Comments on: K-ON! Is a Lot Like a Little Sister (or, how I learned to stop worrying and worship Mio) http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/ Hell and Heaven Moéltdown Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ETERNAL http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16684 ETERNAL Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:01:55 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16684 @ Omisyth: I'm with you on that one. Some shows are better off enjoyed without anyone knowing you're enjoying them :P Anyways, I found myself in pretty much the same situation with K-ON. Long story short, it's fun, and it's nice to watch along side the more intense shows of the season like Eden of the East. Unfortunately, the season seems filled with "stuff that's hard to blog about," meaning that I'm always reaching for post ideas in the most irrelevant places, but meh, it's nothing to complain about. And for what it's worth, <i>moeyashi</i> or <i>iyashimoe</i> or something of the sort needs to be turned into an official term, stat :P @ Omisyth: I’m with you on that one. Some shows are better off enjoyed without anyone knowing you’re enjoying them :P

Anyways, I found myself in pretty much the same situation with K-ON. Long story short, it’s fun, and it’s nice to watch along side the more intense shows of the season like Eden of the East. Unfortunately, the season seems filled with “stuff that’s hard to blog about,” meaning that I’m always reaching for post ideas in the most irrelevant places, but meh, it’s nothing to complain about.

And for what it’s worth, moeyashi or iyashimoe or something of the sort needs to be turned into an official term, stat :P

]]> By: Kaioshin Sama http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16161 Kaioshin Sama Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:37:46 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16161 @Omisyth: Yep. It's the love/hate for the blatant mainlining of moe through it's lifeblood and by extension the average viewer/Kyoani fan that keeps me coming back to K-On week after week now. That and the chance to be brutally honest about it with a mixture of forgiveness for it's clear lack of ambition. @Omisyth: Yep. It’s the love/hate for the blatant mainlining of moe through it’s lifeblood and by extension the average viewer/Kyoani fan that keeps me coming back to K-On week after week now. That and the chance to be brutally honest about it with a mixture of forgiveness for it’s clear lack of ambition.

]]> By: Omisyth http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16158 Omisyth Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:56:16 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16158 <blockquote>While you hate it at first for being too cute</blockquote> Deep down, everyone loves something that's cute. It is simply the fear that they love something stupidly cute that causes them to hate.

While you hate it at first for being too cute

Deep down, everyone loves something that’s cute. It is simply the fear that they love something stupidly cute that causes them to hate.

]]> By: Your Nails Were Weaksauce, O Ghastly Thunder Crucifier o’Mine « notdotq http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16156 Your Nails Were Weaksauce, O Ghastly Thunder Crucifier o’Mine « notdotq Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:36:52 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16156 [...] what really triggered me to end this sham was the following post from CCY: K-ON! Is a Lot Like a Little Sister. Not because it made me laugh nor because it made me cry, but because it was so goddamn stupid to [...] [...] what really triggered me to end this sham was the following post from CCY: K-ON! Is a Lot Like a Little Sister. Not because it made me laugh nor because it made me cry, but because it was so goddamn stupid to [...]

]]> By: olikitsune http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16151 olikitsune Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:15:58 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16151 I am offended that you should treat blogging with the same fervor as the global economic crisis, CCY. I am offended that you should treat blogging with the same fervor as the global economic crisis, CCY.

]]> By: Son Gohan http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16119 Son Gohan Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:45:23 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16119 I never understood Miyuki's popularity. She was merely a walking Wikipedia and the subject of dojikko jokes. Her scenes in Lucky Star were the most boring. In short, Mugi > Miyuki. I never understood Miyuki’s popularity. She was merely a walking Wikipedia and the subject of dojikko jokes. Her scenes in Lucky Star were the most boring. In short, Mugi > Miyuki.

]]> By: Kaioshin Sama http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16112 Kaioshin Sama Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:20:16 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16112 This definitely works as a way to tolerating and deriving a little enjoyment out of K-On, and is sort of the approach I have adopted, but it's in no way an approach to making me have anything to praise it for. I know people probably already know this, but I'm not like your average anime fan, especially when it comes to Kyoani shows where it seems like the expected reaction is to immediately shower them with praise for anything and everything to do with the shows at every possible chance, plausible or not. For me though praise is something that K-On is going to have to earn on it's own, and being by Kyoani is not enough for me to label as anything beyond the happy go lucky ambitionless and simple moe for the sake of moe show that as you have pointed out it clearly is. As for Mio, honestly I don't get the hype on her character as to me she only stands out because the rest of the class is slightly more cookie cutter, but one sort of okay character that barely has any lines (and thank god because her seiyuu is really squealish) isn't enough for me to jump all over a show (or carry it as you say) and hold up higher then it itself seems to want to go. tl;dr: I can get by on watching the show for what it is, but I'm not going to force myself to praise it or like it anymore then it gives me reason to. To paraphrase a popular metaphor, I can't call a spade anything other then a spade. This definitely works as a way to tolerating and deriving a little enjoyment out of K-On, and is sort of the approach I have adopted, but it’s in no way an approach to making me have anything to praise it for. I know people probably already know this, but I’m not like your average anime fan, especially when it comes to Kyoani shows where it seems like the expected reaction is to immediately shower them with praise for anything and everything to do with the shows at every possible chance, plausible or not. For me though praise is something that K-On is going to have to earn on it’s own, and being by Kyoani is not enough for me to label as anything beyond the happy go lucky ambitionless and simple moe for the sake of moe show that as you have pointed out it clearly is.

As for Mio, honestly I don’t get the hype on her character as to me she only stands out because the rest of the class is slightly more cookie cutter, but one sort of okay character that barely has any lines (and thank god because her seiyuu is really squealish) isn’t enough for me to jump all over a show (or carry it as you say) and hold up higher then it itself seems to want to go.

tl;dr: I can get by on watching the show for what it is, but I’m not going to force myself to praise it or like it anymore then it gives me reason to. To paraphrase a popular metaphor, I can’t call a spade anything other then a spade.

]]> By: TheBigN http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16099 TheBigN Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:54:17 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16099 "you realize that it’s not meant to be ambitious or meaningful" I'm still a little surprised at people who see this or were expecting to see this when the show began. And while you could compare <I>K-On</I> to <I>Lucky Star</I>, the strength with which some people do it, character archtypes, joke structure and more, make me worry about if the show can ever breathe on it's own, or just remain under a shadow that I don't think it necessarily wanted to be under. Like letting the characters be who they are instead of what we might want them to be like. It might at least explain why I cringe whenever I see someone say that Mio's a tsundere. :P In other news, I'm a fan of Ritsu myself. “you realize that it’s not meant to be ambitious or meaningful”

I’m still a little surprised at people who see this or were expecting to see this when the show began.

And while you could compare K-On to Lucky Star, the strength with which some people do it, character archtypes, joke structure and more, make me worry about if the show can ever breathe on it’s own, or just remain under a shadow that I don’t think it necessarily wanted to be under. Like letting the characters be who they are instead of what we might want them to be like.

It might at least explain why I cringe whenever I see someone say that Mio’s a tsundere. :P

In other news, I’m a fan of Ritsu myself.

]]> By: Kairu Ishimaru http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16097 Kairu Ishimaru Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:48:20 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16097 Who the hell is "olikitsune"? Who the hell is “olikitsune”?

]]> By: dm http://m3.dasaku.net/k-on-is-a-lot-like-a-little-sister-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-worship-mio/871/comment-page-1/#comment-16089 dm Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:49 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/?p=871#comment-16089 Excellent choice of images. I think it's "character developMOEnt". Excellent choice of images.

I think it’s “character developMOEnt”.

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