Flat chested and twintailed Azunyan, the cutest light music club member from K-ON!, has been spotted within the second episode of Kokoro Connect – an almost unrelated series, animated by Silver Link.
Looking above, one can see Azunyan, instrument and all, to the left of Kokoro Connect’s male protagonist – making for quite an amusing sight overall, particularly as she’s so short in comparison to everyone else.
Kokoro Connect and K-ON! haven’t much in common at all – the stories do not relate, and neither do the respective studios responsible for each animation have anything to do with one another. However, the series both do share a central facet in that the art style seen within is identical – reason being, the manga shared the same original character designer. One has to be impressed that Silver Link can seemingly recreate Kyoto Animation’s signature moeblobs styling with relative ease – yet then again, it’s not too spectacular a feat.
In any case however, it’s definitely interesting to see Silver Link developing something of a sense of general humor – recognizing that the art of Kokoro Connect looks as if merely a side-story in the original moeblob universe, K-ON!, and treating it with lighthearted jest. Diminutive details as these do well to aide in garnering appreciation from fans as there’s certainly no reason why anyone shouldn’t take a liking to this rather witty cameo appearance.
And now, one has to wonder if any more light music club members are to show up soon as well.
Jul 15, 2012 @ 15:40 CDT
Amazing…never noticed this. Then again, only one who intently studied each episode like it was the bible or something might…
Me, I treat it like it is – entertainment not requiring much deep thought or analysing :)
Jul 15, 2012 @ 17:59 CDT
Well, it’s a lot more than entertainment in certain cases – for instance, to say that upcoming film Sakasama no Patema is simply entertainment, that would mean one has an absence of appreciation for the arts, among other things.
Jul 16, 2012 @ 1:38 CDT
I concede to the point. Some anime (Clannad and Clannad: AF come to mind) have been deeply moving anime to me and I have come away feeling like I’ve learnt something valuable. Others, like Baka to Test, are solely for comedy and relaxing purposes.
Jul 15, 2012 @ 22:03 CDT
Actually there is another secne of Azunyan in the classroom~
Jul 17, 2012 @ 3:36 CDT
Well seems like they are doind some MOE CONNECTion between KC and K-On :D