K-On!

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Synonyms: Keion, K-ON! Season 1
Japanese: けいおん!
English: K-ON!
German: K-ON!
French: K-ON!
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 3, 2009 to Jun 26, 2009
Premiered: Spring 2009
Broadcast: Fridays at 01:59 (JST)
Studios: Kyoto Animation
Genre: ComedyComedy
Themes: CGDCTCGDCT, MusicMusic, SchoolSchool
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.861 (scored by 590606590,606 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #9012
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Popularity: #149
Members: 1,086,790
Favorites: 24,693

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Synopsis

A fresh high school year always means much to come, and one of those things is joining a club. Being in a dilemma about which club to join, Yui Hirasawa stumbles upon and applies for the Light Music Club, which she misinterprets to be about playing simple instruments, such as castanets. Unable to play an instrument, she decides to visit to apologize and quit.

Meanwhile, the Light Music Club faces disbandment due to a lack of members. This causes the club members to offer anything, from food to slacking off during club time, in order to convince Yui to join. Despite their efforts, Yui insists on leaving due to her lack of musical experience. As a last resort, they play a piece for Yui, which sparks her fiery passion and finally convinces her to join the club.

From then onward, it is just plain messing around with bits and pieces of practice. The members of the Light Music Club are ready to make their time together a delightful one!

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Background

The series received a Best TV Animation Award at the 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair.

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Staff

Tafu, Naohiro
Producer
Sgroi, Victor
Assistant Producer


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"Cagayake! GIRLS" by Sakurakou Keion-bu (Aki Toyosaki, Yoko Hisaka, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki)
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Ending Theme

"Don't say 'lazy'" by Sakurakou Keion-bu (Aki Toyosaki, Yoko Hisaka, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki)




Reviews

Feb 6, 2025
My favourite anime of all time, and it definitely is never changing, ever.

Of course, we all know Kyoto Animation is just spectacular with their work. To bring a simple 4koma to life and make it such a masterpiece, to me, is one of their greatest deeds.

I think the entire cast is honestly great, they all compliment each other well and have super cute interactions with each other, really nobody you can dislike.

The music, is, of course really good. It's a band anime, so of course.

Honestly, this anime 100% revolutionized band anime and is just so, SO amazing. The moe moments hit, the serious moments hit, ...
Feb 25, 2025
Mixed Feelings
K-ON is a popular 'CGDCT' show: “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things”. Some people may think that this kind of shows are like sugar, because it makes you feel nice and is easy to digest: Then it could be like 'sugar'…? Of course, everyone likes sugar… but i’m comparing sugar with art, with anime. The anime is not sugar. Watching CGDCT is still better than sugar: eating sugar deteriorate your system, but the CGDCT only makes your heart happy. Still, the mere fact of putting cute girls in anime doesn´t mean it’s a quality work. Saying this… is K- ON a good or bad CGDCT? It ...
Sep 3, 2023
FunnyFunny
The way I look at things, getting children into music is never a bad thing, it gives them something to focus on, enhances the brain and can be a future for some, be it as a musician or any of the jobs with a musical need. Well at least thats before starting K-On, some ways should't be used to get kids into music, especially when it dumbs it down to the lowest level.

Story - 2/10

Even though the show sells itself as a music/band show, a majority of the time it's a slice of life/school show, with just a bit of musical talk in-between.

It's not a ...

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