Friday, September 10, 2010
K-ON!! 23With graduation just round the corner, Ritsu decides to call everyone and meet in the music room where they can enjoy their "last" school day together. It was still early in the morning and the girls were already having their own cup of tea, happily listening to the school bell as it rings. It had seemed that they were skipping lessons. As time passes, the girls got bored and decide to head to their classroom where Ritsu started sorting out her belongings under her table, which she should have already brought back days ago. Yui was then digging out all the notes that Ritsu had been passing to Yui during classes and Mugi requested to keep them, treasuring them as a part of their memory. Nodoka then comes by the class and is surprised to see them all gathered together and replies to Yui's question that she was going to hand up her script for the graduation speech the next day and to get it approved. The girls went and followed Nodoka to see Sawa-chan, who approves of the script and allows Nodoka to hand it over to the person-in-charge. The girls stayed back a little while to have a chat with Sawa-chan, but nothing seems to be able to "lure" her back to the music room as she still had many things to settle on her very first graduating batch of students. Bored, the girls waited for Nodoka and when she leaves first to the student council room, they decide to follow her as well and took their time exploring the room. In the shelves, the girls discover a student council photo album and for the first time, they get to see Nodoka blush as they peered at her pictures in it. Yui then comes over and asks Nodoka to borrow her spectacles to wear, in an attempt to make herself look like a student council president. Having explored the room well enough, the girls take their leave and Nodoka had sorta enjoyed their little "stay" as well. The girls then headed to the cafeteria where they see Azusa and Jun and Yui goes forward to ask Azusa to buy some bread for them as it'll look wierd if the others see them in school as they weren't supposed to be. In addition to their requested bread, Azusa also bought a golden chocolate bread which was a long bread filled with sweet chocolate fillings which the girls have not tried before and loved it when it first entered their mouth. They left some as well to Ui and Jun for which Azusa already knew that they had eaten before. With nothing to do, the girls return to the music room and were unable to play music as classes were going on and they started to think of something to do. Mio went to feed Ton-chan as Yui had always reached earlier than she did and Yui later started to design some game which was unplayable with a lack of a goal. Mugi then decided to test out a cloth that makes a sparkle on the windows and that prompts the girls to clean up the music room and that took them the rest of the time until the last bell rung. Yui later finally realises that it was perhaps the last time they could have tea here and practice here and became uneasy, feeling that they should leave something before to prove the existence of Ho-kago Tea Time in this school. Through some pondering, the girls decide to record all the songs that they had wrote into a cassette. Azusa runs to the music room as it could possibly be their last practice session together and also agrees with the recording but as no planning was done, everyone went to the table again to discuss on the recording list of songs. Whilst deciding, Mugi decides to record their conversations as well where Mio got embarrassed over her own recorded voice and Azusa, being shocked after her shout was recorded by Yui. The song list was then completed and just as they were about to begin, Sawa-chan comes in and stays aside to listen to the girls record their very first "album". It was finally completed in the night and Ritsu wrote down "Ho-kago Tea Time" onto its cover sealing their history in Sakura High.
i'm already feeling bad for Azusa already, she's going to be left alone after the rest graduates and that feel was already amplified in the past episodes and now it is soon coming to an end. And that's where the cassette comes from (in the transitions) and with that well recorded, it could be made into a CD and be sold :D seeing how its going to end a quite differently from the original manga, i'm actually looking forward to their own unique end to such a "hit", it doesn't really need to be a hit series, but it did, without doubt, proved to be a series known to many (shall post more when it ends in the next episode). i wouldn't think there would be any season 3 but a extra episode 25 could be possible... time leap anyone? :P
P.S. pardon me, i've some fetish for time leaps :D