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your thoughts have summoned this post from hell so, as i pray... Home > Archives > 2010 > September > 15 We got to meet a wonderful angel.
Hirasawa Yui is no Mizunashi Akari[1], but her love song to Azusa is most certainly an aria. My relationship with K-ON! has been a complicated one. It’s been an interesting ride since my initial derision of the 4koma-inspired[2] iyashikei series about foetal high school girls eating cake and occasionally picking up instruments, but it has ultimately been a rewarding one. Aquamarine tears returned as the girls graduated. There are so many gripping moments in the final episode of K-ON! that it would be impossible to list them all. But there are definitely words that will stay with me for a long time, Sawako’s “how could I possibly erase this” being foremost among them. Is K-ON! a favorite? Yes. Is it in the top 10? I don’t know. I did away with rankings when Aria the Origination ended. But Yui and Nodoka exchanging their secret handshake, Azusa turning to follow her bandmates with her eyes and running into a wall, Sawako’s fretting during the ceremony, a failed game of telephone, Yui’s relaxing metaphors… who would have thought that ultimately Yui would prove the best rhetor of Houkago Tea Time? It’s the stuff of beauty. It’s “wonderful”—and that’s what’s so wonderful about it. Tomorrow morning, Azusa will wake up, greet President Ton-chan, and head downstairs to lift the storefront blinds. But it isn’t time for “her” keionbu, it isn’t time for “her” Aqua. Because she, unlike Akari, is not alone.[3] The rest of HTT will be with her forever.
Another mythic line to add to the collection. P.S.
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ghostlightning said:
Sawa-chan standing outside the music room while the four played for one… this is when I knew I would love this show forever.
Just one of the many little things that made this episode brilliant to me, along with Yui stealing Mugi’s lines (poor Mugi), Ui and Nodoka being such large presences despite so little time devoted to them, the other students crying in the hallways, the lyrics of “Tenshi no Tureta” it’s all so overwhelming.
You know I watched it twice, and cried just as hard the second time. There’s so much more to say, but thanks for starting to articulate what’s so good to hear said.
lolikitsune said:
Like with most good things, most of what’s good will go unsaid. Have I ever tried tackling the problem of explaining all of Aria’s power to a reader?
Futile :\
In the end we can only give hints & clues.
But I’d say we’ve been doing a pretty good job. I’m not done shedding my tears for this show. But then again, I’ve yet to shed all my tears for the orange princess, the rozen queen, or the aquamarine—so we’ll see in two years if K-ON! can stand the test of time.
My prediction? Easily.
RyanA said:
Yes, we did, over and over~!
K-ON!! and Aria huh… this is rather beautiful. Everything just rushes to the senses in those still frames focused on one character, surrounded by space… but like GL mentioned, Sawa-chan outside the room, kind of in a gaze made me feel it for sure.
So damn good.
lolikitsune said:
Yes… and then Nodoka walks up to her and she doesn’t bother correcting her posture. Sawa-chan, who has always been so concerned with her professional image.
So damn good.
kimaguresan said:
The board, the song, the waiting outside, the handing out of the flowers (which really got me). It was a brilliant tearjerker. I fell apart when Azusa said, “don’t graduate,” as I’m sure many others did. But the song; can I say this about the song. It’s not very good, Azusa was right, but it was completely and utterly perfect. The song was made of ultra high-grade cheese, and everyone knew it, but in that situation it was something Azusa needed, and her blunt reply just made her character all that much richer.
So glad I came back to finish this. So very glad.
lolikitsune said:
Yeah… utter cheese, kinda like… wait for it… Akari? =)
I meant to only “subtly” bring this up with my postscript, but yeah, the flower-handing-out. Azusa turns and looks at her band mates, and what are they doing? The focus goes to Yui—the Yui who joined the club just to keep it alive by eating cake. She’s the center of the dynamics, the keystone of the group.
And she does this all with utter cheese.
*sniff*