On Light Music
It would appear he is not the only one.
Real briefly, the term is 軽音楽, and as wiki would have it, it describes not just “light music” as a dictionary would translate the term. Accordingly, in common practice (as in, the exercise of labeling high school clubs), it’s anything that’s non-classical and non-traditional. It might be better defined as an alternative to ポピュラー音楽. Well, either way, keiongaku is a loose category, as defined by negatives rather than a prescriptive definition. And of course, “K-ON” is just a cute play-on-Engrish on a shorthand.
It shouldn’t be surprising to see a music nerd think “why Krauser?” when revisited by his visage in K-ON the anime. There’s nothing “light” about Detroit Metal City, so why did Yui think of it when she approached the keion club? Or for that matter, why did Mio and Ritsu join the club in the first place? Is it because the music they want to make categorically is keion? We can only presume there’s a lot of common sense baggage lurking in the background that somehow makes sense to those of us who never had that Japanese high school experience, but only in part.
Which is also why those KyoAni-tards should go catch a viewing of Linda Linda Linda. It’s a very good example of the common “HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS ROCK BAND” story concept, done in an East-Asian-Japanese way. As long as you can handle real moeblobs (as opposed to 2D), that is. Linda is a stereotype-confirming experience; it is both entertaining and aspiring, and might just make that rewatching of Suzumiya Haruhi all the more exciting.
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Good point. I think it’s telling that since I never even thought of this, my expectations of the show is quite low, and possibly quite unfair.
I had a deck that based on forbid (with buyback) partnered with squee, goblin nabob and arcane laboratory to set a hard (counter) lock once I have a masticore or a morphling in play.
Saito’s win was unexpected since Watanabe’s TEPS deck preyed on Zoo. He beat one in the previous round, for example. Also, because Faeries is the best deck not close and it destroys TEPS.
>>It shouldn’t be surprising[…]
In-jokes expand audience/$$$…or so I would think.
>>As long as you can handle real moeblobs (as opposed to 2D)
I was thinking that moe-blobs were exclusively 2D - “real moeblobs” would need an appropriate term, since moeblobs cannot exist 3-dimensionally, nor can the concept be translated. But who cares?
My last encounter with Magic was via the online platform, and I last touched a real deck in play sometime during Ice Age. But TEPS is my kind of deck…
>> But who cares?
(屮゜Д゜)屮
Damn, I gotta watch Linda Linda Linda then. Base Ball Bear!
I wanna become beeeeaaautifuuuul…. uh…. LINDA LINDA LINDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ah, Linda Linda Linda… I really should’ve watched that in the last Japanese film fest.
Ohhh, as per MTGO, I never really did much on paper, but I had a “swell” online account (fat.gorilla) and was regularly active during OTJ, so UG madness decks were all the rage…I even did that thing where if you completed a set online you could get it sent in paper (got a Torment set redeemed). I should sell it all. What a waste of time/money!
Of course, the last ep of K-on muddied things up a little by having Yui exclaim that she thought all bands dressed like Suwako’s embarassing high school picture… so it isn’t a surprise that she thinks Krauser when confronted with the idea of any group, keiongaku or not.
Btw, having rewatched Linda Linda Linda I see that keiongaku was translated on my DVD as pop music. Just thought I’d throw that in.
Well I phrased it specifically to refer to the common perception of keion clubs in Japanese high schools, not so much what a literal translation mapped twice would mean to a western audience. Yui’s misconception is a popular one, that’s all.
[…] fandumb that I’ve been reading come from people not realizing what K-ON is. We got people who got confused with what Yui thought as the dominion of Krauser the II, with “light music.” And even […]