k-on! 3
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Please don’t stay that Yui is stupid. She’s not. She obviously has the facilities to be intelligent, just she chooses not to use them. After watching this episode, it’s clear that Yui suffers from ADD. In classic ADD style, she has a hard time focusing on the topic of conversation, she’s easily distracted by sweet things (shades of Sakaki and cats), and she’s just fundamentally not able to direct her focus on a single task for more than 30 minutes. If you were getting tutored by Mio, wouldn’t your attention be on Mio for more than 30 minutes? Anyway, methinks that maybe some Ritalin would help her more than tutoring at this point.
Yui reminds me more and more of Fuko with even more severe ADD. We’ll know for sure if she offers Mio, “Dozo! Here’s a chord!” Though with Fuko, she’s sneaky, and she can do nonsensical puns. I don’t think Yui is capable of the long term thought processes necessarily to do either.
We have definitive proof that lack of an attention span is contagious. Even Mugi’s been infected! This is terrible.
I’m still puzzled how Aya Hirano isn’t involved in this anime somehow. MonStAR, Love Gun, Unnamed World, Neophilia… she’s the perfect quarterback for the offensive system that K-On! is trying to install. She’s a solid upgrade for any of the roles, except maybe Mugi. Maybe the premise of K-On! is that the four girls are all horrible, but it’s not like Aya couldn’t act horrible. And Don’t Say Lazy would have been an AAA song with Aya. The only explanation that makes sense is that Kyoto was recording the voice overs for the next season of Lucky Star at about the same time, since none of the four roles in this show went to those veterans. So more evidence of the conspiracy theory that Lucky Star will air against Spice and Wolf II and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei this summer.
(Yes, yes, I’m kidding about da Star. I have too many frumpy literalists reading this blog now, that it’s no longer fun to miswrite stuff anymore. It’s Haruhi. But, what ’bout my staaaar?)
So lucky… I want to play with those fingers too. *whimper* This scene was mesmerizing. Mio’s the reluctant banchou and a bit shy. I’m trying to think of what anime character her personality is most like… would it be Shirley? Shirley’s a bit shy, aggressive when she needs to, and is generally positive and cheerful. Feldt? She needs more screentime to ascertain. Millerna? Might be too high class. Dammit, why can I only think of Sunrise characters? Kagami? Too much tsuntsun?
Ink: screw saimoe, let’s blogsuki for SaiMio 2010!
I find it amazing that I actually understand this sentence. It’s like we have our own little language within a language. But I like your comment. Dozo! Have some Mio.
(Her “hat” is too big in that image. We need a size ruling for Mio. She’s all over the place.)
ithekro: Though somehow I get the feeling the end music video should have a credits on it: “Produced by Sunrise. Directed by Haruhi Suzumiya.â€
No way. Don’t Say Lazy would have been a really good jpop video. Sunrise + Haruhi Suzumiya would have created something more on par with Gundam 00‘s Friends starring Kyon and Itsuki instead of Setsuna and Lockon. I wonder if it’s killing Tatsuya Ishihara that Hisako Yamada’s Don’t Say Lazy has completely captured the minds and hearts of fanboys everywhere when Cagayake! Girls gets like no love. Though Cagayake! Girls is really too much like Megumeru and Toki wo Kizamu Uta in style.
(Koda Kumi’s Chase. Fashionable hat…)
kadian1364: …you’re not serious about the fashion expert, are you?
Half-serious! Though I think if I were to find a Fashion Czar, I should have a reality TV competition to see who gets the job. It’ll be The Apprentice meets Pitch Men meets moe anime haremettes. Can’t lose formula.
Alice: Reasons why Saki isn’t a frump: She has a well tailored coat and obviously styled hair. Other than general styling, presumably it is also dyed/lightened… like most “fashionable/trendy†Japanese girls her age (unless people in EoE have fantasy animu colored hair). Also, lack of luggage sort of prevents her from changing out of her most likey choice-driven-by-comfort traveling clothes. You don’t wear dresses when you are going to be on a plane. That shit is cold. Also assuming lack of money probably prevents her from being too fashionable, I would say that she is average dressed but fashionably aware.
And I found my first contestant! Gratz Alice.
Triplets!
I couldn’t study in my dorm room when I was in college. Just too many distractions. I always went to the library or a coffee shop. But I’m keenly aware of this sudden urge to clean when you’re supposed to be studying– it’s almost like your brain is trying to justify doing anything other than study.
Come on, what are the chances any of the K-On! girls use cassette tapes? At least go Minidisc. All of this stuff seems so archaic now.
x chord 4tw! Now show me the x^2 – 9 chord!
Great YouTube clip. I like how Ritsu is able to embed and IM a video clip while Saki’s busy downloading all of Taki’s personal info from his phone. Cell phones are a major part of modern life, so it’s weird not seeing them in anime (i.e. Clannad and Maria+Holic). Though is “forehead” a real moe mode? I vote no. Uehara must be crying somewhere.
(And, yes, the girls had the opposite effect on Yui. Instead of helping her study, they’re just giving her more reasons not to study. Their plan backfired.)
Oh, I found my backup wife for K-On!. She’s blessed with all the good genes, much like in Twins. Ui’s the Arnold to Yui’s Devito.
(I think the most logical role for Aya would be Ui. Think about it: if Yui was the Devito to Ui’s Arnold, the gap between them would only be wider if Ui had Aya’s vocals backing her up. Aya’s vocals plus Krauser’s skill with the guitar would make Ui a nice contrast to Yui. That would make for a riveting VH1 Behind the Music K-On! special where a 35 year old, twice divorced Ritsu complains on camera, “I thought of ditching Yui for her little sister every day. We should have, we should have… Mio and Mugi were just too nice about it. Those sluts.”)
(I mentioned all the reliable imoutos in my thin slicing post, but I wonder where Ui stands in the hierarchy of things? I think I need to do a reliable imouto post sometime…)
Mugi is fearsome, but I think I still prefer Ui. Also, I think with all the sweets that Mugi brings, I’ll be easily a hundred pounds heavier. I am amazed all the girls can keep their figures while devouring cakes, sweets, and pastries every day while not doing a lot of exercising. Or are they all throwing up afterwards, and we’ll get that story arc in a very special episode of K-On!?
What the hell? I’m not sure what I enjoyed more from Yui’s daydream: Mio’s jacket, Mugi weeping, or random Ritsu cooking. With a snowman! It’s a toss-up. And if they were caught in a snowstorm, wouldn’t an igloo plus a fire be much better than some cold ass log cabin?
Ritsu is the Sunohara of K-On!. Sunohara minus the Red Bull, of course.
Shakudo: Or it could be the part in the ED where she’s practically giving her bass paizuri.
Yep… these are my readers.
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Yui is… special.
Cagayake! Girls should be getting more love; I think people will warm up to if they listen to it a little bit more and once the full version (good quality one) is out.
Not sure if it was the direction, but the visual gags were awesomely timed this episode (Ritsu touching Yui’s numb leg; Mio turning to Mugi and Ristu as if asking “what the heck is this cord x Yui is talking about?”, etc.).
Also, no love for Nodoka? She deserves some praise for (I assume) keeping Yui from being run over by a truck all those years.
After listening to Cagayake! Girls at least THIRTY TIMES now… impossible to get tired of that sugary sensation! Seriously, sugar-pop instrumentals are very fun to play; most songs’ bass lines are extremely orgasmic: http://www.mediafire.com/?shar.....6e282a0ee8
(That or the fact that Mio is supposedly playing the bass line makes me orgasm even more.)
Full song version Guitar Pro 5 files. Enjoy.
I <3 retard moe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubapfNXOIUc
This is what you don’t see from the show:
Yui is acting stupid deliberately, because she doesn’t want to threaten her completely normal sister’s status within the family; Yui is in fact a genius, that dopes on cake.
FYI, this is a deep plot-twist revealed in the second volume of the manga. page 67.
A typo in the first sentence? This episode really had an impact on you, heh. Oh wells, brb, gotta look at the PUNI PUNI gif some more.
Finally buying a laptop was probably the biggest bane to my academic career. Distractions abound wherever I go now.
Sorry. I still say she’s as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Cagayake! Girls is surprisingly palatable to me. Maybe it’s just the sugar rush, but I’d have to agree with Nemo_N and pakxenon; it’s definitely more enjoyable than quite a few other OPs that I’ve encountered. Looking forward to its single track release.
And damnit, Yui feels too much like Tsukasa 2.0 to me. Cute, cuddly, and completely clueless. If this stems from her cake doping, then I approve and request more.
My ruling: she should just ditch the hat. With it, she’s only 99%.
Now here’s the real question: do we replace the hat with cat ears or bunny ears?
Please don’t stay that Yui is stupid. She’s not. She obviously has the facilities to be intelligent, just she chooses not to use them
Hey Jason, I think in you’re own words, you already thinks that she is dumb as bricks. Then again I do think that Yui would good character in a h-film. Just offer her cake :D
Seeker4life: Choosing not to use the intelligence she has doesn’t mean that she’s stupid. Though you could say that’s a stupid thing to do.
I think she’s very scatterbrained (and KyoAni made her much more so compared to the source), but not stupid or retarded. It’s also interesting to see how low people’s tolerance for that is. :P
Indeed – Ui~ chan is stupid. Very stupid. But she is also moe and single! And that’s all what matters.
well of course she scatterbrained, can’t anybody take a joke anymore. not like the people on 4chan are any better :/
So now its Yui, Nagisa, and Mako-chan?
Well that’s fine. A bold Nagisa is fine and Yui plus cake equals Mako-cakes? Just older and without a penis? Is a non-trap version of Mako-cakes fine?
I wish this series had a penis in it, even if it were on a trap. But at least there’s a loli.
Also, Mio reminds me of Keiko, except one hundred times more assertive and with a stupid “ugu~ i am scared of blood” gimmick to keep her from being too one dimensional.
I just googled paizuri (having never looked it up before for some strange reason) and I feel I have learned something of importance. Thank you.
@ k.k.
Welcome then…
4:3’S fucking irritating my eyes. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
This ep was nice, but the pace was a tad too slow…
She’s half Haruka Minami and half Kagami Hiiragi.
guitar paizuri
nice.
Foreheads are not a Moe Mode? Have you forgotten our dear LOL Fang-tan? The cutest forehead fro miles around? That fang? The Green hair? The laugh?
pakxenon: “After listening to Cagayake! Girls at least THIRTY TIMES now… impossible to get tired of that sugary sensation! Seriously, sugar-pop instrumentals are very fun to play; most songs’ bass lines are extremely orgasmic.
(That or the fact that Mio is supposedly playing the bass line makes me orgasm even more.)”
Yes! Absolutely! Couldn’t agree more – which is a relief, as I was wondering if I was the only one. Maybe it’s because I’m a bassist, which means I’m automatically tuning into the bass lines of anything I’m listening to, but Cagayake! Girls is just great fun. Actually, come to that, even the bgm in K-On is pretty bass-tastic. And yeah… thinking that Mio’s doing the playing does make a difference. (Being female I’m afraid I identify with Mio more than anything else, although I’m beginning to wonder if the brokenness of this blog is starting to get to me…)
On the other hand, Don’t Say Lazy has a sucky bass line, so I guess we can’t have it all.
I’ve been wondering if there would be any audience for the bass tabs to anime OPs and EDs. Right now I’ve been holding off writing them out in full, largely because my totally non-otaku bandmates will never in a million years consent to actually playing anime tunes, so it doesn’t really seem worth it just for me. But if there were other bassists out there wanting to play along and in need of tabs, it might be worth the effort. Anyone? (Cagayake! Girls would be my first choice, along with the brilliant “Oh Edo Nagareboshi IV” by PUFFY (Oh! Edo Rocket) and quite possibly Pani Poni Dash’s excellent “Kiiroi Vacances”)
Doesn’t really make a difference- there’s usually an enterprising soul on Nico Nico Douga who’ll take a bass line and soup it up. There was this one particularly snazzy cover of Cruel Angels Thesis I liked.
I won’t be completely satisfied until the Tissue Princess covers either the OP or the ED.
So does that make Yui your typical underage Internet user, self-diagnosed Aspergers and all?
Do I see a trap in a moe sandwich? This needs a doujin.
Japan, get to it.
LOL YOU FORGOT HAYATE! >:( How can anyone not notice the resemblance to Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha’s Yagami Hayate to K-ON’s Yui!!!!
Well, given the fact that most bands don’t play in the music videos, it is justified that Mio can spoon her Bass. (Which I find great by the way.) But think about those poor anime watching childs who are all, “Mio is playing in the song but she’s just standing there! HAXORZ!.” So the next thing you’d hear is people running around, calling the band fake or witches. They should really make that clear ya know….