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[Ascaloth] K-ON!, Episode 5

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Popularity: 8% [?] Published by Ascaloth May 1st, 2009 in Ascaloth, Anime

Having conducted what few club activities they have had so far with an uncharacteristically un-Japanese lack of organization, the laxness of the K-On girls have finally come around to bite them; no thanks to the frighteningly irresponsible Club President, the Light Music Club was never officially recognized to begin with. Once again, it falls upon the hapless Nodoka to save their from their quandry, but even so, they’re now forced to find an actual teacher supervisor for their club. While this quest to tie up the loose ends of their club’s existence is taking up their ~~teatime~~ acticity time, it would soon reveal a dark secret about one of their most respected teachers in Sakura High School, one they might have never suspected.

K-ON!, Episode 5

Well yeah, it’s cute, moé moé kyun! and all, but seriously, Mio-chan is afraid of an awful lot of things. On another note, the Lucky Star stylings are starting to become more prominent; heck, I swear Ritsu has been sounding an awful lot like Konata lately.

Puni puni~!

Gee, Mugi-chan, you seem rather awfully interested there….

It’s fine to do absolutely anything, as long as you don’t get caught! Somehow, I kind of like Ritsu’s way of thinking.

Come to think of it, the Student Council tend to get a pretty bad rep in anime. They get all sorts of negative stereotypes foisted upon them, from the rigid and unbending type, to the useless and underachieving type. Heck, the most recent positively portrayed Student Council type was Tomoyo, and she had to succeed a predecessor of the latter type before she took up the position. Of course, this does not take into account the ridiculously powerful stereotypes, such as the kind whose President can mobilize the entire student body on a whim to look for a damned cat, or those who utilize magic mecha piloted by ghost girls to eliminate demons when they’re not fighting each other instead….

Oh shi-, Mio is going Blood Riot! Run, Ritsu, Orochi Mio’s coming for you!

Something I’m wondering about here….did the girls really not know that they needed to find a teacher advisor to form a club? Isn’t this supposed to be standard procedure in Japanese schools? Or does this apply only to high school level, and it is perfectly reasonable for the girls not to have known about it if they didn’t do the research?

Come to think of it, the last high school club I can remember in anime that didn’t have a teacher advisor was….the SOS Brigade. And yeah, that was a whole different kettle of fish altogether….

Point of interest; Yamanaka-sensei taking it upon herself to serve tea to her male colleagues is actually a social norm in the workplace in highly patriarchal Japan, and from what I know, this symptom of the heavily skewed balance of power in Japanese gender relations persist to this day. What I’m wondering is; is it still politically correct to show this phemenon in Japanese media today?

Jiiiiiiii~

Of course, Yamanaka-sensei is not the perfect yamato nadeshiko we were presented with at first glance, and while it may be a bloody history she may not be proud of….

….so much so that she’ll do anything, including a display of unexpected physical prowess, to keep that shameful past under wraps….

….ultimately….

…there is no escape for her from what she used to be; the Second Empress of Death Metal, Jacqueline Il Dark, who shall one day pass on her legendary demon guitar to the Third Empress, the future Johanna Krauser II. I, for one, welcome our Death Metal Empress as our Overlord!

Ore wa Jigoku no Terrorist,

Kinou okaasan okashita ze,

Ashita wa otousan hotteyare

I AM A TERRORIST STRAIGHT FROM HELL!!!

Of course, such a perfect teacher on the outside with such a dark past must have her story to tell, and this is hers; rejected for being too much of a nice girl, that rejection prompted her to evolve successively to smexy punk chick, to death metal goddess, to…..okay, I have no clue at this stage. What is that, Takeda Shingen?

While her efforts were, alas, all in vain, leaving her to revert to the Yamanaka Sawako she used to be (or so she thought), this sob story holds no water with Ritsu, who proceeds to blackmail her to be their advisor in exchange for the keeping of the secret. And frankly, this alone is making me question the extent of Yamanaka-sensei’s wildness; if she were truly as extreme as she claimed she used to be, wouldn’t a SATSUGAI SURUZO be a more proper response to this blackmail attempt rather than a simple acquiescence?

MugiVision™ has detected the presence of Yuri. Your orders, Commander?

The Yamanaka-sensei of the anime is definitely several times more scary-awesome than her manga counterpart. I’d dare say she was voicing the opinions of many of us who were wondering what the hell the girls were doing besides having tea, too. That’s it, Teacher of the Year 2009. I called it.

Thankfully, Dark Yamanaka-sensei can still be appeased with delicious, moist cake. I wonder what would happen if we placed her in the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center?

….yeah. I will now proceed to go make myself taller.

Please…..please…..please help me establish the ~~Drama~~ Light Music Club!

MugiVision™ readings have detected Yuri Levels OVER 9000!!!

Huh. Personally, Smexy Punk Sawa-chan > Nice Schoolgirl Sawa-chan > Yuri Goddess Sawa-chan > Death Metal Sawa-chan > Takeda Shingen Sawa-chan

Personally, I think it would be pretty difficult to have to play an instrument and sing at the same time, too. Is this something that can be trained, or does one need to have a natural aptitude for it?

This begs the question; Is she? Isn’t she? And if she is, what do we do, comrades? What do we do?

And in the end, even though much effort has been put into the intensive training of Yui to get her ready for the frontman position of the Light Music Club’s debut concert, the circumstances conspire to drag poor Mio-chan into the role she fears, yet the very same role which earned her so much love and admiration. It remains to be seen if Mio will get in the right state of mind in time for her starring role; please don’t say "you are lazy", datte hontou wa "crazy".

Only three days left to their debut. Can the girls make it in time?

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And could this be it? Their first ever concert in the traditional setting of the School Festival; is it really going to come only at the end after all, or is this the sequence where an attempt is finally made to upstage the legendary Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu Episode 12 concert scene? Only God Knows….until then, stay tuned for the debut of the Light Music Club next week!

Ascaloth, out.

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10 Responses to “[Ascaloth] K-ON!, Episode 5”

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1 double 43 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 am

You misspelled Krauser-sama’s name! It’s Johannes Krauser II.

What awaits is the wrath of the demon overlord! Rawr!
2 tj_han 1442 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 am

The amzing thing is, you have tonnes of references to memes. Anyway, two more papers for me and I’ll be done with exams.

This was quite a good episode. I curse the evil shits who put up fake episodes on Tokyo Tosho. Fuck them.
3 The Sojourner 112 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 am

Linda Linda Linda, is that you?
4 FortMan 2 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 2:22 am

“What is that, Takeda Shingen?”

I think it’s supposed to be traditional Japanese demon.
5 Jimmy C 2 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 am

“Come to think of it, the last high school club I can remember in anime that didn’t have a teacher advisor was….the SOS Brigade.”

Like the Light Music Club prior to this episode, the SOS Brigade was an “unofficial” club. You may recall Kyon submitting the establishment papers in ep6, but it was rejected by the Student Council.
6 Hypernova 22 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 4:18 am

I was laughing the entire episode and throughout your post, so don’t have much to say except I enjoy them a lot. Just one thing: isn’t Tsumugi’s yuri tendency comes a little too sudden? I don’t think I saw any indication in the first four episodes. Or am I missing something?
7 abao 46 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 am

lawl… you play too much orochi
8 V2 19 comments May 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm

priceless episode.
9 Kherubim 32 comments May 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 pm

“This begs the question; Is she? Isn’t she? And if she is, what do we do, comrades? What do we do?”

Rejoice and ask if Mugi-sama can share the yuri goggles…

As for Sawako-sensei, I had a “Aozaki Touko, is that you?” moment when she pulled off her glasses and went SATSUGAI…
10 Blacksun88 7 comments Jun 10th, 2010 at 9:10 pm

the last quote… nv thought the ending theme suit the situation so well!! u r genius XD. its over 9000 mio power!!

Do not use any < and > for your own sake. It will end the comment there and then. Also, there is an automatic IQ filter which weeds out comments made by those who accidentally got transported from the stone age.

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