One episode down, multiple more to go.  I will tell you now that I plan on watching this series all the way through this season even if it kills me!  Though, I doubt it will.

I am going to talk about the show, my impressions of it, and my thoughts on whether it’s really like K-on! or not.  I may be just one other blogger talking about that, but I do think it’s worth mentioning.

Here’s a basic summary of what people said about this show and what I thought about this show (before it aired).  They said things to the effect of, “it’ll be a K-on! ripoff, it’ll be stupid, it sounds just like K-on!”.  I thought, “it looks like K-on!, and maybe it is K-on!with guns, but a little moe never hurt anyone.”  You can see my entire Winter preview here.

Anyway, a quick summary of the first episode: Kanata Sorami, a young soldier with a trumpet, travels to a town, spends some time wandering and participating in a rather odd festival, meets Rio Kazumiya, not in her solider uniform at the time, and basically does nothing for half of the episode.  It’s revealed that she gets lots easily, and she loses Rio’s bell necklace to an owl.  Later, she goes to find it again, and she has to be rescued by the soldiers.  She wakes up at their base, and she trumpets in the morning (poorly) at Rio’s command.

Watching this first episode, I was struck with a couple of different thoughts, which I’ll be covering.  First of all,  I like it.  It’s definitely a moe focused show like K-on!, and while the first episode didn’t include a lot of action, I’m not unhappy with it or surprised.  It’s an introduction episode, neh?  I think I would have liked to see more of the other characters, but that’ll come in the next episode, I presume.  I’m most looking forward to meeting Kureha Suminoya, the black twin tailed girl.

I’ll probably make another post about the show in a couple more episodes, once some things happen.

Now, on to some more fun stuff.

Sora no Woto: K-on! with guns?  My verdict is no.  It’s not like K-on! at all, and there aren’t even guns.

To begin the comparisons, I’ll start with Kanata.  She has a penchant for getting lost, which I can’t say Yui has.  Yui has more of a penchant for getting into any sort of trouble possible.  Kanata is not, as of right now, lazy or dependent on other people.  She’s a nice girl without being a complete airhead (though she is a little airy sometimes).  In addition, Kanata does something stupid by trying to catch, and later following, the owl that steals Rio’s necklace, but she does at least have great care for other people, which I can’t say Yui does.

Basically, if it wasn’t for the artwork, I wouldn’t even try to compare the two.  I do, however, fault this show on its artwork.  For K-on!, it worked well because that show was all about moe anyway, and the artwork complimented that.  While the art in Sora no Woto is not exactly the same as K-on!, it is ridiculously similar, and I don’t think it works as well here.  However, I look at series more for their characters and plotline than I do for their artwork.

Additionally, I left my volume on while watching this episode, which I don’t often do with anime.  I can’t say I disliked it, and I’ll probably continue to listen to the show while I watch it.  It is music based, in a way, I suppose.

To sum it up, I like the show.  I like the characters alright so far, and I will continue watching.  Since this show is one of those sparking debate lately, I recommend everyone give it a chance.  On a normal basis, however, I would probably still recommend it.  The show looks like it may end up being a hidden gem.  And the people already claiming otherwise have started off biased against it, or it’s just not their genre, and they shouldn’t try to kill it for the rest of us.

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Sidenote: I had a fun time looking at this anime’s website, if you want to check it out too.  It’s where all my images came from.  [This]

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