Oh Hey, I Remember You

I totally forgot about watching K-ON!
Breaking Bad Season 5 hasn't finished yet, so I won't watch that. Game of Thrones has ended for a while so that's out. Guess I should start up on that anime again, eh?

Or should I watch LOST? Decisions...

TV Shows and My Attention Span

Posting for 12/6.

You remember K-ON!, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Game of Thrones and Sasuke? Yeah, I haven't done any watching of those shows of my own volition in a long while.

I hesitate to say I've gotten bored of them, that isn't quite the feeling. I suppose I am just not in the mood to watch them at the moment. Why don't I just watch it anyway?

Well, now. Here's my thought process on that. If I watched it now, when I don't really feel like it, I wouldn't get as much enjoyment out of the experience as I would have otherwise. A friend once told me that was such a deep way of looking at it. I can understand that feeling. It's still good, right? You'll still laugh when it's funny, etc., right? Well, yeah, but I wouldn't laugh as hard, you know?

And so they sit on the back burner, as they say. ╮(╯ヮ╰)╭ Until such time as they would bring me maximum returns on entertainment and enjoyment.

Within the family my sibs and I refer to this as the product in question having "gone out of phase". Picture a sinusoidal curve (or a co-sinusoidal curve, if you like). The amount of enjoyment rises to a peak, where we feel like playing the video game or watching a show all the time, then it peters out and we put it away in a corner for a while.

K-ON! Ep.5

Sooooo hot here.....(- -_____;;;;)";`

And it is suitably hot this episode too.

Seems like the music playing is starting to pick up. Yui was holding her guitar in the first minute!

But hold on!!! It turns out the club isn't officially recognized because Ritsu forgot to submit a Club Form. Har har har. They go around and pull in, of course, the only adult character we've been introduced to: Sawako Yamanaka, to be supervisor.

When she touches the guitar she changes drastically. Fortunately, she agrees to be club supervisor although they soon realize they are missing a vocalist. (Also Ritsu blackmails her.)

This role falls to Yui, who has to learn to play and sing at the same time.

Still, she's stupid and naturally can't remember to sing AND play at the same time so it goes to....

MIO! YAY!! The shy and most easily frightened one will be put on the spot! Brilliant!

K-ON! Ep.4

This episode is a beach episode, so fan service is a given. Nothing wrong with that but please can we get some music going here?

It turns out Mio is on my side, she also makes note of the fact that 3 months (3 episodes for me) have passed with no actual band activity. They go to the beach to have a sort of band boot camp.

Of course this goes according to plan. Yep.

At one point Ritsu makes a reference to "Zipangu, the land of gold". Maybe this one only made a East Asian history fan like myself laugh but oh well. (^__^)

You think that scene was the music playing we'd been waiting for? I wish. It gets overlaid with some wistful tune music instead.

Then finally after that, they get to playing. It turns out Yui is some kind of idiot savant when it comes to playing the guitar. Woot! Let the music roll in, yeah!

K-ON! Ep.3

Third episode. Still no OP. Still no music. (- -__|||)

Midterm exams have come around and, as you know, Yui is an airheaded dunce. This is a problem because students who fail the exams are not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities. This and the fact that the Light Music Club has the bare minimum of members as it is means that Yui's academic performance is everyone's problem.

We get a whole episode of Yui procrastinating and the entire club holding an all-night cram session for her.

Yui passes, of course, and we've just seen an episode devoted to characterizing our protagonists with no real plot development. In the end Yui even forgets all the chords she learned so we are no closer to a show about a band than we started.

K-ON! Ep.2

Still no OP sequence yet, we just go into a cold open.

Based solely on hearsay I had thought Mio was the main character but it turns out its Yui. This episode focused on Yui getting her hands on a guitar, kind of a big deal for the guitarist in the band haha. (^_^;;)7

Most of the episode revolves around the gang getting part-time jobs to get enough money for Yui's dream guitar. They end up working as Traffic Surveyors, counting the number of cars that pass.

Besides the missing OP there has hardly been any music playing activity either. I'm sure the show picks up when we get to that part right? Otherwise this is turning out to be a plain slice-of-life type show. Nothing wrong with that, but not what I want out of this one.

In the end it turns out that Tsumugi is the guitar company's president's daughter. She gets the clerk to sell the guitar to them at a low price such that they didn't have to get those part-time jobs in the first place.

W/e. (- -____;;)7

K-ON! Ep.1

Rip!

Watching first episode now. The animation quality is really good, I can say that with certainty. 11 minutes in so far, it isn't bad but I don't see anything that explains this series' rabid fanbase.

The character designs are pretty distinctive, especially those eyebrows....

 This reference to Detroit Metal City made me laugh. (^__^)

Here, Mio gets kicked under the table in the background. It struck me that a few years ago that sort of thing wouldn't have happened. I guess I would say economy of action would have made that action the focus of a frame or it wouldn't have happened at all.





Our merry band of bandmates:

Mio and Ritsu

Akiyama Mio - bass

Hirasawa Yui - guitar

Kotobuki Tsumugi - keyboard

Tainaka Ritsu - drums

I think you'll either love or hate Tsumugi's eyebrows.

Yui is a klutz and doesn't actually know how to play a guitar.

That was the first episode. Nothing happened to really hook me but it wasn't bad.

Change of direction

Kk, that's 18 posts centered on horror out of a total of 38 posts so far, not including this one. That's a ~47%. I believe I'm due for a break from that for a little while. Make no mistake, you better believe I'll be watching horror movies anyway but I won't post about them immediately.

It occurs to me that I've been slacking in the anime department.

It bothers me that Firefox underlined 'anime' as a misspelled word. (⌐⌐__) What a punk.

My myanimelist profile has been neglected for too long. I don't even remember the password.....

What to watch? K-ON! After all that moeblob fandom stuff I will watch the series as a latecomer.