>>2166693I read K-On initially and just thought it to be a silly 4koma and didn't really have much of an impact on me (although it was funny in some places).
I watched the anime back in like 2012 (year or two after its release) and I loved it, thought it was so comfy and just a lovely world to escape to. I concur with another poster here that Ritsu is by far and above the best k-on, if not best girl in slice-of-life (apart from maybe Osaka).
I re-watched the anime in like 2020 during Covid (just for something to do/distraction). And holy shit the ending got me that time more than anything had done in years. I think I cried for like an hour. I'd just hit that age where I realised how precious the time you have with your friends in school/college are, and that shit isn't something you find almost at all in the 'real' world (unless you're lucky or work very hard at it). It was almost as if I was grieving my past life through these characters.
Because of the above I just can't watch it anymore, it's an incredibly bittersweet anime for me now. But man, it was an experience.
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