Aug 3, 2017
Yamada Naoko is a director that I have been interested for a while. Female directors are kind of a rare breed, and because of that I find her films to be interesting in a way that it gives a different perspective. But that's not all, she herself is a live-action fanatic. Not just animation, but live-action. She's basically the kind of personnel that Hideaki Anno (Director of Evangelion) is hoping to find more of in the animation industry. This is also the reason why Kyoto Animation shows are so interesting.
"It depends on what kind of a film it would be. Unlike live action, with
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animation we have to simplify the real world. Women tend to be more realistic and manage day-to-day lives very well. Men on the other hand tend to be more idealistic – and fantasy films need that idealistic approach."
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Might explain why most Kyoto Animation shows are SoL.
K-ON is not idealistic. K-ON is realistic. Especially in the highschool girls department. In other words, it doesn't have to have this grandiose plot that most seem to seek of. Its grandiosity is its simplicity. K-ON is a show about friendship. It is a show about how different people can change different people. The characters are multi-faceted. Basically, they are treated in the show as real people not as characters. In a way that they react differently to different things. They don't go out of their way to deliver the jokes or add drama. They all follow in this logical sense of personality.
Is K-ON about "music"?
No, K-ON is not about music, it's about being in a band. A band is a group of people making music, and that's what K-ON is about. A group of people.
K-ON doesn't have a plot....
"Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect." -Wikipedia
K-ON does indeed have a plot in a way that it has a cause (the formation of the club) and effect (characters evolution and attachment at the end of the series). But I think what matter the most is the execution of the premise. K-ON's premise can be summed up in two words, tea time. But the way it executes on those initial ideas, and expand on them for the rest of the show is fucking excellent. By the end of the series, tea time pretty much means their lives to them. And the fact that it is ending is akin to death. Episode 20 will destroy you without realizing it. I myself never knew that I was so attached to these girls subconsciously, until it was getting near the end. It was emotional, it was gripping, it was the probably the greatest scene I have experienced in all of anime. It was a fuwa fuwa time.
To summarize, what makes K-ON so fucking good, is that it is a coalescence of small details that all pack up into this big package of emotion. The more you watch it, the more you'll love it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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