K-ON!

This anime is really funny,the music is great,especially the song don't say you are "lazy".they are a bunch of high schoolers who love having fun,well,some of them...

Akiyama Mio:
Mio is really shy,she gets very scared especially with barnacles{weird right}
she sings amazing,shes the one who usually gets mad if they dont practice too much,
along with Azusa. Mio is the bassist.

Hirasawa Yui:
Yui is so kawaii,she loves cake,thats the reason why she got into the
club,they were bribing her since they didnt have enough members to make
a group(club).shes usually who loves to have fun with Ristu.shes the guitarist.

Tainaka Ritsu (Ricchan):
Ritsu is the fun loving girl in this anime.she usually goes to school with her bangs
up,and thats when a little mishap happened,but you have to watch the anime to know:3
shes the drummer of the group.

Nakano Azusa (Azu-Nyan):
Azusa is like Mio's little sister, she gets mad if they don't practice, she's mature like mio, and looks a lot like her.
Azusa isn't a senior, she is a junior in their high school. If you've seen this anime, you might have noticed that she
is wearing a red ribbon instead of a blue one, That means she's a junior. Along with Yui, she is also a guitarist.
She doesn't come until the last few episodes of season 1 and all of season 2.

Kotobuki Tsumugi (Mugi):
Mugi is always making cake or tea for the rest. But Azusa doesn't like that and asks, "Is this always how you start?" They usually don't practice anything AT ALL because of the cake. Whenever Sawako, their teacher, tells mio to put on a costume and she refuses, Yui and Ritsu are laughing, Azusa is just staring, and Mugi looks like she's enjoying it. Mugi is rich, or so they think. When Yui wanted to go somewhere for summer vacation, Mugi asked if they could all go to her villa. Later on in the anime, Mugi doesn't know what a candy store is. LOL . Mugi plays the Keyboard.

The first time you pick up an instrument, you can feel the giddiness, feel the excitement, feel something click right inside of you that makes you think, "Yeah. I want to do this."

Setting aside her weapon of choice (castanets, hilariously enough), Hirasawa Yui decides to join her school's light music club and become a guitarist. There, she quickly befriends three other students who all have mostly come together to form a band, play music, and have afternoon tea. The chronicling of this venture results in an extremely cute, very fun and enjoyable anime.

Know this before you even attempt to watch this anime. This is not Beck. This is not Nodame Cantabile. This is not NANA. Hell, this isn't Detroit Metal City.

K-ON! is not an anime about the wonders of music or the gruelling realities of being in a band; this is an anime about cute girls who just so happen to be musicians and eventually come together for lots of light and fluffy times. It mixes in genres of comedy, slice of life and music into it. The result might not be everyone's Chex Mix. Those wanting more comedy would be put off by the slice of life elements, those wanting slice of life would probably be irked by how much attention is paid to the music aspect, and those looking for a music anime would no doubt be in outrage over this anime's prioritisation of the comic appeal and the detailed inane activities.

Time jumps from episode to episode, so if you're looking for continuous flow or you want to witness growth of the story, then be in for a disappointment. While it may seem that Yui goes from being an amateur to basically becoming the guitar hero in like five episodes, keep in mind that the anime has these large unspoken time leaps. In fact, an entire year passes in the span of a handful of episodes.

The main problem to be had with the story and plot is that there are overt moments where the anime devolves into a "moe moe" mess and completely compromises the overall delivery of the storyline. It becomes a little frustrating that development is hindered simply for fanservice of this type. Just how many times is Mio going to cry out of embarrassment/fear/shame for this anime? It does pay a lot of attention to running gags though whether they be overt such as Yui's, er, "quirky" outlook on life and group cosplay or the gags can be subtler, such as the defacement and decoration of the school's statue as seen in little interludes throughout the series.

The art is of high quality, if you consider the detail put into the props, setting, and scenery. While the character animation may be inconsistent from time to time, Kyoto Animation really did their research for the instruments in the anime and it seems most attention went into that. Down to the most minute details of on Yui's Gibson Les Paul are coloured, for example. The characters are undeniably cute, and the girls have a rather soft touch to their design. It may actually look like they are gloopy, if anything, but the effect of using the softer tones and less rigid lines is rather appealing. Some great work is done for the animation, and we get details of hands working their way maniacally across keys on a keyboard, or fingers plucking coolly at the strings on a bass, or a drummer's frenetic energy and control keeping tempo (arguably, the best animation for the entire series is seen in the OP and ED).

K-ON! however is most notable for giving the viewers a just small treats of excellent animation when the girls are playing; the majority of the time they perform or practise with their instruments, the camera cuts away to random scenes, different perspectives or the characters' faces. While some may see this as KyoAni "being cheap", it actually contributes to the anime than takes away. Ingenuity is often best exhibited when working with given resources. The result of focussing on the characters rather than their instruments during practice adds a certain quality to their characterisation. Yui for example, benefits the most from this, since rather than seeing her fingers and hands make music, we see her facial expressions, her looks of nervousness, concentration, disappointment and elation while she herself is making music.

Speaking of the music, it is pretty hit or miss. If you hate poppy rock, then you are going to hate the OP, ED, and all INS songs for this anime. The background music is light and comical for the most part though mostly it is so underwhelming that it borders unnoticeable. But the anime has a strong OP and an even stronger ED theme song. "Don't Say Lazy" is actually a surprisingly rougher song than you'd expect from this anime, given it's hard guitar riffs and pounding bassline, solid drumming and intense keyboarding. You get that, and then there are songs like "My Love is a Stapler" which is gooey pop. The band's trademark "Fuwa Fuwa Time" (performed interchangeably by Mio and Yui) is actually pretty awesome.

The voice casting is near perfect. All the seiyuu are newbies and they all give a life to their characters that even the most professional veteran can sometimes miss. Toyosaki Aki does absolutely astounding work as Yui, sounding cute, sounding scary and hoarse, singing and being just utterly charming in a sweet yet doofy way. Hikasa Youko has undoubtedly landed her defining role with Mio.

It's hard to take two steps into the world of K-ON! without stepping in a steaming pile of moe (you can interchange this with another adjective, depending on how much you dislike the traditional archetypes) characterisations. The cast is by no means ingenious. None of them are even unique in the anime universe. There is the resident ditsy, spacey girl (Yui), the competent, shy tsundere-tsukommi character with ridiculous phobias (Mio), totally moronic troublemaker (Ritsu), and the refined, polite, soft-spoken rich girl (Tsumugi). In fact, they are pretty much ripped right out of the Four Temperaments: Yui being sanguine, Mio being melancholic, Ritsu being choleric, and Tsumugi being phlegmatic.

Despite being generic, they manage to also be extremely charming characters who will undoubtedly entertain and are rather easy to like. Yui, the moronic prodigy in her all-round incompetent way, is extremely cute; Mio is causing legions of people to fall in love with her and it's surprisingly understandable with her dry sense of humour, sensibility and poor naming skills; Ritsu is the clown and the joker, providing lots of gags and pranks; and Tsumugi is good-natured and utterly adorable as she tries to fit in despite being ridiculously wealthy and more priveleged than her peers.

There are some great supporting characters as well, including Sawako, a teacher who is not at all what she seems, Nodoka (Yui's childhood friend who is possibly the only "normal" and sensible person in the bunch), Ui who is Yui's extremely responsible younger sister, and a certain guitar-playing girl known fondly for her saying "nya~". And that's pretty much the entire cast for the whole series. The character development is pretty non-existent for this anime. The only growth they experience is as a band; they become more coordinated, more in tune with their band-mates and with their instruments.

The series has a rare moment or two where it seems it may be trying to be a little more serious. There's the inspirational scene for Mio after seeing Yui perform a guitar solo for the first time; she gets swept up in the girl's energy and performance. Then there are some minor character conflicts when the relationship between Mio and Ritsu becomes strained. The last episode, for example, will make you wonder if this is the same silly K-ON! you had been watching for the previous twelve episodes since it gets surprisingly serious. Well, as serious as this anime can get (chocolate curry, now?) anyway.

K-ON! is moe in motion. Nothing more, nothing less. If you dislike moe or want an anime more focussed on serious music-making, then this is not it. If you are looking for a light-hearted, mindlessly fun, sugary sweet anime, then this is exactly what you want to watch.

In the end, you might just end up loving that light music club just as much as Yui does.

Final Rating: 4.5/5.0

K-On is just so hypnotically fun to watch. If I want to complain about it, my only complain is that nothing particular happens, it's just the school lives of five girls and that sounds kind of dull and boring but for some reason, this anime is really solid. K-On is a more laid back anime. It has no serious issues or over the top situation but instead shows the joys of being young.

K-On follows four, later on five girls who are members of the light music club in an all girl's school. The anime shows the day to day lives of these five girls and their involvement within their club. That's what pretty much happens in the whole series and its slice of life style of storytelling can be slow but every simple moments that occur in the anime is never dull thanks to its funny, intriguing, colourful and likable characters, upbeat, charming and great looking art style, lighthearted yet funny comedy and laid back nature. The five girls have their own unique personalities and each complements each other perfectly in a comedic way. Their day to day activities, positive outlook on life and interactions with other characters and themselves are what makes K-On so enjoyable to watch and its calm,laid back yet positive nature mixed with an amazing art style will completely soak you in the anime.

While the anime mostly dwells on its characters, its foundation and themes comes from its music. The opening and closing songs are absolutely brilliant and the songs that the girls compose within the anime are good as well as they are infectiously catchy and enjoyable to listen to and sometimes are used as main drives of certain episodes.

K-On is an anime for you if you just want a break. The story's laid back nature can be unsatisfying for some but its unique characters ,charming art style, lighthearted comedy and a stellar pop music soundtrack makes K-On an absolute worthwhile watch.

Overall: Charming, funny, relaxed and an overall joy to watch
Storyline: Very slice of life. Its lack of issues and larger than life situations can avert some but its shortcomings are overshadowed by its laid back atmosphere.
Music: Ridiculously catchy and very fun to listen to from its opening and closing to the character compositions.
Characters: Unique, colourful and likable. Each have a positive look on life and their chemistry with each other is so much fun to watch.
Animation: Bright, upbeat and great looking art style. Character designs are very distinguishable and the animation production is brilliant.

I LOVE K-ON!!

I really love this anime..it makes me cry every episode in season 2...It makes me happy every time i watch it.. It's just Perfect.. I wish it'll have season 3!!
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i love this manga-anime
I LOVE THE MUSIC IN IT ITS SOOO GREATX
I LOVE THE MUSC AND THE CHARACTERS FOR EXAMPLE YUI AND RISTU I LOVE THEM AND THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY
but i cant 2 get the others they are alll great i love them all soo much i love the animex

K-On!'s story revolves around four Japanese high school girls who join Sakuragaoka Girl's High School's light music club to try to save it from being abolished. However, they are the only members of the club, and at first Yui Hirasawa, the main character, has no experience playing musical instruments or reading sheet music. Eventually, she learns how to be an excellent guitar player. Since then, Yui, bassist Mio Akiyama, drummer Ritsu Tainaka, and keyboardist Tsumugi Kotobuki spend their school days practicing, performing, or just hanging out together. The club is overseen by music teacher Sawako Yamanaka, who eventually becomes their homeroom teacher as well during their final year of high school. In their second year of high school, the club welcomes another guitarist, an underclassman named Azusa Nakano. After Azusa joins, they gain more structure and begin to practice more.
After their third year, Yui, Ritsu, Mio, and Tsumugi graduate and enroll into a university. It is there they join its light music club alongside three other students: Akira Wada, Ayame Yoshida, and Sachi Hayashi. Meanwhile, Azusa continues to run the high school light music club alongside Yui's sister, Ui, their classmate, Jun Suzuki, and new member Sumire Saitō.

Okay Forgive Me for being a noob in reviewing but ima just tell yah a story first about me finding this anime called K-On

So here goes...one afternoon i was bored as hell,i was just lying on my bed nothing to do then i watched animax i saw this anime..K-On
and said "i need to WATCH THIS" and i ran to my computer and searched it and watch episode by episode...and i liked it..i gave it a THUMBS UP..LOL

Okay Here Are The Main Characters
Mio Akiyama:this girl is kinda shy,cute,and HOT at the same time she's a scaredy cat
and shes very easy to scare,she also plays the Bass Guitar.
Ritsu Tainaka:A girl who is energetic,Playful,and also a mischievous girl,she plays the Drums
Tsumugi Kotobuki:A girl From a wealthy family,shes a friendly and cuddly character sometimes she messes with the gang but sometimes she can be the club mother,she serves sweets and tea for the club,and can also play the Piano.
Yui Hirasawa:kind of the main character(Lol)..she's a Lazy and sometimes serious girl,when she learns a thing she forgets the other one...again(lol)..but if she puts her mind onto it she gets awsome results,she likes Fun,Cute,Tasty Things,And She Plays The Guitar
Azusa Nakano:One of the so called MOE-est characters in the series,i think she's the club mascot cause she's the one who always gets played with the CAT EARS(LOL)...she's a serious and hard working character,she makes her senpai's practice if they slack too much which is all the time,and she is the youngest character,Ow...She Plays Rythm on the guitar with her band.

Okay Thats It For the Character Introductions
now about the music...
There isnt that much shown music actually except for other episode's like The School Festival episode's
well they have awsome music with the OP's and ED's
you might find their music awsome if you like it but they tend to be childish if translated but still GOOD lol...

About storyline
there isnt much story in this anime cause it only portrays their daily lives but on other episode there might be plots lol..
well K-On's story as i thinked of it is about friendship and a sweet slice of life..

Tsumugi, also known as Mugi, is a wealthy girl with a gentle and sweet personality. She is the third member of the light music club and plays the keyboard. Tsumugi has been playing the piano since she was four and has won various piano contests. She is the daughter of a company president, and her family has several villas in various places around Japan. When Yui goes to buy her guitar, Tsumugi is successfully able to drive down the price. She brings sweets and tea frequently and keeps a tea set at the club room. She originally intends to join the choir club, but joins the light music club instead since she would rather be "friends with fun people that you don't meet often".

i love K-ON! the storyline, the characters, the music, everything is so perfect that i cried when i watched the last episode of its second season! Yui, Ritsu are so funny! Azusa is so adorable. Mio and Tsumugi are so beautiful and matured!

this is the kind of anime show that will make viewers realize the importance of friendship.. Despite of Yui's personality (that shows how easily distracted she is) her co-members of HTT thinks she is a reliable person.

Yui Hirasawa (平沢 唯, Hirasawa Yui?)

Yui is the main character of K-On!. She is one of the members of the light music club and plays a Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar[2][3][4] that she nicknames "Gīta" (ギー太?).[5] She does not get good grades in school (though when properly coached, she can achieve astounding results) and is easily distracted by trivialities (mainly those deemed cute and adorable). Yui is clumsy and easily spaces out most of the time. Yui has shoulder-length, brown hair (a little longer than Ritsu's) which she accessorizes with two yellow hair clips, and brown eyes. She takes a huge liking for any kind of food (though she never gains weight, which is greatly envied by Mugi, Mio,[6] and Sawako[7]). She has a younger sister named Ui, who is very mature and acts as the "older sister" of Yui, taking care of her and keeping her in line.[3] Yui works extremely hard to get better at playing guitar, which is shown in later chapters.[volume & issue needed] During performances, Yui plays with amazing energy and joy, which usually results in great response from the audience.[8][9][10]
Yui is the band's main vocalist and lead guitarist and has absolute pitch—she can tune her guitar perfectly without a tuner, which greatly impresses Azusa, who has played the guitar much longer than Yui.[7][11] She has a very easy-going nature, but has incredible focus and retention when she has a clear goal in sight; unfortunately this is limited to only one subject at a time, and her other skills deteriorate quickly (for example, Yui is at one point pressed to make up failing test scores, and she quickly brings her math skills up to par while allowing her guitar skills to deteriorate.)[12] Despite all of this, Yui is still devoted to her band and will always practice hard enough for the club. At school, she has become quite admired for her great voice. However, she is known to forget her lyrics in mid-performance as well as overdoing things, making her unable to perform sometimes.[8] Mio was the lead vocalist at first, since Yui could not play the guitar and sing at the same time.[13][14] Yui is also known to write childish lyrics as Ui has assisted her in creating them.[15][16]

Ritsu Tainaka (田井中 律, Tainaka Ritsu?)

Ritsu (or Ricchan, as nicknamed by Yui) is the self-proclaimed president of the light music club and plays a yellow Rick Marotta Signature Yamaha Hipgig drum kit with an add-on floor tom (in the opening credits only) combined with a cymbal set from Avedis Zildjian,[18] though is shown playing a white Yamaha Absolute Series drumkit in the anime's closing credits.[2][3] She has an ambiguous yet upbeat personality, much like Yui, but often has trouble remembering important club activities and announcements and gets constantly rebuked by Mio and Nodoka for forgetting to send in important forms concerning the club.[5][14] Ritsu is cheerful, often likes making jokes and is sarcastic most of the time. She is skilled at brainstorming ideas that earn money for the club. Ritsu has shoulder-length, brown hair, with her bangs pulled back with a yellow hairband, and gold-colored eyes. She wears her school jacket open. She says she chose to play the drums because they are "cool", but she then admits that she has trouble playing instruments which involve intricate finger movements, such as the bass, guitar and keyboard.[3][19][20]
She is a childhood friend of Mio and will often take the opportunity to tease her whenever Mio is cowering from something.[21] She is also known to become easily jealous of Mio's other high school friends, even going as far as spying on Mio when on outings with them. Ritsu is always on the go and will stop at nothing for the success of the light music club. Despite her rough mannerisms and speech, she gets cast as Juliet by the majority of her classmates in their class play rendition of Romeo and Juliet and, in the end, manages to act like a proper girl.[22] In the anime, she states her favorite drummer is Keith Moon of The Who.[20] She is skilled at cooking.[23] She has a younger brother named Satoshi (聡?, Voiced by: Mika Itō).[24]

Mio Akiyama (秋山 澪, Akiyama Mio?)

Mio is a shy girl who is in the light music club. She plays a left-handed, 3-Color Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with a tortoiseshell pickguard,[2][3] though is shown playing a Fender Precision Bass in the first manga volume.[19] She uses D'Addario EXL160M medium bass strings.[25] Her bass is given the name Elizabeth later in the anime. While she originally intended to join the literary club, she was forced into the light music club by her childhood friend and the club's president/drummer, Ritsu.[2] She gets excellent grades in school and is often mature and strict especially where Ritsu is involved; her weakness is the macabre and horrific, and she is often incapacitated with fear when stories involving ghosts, blood, injuries,[21] haunted houses,[26] barnacles[18] or other disturbing topics come up. She also has a fear of being in the spotlight and gets embarrassed easily, and is often subject to teasing from Ritsu[21] and Sawako, their club adviser and eventual third-year homeroom teacher. Mio has long, straight black hair and gray eyes (that are angled slightly more than the other characters). She cites that she chose bass since it is not the center of attention in the band, unlike the guitarist.[19] Mio is more technical when it comes to music, and Yui often comes to her when she is in need of more guitar tutorials.
Along with Yui, Mio is one of the band's main vocalists, though given her dislike of being center stage, she tries to avoid taking the lead vocal if possible, generally singing if Yui is unable to.[8][13] She writes most of the songs, although they usually feature some odd and overly girlish lyrics like "Light and Fluffy Time".[13] As she is left-handed, she becomes entranced whenever she sees left-handed instruments, because of their rarity.[5] After their first live performance, the attractive Mio gained a huge fan following (in no small part due to an unfortunate accident that occurred at the end of the show),[26][27] led by an infatuated former student council president.[28] Also resulting from her sudden popularity, most of her classmates voted that she portray Romeo in their class play.[22]
Tsumugi Kotobuki (琴吹 紬, Kotobuki Tsumugi?)
Tsumugi, often referred to as 'Mugi' by her friends, is a wealthy girl with a gentle and sweet personality who plays a Korg Triton Extreme 76-key keyboard, though she is also seen playing a Korg RK-100 keytar in the closing credits of the first season.[2][3] She originally intended to join the choir club, but joins the light music club instead after receiving an invitation and encouragement from both Mio and Ritsu.[2] Tsumugi is considered a piano prodigy since she has been playing the piano since she was four and has experience in winning various piano contests.[19] Mugi has long, pale blonde hair, blue eyes, unusually large eyebrows, which apparently run in her family and a fair complexion that the other characters do not have, but she does not get sunburned. She is the daughter of a company president,[3][19] and her family has several villas in various places around Japan[11][29] (and even one in Finland). Since her father also owns a maid café,[22] she often brings confectionery and an assortment of sweets and pastries to the club room, and she diligently makes tea with a tea set which is kept in their club room. Despite her wealth, she is fascinated by and finds joy in "normal" activities, such as ordering fast food, sharing french fries with her club mates,[2] holding down part-time jobs[24] and haggling over prices.[3][19] Tsumugi displays a rebellious streak occasionally, diverting from her normally well-behaved and mature demeanor to the surprise of the others. She also displays a childlike eagerness from time to time, and possesses unusually high strength, being able to effortlessly carry around her own keyboard, Ritsu's drums, amplifiers,[26][27] and at one point beating an arm-wrestling game in an arcade.
Although she is a sweet and gentle girl, she is often weirdly entranced by the sight of two girls interacting closely together, sometimes imagining something more risqué in her head (both Mio and Ritsu find this awkward at times).[13] The series sometimes indicates that Mugi has a crush on their teacher, Sawako Yamanaka. While a lot of things do not bother her, she is fairly conscious about her weight (just like Mio),[6] and she gets a bit anxious when her family's staff start spoiling her friends during villa visits.[7] She later begins learning how to play the guitar from Azusa.[23]

Azusa Nakano (中野 梓, Nakano Azusa?)

Azusa is a student in the same year and class as Yui's sister Ui, who joins the light music club and becomes the rhythm guitarist, playing a Fender Mustang electric guitar. She eventually names her guitar Mu, as it is a Mustang. She is a self-proclaimed novice guitarist who has been playing the guitar since she was in the fourth grade, and her parents are working in a jazz band.[30] She often finds herself bewildered by the tea parties and cosplaying aspects of the club, when she would rather just practice, and is curious about how the club is able to play so well despite their problems and lack of practice.[31] However, she has a certain weakness for cakes and can be calmed down rather easily, sometimes by just being petted.[31] She is constantly a victim of Yui's skinship[7] and is nicknamed Azu-nyan after trying on a pair of cat ears and meowing ("nyan" being the equivalent of "meow" in the Japanese vocabulary).[30] Despite this, Azusa is not too good with cats.[24] Azusa has long black hair, which she wears in pigtails, and brown eyes.
In the band, she looks up to Mio the most due to her maturity and the fact that she is an experienced bassist, even trying to give Mio chocolate on Valentine's Day.[32] However, she sometimes unintentionally makes remarks concerning Mio's weaknesses, such as her weight. She also finds Mugi very beautiful, and envies her hair and large eyes, and later starts teaching her how to play guitar when the two are alone in the club room.[23] Since joining, Yui comes to her for advice on playing guitar,[33] as well as maintenance. She gets a tan extremely easily, once during their time at the beach[7][11] and another during a music festival (even after applying sunscreen).[34] As a result, she frequently gets sunburned as well. She gets lonely very easily, and often worries that everyone in the club will leave her, as they are one year older and eventually will graduate. Due to this, the rest of the girls buy her a turtle to look after, naming it Ton.[35] Outside of the band, she often hangs out with Ui and Jun whenever the other girls are busy.[36] When the others graduate, she becomes the new light

Sawako is the adviser for the wind instrument club at the girls' school. An alumna of the school and a member of the light music club in her student days, she does not want people to find out that she was formerly a member of not only a heavy metal band, but a death metal band called Death Devil (of which she was both lead guitar and vocalist and went by the stage name of "Catherine"[10]), thus she covers up by being mild and gentle to her coworkers and especially to students. She is forced to be the adviser of the light music club, as Ritsu blackmails her after the girls learn of her past.[14][21] However, she is able to juggle being the adviser for the wind instrument club as well, even as the story progresses. Though she has a mature and gentle demeanor in the school, Sawako (affectionately addressed as "Sawa-chan" by both Ritsu and Yui) displays a totally different, completely authentic character when she is alone with the light music club. In reality, she is rather wild, lazy, and is quite an irresponsible teacher who enjoys dressing up the light music club in (sometimes embarrassing) cosplay costumes (like French maid uniforms), much to the dismay of Mio.[38] She gets a thrill out of the rare moments where she is praised for her work.[39]
She names the club band "Ho-kago Tea Time" after the members take too long deciding on a name themselves.[39] In the anime, she once pitches in for Yui with her white Epiphone "1958" Korina Flying V electric guitar.[9] She becomes the girls' homeroom teacher in their third year, and puts Nodoka and all the band members (except Azusa, since she is a grade lower) in the same class, so she does not have to remember as many names.[4] An episode in the second anime season reveals that she owned one of the first Gibson SG models (from around 1960 with a custom stoptail bridge) which is later sold.[35] Due to her relation to the club members, the other students in her class start to call her Sawa-chan as well, ruining her image as a mild-mannered teacher. Her image is further ruined after Death Devil is temporarily reunited at a wedding reception for a high school alumnus. Regardless, her popularity with the students remains unchanged.[40] In spite of her laziness, she still proves herself to be an able mentor, as shown by her willingness to coach Yui as the lead singer[13] and attending their performances.[8] Her music abilities apparently have not dulled over the years, as she is able to substitute for Yui at the school festival at almost no notice without the assistance of a music score, even without any prior practicing of the band's song.[9] Sawako is also very perceptive: she immediately sees through Ui's disguise when she impersonates her sister and on several occasions boasts to the club that there is nothing she cannot see.[9]

Ui Hirasawa (平沢 憂, Hirasawa Ui?)


Ui is Yui's younger sister, who begins the story as a third-year junior high school student, but later enters Yui's high school the following year in the same class as Azusa.[8] Unlike her older sister, Ui is mature, responsible, and handles household chores well, though she still shares a strong relationship with Yui and has a great deal of love and respect for her older sister.[6][41] Despite being a year younger than Yui, she is nearly identical to her with her hair down and is even once able to fool the club.[9] She plays the organ,[36][42] and is also a fast learner, able to learn playing the guitar after a few days' practice.[9][43] She takes particularly good care of Yui and strives to look after her even at the risk of her own health.[15][16] Ui is actually considered as the ultimate groupie for her sister's band and supports them with all her heart and occasionally provides a narrative to the story.[36] She eventually joins the light music club along with Jun at the end of the series.[37]

Nodoka Manabe (真鍋 和, Manabe Nodoka?)

Nodoka is Yui's childhood friend and confidant who is a member of the school's student council. As a normal, well-mannered and intelligent girl, she is generally taken aback by the light music club's odd behavior, and easily gets annoyed with Ritsu whenever she forgets to fill in the club's application forms.[5][14] She shares the same class as Mio in their second year, who appreciates her companionship tremendously, she being the only person Mio knows in her class.[44] In her third year, she becomes the student council president and is also in the same class as the other third year club members. She gradually becomes the president of Mio's fan club through unknown circumstances (possibly out of her control), even when she originally turned down the position. Nodoka chooses to go to a national university as opposed to the same college as Yui and the others.

Jun Suzuki (鈴木 純, Suzuki Jun?)

Jun is Azusa's and Ui's classmate who often hangs out with the latter. Ui tries to get her to join the light music club but ultimately fails due to a strange visit to the club room.[8][38] She instead plays a Yamaha Sbv500 bass in the jazz club[episode needed] and is one of Mio's admirers. However, she starts to regret not joining the light music club when she hears about all the activities they do and eventually joins the light music club at the end of the series.[37] She has a pet cat.[24]

Megumi Sokabe (曽我部 恵, Sokabe Megumi?)

Megumi was the president of the student council before Nodoka succeeded her in her third year, and she is also the president of Mio's fan club, who is later succeeded by Nodoka. She stalks Mio during her last few days in high school because she wanted to see Mio one more time. The band offers her a song as a graduation gift.[28] She later becomes friends with Ritsu, mentioning she is at the same university the others intend to go to.