K-On!
K -On! (Japaneseけいおん!, Keion! ) is a Yonkoma manga series of the artist and author Kakifly, which was published from April 2007 to September 2010 and again from April 2011 to June 2012. In 2009, the manga was picked up by Kyoto Animation and adapted as an anime television series. The series was very successful and was able to set up different records. So it was at that time in the first week 's best-selling anime television series. A second season of the anime television series followed in 2010, and a movie in 2011, both also from Kyoto Animation. But also the music publications that emerged from the franchise were extremely successful. The mini-album Hōkago Tea Time reached the first album under the name of anime characters, the first place the Japanese music charts and also the more than two dozen singles is placed almost all in the top 10
- 4.1 Anime 4.1.1 conception
- 4.1.2 movie
- 4.1.3 synchronization
- 4.2.1 Singles and albums 4.2.1.1 K -On!
- 4.2.1.2 K-On!
- 5.1 Sales of the anime
- 5.2 Success of Music Publications
- 5.3 Other Awards
Action
Season 1
At the center of events starts with the four students Yui Hirasawa, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka Tsumugi Kotobuki and that were just added fresh in high school. However, so far only Mio and Ritsu to know better what Ritsu comes to the idea of the former popular music club (軽 音 楽 部, Keiongaku - bu) revive. Through its ruthless way it manages to move her million for accession and together they set out to search for other members. The third member is found quickly when Tsumugi runs and thereby accidentally runs into the arms of Ritsu and Mio. Mugi, as Tsumugi is called by them, can anyway enthusiasm for unusual ideas and thus joins the club. However, the search designed for a necessary fourth member to be difficult and so the rather clumsy sleepyhead Yui gets lost just as the last hope in the club room. Although they had Yui met so far only as incompetent girl and soon the other members to play instruments need to convince them of their disability, they want to keep Yui definitely to get to the regular minimum number of club members.
Since all the other members have already selected an instrument, is the function of the guitar player for Yui. But you have neither a guitar nor experience in dealing with this. So the members decided together to buy one with her, however, they can not get past the music business at a Gibson Les Paul that she wants to have necessarily. However, this is far too expensive, so they take together several part-time jobs. However, the money earned is not enough to finance the guitar by far. As Yui has the idea of the guitar already almost discarded succeeds Mugi the price drastically herunterzuhandeln. This is, as it turns out, also not surprising, to the astonishment of the other members is Mugis father of the owner of the entire supply chain behind the business. Thus million tries hard to teach Yui playing the guitar while Yui loses learning for school completely out of sight. So it falls upon inspection by completely and it threatens their exclusion from the club activities. Ultimately they succeed in a Community Action Yui make it fit for the exam, which they pass with flying colors. However, the other members of the belt have their problems. Million is to frighten very shy and easily as bassist, which makes her almost impossible to perform in front of a larger audience. Ritsu the drummer and leader of the band is regularly forgets to fill out the applications on time and is ultimately always rely on the backing of Yui's childhood friend Nodoka Manabe and student council member. Mugi supplies the band meanwhile regularly with tea and cake, which she animated likely to discussions as to the music playing.
At school, however, overtaken in the next few days, a stroke of fate, as their club can not identify carers in the form of a teacher. So they try by all means Sawako Yamanaka to persuade that wants to have nothing to do with the music club. How to find out the students soon, this has a special reason. Finally, Sawako was even former lead singer of the Keiongaku -bu, which would not fit their current image as a teacher. Ultimately, this is exactly the vulnerability that Ritsu requires them to almost blackmail kind to take over the club to persuade.
In the following days and weeks, the students with the cosplay fantasies of Sawako faced, which is especially the easy to verängstigende million represents a severe test. The situation is exacerbated when, shortly before the first major gig Yui by the hard vocal training loses her voice and Mio comes as the only remaining singer in question. Yet she manages to overcome and they give her first major concert.
The next major section of the act begins, after a successful year, with the show for the inauguration ceremony of the new arrivals. Here, the band manages the fresh enrolees Azusa Nakano to impress, but do not really dare to join the club because it believes it too well. So beginning with the search for new members will once again unsuccessful, with the members do clumsily, as the first time, absolutely. Also Yui's sister, who was also enrolled in school is not to worry capable of staffing levels. Ultimately, it comes but to the situation that Azusa overcomes visit the club. Instead, as expected, to meet a professional band, she is faced with a bunch of tea drinkers and cake eaters, the antics of Sawako and never materialized upcoming lessons. This leaves the very experienced guitar player Azusa doubt to remain a member of the band, the goal put himself to appear once in the Nippon Budokan. Already missing from the other members, it nevertheless returns because they also sense because now the band - just to have fun and spend quality time with each other - has accepted. Ultimately, they together can give a first concert with Azusa and the five girlfriends continue to grow together.
Season 2
In the second season of the anime this story arc is continued with the completion of the third and final cohort is fast approaching. So also suggests the third attempt more members for the band to find fail and the four older members begin to worry about the whereabouts of Azusa, but which turn out to be unfounded. So the band spends their time continue to experience a variety of things and to grapple with because everyday problems of students and musicians. However, they are becoming more professional and especially Mio is now successfully their own fan club, however, they still suffer a little under her nervousness. Nevertheless, the members over time are much more mature, even if they expire in the meantime again and again in their usual childish way. So they finally give also their last school concert and it runs more and more towards the finish, with particular Yui and Ritsu can not decide which future path they will take. Meanwhile, gives million to their plans to visit an elite university to come up with Yui, Tsumugi and Ritsu continue to stay together.
Characters
The work focuses on the school band Hōkago Tea Time (放課後 ティー タイム, dt " tea time after school " ) consisting of the five high school girls Yui Hirasawa, Ritsu Tainaka, Mio Akiyama, Tsumugi Kotobuki and the somewhat later added abutting Azusa Nakano. The family names of the characters were taken here slightly modified by members of the Japanese band P- Model. Likewise, the role distribution within the formatting is the same.
All five of the main characters have in common is that they have certain character deficits, which she has continued, but fully able to degrade in the course not. But for all the girls together and harmonize with each other, which is reflected in her music which played much good, nor is professional, but can inspire their audience. As students, they also have to contend with the typical problems of school life, which makes them become very close friends. This is particularly evident towards the end of the series, as they after graduation to leave behind in school for one year younger Azusa and Mio, despite their good performances chooses to tread the same education as Yui and Ritsu.
The names of the more important side characters come again by the members of the band The Pillows. Although they are not part of the band they play essential key functions. Likewise also perform the other classmates who play very minor supporting roles, a life of its own, was given to the most in season eight, without dwelling on it.
Formation and Publications
The title of the manga is derived from the Japanese word Keiongaku (軽 音 楽, dt " light music, popular music "). The club name results from the fact that school music clubs (音 楽 部, ongaku - bu) often correspond to a school choir or orchestra. So keiongaku refers to the fact that pop music is played.
The manga, which is in the style of a Yonkoma and is written and drawn by Kakifly, first published in the May 2007 issue within the His - magazine Manga Time Kirara, which was sold from 9 April 2007. Since 28 August 2008, the manga series was also published in the semi- monthly intervals within the magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat. The last chapter of the manga series was released on September 9, 2010 in the October issue of the magazine Manga Time Kirara.
The individual chapters of the manga were grouped into four tankōbon editions that were published on 26 February 2009, on 18 December 2009 and 27 September 2010 on 26 April 2008. All publications of the manga have been published by Hōbunsha.
The first two anthologies of previously quite unknown Mangas rose in the week from 7 to 13 April 2009 during the broadcast of the anime television series, from the squares of 76 and 91 on the seats 26 and 27 of the Japanese comic charts. The support thus increased to about 21,000 weekly copies sold.
On June 24, 2009 was published in the August issue of the manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward also a 16 -page publication, which was drawn by Kakifly. Unlike the previous releases, these are not a Yonkoma with four split structure, but a coherent short story with variable page design. She is content a look back at Mios and Ritsus past, when both together as friends visited the elementary school.
In April 2011, the number in the Manga Time Kirara from issue 5/2011 was continued from the April 9, 2011 and the Manga Time Kirara Carat from issue 6/2011 of 28 April 2011. The plot in the manga Time Kirara dedicated to experiences of the band on the University and the plot in the manga Time Kirara Carat the experiences of Azusa, Ui and Jun who will continue the music club at the high school. The University series in Manga Time Kirara ended with issue 7/ 2012 on June 9, 2012, the high school series in Manga Time Kirara Carat issue 8/ 2012 on June 28, 2012 The new chapters have been summarized in two anthologies: . K-On! college (けいおんcollege! ) was published on 27 September 2012, and K -On! high school (けいおん! high school ) on 27 October 2012.
On 3 February 2010, it was announced that Yen Press has licensed the series for an English language edition. The first volume was published in December 2010, the second in March 2011, the third of August 2011, the fourth of December 2011. Since May 2012, the K -On! Manga is published in German in the Imprint Carlsen Manga! Carlsen Verlag, yet with four volumes.
Adaptations
Anime
The animated by Kyoto Animation anime television series was directed by Naoko Yamada. It was first shown on 3 April to 26 June 2009, after midnight (and previous TV day ) on TBS on Japanese television. At a distance of about one to two weeks to the first showing of the relevant consequences several other channels including BS -i, HBC and MBS repeated the series. In contrast to most other stations offered the Original series also in widescreen format.
In Japan, the series was released on 29 July 2009 to 20 January 2010, seven volumes divided on DVD and limited to Blu-ray Disc, the seventh volume contains a sequence that has not previously been shown on television. As extras ( Omakes ) were located on the media some additional clips that caricatured the features or characteristics of the five main characters.
From 29 July 2011, the Anime Kazé label released the 1.Staffel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 4 DVDs. The 1.Volume appears here also in a limited version with slipcase.
A second season of the series was the conclusion of the concert, Let's Go! announced on 30 December 2009. This was on April 7, 2010 to September 29, 2010 after midnight under the title K-On! (けいおん!, Keion! ) On TBS, with almost 30 stations to follow within a month parallel, and included 26 episodes, 24 regular episodes, which were broadcast until September 15, 2010, as well as two special episodes. The main occupation of both the rod and the voice actors from the first season was over. The second season was released in Japan on a total of nine discs (DVD / BD), which were published on 30 July 2010 to 16 March 2011. The ninth volume also contains a non- televised special episode.
Conception
The area around the school and the city is based on real locations of Kyoto, which were adapted for the anime. Already in many previous works such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Clannad or Kanon to Kyoto Animation was based on real models. To be seen in the opening credits, among other parts of the aqueduct of Nanzenji. This fairly simply decorated school building in which plays a large part of the plot, stand out cut from wood turtles, which adorn the railings of the staircases and over again taken up within the classrooms of the " camera ". This is also a reference to the old school building built in 1937 and designed by William Merrell Vories Toyosato Elementary School, in the can again find the premises.
Front view of the primary school Toyosato, as can be seen again in the anime
The music room elementary school Toyosato
Second- real model of the tea breaks of the club in elementary school Toyosato
In the anime, various recurring elements can be identified. For example, a standing in front of the school statue appear repeatedly, which was regularly distorted by additional things such as a wig attached hat, etc.. In addition, the anime handle various known idols, or to rock idol stylized figures on the pictorial representations of the characters to play. So Yui appears before first entering the clubroom the thought of a heavy metal band, which is a direct allusion to John Krauser II from Detroit Metal City. Since it was not surprising that the club advisor Sawako Yamanaka in a flashback meets her first love Soichi Negishi on, who had played in Detroit Metal City in his dual role of Johannes Krauser II. In addition to these allusions also had different characters from other works of cameo appearances in K -On!. This would, for example Tomoya from Clannad to mention, the Yui met in the hallway.
In the second season of K-On! a greater emphasis was placed on the presentation of the graduating class, so many new characters were introduced, which held only minor supporting roles except by Jun Suzuki, but were nevertheless integrated casually. It is particularly striking that as good as any male characters also appeared in the second season and were not mentioned by name.
Film
On September 29, 2010 it was announced after the airing of the last episode of the second season and on the website of the anime that K -On! as a film Eiga K -On! to be adapted. The production staff remained the same with respect to the series.
While the series followed the manga, the plot of the movie is an original story that plays shortly after the manga or the second season.
The film was shown at 137 movie theaters in December 3, 2011. In the first 16 days, 700,000 tickets were sold and raised over one billion yen. By early May, this doubled to 1.9 billion yen. An output on DVD and Blu- ray Disc is expected to be 18 July 2012.
At the awards event Animation Kobe 2012 Eiga K-On was! awarded " Best Movie ".
Synchronization
As with the very successful and produced by Kyoto Animation has become anime television series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya also seen in K -On! numerous new seiyū their first major gig. The German version was produced by TV Synchron Berlin, directed by Gabi Böhm.
Music
Singles and albums
K -On!
In the opening credits of the first series K -On! was the title Cagayake! Girls used, which was sung by Aki Toyosaki with Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satō and Kotobuki Minako. The guy is the title Do not say "lazy " which was also interpreted by the seiyū of the main characters. Both could be detected in a limited and a normal version.
Both titles were on 22 April 2009 as an independent single under the band name Sakurako Keionbu (桜 高 軽 音部, dt 'light music club of Sakura [ gaoka ] High School " ) published and were able to directly into the top 10 Japanese singles place charts. There, the two singles were already listed on 21 April, as the singles could be purchased the night before. Thus, the single Do not say "lazy " rose even on the first night with 20,553 sales at # 3 of the daily charts - immediately followed by Cagayake! Girls with 18 292 sales on the 4th Place. In subsequent days, both singles were able to increase at No. 1 and 2 and were thus as a duo at the top of the charts. In the weekly charts, they finally reached the positions 2 and 4 and they both met in May 2009, the gold status of the RIAJ. Related to the first half of 2009 music ( measurement period 22 December 2008 to 15 June 2009) landed Do not say "lazy " with 134 555 copies sold in 16th place and Cagayake! Girls with 121 305 copies at No. 19 The full ringtone versions of Cagayake! Girls and Do not say "lazy " received in July and August 2009 to be the gold status.
A third single entitled Fuwa Fuwa Jikan (ふわふわ時間, dt " fluffy / light time " ) was published on 20 May 2009 and peaked in the first week with 39 458 copies sold to third place in the Japanese singles chart. In this first week there were all three singles simultaneously in the top 20
On 3 June 2009, an original soundtrack for the TV series was released. It contained 36 tracks of different lengths that had been used within the series for the decoration of certain scenes, but no titles of previously published and successful singles.
On 22 June 2009, the mini-album was released Hōkago Tea Time (放課後 ティー タイム, dt " after school tea time " ) the music group of the same name which consists of the five main characters. With more than 67,000 copies sold in its first week, it sat at the top of the album charts.
On August 12, 2009 appeared under the band name Death Devil Club advisor Sawako and based on episode 4 the Single Maddy Candy. She reached in the first week of 9th place in contrast to the other plates of Merchandises fall within the genre of J- pop, this includes heavy- metal music.
On 2 September 2009, the compilation of TV anime appeared "K -On! " Official Band Yaro yo! ( Band Score Tsuketari ) (TVアニメ「けいおん! 」オフィシャル バンド やろー よ(バンド スコア 付), dt " TV Anime, K-On ': Let's make a band! "! ) - Mainly consisting of the titles of the first two singles released Cagayake! Girls and Do not say "lazy ". On two CDs, the titles found in different variations, which were meant to learn to play the title with an enclosed Gradebook. The first CD contains 29 tracks, and while the second did 80 tracks. A few tracks an instrument of title so was aware of exactly omitted or played especially slow. In the Japanese album charts, it reached the 8th place with 16 526 copies sold within the first week. The Instrumental Album TV Anime "K -On! " Official Band Yaro yo! Part 2 ( Band Score Tsuketari ) (TVアニメ「けいおん! 」オフィシャル バンド やろー よ! PART2 (バンド スコア 付) ) was published on 3 March 2010. On this six versions of Fuwa Fuwa Jikan were included in each also an instrument has been omitted, as well as the A- and B- side of the single Maddy Candy once each with and without guitar and thus, in contrast to its predecessor, only 10 tracks.
K-On!
The second series K-On! used to Episode 13 Go! Go! Maniac or lists! as a pre-or credits, and from Episode 14 Utauyo! Miracle and No, Thank You! .
An instrumental album to K-On! appeared on 26 May 2010 under the title TV Anime " K-On! " Official "Band Yaro yo! -! Let's Music "( band score Tsuketari ) (TVアニメ オフィシャル「バンド やろー よ~ Let's MUSIC ~!! 」 (バンド スコア 付) 「けいおん! 」 ). This sold with 12th place far better than the previous band Yaro yo! Part 2 and stayed longer in the charts. It contained six different instrumental versions of Go! Go! Maniac and Listen! , Once each with all the instruments, without first guitar, without the second guitar, without keyboard, without bass or drums without.
On June 6, 2010, Maxi-Single Pure Pure Heart (ぴゅあ ぴゅあはーと, Pyua Pyua Hato ) from Hōkago Tea Time appeared. The distinguishing feature of this single from the others is that the A- side is additionally contain instrumental in six variants, each with a missing instrument as in the previous compilation. This reached number 4 in the charts. On June 23, another single from Death Devil called Love (ラヴ, Rabu ) was followed by the appearance in the week placed on position 7 and thus two places better than Maddy Candy by the same performer. Love was played in the 10th episode which aired in early July. Then Maddy Candy also got back into the charts.
On 21 July 2010, the release of the soundtrack album was K-On! Original Sound Track Vol 1 and on August 4, 2010, singles Utauyo! Miracle and No, Thank You! . Both topped with 85,000 or 87,000 copies sold in its first week, at the same time on the places 3 and 2 a.
As with the first season appeared on both pieces on September 15, also an instrumental album where each alternately a musical instrument was omitted, called TV Anime " K-On! " Official "Band Yaro yo! - Let's Music! 2 ( Band Score Tsuketari ) (TVアニメ「けいおん! 」オフィシャル バンド やろー よ! ~ Let's MUSIC! 2 ~ (バンド スコア 付) ). This rose to number 20.
On 8 September 2010, the single Gohan wa Okazu / U & I appeared with two songs that were used in the 20th episode of the second season of the anime. She reached in the first week with 53,000 copies sold # 3 on the charts. Gohan wa Okazu The song was written by the musician Bice, who died shortly afterwards, on 26 July 2010.
A second soundtrack for the second season of K-On! Original Sound Track Vol 2 was released on October 6, 2010 and reached number 13
On 27 October 2010 the second album appeared Hōkago Tea Time II (放課後 ティー タイム Ⅱ, read: Hōkago Tea Time Second) of the same band in a limited and a normal version. In the first week it sat at the top of the album charts with over 127,000 copies sold, with the first day 55,000 were sold. Both versions each contain a CD with 11 titles. Than StudioMix and a second with 13 titles marked as CassetteMix and is based on the themed in Episode 23 demo cassette The limited version additionally includes an audio cassette on which mono mixes of CassetteMix pieces are.
On 22 December 2010 and 15 June 2011, followed by Part 3 and 4 of the "Band Yaro yo! -! Let 's Music "series, the comparatively poor rankings of 38 and 49 were given.
Character Image Singles
Overall, for from the first series K -On! seven Character Image singles out, the singing of the associated seiyū, but were sold under the names of the characters. The first five singles each containing three titles that were also stored in an instrumental version, so that they come on six tracks; the last two have a total of only two tracks and four tracks. To pieces the composer Sachiko Omori (大 森 祥子), Tom @ Hack and KANATA were significantly involved.
The first publications of Character Image singles were to the characters Hirasawa Yui and Mio Akiyama. They were published together on 17 June 2009. In the first week ( June 15 to 21 ) with 32 881 and 31 384 they reached the singles sold 2 ( K-On! Image Song: Akiyama Mio ) and 3 ( K-On! Image Song: Hirasawa Yui ) place the Japanese singles chart.
The publications Ritsu Tainaka to, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Azusa Nakano published on 26 August and arrived on the first day the rankings 4, 5 and 3 at the end of the first week all three singles were within the top ten of the Japanese single charts. They took places 5 ( 26,000 ), 6 ( 25,000 ) and 3 ( 28,000 ). So they set another record: It was the first time that, were three Character Image singles that were released on the same day at the same time on the charts in the Top Ten. Previously, two singles from Macross Frontier Character Image had the places 7 and 8 reached and held the previous record.
On 21 October 2009 released singles for Ui Hirasawa Figures and Nodoka Manabe. Both reached in the first week Positions 8 and 9
The second series K-On! also receives a series of eight Character Image singles. The first two singles for Yui Hirasawa Mio Akiyama and published on 21 September 2010 and got in on the places 4 or 5 on the Oricon charts. The next three singles Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka Tsumugi Kotobuki and published on 17 November 2010 and reached the places 9 to 11 of the charts with 7,700, 7,100 or 7,000 copies sold in the first week. The last three singles for Ui Hirasawa, Nodoka Manabe and Jun Suzuki were also simultaneously published on 19 January 2011 and were able to turn in the Top 10.
Internet radio show
Even before the broadcast of the anime, the Internet radio show started Rajion! (らじおん!, Portmanteau word from rajio ( radio) and K -On! ) Which was presented by the seiyū Aki Toyosaki, Hikasa Yōko, Satomi Satō and Kotobuki Minako. In later episodes, the bar was added in Anime by Nakano Azusa speaking Taketatsu Ayana. The yet still continued mission began on 9 February 2009. Since a new episode was broadcast weekly. In the program, the speakers talked about the anime and its current events, but also about playing musical instruments. Building on their musical experience - not usually, as most of you were pure singers and speakers - they gave their impressions in learning the instruments on. They accompanied the consignment analogous to the anime in their attempt to establish a band, with the goal at the end of the effort to hold a real live performance. For example, Yōko Hikasa stated jokingly that she would have to be played in front of only triangle and was now trying to deal with an electric bass. Consequently, it came on the show to many fun-filled events that made up the real attraction of the show. On 24 February and 17 March 2010, per a radio drama CD that place 43 or 44 arrived and stayed 2 weeks at the general album charts appeared.
Reception
Like many of the previously filmed by Kyoto Animation Templates bribe the characters through a pronounced " Moe burdensomeness ", which is reflected in a highly trivialized representation. This was repeatedly stressed the need in advance by Western critics, as it would not meet everyone's taste. This statement is offset by the outstanding sales figures that can confirm these concerns, at least not within Japan. So the eyes of the characters are conspicuously large, while the legs are shown supposedly shortened, which is further enhanced in the visually presented trains of thought, which is also always show the characters in cosplay fantasies. Special attention awakened doing a scene in which Mio falls through a cable and presented to the public their underwear due to the worst-case scenario. However, these, get the real audience is nothing to see, since instead of the supposedly blue and white striped Shimapan ( a striped underpants ) was sent to blend in a shell of the same pattern. The level of awareness of this scene is reflected in the range of those Essschüssel containing dinnerware sets at the Comiket 76
In the series, many real products were represented faithfully changed or only marginal. Especially with musical instruments and accessories, this led by fans of the series to a strong increase in sales, as in Fender bass guitar, or even up to sell out, as with headphones AKG K701 model. Also promoted music equipment dealer directly with the use in the series. In addition to the franchise include a variety of merchandising items. Among the merchandise there are even a Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier model with K -On! - Topic, made by Fujimi Mokei. The have also boast high sales proceeds the merchandise shown by the fact that only the TBS only in the second quarter of 2010 with its merchandising to K-On! 1.8 billion yen earned.
Even during the airing of the series, first cameo appearances found in concurrent series. So were the four main characters in the ninth episode of Natsu no Arashi! as guests in the cafe. Even in later appearing manga and anime was K -On! taken up as a subject, or such as Seitokai no Ichizon parodied in.
Sales of the anime
The first Blu- ray in the first two episodes sold in the first week more than 33,000 times and was after the anime film Evangelion: 1:11 - You are (not) alone. the second- best-selling publication on this medium. From the DVD version just under 8,000 copies were sold. A total of 2009 40.000 copies were sold of the first Blu -ray, so she came in the category of Animation and Special Effect Blu-rays in the annual ranking at No. 5. The following Blu- ray releases of Blu- Ray boxes 2-4 each reached the first place of their first week of sales. By February 2011 of the entire franchise over 500,000 Blu -ray discs were sold and became the best-selling anime series.
In the following overview the heels of the first week of each of the individual items are shown:
Success of the music releases
The two singles first published Cagayake! Girls and Do not say "lazy " were very successful in the first few weeks and beyond, which meant that they reached not only the hard core of fans. They also attracted the interest of occasional customers. In the same context, this was seen as yet another example that the anime market is not recognized to the same extent by the recession as other areas, as the audience covering a wide range of ages. So to have contributed significantly to the results of the first half of the Japanese music market such publications. Because of this performance was K -On! for Do not say "lazy " at the 14th Animation Kobe the prize for the best title song (Radio Kansai Award ) after a pre-selection was made by a public vote. But the other publications of the franchises reached unusually high in the charts. The mini-album Hōkago Tea Time crowned the previous publications of the franchise with a new record. She was the first music release, the 1st place among the music charts was released under the name of anime characters - the singles chart included. The Singles Go! Go! Maniac and Listen! for pre-and credits of the second series K-On! occupied in their first week together both top positions. After Keiko Fuji in 1970 and Seiko Matsuda in 1983 this was only the third time that succeeded a singer or female music group to position two singles simultaneously on the courts 1 and 2. Among the top 100 singles of the year 2010, finally found five K -On! Singles. Overall, all 20 singles started in the top 10 of the charts.
More Awards
The Tōkyō Anime Awards 2010 was K -On! together with Higashi no Eden awarded as the best anime television series, and in 2011 won the second season of K-On! the same award along with the serial Shinwa Taikei Yojōhan (The Tatami Galaxy).
The second season of K-On! was honored at the 15th Animation Kobe on 15 October 2010 as the best television series of the year.
The character Azusa Nakano won the final of the popularity contest Saimoe 2010.