I got a postcard of Mio's lyric version of the good bye song, Tenshi ni Furetayo (We've Touched an Angel) at the entrance of the theatre. 3-time repeaters in Japan gets a random raw K-on film strip as a present, by the way.
K-on! the movie has become a phenomenal hit for an animated film here in Japan. In my honest opinion, it was not "fantastic" that went over my expectations but it was predictably "very good".
It was fairly entertaining and rewarding for K-on! fans. It should be enjoyable to first viewers of the series as well. K-on! is not meant to be hilarious or exciting, though. It does not have shocking "fan services" like in other moe animes as the director and the chief designer are young women.
The movie evolves around the graduation trip of the five HTT members to London, and a plan to give Azusa kitty something nice for farewell present. The girls are the same as usual, kinda cute and do small silly things right from the beginning. Tonchan the turtle is there (and I found it very cute that Azusa feeds it from the pink metal box in a caring way), as well as Ui the perfect little sister and Jun her free and easy friend. We get to see that the Hirasawa sisters actually have nice parents. Sawachan plays an important role while the girls are in London, a multi-ethnic city. The mob girls in the class all have their distinct personalities and some gets lines of phrases.
A bit of humor throughout. A bit of sobbing at the end also, as we all know everything good must end.
A good ending PV with Mio as lead vocal, arguably the best in K-on! series.
Bravos to Kyoani and Ms Naoko Yamada the director of the series.
There are some good live moments as well.
Songs played live (if my memory is correct):
Hikari (Light) featuring Death Devil.
Curry nochi Rice (Rice afterwards Curry).
Gohanwa Okazu (Rice is Side Dish as well).
U&I (Ui, you and I).
Tenshini Furetayo (We've Touched an Angel).
Unfortunately, there isn't an announcement of Season 3 at the moment. The highschool days ended beautifully for the four and Azu-cat's succession as the President of the club was already implied in the series. Diector Ms.Yamada has said that she's a fan of k-on as high school girls, whereas Kakifly's original manga has restarted earlier in 2011 with 1) Azusa's new highschool band, the Wakaba (Young Leaf) Girls, and 2) HTT four playing at university.
However, I suspect that Kyoani and TBS will announce the start of Season 3 later on in 2012 or 2013 after the bluray release. It should have the 3 additional rival musicians at university and 2 old friends of Azusa and 2 newcomers at highschool.
Hint: the chief designer Ms. Horiguchi commented on a magazine that for the new year 2012, she'd like to see Azusa acting like an upper grader (which she does in Kakifly's manga: we are stunned by Jun's suspect boyfriend, Azusa's singing ability, Austrian freshman drummer girl named Saito, popularity of Fuwa Fuwa Time at university, transgender looking guitarist, Mugi's ability of becoming an average citizen, etc...).
K-on is over! Long live K-on !!!
Buy the bluray and send messages to TBS if you really want Season 3.
