News: K-On! fan matchmaking party in Tokyo

Well, here are some news I didn’t expect to read this morning: Anime News Network reports that matchmaking campaign “I’m Single” will host a matchmaking party for K-On! fans aged 20 to 45 on October 22^nd.

The event is being held at the Roumantei Italian restaurant in Tokyo, and attendance fee is 6,000 yen for men and 1000 yen for women. It might seem unfair that men have to pay six times more than women, but considering K-On! is a seinen (young men) manga, it stands to reason that the majority of fans are male and thus jacking up the price is a good way of evening out the male/female attendee ratio (That’s only my speculation, of course! Not any kind of official reasoning).

In other news, TBS’ official K-On! website posted a new 30 second trailer for the K-On! movie earlier this week. Unfortunately, this trailer is merely a shortened version of the previously released trailer and features no new footage, so instead of wasting time with that; here’s the original full-length trailer again, this time with higher quality video thanks to YouTube user MrMitsu89:

News: K-On! movie trailer and song titles released!

Broadcaster TBS’ official K-On! website has been updated with streaming video of the new trailer for the upcoming K-On! movie. Unlike the previous two teasers, this is a full-on trailer that shows actual footage from the film.

In addition, the website has revealed the titles of the new songs that are to appear in the film (and are briefly previewed in the trailer): An opening song named “Ichiban Ippai”, a theme song named “Unmei♪wa♪Endless!” and an ending song named “Singing!”. Tom-H@ck (“Cagayake!GIRLS”) composed the opening and theme songs, while Hiroyuki Maezawa (“Don’t Say “Lazy””) is responsible for the ending song. Shoko Omori wrote the lyrics for all three.

Three months to go…

Old News: “Come With Me!!” trailer!

“Old” news because this is almost a week old and I never saw it before now, somehow. Not much of a trailer, it’s only 15 seconds long, but it’s footage from the “Come With Me!!” live show that took place this February. It’s the second live show featuring the K-On!(!) cast, and features music from the second season and related spin-off CDs. The first show, “Let’s Go!”, took place December 30^th, 2009 and was released on Blu-Ray and DVD exactly six months later.

“Come With Me!!” is released on DVD, Blu-Ray and Limited Edition Blu-Ray August 3^rd.

K-On! Movie teaser trailers

Thanks to user VideoGameFrontReturn, the two teaser trailers for the upcoming K-On! movie can now be watched in decent quality on YouTube.

The first teaser premiered in April, and consisted primarily of clips from the TV anime. The only new material was a voice over by Yui and brief new animation of her greeting the audience.

The second teaser came out earlier this week, and like the previous one; does not feature any actual footage taken from the film.