
From then on, Yui, along with bassist Mio Akiyama, drummer Ritsu Tainaka, and keyboardist Tsumugi Kotobuki spend their school days practicing, performing, and hanging out together. At first, Yui Hirasawa has no experience playing musical instruments or reading sheet music, but she eventually becomes an excellent guitar player. However, they are the only members of the club. In an unspecified part of Japan, four high school girls join the light music club of the all-girls private Sakuragaoka High School to try to save it from being disbanded. K-On! has achieved strong sales in Japan, and by 2011 gross revenues had reached over ¥15 billion ( $192 million) in merchandise sales. Sentai Filmworks has since re-licensed the first season, in addition to acquiring the rights to the second season and film. Bandai Entertainment had licensed the first season until their closure in 2012. An anime film adaptation was released in Japan in December 2011. A 26-episode second season, titled K-On!! (with two exclamation marks), aired in Japan between April and September 2010, with an OVA episode released in March 2011. An additional original video animation (OVA) episode was released in January 2010.
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A spin-off manga about a different band of high school girls, K-On! Shuffle, began serialization in July 2018.Ī 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between April and June 2009. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press.

The manga relaunched from April 2011 to June 2012 with two separate storylines published in Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat. K-On! ( Japanese: けいおん!, Hepburn: Keion!) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kakifly serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine between the May 2007 and October 2010 issues, and also serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine.
