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K-ON! (TV)

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Alternative title:
K-ON! 輕音部 (Chinese (Taiwan))
けいおん! (Japanese)
轻音少女
케이온! (Korean)
Genres: slice of life
Themes: school life
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: It's Yui Hirasawa's first year in high school, and she's eagerly searching for a club to . At the same time, Ritsu Tainaka, a drummer, and her friend Mio Akiyama, a bassist, are desperately trying to save the school's light music club, which is about to be disbanded due to lack of . They manage to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki to play the keyboard, meaning they only need one more member to get the club running again. Yui s, thinking it will be an easy experience for her to play the castanets, the only instrument she knows. However, the other think their new addition is actually a guitar prodigy...
Ratings: 3249 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 401 votes (sub:324, dub:46, raw:7, edit.dub:2, others:22
8 Spanish subtitled
4 Portuguese subtitled
3 German subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Excellent: 915 votes (sub:770, dub:97, raw:9, ?:3, others:36
17 Spanish subtitled
5 Portuguese subtitled
5 Russian subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
2 German subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Korean subtitled
1 Vietnamese subtitled
)
 Very good: 838 votes (sub:702, dub:82, raw:10, ?:3, edit.dub:2, Eng:1, others:38
18 Spanish subtitled
5 Russian subtitled
4 Portuguese subtitled
3 Korean subtitled
3 French subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Good: 542 votes (sub:439, dub:77, raw:2, ?:2, others:22
9 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Hungarian subtitled
1 Chinese mandarin subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Korean subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
 Decent: 292 votes (sub:249, dub:33, raw:4, others:6
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 119 votes (sub:107, dub:11, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 37 votes (sub:32, dub:4, others:1
1 Korean subtitled
)
 Weak: 39 votes (sub:30, dub:4, ?:1, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Bad: 24 votes (sub:21, dub:2, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Awful: 28 votes (sub:27, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 14 votes (sub:12, dub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 5577 s, rank: #135 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.827 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7458, rank: #1024 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 7.755 (Very good−), rank: #1064 (of 10154) (seen all: 7.87 / seen some: 7.13 / won't finish: 3.61)
Bayesian estimate: 7.754 (Very good−), rank: #777 (of 7635)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 14
Episode titles: We have 21
Vintage:
2009-04-02 to 2009-06-25
2010-03-16 (Animax Asia)
2013-01-06 to 2013-04-07 (Malaysia, NTV7)
2016-09-01 (Poland, 2x2 TV)
Release dates: We have 12
Opening Theme:
"Cagayake! GIRLS (5-nin Ver.)" by Aki Toyosaki with Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki and Ayana Taketatsu (eps 9-13)
"Cagayake! GIRLS" by Aki Toyosaki with Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki
Ending Theme:
"Don't say ''lazy''" by Yoko Hikasa with Aki Toyosaki, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki
Insert song:
"Curry Nochi Rice" by Ho-Kago Tea Time - HTT (ep 8)
"Fude Pen Bōru Pen" by Ho-Kago Tea Time - HTT (ep 12)
"Fuwa Fuwa Time" by Ho-Kago Tea Time - HTT (eps 6-12)
"Maddy Candy (guitar riff)" by Death Devil (ep 4)
"My Love is a Stapler" by Ho-Kago Tea Time - HTT (ep 8)
"Pinchi Daisuki" by Hajime Hyakkoku
"Tsubasa wo Kudasai" by Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki (ep 1)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 17
Reviews:
K-ON! Blu-Ray (Oct 19, 2015)
K-ON! DVD 1 (Sep 9, 2011)
K-ON! BLURAY 1 (May 1, 2011)
News: Show:
Manga UK Updates (Jul 30, 2011)
Other articles: Show:
Shelf Life - Idol Talk (Dec 17, 2012)
Shelf Life - K-On Flux (May 30, 2011)
Hey, Answerman! (Jun 19, 2009)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    K-ON! - Season 1 Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2015-09-01 (from $89.79)
    K-ON! - Ultimate Collection [Limited Edition] (Blu-ray) 2019-02-19 (from $832.58)
    K-ON! - Ultimate Collection (Blu-ray) 2019-12-03 (from $64.93)
    K-ON! (Blu-ray 1) 2011-04-26 (from $60.73)
    K-ON! (Blu-ray 2) 2011-07-05 (from $74.98)
    K-ON! (Blu-ray 3) 2011-09-13 (from $4.17)
    K-ON! (Blu-ray 4) 2011-11-22 (from $6.84)
Blu-ray (Region B)
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [AU] (Blu-ray) delayed/cancelled
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [UK] (Blu-ray) delayed/cancelled
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [Limited Edition] [UK] (Blu-ray) 2021-08-16
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [Limited Edition] [UK] (Blu-ray) 2021-11-22
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [Limited Edition] [AU] (Blu-ray) 2022-03-09
DVD (Region 1)
    K-ON! - Season 1 Complete Collection (DVD) 2014-09-23 (from $99.99)
    K-ON! (DVD 1) 2011-04-26 (from $23.98)
    K-ON! (DVD 2) 2011-07-05 (from $40.00)
    K-ON! (DVD 3) 2011-09-13 (from $19.98)
    K-ON! (DVD 4) 2011-11-22 (from $12.79)
    K-ON! - [Anime Legends] (DVD 1-4) 2012-02-07 (from $59.99)
DVD (Region 2)
    K-ON! - Complete Seasons 1, 2 & The Movie [UK] (DVD) delayed/cancelled
    K-ON! - The Complete Series (DVD) 2012-04-30
    K-ON! (DVD 1) 2011-08-29
    K-ON! (DVD 2) 2011-11-14
    K-ON! (DVD 3) 2011-12-05
    K-ON! (DVD 4) 2012-01-09
DVD (Region 4)
    K-ON! (DVD 1) 2011-07-20

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Naoko Yamada
Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
Screenplay:
Reiko Yoshida (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 7-13 odd, 14
)

Storyboard:
Tatsuya Ishihara (eps 6, 12/OP)
Episode Director:
Tatsuya Ishihara (eps 6, 12/OP)
Original creator: kakifly
Character Design: Yukiko Horiguchi
Art Director: Seiki Tamura
Chief Animation Director: Yukiko Horiguchi
Animation Director:
Yukiko Horiguchi (OP/ED; eps 1, 7, 13-14)
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Rin Yamamoto
A&R Producer:
Mariko Okamoto
Advertising: Mizuho Tanaka
Advertising Producer: Mikie Nishiguchi
Animation Check:
Naoko Fujita
Animation producer: Nagaharu Ohashi
Assistant Animation Director:
Miku Kadowaki (ep 12)
Assistant producer: Maya Fujino
Background Art:
Yukiko Takeuchi
Background Manager: Ikuko Tamine
Color design: Akiyo Takeda
Color Design Assistant: Kana Miyata
Editing: Tomoko Satō (eps 1-12)
Finish Animation:
Yūsuke Ishihara (eps 3, 7, 11)
Finish Check:
Rie Takagi
In-Between Animation:
Yumiko Hashi (eps 5, 10)
Insert Song Arrangement:
Shigeo Komori ("Maddy Candy"; ep 4)
Insert Song Composition:
Shigeo Komori ("Maddy Candy"; ep 4)
Insert Song Lyrics:
Michio Yamagami ("Tsubasa o Kudasai"; ep 1)
Key Animation:
Yukiko Horiguchi (eps 1, 7)
Music Coordination: Kōsuke Fukai (F.M.F)
Music producer: Shigeo Komori
Musical Instrument Design: Hiroyuki Takahashi
Photography:
Yūji Shibata
Production manager:
Sōta Kawano (eps 4, 9)
Recording: Yasushi Nagura
Recording Assistant: Mika Kamemoto
Sound Effects: Daisuke Jinbo
Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Special Effects: Rina Miura
Theme Song Arrangement:
Tom-H@ck (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Tom-H@ck (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Shoko Omori (OP/ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Yōko Hikasa (OP/ED)
Aki Toyosaki as Yui Hirasawa

Asami Sanada as Sawako Yamanaka
Ayana Taketatsu as Azusa Nakano
Chika Fujitō as Nodoka Manabe
Madoka Yonezawa as Ui Hirasawa
Minako Kotobuki as Tsumugi Kotobuki
Satomi Satō as Ritsu Tainaka
Yōko Hikasa as Mio Akiyama

Aiko Ōkubo as Teacher (ep 1)
Aki Kanada as Satoshi's friend (ep 13)
Asuka Horiguchi as Student (ep 8)
Asuka Nishi as Student (ep 1)
Asumi Kodama as Student council president (ep 11)
Chiaki Kanou as Person in charge (ep 2)
Chie Nakamura as Kawakami-san (ep 14)
Chihiro Tagaino as Nodoka's mother (ep 12)
Daichi Kanbara as First love (ep 5)
Eiji Maruyama as Butler Saitō (ep 10)
Eri Nakao as Maki (ep 14)
Eri Sendai as Aya (ep 14)
Hisafumi Oda as Clerk (ep 11)
Kengo Nishioka as Assistant (ep 14)
Kentarō Tone as Teacher (ep 5)
Kiyohito Yoshikai as Customer (ep 6)
Kokoro Kikuchi as Student (ep 8)
Mai Goto as Student (ep 6)
Mami Fujita as Student (ep 9)
Miho Miyagawa as Teacher (ep 3)
Mika Itō as Satoshi Tainaka (ep 13)
Riki Kitazawa as Yui's father (ep 7)
Rio Natsuki as Yui's mother (ep 7)
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Clerk (ep 11)
Takashi Mito as Scary person (ep 1)
Tomoaki Maeno as Clerk (eps 2, 11)
Tomoko Nakamura as Student (ep 6)
Yasuaki Takumi as Garbage collection voice (ep 12)
Yoriko Nagata as
Jun Suzuki (eps 8, 12-14)
Student (ep 6)
Yu Shimamura as Student (ep 6)
Yui Shoji as Clerk (eps 1, 13)
Yuiko Tatsumi as Student (ep 8)
Yuka Nishigaki as Eri (ep 14)
Yukika Teramoto as Student (ep 9)
Yukiko Monden as Sayaka (ep 14)
Yūtarō Shimizu as Customer (ep 13)
Japanese companies
Animation Assistance: Animation DO
Animation Production: Kyoto Animation
Backgrounds:
H・E・D WORKS
Broadcaster:
Tokyo Broadcasting System (2009-04-02)
Editing: Studio Gong
Finish Animation: Studio Blue
In-Between Animation: Studio Blue
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Online Editing: Imagica (eps 1-12)
Production Cooperation:
Pony Canyon
Recording Studio: studio2010:
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Tony Oliver
Translation: David Fleming
ADR Script: Tony Oliver
Executive producer:
Ken Iyadomi (Bandai Entertainment)
Producer:
Taku Otsuka (Bandai Entertainment)

Assistant producer: Victor Sgroi
Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada
Associate producer: Loy Fruel
Blu-Ray Authoring: Joel McCray (Sentai Filmworks release)
Booklet Editing:
Natalie Jones (Sentai Limited Edition)
Booklet Layout: Larry Koteff (Sentai Limited Edition)
Booklet Translation: Sawa Savage (Sentai Limited Edition)
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing:
Ricardo Watson
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes (Sentai Filmworks release)
Engineering Assistant: Austin Shannon
Insert Song Performance:
Cristina Vee (vol. 3 extra; vol. 2 extra)
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams (Sentai Filmworks release)
Menu Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai Filmworks release)
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai Filmworks release)
Post-Production Assistant: Oscar Garcia
Production:
Roxanne Terrell (Sentai Blu-ray release)
Production Assistant:
Yugo Nakamura (Vol. 1)
Production Coordination:
Yuko Sakurai (Vol. 1)
Production manager:
Son Phan Le (Sentai Limited Edition)
Re-Recording Mixing:
Patrick Rodman (eps 12-14)
Recording engineer:
Ricardo Watson
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Emily Nicolas
Subtitle Timing: Kayla King (Sentai Filmworks release)
Subtitling:
David Fleming
Technical Assistant:
Michael Olesch (Sentai Filmworks release)
Candice Moore as
Azusa Nakano (Animax dub)
Tsumugi Kotobugi (Animax dub)
Lili Troncale as Yui Hirasawa (Animax Asia)
Stephanie Sheh as Yui Hirasawa

Candice Moore as Sawako Yamanaka (Animax dub)
Cassandra Lee as Ritsu Tainaka
Catherine Fu as
Mio Akiyama (Animax Asia)
Ui Hirasawa (Animax dub)
Christine Marie Cabanos as Azusa Nakano
Cristina Vee as Mio Akiyama
Karen Strassman as Sawako Yamanaka
Laura Bailey as Nodoka Manabe
Michelle Ann Dunphy as Jun Suzuki
Muriel Hofmann as
Nodoka Manabe (Animax Asia)
Ritsu Tainaka (Animax Asia)
Shelby Lindley as Tsumugi Kotobuki
Xanthe Huynh as Ui Hirasawa

Amanda C. Miller as
Boy on TV (ep 12)
Maki (ep 14)
Megumi Sokabe (ep 11)
Satoshi Tainaka (ep 13)
Student (ep 9)
Christine Marie Cabanos as Yui's Mother (ep 7)
Erik Scott Kimerer as Clerk (ep 11)
Erika Harlacher as
Announcer (ep 12)
Clerk (ep 13)
Shiho (ep 14)
Gueyla Lantto as
Boy on TV (ep 12)
Kawakami (ep 14)
Satoshi's friend (ep 12)
Heather Pennington as
Aya (ep 14)
Mom on TV (ep 12)
Trainer (ep 13)
Karrie Shirou as Azusa's Friend
Tony Oliver as
Assistant (ep 14)
Customer (ep 13)
Saito (ep 10)
Scary man (ep 1)
Trash Collection Announcement (ep 12)
Yui's Father (ep 7)
Victor Sgroi as Store Clerk (ep 11)
Virginia You as Student (ep 8)

Muriel Hofmann (Animax Asia)
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Broadcaster:
TV Japan (subtitled)
Disc Production: Seraphim Digital (Sentai Filmworks release)
Distributor:
Viz Media Europe
Internet Streaming:
Viewster
Licensed by:
Sentai Filmworks (2014)
Production: Sentai Filmworks (Sentai Blu-ray release)
Korean staff
Korean cast
(none)
Jeom-Hui Ryu as Yui Hirasawa
Mun-Ja Choi as Azusa Nakano
Korean companies
Broadcaster: Animax Korea
Distributor: Ein's M&M Co, Ltd.
French cast
French staff
Dubbing Director: Jessie Lambotte

Sound Engineer:
Erwan Le Gall
Jennifer Fauveau as Yui Hirasawa

Caroline Combes as Ui Hirasawa
Caroline Mozzone as Ritsu Tainaka
Frédérique Marlot as Azusa Nakano
Gwenäelle Julien as Nodoka Manabe
Jessie Lambotte as Sawako Yamanaka
Marie Diot as Tsumugi Kotobuki
Nathalie Bienaime as Jun Suzuki
Nayeli Forest as Mio Akiyama

French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: WanTake
German staff
German cast
Director: Gabi Böhm
Script: Gabi Böhm

Casting: Bettina Reichel
Anita Hopt as Mio
Jennifer Weiß as Ritsu
Julia Meynen as Yui
Kristina Tietz as Azusa
Marianne Graffam as Tsumugi

Shalin Rogall as Nodoka

Nicole Hise as Chika Nojima
German companies
Broadcaster: Sixx (from 2 November 2019)
Distributor: Kazé
Internet Streaming: Anime on Demand
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Hazel Hernan as Yui Hirasawa

Charmaine Cordoviz as
Nodoka Manabe
Sawako Yamanaka
Grace Cornel as Ui Hirasawa
Rona Aguilar as Azusa Nakano
Tagalog companies
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: 2x2 TV 
Polish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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