けいおん! ライブハウス!

K-ON!: LIVE HOUSE!

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
1
RELEASE
January 19, 2010
LENGTH
23 min

DESCRIPTION

Ritsu's middle school friend invites the band to perform live on New Year's Eve. The girls get acquainted with other bands, and become a little nervous as the performance approaches. When the time comes, will they be able to rock the house?

(Source: Hidive)

CAST

Yui Hirasawa
Aki Toyosaki
Mio Akiyama
Youko Hikasa
Azusa Nakano
Ayana Taketatsu
Tsumugi Kotobuki
Minako Kotobuki
Ritsu Tainaka
Satomi Satou
Sawako Yamanaka
Asami Sanada
Ui Hirasawa
Madoka Yonezawa
Nodoka Manabe
Chika Fujitou
Jun Suzuki
Yoriko Nagata
Norimi Kawaguchi
Shiho
Kawakami-san
Chie Nakamura
Maki
Eri Nakao
Aya
Eri Sendai
Sayaka
Yukiko Monden
Rui
Eri
Yuka Nishigaki

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

TK8878
71/100
Treating Hōkago Tea Time like an actual band... doesn't change things much.

Spoiler-free review

Review in brief:

While the idea of the Keion-bu acting like an actual band might make it sound like Live House! takes things in a different direction, it really doesn't. This is simply the 14th episode of K-On! and fits right in with the rest of the 1st season.

Review in full:

If you've seen season 1 (it's not truly a requirement before watching this by the way) you already know what to expect here. It's not even the first episode of K-On! that separates itself from the school setting; the story of how Yui & Gitah came together and the beach-house episode are largely beyond school affairs as well. Not that there's any real problem with this; K-On! is a series that thrives on its simplicity and all it really needs to make a fun episode is a fun premise to tie it together.
_Live House! knows what its audience really wants out of K-On!._
While not a whole lot of substantial development in plot or character occurs (as is usual with K-On!) the story of Hōkago Tea Time's first (non-school) live performance does provide at least a little of everything that made the main show enjoyable. The characters bounce off of each other (figuratively and literally) in this unfamiliar setting, the inexperience of the group as a whole leads to a number of amusing situations, there is a noticeable contrast in tone between the familiar warmth of the school building and the cold, almost alien atmosphere of the performance house in audio, visuals, & script, and we do learn a little bit more about Mio & Ritsu.

The production values of this OVA are the same as the first season, both for better and for worse. Ample attention is given to the environment & background elements and the animation has both fluid & blobby moments. The voicework is a great combination of dynamic & fitting and the music and sound effects fit the setting. Unfortunately, the music is rather light (no pun intended) in its application, being largely reused from the 1st season with no additional performance piece. It's understandable that KyoAni decided not to give this OVA its own commissioned music track, but that would have gone a long way to make this a real event in the Keion-bu's story rather than just yet another round of CGDCT.

Verdict:

It's just another episode of K-On!. If you want something cute & fun, you don't need to look any further. Not that this episode does anything to make it stand out even when compared with the rest of the anime, but like K-On! in general it has its moments and its charm.

Related reviews:
# <- [K-On! (Season 1)](https://anilist.co/review/4336) # [K-On!! (Season 2)](https://anilist.co/review/5798) -> # [K-On!!: Keikaku!](https://anilist.co/review/5845) ->
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SallyOtak
70/100
Review K-ON!: Live House!
__K-ON!: Live House!__ __I am French, I use a translator! Sorry if he has any mistakes with some weird words.__
__review season 1: https://anilist.co/review/10882__ __review season 2: https://anilist.co/review/11109__
__Type : Comedy - Moe - School Life - Slice of Life__

4/10
Story : Ritsu's middle school friend invites the band to perform live on New Year's Eve. The girls get acquainted with other bands, and become a little nervous as the performance approaches. When the time comes.

8/10
Art: K-ON! Live House! respects the same artistic sense as the basic series which is still a very beautiful animation for 2021!

Sound: The concert was Skip and we could not have been entitled to the are of the other groups so at the music levels not much to say because there was nothing crazy.

7/10
Characters : No character development, I think it's a shame to have brought back several groups including Ritsu's childhood friend that we also see in the movie without ever dwelling on them.
Azusa shocked me a bit at the beginning because she was not part of the vote to play on stage, which for me goes against her character who wants to play at all costs.
Otherwise the humor is still working, nothing to say about that!

7/10
Final notice : To speak seriously K-ON! Live House! is a completely useless Oav that doesn't add anything and is an extremely rush aov.
K-ON! Live House! Could have been extremely interesting but I find this Oav is a failure!
It is still very nice for the fans of the anime ^^

You can go and see it because they are only 23 minutes long but compared to the Oav K-ON! Season 2: Plan! which I will review later, it doesn't bring anything to the story of K-ON!

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