Comments on: 12 Moments of Anime #8: Keionbu and Gakuensuki

By: kevo

kevo — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:40:44 +0000

I understand why K-ON! isn’t exactly hailed as the greatest show of the millennium or anything, but I don’t understand why there is so much K-ON hate. K-ON could have worked and become yet another shining page in Kyoto Animation’s portfolio, right next to Lucky Star, if it were simply better paced and there was more evidence of effort in the episodes design. Many of the later episodes simply were not entertaining and they focused on random spot-gags and moeshots instead of writing. It’s an ok show, better than lots of the other crap this year, but really is there need for such rabid hate? :P

By: Eater-of-All

Eater-of-All — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:41:45 +0000

If people were looking for depth in K-On, you’d know something is _wrong_. It’s not like it ever came across as pretentiously deep, it’s just fluff for God’s sake.

That being said, I’m certainly no fan of K-On myself; I merely acknowledge that it did its purpose with superb competency, that is to suck otaku’s wallets dry.

By: Nicocompass

Nicocompass — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:11:36 +0000

I find a striking resemblance between the behavior of people bashing K-ON! online and my own behavior wrt music when I was a teenager. I remember being a fairly obnoxious elitist alt-rock listener that disregarded anything that was popular as trash and unworthy of my attention. Nowadays, I regard music (and anime) as entertainment and therefore feel no need to enter the pseudo-intellectual debate regarding whether a particular title has “depth” or “meaning” or “substance”. IMHO, although everyone has the right to dislike whatever they wish to dislike, the sheer amount of hate professed for K-On! has passed that into mindless groupthink.

By: Shinmaru

Shinmaru — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:59:47 +0000

My problem with K-On! isn’t really the moe stuff — I actually enjoyed the first half quite a bit. But the second half is basically the same thing, except with Azusa added in. It felt really lazy to me.

By: 7

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:52:17 +0000

Oh yes, I remember that K-ON hype as if it were yesterday.

From a meta perspective, it was pretty much a scapegoat for moe haters and fans to attack and praise.

That’s actually an interesting way to put it. It’s a bit similar to my case. On one side, I have ignorant fans who make the image of K-ON worse off by overexerting it on others. On the other side, I have people who just like to troll and/or moe-haters who feed off from the ignorance of the latter side. All in all, I get a never-ending cycle of idiocy.

But yea, it’s important to realize K-ON is just a light form of entertainment; nothing more nor less. But I guess people’s perceptions of things gets blurred by too much/too little expectations.