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“Carefree Yui joins Light Music Club after being moved by performance; girls balance music and school life.”
K-On!
けいおん!
7.78
1,551 rank · 38,163 readers · 1,920 favorites
CGDCT
Music
School
Comedy
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Carefree Yui joins Light Music Club after being moved by performance; girls balance music and school life.
The Light Music Club indulges in easy and simple activities, or that is what the carefree Yui Hirasawa first believes. When Yui goes to formally quit the club, she finds out that if she leaves, the club will not have enough members to continue its activities. This puts Yui in a sudden dilemma. However, its members—the mature Mio Akiyama, the playful Ritsu Tainaka, and the ladylike Tsumugi Kotobuki—decide to perform an instrumental piece to try and keep Yui. The song not only fills her up with excitement, it also leads her to decide to remain in the Light Music Club. While the sounds of cheerful girls fill the clubroom of the Light Music Club, the members juggle both schoolwork and their love for music. They may play around once in a while, but that makes the high school life in K-On! even more exciting!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.3
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 5
σ 1.97
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.97 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 4.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Jul 2011 → Nov 2020
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “As of the 2 volumes I have read, K-ON! has been very enjoyable, but it is not without flaws. The art is, much like the show, beautiful; the characters and environments really pop out. Nevertheless,...”
- 10 “I enjoy K-On! a lot and it's been hard to find something to replace it with now that I've finished most of it. Honestly between the manga and the anime, if I had to choose, I would pick the anime....”
- 7 “A gaggle of high school girls sitting around eating cake and drinking tea sounds like the world's most unbearably dull thing ever, and it probably is, but going through the motions of daily life...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 0%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 57 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 36m approx
- Published Apr 2007 – Sep 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M8636 catalog