Usagijen expressed a bafflement on GR today about Janette (a co-writer of CJ Blackwing) putting K-ON into a Top5. Janette's explanation was that K-ON "reminds me so much of the tight group of friends I had through most of high school". Nothing like that was possible for me, but I thought it was a very solid production. I honestly think that it only made into Top5 because Janette haven't seen something truly oustanding, like Manabi Straight, but nonetheless it deserves "Good" or "Very good" in the ANN scale.

Reviewing old posts, it's a bit surprising how long the build-up was. The question if K-ON was the second coming of Manabi answered itself (that said, it's still not a slice-of-life). Meanwhile, I completely forgot that I promised to watch it "if the ending does not suck". Fortunately, the filler I hit randomly didn't dissuade me.

Liked: Not a masterpiece, but yes
Rewatch: Not likely, but possible