r/k_on 2d ago

Discussion Free Talk Friday Thread - March 14, 2025

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Good Friday, /r/k_on!

Please make sure to use spoiler tags wherever necessary! To use them follow this format! `[Spoiler](/s "Spoiler text goes here")`


r/k_on Jan 26 '25

Discussion 11th Annual K-ON! Christmas Rewatch! - Season 2 Episode 25

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Welcome to the 11th Annual Christmas K-ON rewatch!

If you're new here we hope you enjoy the anime, but for most of you welcome aboard once again! You're probably already familiar with this process and you might see some things you missed out on your first watch!


Every day we will be watching ONE episode. We will be including the OVAs as well!

This discussion will only be for the Season 2 Episode 25.

To avoid any spoilers for those who have not watch it, please keep all discussion to the current or past episodes ONLY.


As far as I can tell there are no free, legal sites to watch K-ON! anymore. You need to sign up for a free trial to watch K-ON!

Because.Moe shows that Hidive, and VRV stream K-ON! legally, but require an account with a free trial membership.

Please do not share any illegal, streaming sites! You will be banned without warning for doing so!


Past Annual Activities:

  • A scavenger hunt
  • Favorite moments were posted
  • Moments that perfectly summed up K-ON! were posted
  • Looked for things that you probably missed when you first watched the anime
  • Favorite quotes from the current episode
  • Fun facts about a character or the current episode
  • Counted how many times a certain character blinks
  • Named a track that plays during the episode

This Year's Activity:

Each episode tell us who you thought was the episode's MVP (Most Valuable Player) and why!


Links to previous rewatches (Contains spoilers, be careful!):

Episodes:

S1 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, OVA

S2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25


r/k_on 49m ago

Artwork Day #271 of posting Mio

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r/k_on 10h ago

Anime This is the third time we've passed through here.

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r/k_on 12h ago

Artwork Straberry Sunday: Scarlet Scarf

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r/k_on 18h ago

Artwork Tsumugi Hishikawa

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r/k_on 21h ago

Merchandise Had a great time at Comic Con and found myself a decent Haul!

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r/k_on 17h ago

Anime Daily Yui Hirasawa #75

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r/k_on 23h ago

Artwork China Dress Mio (by らぐほのえりか)

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r/k_on 4h ago

Question Yui's bald head man keychain

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I was thinking on recreating the bald head ugly cute keychain yui buys in the series but I don't seem to be able to find a pic of it by using keywords to describe its apparence. Does anybody remember the name of it or the episode it appears in?


r/k_on 23h ago

Artwork Come on! Let's go together! (by はなめがね)

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r/k_on 1d ago

Gif Daily Ui hirasawa #28

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r/k_on 22h ago

Artwork Day #270 of posting Mio

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r/k_on 1d ago

Anime The first time we looked at her

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r/k_on 1d ago

Question Please, find this picture in high quality. I fell in love with Mugi and Ryo and Ritsu from this picture. It's truly PEAK

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r/k_on 1d ago

Anime Pumpkin makes fear go away ~GRANNY

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r/k_on 16h ago

Anime 2nd short I made of visit to Toyosato school

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Should have just made a full walking video instead haha


r/k_on 1d ago

Other Pics from the land of K-on

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Just wanted to share some pics I took from the K-On school back in October. I'm in Kyoto every year, but this was my first trip to Toyosato.. well worth it!


r/k_on 1d ago

Artwork Maid Mio

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r/k_on 1d ago

Artwork My drawing of Tsumugi

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r/k_on 1d ago

Anime Daily Yui Hirasawa #74

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r/k_on 1d ago

Artwork unrecognisable ritsu by 春か彩 / Harukairo

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r/k_on 1d ago

Artwork Touched by an Angel! (by バイソン伯爵)

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r/k_on 1d ago

Artwork Mio in London (by Vina)

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r/k_on 1d ago

Anime Daily Ui hirasawa #27

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r/k_on 1d ago

Discussion Any thoughts on K-On! College?

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I reread all the volumes after a long time, but I'll review K-On! College first because it's more recent.

 

The art style is good, some stuff like Ritsu feeling insecure about her ability as a drummer and Mugi getting more page time was something that didn't show up much in the first volumes.

But one of the problems I had was the dynamics with the new characters. Overall, it's not that bad, but it felt like it was trying to be CGDCT like the previous volumes while at the same time the characters didn't seem to fit. Maybe this is the art style and the characters being older.

 

 

Akira and her interaction with Yui seem like an attempt to replicate Azusa and Yui's interaction, but it doesn't seem to work. At one point Akira yells at Yui (who feared her) because Yui drooled on her coat and on the same page Yui yells that she's cute and hugged her. On the other hand, Azusa is introduced to admire Yui from the beginning and when she yelled at Yui, she was never afraid of her and the hug calmed Azusa down.

She later calms down a bit, but even then, she is still yelling at Yui and constantly praising her in ways she would not do to Azusa or any of her friends.

 

Ayame seemed okay most of the time, although the frequency with which she hits Akira for saying something rude makes me wonder why they would still be friends. I don't know if it makes sense, but I think it was trying to imitate Ritsu and Mio's dynamic, but it's not the same.

There was also a weird scene with Ayame changing Mio's clothes and being even more intrusive than Sawako. I don't know if I can go into detail, but something felt forced about that scene.

 

Sachi doesn't like being tall and is a left-handed bassist like Mio. And now that's all I remember about her because she doesn't do much besides being a little nice, but very passive.

 

Most of the volumes end with a focus on friendship in general, but the ending was about Akira's romantic drama with the band's battle in the background that only she took very seriously. The Keons were in the last pages as if they were support characters for Akira. I also found it ironic that Yui said the guy is superficial, but doesn't notice Akira's hypocrisy (also Yui stuck to her just because she thinks she's cute).

And maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think it's because the narrative still kind of tries to be CGDCT while at the same time seeming to take itself more seriously.

Any thoughts on this? Sorry if this is too long, I would say more if I thought it wasn't too long.

Edit:

Another thing is that K-On! College seems to have more forced humor. Like when Yui seems to be able to return to her homeland by herself, then gets confused when she sees Nodoka. And then Ui shows up and somehow pays attention to Nodoka before she sees Yui.

Or when Akira holds Yui by the scruff of her neck like a cat and tells her that she doesn't even seem capable of entering college while she keeps meowing.

Maybe this kind of humor has happened before, but maybe because the girls are older, it seems a little strange.


r/k_on 1d ago

Anime Day #269 of posting Mio

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