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REVIEW: K-ON! Season 2 Blu-Ray Collection 1

My point is the complete and utter lack of conflict. Stories need conflict. SOL shows tend to be mind-crushingly boring because they don't even have conflict. There's no conflict between the main cast, they never have any problems, it's just a solid horrendously boring stream of sickening and cloying optimism.

I consider this the artistic low point Of Japanese animation. It is the worst sort of pandering garbage that should never have left pixiv.

Beatdigga wrote:

I consider this the artistic low point Of Japanese animation. It is the worst sort of pandering garbage that should never have left pixiv.

...what does Pixiv have to do with anything?

Chagen46 wrote:

My point is the complete and utter lack of conflict. Stories need conflict. SOL shows tend to be mind-crushingly boring because they don't even have conflict. There's no conflict between the main cast, they never have any problems, it's just a solid horrendously boring stream of sickening and cloying optimism.

And yet somehow people still enjoy them. Amazing.

You may want to consider that just because Chagen doesn't enjoy something doesn't mean that it sucks.

Because it's about as disposable as a cutesy piece of amateur art, shows something cute or vaguely sexy, and it dismissed just as quickly. That didn't need a show.

My other question is more just musing on the K-On movie (which was just released on DVD here in Japan). How do they plan on dubbing something that is already 25%-ish english speaking dialogue with about 80% of the jokes (in the middle section anyways) involving their inability to speak english? I guess I just wonder at how this was localized. Maybe I will import it when it comes out over there.

I'd imagine Yui and the gang will speak in stereotypical bad British accents, maybe?

Wow. Now this was one hell of a well-deserved review for K-On, covering everything there is to possibly cover that even I think makes it so good for what it is. I still disagree about the dub (which was technically a Bang Zoom! production, not Sentai), which I think is exeptionally excellent. Especially for a series that is very Japanese in its setting and characters, they made the characters sound very natural and alive in English.

Yui jamming on the guitar within the first few mintues of the first episode. Could anyone think of a more perfect way to start the new season of K-On?

What I'd also like to add is that if one didn't know, one would never have assumed that this show was based on a 4-koma series. As much as I still love Azumanga Diaoh, it still feels obvious due to its pacing and repetitiveness. But with K-On, they manage to pace it out like a normal-length series, adding in story elements original to the anime, while succeeding in making everything feel natural and alive.

K-On may be a fluff series, but it's a fluff series done well, and I'm very much enjoying the sweet trip in these girls' lives.

pachy_boy wrote:

Wow. Now this was one hell of a well-deserved review for K-On, covering everything there is to possibly cover that even I think makes it so good for what it is. I still disagree about the dub (which was technically a Bang Zoom! production, not Sentai), which I think is exeptionally excellent. Especially for a series that is very Japanese in its setting and characters, they made the characters sound very natural and alive in English. Yui jamming on the guitar within the first few mintues of the first episode. Could anyone think of a more perfect way to start the new season of K-On? What I'd also like to add is that if one didn't know, one would never have assumed that this show was based on a 4-koma series. As much as I still love Azumanga Diaoh, it still feels obvious due to its pacing and repetitiveness. But with K-On, they manage to pace it out like a normal-length series, adding in story elements original to the anime, while succeeding in making everything feel natural and alive. K-On may be a fluff series, but it's a fluff series done well, and I'm very much enjoying the sweet trip in these girls' lives.

I was wondering about that. The way he was describing the english dub, I thought Sentai used different VA instead of the Bang Zoom VA that was brought by Bandai,or worse.They did a Hell Girl and give it a sub only release. I WOULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY PISSED IF ANY OF THE TWO ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!

Since It's the same cast from season 1, I'm sure the eng dub for season 2 is ok as well. I'll just have to see when i get it.

Indeed it is. You can say a lot of unflattering things about K-ON!!, that it's a puff of sugared air with an impossibly sunny take on school life being probably the main one, but you can't say you didn't enjoy yourself watching it. It's the ultimate in anime comfort food; a perfectly effortless slice of entertainment that never fails to sweeten your day.

Why do Slice-of-Life shows never show any kind of REAL life? You know, the one where you actually have problems and things aren't just sunshine and roses?

I've no question this review covered what I would expect from season 2, but I'm going to need a large doses of "moe insulin" before I watch even a single episode of this season.

Anyone have any leads where I can buy some?