Hello everyone,
This morning, after ordering the new audio card for my main pc, I started thinking about the latest couple of news about K-On new related works and after some searches and insights here am I for this rambling of today.
What we want to talk about? Yes, mainly about K-On manga sequel (or well, should I say sequels as there are two different manga now?) and how this has affected the story of the first original manga.
If you remember the anime or manga ending (pretty much the same) you can clearly remember the strong sense of closure given by the storyline and the incredible emotional attachment everyone felt after the ending of the series.
The high school for the main part of the cast was complete and they move forward together in their life while Azusa find new companions to keep the club alive and feel less alone hoping in a future to get reunited in the same university.
Then we get these two new manga following the remaining time in high school of Azusa (with many new characters and girls that in a lot of way looks very similiar to the old cast) and the University life of the other four girls (with many new characters and girls as well).
How can they expect me think that this is not a clever way to try to push over the immense popularity of a series to crave for more money?
Yes, because let's be honest about it. The first anime series was to be complete and without any sequel, only the sheer success (and sales) of the first season prompt the producer to continue over the same route as they thought it was a profitable and free-of-risk way to increase their portfolio.
"What there is bad about it feal87?" you ask...
Well at the moment I can't really judge the content of the new mangas (it's too early), but we can easily end up in a [insert any shounen-like series that is running from 300+ chapters] way. Yes, a filler inferno with continue switch over the same plot focus over and over again without ever giving sense of closure to the story and while it will get still some audience from die-hard fan it will get disgusted by me and probably many others.
Yes, because one thing I loved of K-On was the emotional touching ending and the great sense of "this story ends here, but their life continue elsewhere".
Yes, I am one of those guys who prefer short stories, but that have properly a beginning, an evolution and inevitably an ending.
I'm gonna bet that after a while the Azusa manga will get reintegrated into the main manga after she graduate and all the cast reunite themselves at the university...
Only thinking of it makes me shiver, when I watch K-On news I'm constantly in fear of watching Aizen appear from nowhere inside the otherwise calm setting of K-On...
...if you catch my meaning...
See you soon,
feal87
P.S. No, I don't follow Bleach, but just by reading in these years the countless blog post over it I do have some knowledge about the "grow-fight-win-reset" approach to that story. 