K-On!

K-On!
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Yui Hirasawa
けいおん!
(Keion!)
Genre
Manga
Written byKakifly
Published byHoubunsha
English publisher
Magazine
English magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 9, 2007June 28, 2012
Volumes6
Manga
K-On! Shuffle
Written byKakifly
Published byHoubunsha
English publisher
  • NA: Yen Press
MagazineManga Time Kirara
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 9, 2018 – present
Volumes2
Video game
K-On! Hōkago Live!!
DeveloperSega
PublisherSega
GenreRhythm
PlatformPlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
Released
  • September 30, 2010 (PSP)
  • June 21, 2012 (PS3)
Video game
K-On! Hōkago Rhythm Time
DeveloperAtlus
Publisher
GenreRhythm, trading card game
PlatformArcade
ReleasedApril 26, 2013
Video game
K-On! Hōkago Rhythm Selection
DeveloperSega
PublisherSega Interactive
GenreRhythm, trading card game
PlatformArcade
ReleasedNovember 13, 2014
Anime

K-On! (Japanese: けいおん!, Hepburn: Keion!)[a] is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kakifly. It was 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. The manga relaunched from April 2011 to June 2012 with two separate storylines published in Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press. A spin-off manga about a different band of high school girls, K-On! Shuffle, began serialization in July 2018. The main series focuses on four young Japanese high school girls who join their school's light music club to try to save it from being abolished. However, they are the only four members of the club, one of which has little experience with guitar playing.

A 13-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between April and June 2009. An additional original video animation (OVA) episode was released in January 2010. 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 anime film adaptation was released in Japan in December 2011. Bandai Entertainment had licensed the first season until their closure in 2012. Sentai Filmworks has since re-licensed the first season, in addition to acquiring the rights to the second season and film. K-On! has achieved strong sales in Japan, and by 2011 gross revenues had reached over ¥15 billion ($192 million) in merchandise sales.[3]

  1. ^ a b "K-ON! Season 1". Sentai Filmworks. Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. ^ Loveridge, Lynzee (January 14, 2015). "Nodame Cantabile Leads the Pack in Fans' Top Musical Anime". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "K-On! Sells More than 15 Billion Yen in Merchandise". Anime News Network. November 3, 2011. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2016.


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