what i've seen of 'em are pret-ty funny.
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what i've seen of 'em are pret-ty funny.
Off of work until Tuesday evening. feelsgoodman.
Also, you guys will be happy to know I ordered K-On season 2 bluray so I will soon understand more of your silly antics.
I was interested enough to try and seek it out. I got as far as reading this summary:
Yui Hirasawa: Towards the end of her high-school career, Sawako realizes that Yui's perfect pitch and eidetic musical memory means she has a huge amount of natural talent. Using her industry contacts, Sawako gets Yui a lucrative contract, and she quickly becomes Japan's newest musical sensation "The Japanese Jimi Hendrix." Sadly, her childish personality gets her into constant trouble, especially when she makes careless remarks on national television that the bloodthirty media eagerly distort into controversies. Her manager is barely able to keep her under control.
Eventually, Yui's interaction with other musicians leads her to the darker side of the rock lifestyle when she discovers illegal drugs. Still retaining her childish personality, she is unable to exercise better judgement and quickly begins a downward spiral into substance abuse. After being arrested on a marijuana charge at age 24, she flees to England in order to avoid prosecution. She dies of a sleeping pill overdose at age 25, two years earlier than the original Jimi Hendrix.
After her death, Yui's parents and sister form a copyright company to preserve her legacy, releasing her final album "That Is It" posthumously.
Azusa Nakano: The year after Yui graduates and ascends to stardom, Azusa tries to convince Sawako to hook her up with her industry contacts. Sawako is dismissive, pointing out that membership in a high-school band does not qualify one to be a professional musician. Still determined to follow in the footsteps of her hero Yui, Azusa manages to successfully join the idol group AK-47 through hard work and determination. When one of AK-47's albums manages to displace Yui's work on the Oricon charts, it seems like she might be managing to attain some measure of success. Unfortunately, Azusa discovers that the leader of the idol group got her position by sleeping with the casting director. Indignant, she clobbers the leader onstage and starts up a solo career.
However, the only musical work Azusa can find is as a street-performing cosplayer in Akiba. Her second album attempts to capitalize on Yui's popularity, and contains a blatant ripoff of "Fuwa Fuwa Time" called "Tsuru Tsuru Time." None of her efforts meet with real success, despite her increasingly risque attempts at cosplay. Upon hearing of Yui's death, Azusa decides to pursue her dreams in a more realistic fashion, becoming an employee at a music store and giving the customers excellent jazz recommendations. She continues to play guitar as a hobby.
Tsumugi Kotobuki: After marrying a wealthy foreign man named John, Mugi moves to England and, aside from a brief meeting with Yui, is never heard from again. This results in her having roughly the same amount of impact on the doujin trilogy as she had on the original show.
Ritsu Tainaka: When Sawako whisks Yui away to fame and fortune at the expense of the rest of the HTT members, Ritsu takes the hint and gets a blue-collar job at Neko Neko Nagato Couriers. She maintains her cheerful disposition, seeing herself as something of an underachiever champion, and is grateful to Yui for making her realize that she had no real talent. She is still a good friend to Mio, and the two often enjoy karaoke sessions together.
Mio Akiyama: After easily cruising through college with top grades, Mio winds up working for a music company. She begins sleeping with one of the company executives, a 42-year-old married man who promises that he will be leaving his wife soon. With the extra cash flow from this affair, she begins living an affluent lifestyle, and frequently disses her friend Ritsu for her working-class job. When the affair with the executive inevitably comes to a bad end, Mio finds herself jobless and decides to focus on her music. Living as a NEET, she begins to obsess over Yui and stalk her online via various imageboards such as 2ch. Mio is extremely jealous of Yui's success and natural talent, especially since all her practice and hard work has gotten her nowhere.
Eventually, Mio's NEET lifestyle begins to take a toll. Her self-made music videos fail to garner any popularity online, and she drowns her sorrows in junk food. Rapidly gaining wait and losing savings, she becomes desperate and sings a cover of one of Yui's famous songs while filming herself in the nude, then uploads the video to Niya Niya Douga. The resultant deluge of negative comments, calling her a "fat pathetic 27-year-old granny NEET," drive her to despair as she finally realizes that she doesn't have any real talent. Destitute and alone, she cries herself to sleep buried under her covers.
A few days later, Ritsu calls Mio up and offers her a part-time position at the courier place. Mio readily accepts, now content to live out her days as an average no-name laborer, with Ritsu by her side.
I will just continue with the saccharine escapades of the HTT, thank you.
Am I the only person that found that doujin funny?
Chet Rippo
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Yep that's the one, and now you don't need to read it. The art isn't very stellar anyways.I was interested enough to try and seek it out. I got as far as reading this summary:
I will just continue with the saccharine escapades of the HTT, thank you.
I don't think that was the intention of the writer but...
If the intention of the writer for this to be anything but some weird parody on the lifestyle of musicians with the usage of the adorable K-ON! girls then something is very wrong indeed.
Chet Rippo
Member
I don't think it was meant to be a parody at all.
Then what is it supposed to be? There isn't anything you can get from that doujin but a laugh. Artwork is somewhat subpar as well.
Chet Rippo
Member
A serious deconstruction on how the K-ON! girls would function in the real world.
Heh, this K-On character creator is kind of fun. You can even make something with a passing resemblance to the Mugifish:
Do you have a link?
In just one episode of Toradora I can already see why Taiga is voted highly. I like her more than Mio.
You got that from that doujin? A serious deconstruction on HTT functioning as adults? What?
You got that from that doujin? A serious deconstruction on HTT functioning as adults? What?
Chet Rippo
Member
Yes, but the program's original purpose is less... wholesome, even though it's entirely possible to make perfectly clean images with it, like so:
Still, if you Google "着せ替え2" and the top result is NSFW... well, that's not my problem.
It initially loads with the main nine K-On girls (HTT, Ui, Jun, Nodoka, and Sawa) already preconfigured, but all the different options you can set make it somewhat versatile; people have used it to make Nichijou characters, for example. Every now and then there's an /a/ thread about it.
Right now clothing options are the most limited, though the creator does seem to be updating it semi-regularly. Saved images don't carry over when it updates, though, so you may want to take a few screenshots to remind yourself what the settings were if you make something particularly memorable.
I found it rather amusing to hit "Random-All"
Chet Rippo
Member
It looks pretty good for a essentially dress up doll program. Except for maybe their arms being a little to skinny, they look pretty spot on.
There is game? I need it!
Thank you.
I'm surprised import site selling near MSRP price.
But many places sell at discount. Thank you very much for the name. I'll ask someone buy at discount and send to me I think.
... What did #PokeGAF do to me...?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
ONE OF US
It makes sense because I am frequency's senpai... right?frequency got an Azu-nyan avatar! See I knew you'd like the nyan.
She is so adorable, especially when she starts going on and on about Yui.
エミリー先輩！ (｡･ω･｡
*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
nckillthegrimace
Member
エミリー先輩！ (｡･ω･｡
Fixed.
I made it worse.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
all dat symbolism
next thing you know she'll be bitchslapping rose brides and taking a ride to the end of the world
It definitely sounds like a deconstruction, but not serious, more mawkish if anything.
frequency makes me feel like a failure, watching the entire run of K-ON! in record time, whilst it has taken me weeks to reach the heady heights of episode 8. Summer jobs are overrated...
it should not take you more than one day to watch all of the first season
Was originally for PSP:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36872694&postcount=110
And now there's the PS3 port.
Chet Rippo
Member
All I said is that you should watch K-ON!...
Well I guess it is a doujinshi. Can't really take it to seriously when someone is boning a ugly old guy.
I just finished like five minutes ago actually. Palmtop Tiger is an awesome character. She should be like the icon for DFCs. At first I was like, bull this ended on some lame bittersweet note then during the credits I'm like....yeah. Good stuff.
Now I need some action anime as break in between slice of life anime.
You two are coworkers?
That's why you can't take it seriously? Ugly old guys get laid too you know. It is called social security and gold diggers love that.
Internet senpai!
Chet Rippo
Member
School Rumble
I'm just sick of it. It's far to common. Stop pandering to your audience doujin artists!That's why you can't take it seriously? Ugly old guys get laid too you know. It is called social security and gold diggers love that.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Gurren Lagann is mai other favourite animu. Watch it.
Chet Rippo
Member
He's probably already seen it, or at least I hope he has.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Watch Utena then! It's action packed and it's full of girly stuff.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Billiechu you should probably delete that post before a mod sees it.
Chet Rippo
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It's not like any mods read this thread anyways... Unless they're lurking about, but that's not cool.
You hear me lurking mod? Stop lurking and post with us!
You hear me lurking mod? Stop lurking and post with us!
Chet Rippo
Member
Gun porn, because you know, she's Texan.
;~;
Chet Rippo
Member
You should have changed your username to Emily Chu.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I always thought the Billie was for Wilhelmina.