! Movie

The Story: London

If you still remember what happen in the last few episodes of the second season of the series, you would know that the girls were planning a graduate trip but haven’t decided where to go. In the movie, according to the introduction on the official website, the decision was made and all the five members go to London. So, we have a combination of several key words: girls, band, London, trip. What will come to your mind? Beatles! So, this is the suggestion by Mio and the girls draw lots and Mio wins.

However, as you can see in the movie poster, all the five girls are wearing winter clothes while they should have graduated around March. Well, March is still cold I think.

Music

When you mention K-ON!, you cannot fail to talk about the music. And this time too, according to Aki Toyosaki (豊崎愛生), the voice actress of Yui, the new songs are under process and the new CM which use the song will be released on September 3rd.

The Bad Thing: Riots in London & Disasters in Japan

London is not always a save place to go, at least not at this moment. If you put an eye on the news you will find how panic London citizens are now. Of course, we don’t think our female protagonists have anything to do with the riots but we just want our readers to know more about what’s happening around. Read more about the events here.

One of our reader Juan C sent me a pic of the earthquake happened in Japan this year. We have seen big disasters happened every year and in 2011, it was Japan that suffered the most. Let’s just pray for those souls that suffered.
K-ON! Earthquake
Pic via Atlantic.

The Preview

The following preview appears to be one of those streamed in Comiket 80 in Japan, it’s a bit noisy but still visible. Also the official website have streamed two PVs and you can check them out here.

Where is the Third Season?

Last but not least, the third season of the TV Anime series. We have spent several posts discuss about the topic and the possibility of a third season where the university life of the girls be the main plot is still big. Check out our previous post for more about this topic.

[Links: Official Website, Source]

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]]> http://theakiba.com/k-on-movie-roundup/feed/ 5 Animedia Magazine: Female Character Ranking of 2011; K-ON! Won!http://theakiba.com/animedia-female-rank-k-on/ http://theakiba.com/animedia-female-rank-k-on/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:57:01 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=677 Anime magazine Animedia has recently released the latest issue for its 30th anniversary. In the favorite female characters column of the magazine, the editors picked up the top 30 female from all Anime that you can think of. And the results is not surprise with K-ON! dominating the top five, almost.

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]]> Anime magazine Animedia (アニメディア) has recently released the latest issue for its 30th anniversary. In the favorite female characters column (思い入れのある歴代女性キャラ) of the magazine, the editors picked up the top 30 female from all Anime that you can think of. Of course, the ranking was done by reader voting and with a huge number of sample (for those who want to use some statistics to make some sense), the result is pretty persuasive and pretty much reflect the current Anime trends and behaving as a good example to those directors who want to make the next “most welcomed” Anime series.

Is there anything called monopoly in the Anime industry? If there were one, you are now looking at an example. As you can see in the magazine scan below, K-ON! has won this battle and pretty much dominated the top five. With Yui Hirasawa (平沢 唯) as the top, Azusa Nakano (中野 梓) second, Ritsu Tainaka (田井中 律) as forth and Mio Akiyama (秋山 澪) as fifth. One exception is that Tsumugi Kotobuki (琴吹 紬) ranked at 30, the last in the ranking. Pretty surprised to see this but guess it was because of her thick eyebrows.

The one that kicked away K-ON!’s perfect victory is Kagura (神楽) from Anime Gintama (銀魂), ranking in the third place. We also see other interesting characters, like Rei Ayanami (綾波 レイ) from Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン) at 6th; Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒ) at 7th; Sheryl Nome (シェリル・ノーム) at 15th and C.C. at 21st.

Apart from the ranking of this year, we also have the ranking of the previous year below. With Yui Hirasawa (平沢 唯) still ranking in the first place and Kagura (神楽) in the same third position. Check it out below.

Image via Yaraon and Alonestar.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/animedia-female-rank-k-on/feed/ 4 So It Becomes Real? K-ON! Manga about University and High School Lifehttp://theakiba.com/so-it-becomes-real-k-on-manga-about-university-and-high-school-life/ http://theakiba.com/so-it-becomes-real-k-on-manga-about-university-and-high-school-life/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:27:33 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=486 We have been aware that the Manga of K-ON! was back but what will the story be this time? The four girls graduated from high school and were planning to go to the same college but there were also some left, Azusa and Ui. What it will be?

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]]> We have been aware that the Manga of K-ON! was back but what will the story be this time? The four girls graduated from high school and were planning to go to the same college but there were also some left, Azusa and Ui. What it will be?

Before moving forward, let’s review some events happened before. We had an interesting discussion on whether there would be a third season of the series last year. If there were one, what would it be like? Still remember that we’ve made a lot of assumptions that there might be a story about the four girls went to the same college and start their new music life? Well, guess our guess had came true.

Half year later, we received the news that the Manga of K-ON! is back. And a few days ago, we had confirmed that the story of the new Manga of K-ON!. As we talked about before (and also in our college story assumption), there will be two separate lines of story. One will be the university story including all the four cutes girls Yui, Mio, Tsumugi and Ritsu and it will be published on Manga Time Kirara since April 9. We also had some unconfirmed news about the detail that the four girls will live in the same dorm and three more new characters will also be introduced. And for another line, the high school story line will be published on Manga Time Kirara Carat since April 28. No further news about this one.

Some of our guesses came true and so it’s time to make another assumption. I would expect a third season coming around Summer 2012. There will be a movie of the series coming December 3 2011 so there should not be any movements from the Tokyo Animation this year. Taking the magazine issue into consideration, one year would have enough content for Anime adaptation. Let’s just hope it would come true again :)

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]]> http://theakiba.com/so-it-becomes-real-k-on-manga-about-university-and-high-school-life/feed/ 13 Movie Date Announced: K-ON! and Sora no Otoshimonohttp://theakiba.com/movie-date-announced-k-on-and-sora-no-otoshimono/ http://theakiba.com/movie-date-announced-k-on-and-sora-no-otoshimono/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:11:20 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=433 Just a quick view of what's happening in these days. Friends have been talking about (or argue literally) the date when the movie of Anime series Sora no Otoshimono upon the news made. Comments were made and I seriously have no idea about the specific date so far. Since the actual release of the movie of the series is quite unique compared with other well known series, it will be a little difficult even you are in Japan. And we are not, at least most part of us, and we will have to wait for the release of the DVD/BD.

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]]> Just a quick view of what’s happening in these days. Friends have been talking about (or argue literally) the date when the movie of Anime series Sora no Otoshimono upon the news made. Comments were made and I seriously have no idea about the specific date so far. Since the actual release of the movie of the series is quite unique compared with other well known series, it will be a little difficult even you are in Japan. And we are not, at least most part of us, and we will have to wait for the release of the DVD/BD.

And now, we have the official date. Sora no Otoshimono will be on screen in early Summer while K-ON! will be on December 3 2011. And we can also see from the magazine poster above that even though the specific date of the movie of Sora no Otoshimono was not included, it did provide us an clue: there will be a live event on May 29 2011. So, what’s your guess. The movie could be available in the next month or two, that’s June or July.

Still a long time to wait and will bring the latest update about the specific date.

Update: The wait is over. The Blu-ray of the movie will be released on February 24, 2012. You can start to preorder on Amazon Japan now if you have an International Credit Card. Check out our latest post for more information about the movie Blu-ray release.

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]]> http://theakiba.com/movie-date-announced-k-on-and-sora-no-otoshimono/feed/ 3 K-ON! Manga Back in Spring; What about Third Season Anime?http://theakiba.com/k-on-manga-back-in-spring-what-about-third-season-anime/ http://theakiba.com/k-on-manga-back-in-spring-what-about-third-season-anime/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:19:52 +0000 YoU http://theakiba.com/?p=423 Kakifly, the author of Manga K-ON! which was published on Manga Time Kirara decided to put this hot series back to the magazine. According to the latest issue (March Issue) of Manga Time Kirara, the Manga will be back in this Spring. More detail will be released in the next issue.

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]]> Kakifly, the author of Manga K-ON! which was published on Manga Time Kirara decided to put this hot series back to the magazine. According to the latest issue (March Issue) of Manga Time Kirara, the Manga will be back in this Spring. More detail will be released in the next issue.
Classmates
Quite impressed by the news, and say, what about the Anime? Will there be a continue third season? As the Manga was originally ended September last year, guess there could be a long time to wait for the coming season of Anime now.

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