
SUDDENLY, an Angel Beats post!

Ahh the nostalgia… It’s been a while (9 months actually) since I’ve watched remotely a single episode of K-ON! after its first broadcast run. As for the cunningly announced second season to debut later this year (Spring most likely) a special specially packaged with the last DVD/BD volume of the first series sounds quite nice to carry on the moé-blob legacy. Call me a Keion-fag, but to be truthful I actually enjoyed watching the series and this special. Sure the marketing campaign and the craze for it is a little over-the-top and its a tad overrated… but I guess everyone has their own tastes…

Hidden away in the anime’s 7th and last DVD volume of Kannagi, there’s a special 14th episode that unfortunately didn’t manage to air on TV due to broadcasting schedules, so the producers decided it’ll be like a OVA and slap it in the last DVD volume of the anime when it comes out, and thus, it did.
I’m guessing that this is an original story in the anime since I didn’t see this happening in the manga, or maybe it’ll happen in future chapters I don’t know… But the key things that I find kind of smitten ed is the lack of BGM playing through each episode in the series and the slow plot development, despite there weren’t any traces of fillers in the anime, since its based upon chapters 1-18 in the manga. For example, in episode 12, about 20% of the whole episode we see Jin wandering in the empty house all emo since Nagi ran away from home because of him yelling at her, for like 5-6 minutes! With no BGM whatsoever, so it was basically all like a typical episode of Big Brother broadcasting live coverage of a housemate all bored and doing typical things around the house for an hour or so, sheesh…