Anyway putting that aside, three main problems occurred for me when watching this show.
1. Concept. It is a show about a music group getting together to play music, but a good portion, and I mean every scene except for a few, have very little to do with playing music.
2.Origin of Entertainment. From what I could get, enjoyment came from either looking at cute girls doing cute things, slice of life comedy, or both.
3. Characters. Look at the characters at the beginning of the show. Now look at them in the end, have they changed? No.
My biggest concern was the concept behind the show. Answer these statements with only agree or disagree. These girls are making a band. They get together to play music. The best "concert" scene of the show is the opening. Now stop. Let's think for a moment. This show is about a group of girls forming a band and playing music, but the only time they are actually performing seems to be the opening of the show. I think my point is fairly clear, though I may be mistaking it and it is really just a slice of life anime centered around music. I guess it would make sense as it would avoid making it another Lucky Star (I also did not enjoy this either since it reminded me too heavily of the fact that I could be doing the same exact things the characters were doing rather than watching it). But even as a slice of life, the entertainment, comedy, was too heavily focused on the moe factor, which brings me to my next point.
Why do I want to watch cutesy anime girls talk about starting a band but never actually play music? The kind of entertainment you can get from this show is what I can get from looking up moe pictures online. It is probably different for everyone else, but that is what I assumed was the entertainment. There were some points where the slice of life did come into play, but I felt the slice of life was never truly entertaining nor funny. Sorry, I don't like watching the same gags slice of life tends to offer.
Finally, the characters. Most storytelling in any shape or form always has some kind of character development which changes the character's personality, ESPECIALLY in slice of life. The reason is that CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IS A KEY ELEMENT OF MOST ENTERTAINMENT MEDIUMS USING STORYTELLING. Even if the characters supposedly got better at playing together as a band and learned their instruments, it was completely irrelevant to personalities of the characters as they never really changed. This alone would not be a problem of there was something to be had from the interactions between the characters, but I came to realize that the interactions were a little too realistic for me, as in, I was constantly asking myself, "Hey, you could be doing this too, right? Why are you watching this then? Why are their interactions completely on the level of being plausible in reality minus a few things?"
These interactions may have been to convey a sense of realism, but to me, they conveyed reality, which, if you use anime as a form of entertainment to take your mind off of reality for a little, makes no sense. There were some moments that are clearly near impossible to find in your daily life, but the overall feel of the show, the entertainment, and the goal chasing are so easy to replicate with friends in real life that you might as well do it yourself.
Thus, as much as I would like to rave about the animation, the meat of the show is just too little for me to actually enjoy.
To break it down:
Pros:
+amazing opener animation
+a good representation of putting plan to action(minus some spots)
+enjoyable music
Cons:
-music was very limited
-little to no character development
-no need to watch the show for the same entertainment
-depended on moe for entertainment
I know there are some people with opposing opinions, so if wish to refute me, feel free. I might give this show another chance if there is enough opposition, but for now, this is an accurate representation of my thoughts for the K-On
