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K-ON! SEASON 2: PLAN!

Name: K-ON! Season 2: Plan!
Genre: Comedy, Music, Slice of Life

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
1
RELEASE
March 16, 2011
LENGTH
23 min

DESCRIPTION

A special episode of K-ON!! released in the ninth volume of Blu-ray and DVD. The girls plan a trip abroad and go to the passport office to apply for passports.

CAST

Yui Hirasawa
Stephanie Sheh
Mio Akiyama
Cristina Vee
Azusa Nakano
Ayana Taketatsu
Tsumugi Kotobuki
Minako Kotobuki
Ritsu Tainaka
Satomi Satou
Sawako Yamanaka
Asami Sanada
Ui Hirasawa
Madoka Yonezawa
Nodoka Manabe
Laura Bailey
Satoshi Tainaka
Mika Itou

Episodes (1)

Episode 1DUBK-ON!!: Keikaku!A special episode of K-ON!! released in the ninth volume of Blu-ray and DVD. The girls plan a trip abroad and go to the passport office to apply for passports.23m2011-03-16

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REVIEWS

TK8878
60/100
Longest movie trailer I’ve ever seen. Not the worst though.

Spoiler-free review

Review in brief:

This OVA is about Hōkago Tea Time planning for the overseas trip they take in the movie. The focus on this leaves the episode a tad light on comedy, but it’s still K-On! at heart.

Review in full:

Released roughly a month after the K-On! Movie was announced, Keikaku! could be seen as a prequel episode for it. It didn’t need to be an episode, but this is K-On!, so a simple story isn’t really an issue. Not much happens, not just because it’s K-On!, but because the setup of “planning an overseas trip” is actually what this is about rather than being the backdrop for a bunch of goofy moments with the Keion-bu. There’s still goofing around to be had of course, but with what is effectively an actual plot focus that lacks drama it leaves less than K-On’s optimal amount of room for tomfoolery. Like a fair amount of K-On!’s 2nd season, it’s more mundane than it needs to be.
_While practicing self-defense is a good idea, since when does anything bad happen in K-On! land?_
That’s not to say it’s a worthless watch. K-On’s colorful cast of characters are still very much themselves, and there’s even little sprinkles of minor development for some of them through their dialogues. Plus, the comedy that is present is of good quality, even doing a better job with some jokes than season 2’s versions of them. While the episode’s conclusion isn’t very solid in the context of why it was made, loose endings are little more than a nitpick in slice of life stories as standard as this.

Though this OVA certainly hits KyoAni’s above-average standard for production quality, it is a step down from season 2. Sure, there wasn’t very much to animate in this episode, but even then, the imagery was a little more static than normal. Perhaps it was the framing; there are a few noticeably odd choices with it, and K-On! usually has excellent framing. Still, the visuals overall are colorful and highly detailed. This episode is rather quiet in the background, and calming background noise with a lack of K-On!’s usual pop is a tad odd. Plus, the Keion-bu does not so much as set foot inside the club room, so there’s no real place for insert songs either. The important thing is that the ever-talented seiyuus still found ways to be creative, this time with the Engrish portions of the OVA.

Verdict:

Keikaku! Is hardly a necessary watch, but fans will appreciate getting an extra episode out of what could have been just a movie preview, and that’s what matters in the end, not whether it’s the best K-On! episode ever or not. If you ask me, it’s not the worst episode of K-On! either.

Related reviews:
# <- [K-On!: Live House!](https://anilist.co/review/4372) # [K-On!! (Season 2)](https://anilist.co/review/5798) # [K-On! Movie](https://anilist.co/review/5893) ->
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Joshuapigeon
87/100
K-ON! bonus OVA before the movie review and whether it belonged in the main anime
I am talking about the events of the episode in this review just bear that in mind please
In preparation for the movie that’s ahead, this OVA covers the girls getting ready for their trip. It’s a special which connects the events of the movie to the main anime series pretty well and takes place before the end of the second season. All of the girls debate over where to go and they even try to practice English which I found pretty funny. There were a few musical references in the destinations they were thinking of so it was nice to see a musical focus given to their decision and it made the episode remind us of what their club is about even if they don’t play at all in this episode, I mean the only time instruments are brought up is Yui’s geeta. It retains the same sense of humour as the episodes before and Yui is just as much of an airhead as ever especially so in scenes where she speaks English and how she just can’t quite figure out the language. So for their trip abroad the girls needed to get passports, and all the little things that go wrong, did go wrong as you’d expect, and they used this as a point for a few of the gags as well. For a bonus episode, it was up to standard with the rest of the main anime and just acts as a prelude for the movie, although in all honesty, I half feel that this could be included in the movie itself, although I have yet to watch the movie, so I’m taking that into account too. (Watching movie straight after this though ;)) Now I hate to write boringly, but I should really talk about how this could’ve been an episode in the main anime. I get it works as a special to remind us of the plans before the movie, but also, it could’ve been an episode in the main chunk of the anime. It wasn’t better or worse than the other episodes by any sort of huge margins and I feel it would’ve been cooler to have the movie be a callback to an episode in the main anime, rather than being in this little chunk of side stories along with this extra episode here. If the movie takes place after graduation, then it makes perfect sense for it to be placed after the series, but this one should really be watched partway through the series more than anything, and I think if someone told me to watch it at a point in season 2, I would’ve liked it a bit more when it comes time to watch the movie, y’know like a nice payoff for finishing the series and all that. But alas, it wasn’t that bad having it here, I just think it totally could’ve been included in the main anime, what harm could a 27 episode long season of K-ON do, right? I assume that they’ll actually choose a destination during the movie, because strangely enough, it wasn’t shown in this OVA, it ended after the girls got their passports which felt a bit abrupt, even if it ended on a scene which felt like the end to an episode, it’s not that I was really upset by this at all, it’s just a little something I’d like to comment on. On the whole, it’s not bad to get extra episodes of K-ON! So who cares whether it’s necessary or not!!!
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