K-On! Event in Akasaka

09.09.2010 by Patrick W. Galbraith

Coming towards the end of "K-On!" and honestly not a lot else has been on my mind. OK, so there are other great(er?) anime out there this season, but nothing quite packs the "fuwa fuwa" like the girl band of Sakuragaoka High School. Turn on TV, tune into "K-On!" turn off brain. It's a learned behavior, and the habit's hard to break. Anyway, I had some business over at TBS, and was fortunate enough to catch the "K-On! Gallery in Akasaka," which ran from August 13 to 31. There was a pretty wicked stage set up as if Hokago Teatime were performing, complete with their instruments and mannequins wearing their costumes. A TV screen in the background played a live performance by the seiyuu behind Yui, Mio, Ritsu, Mugi and Azu-nyan.







By the time I got there, there was no wait to get in, but I encountered many couples wandering around the event space. TV stations seem prime locations for dating (not that I'd know jack about it), but I was surprised that so many fashionable young people at an event for "K-On!" Yeah, the music is cute, but the appeal is cute anime girls, right? Apparently drooling over them is not such a sin after all. Oh, and you can have your girlfriend pose with a large cardboard cutout of Yui and the gang. Most people seemed content to just look at the memorabilia, snap photos of the signatures of the seiyuu and listen to a message from the voice of Azu-nyan.