With the announcement earlier this week that the first season of K-On! will finally see its release from Sentai Filmworks on September 1st, 2015, the company has answered the question about what to expect with it from the audio. When Bandai Entertainment originally released the series, they had to use the lossy audio on the Japanese side of it due to licensing restrictions, making it an inferior track compared to the Japanese release in order to prevent reverse importation. With the new release, which is being done in bilingual form and priced at $59.98 for the full season, Sentai’s production manager Luke Patterson has definitively answered the question of how their release will be:
“Our release of K-ON! will have DTS audio, AND we’ve also gone back and cleaned a lot of the subtitles to make sure our product is the best it can be. Thanks!”
Based on the manga by Kakifly, this musical slice of life comedy is directed by Naoko Yamada (Tamako Market, CLANNAD: After Story) with chief animation direction by Yukiko Horiguchi (Lucky Star, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya), sound direction by Yota Tsuruoka (Beyond the Boundary, The Big O), and animation by Kyoto Animation.
Plot concept: Rock n’ Roll may never die, but the Sakuragoaka Girl’s High School Light Music Club might not be here to stay unless would-be drummer Ritsu Tainaka can find three more members to replace the graduated seniors. Determined to see that the beat goes on, Ritsu can get a little help from her friend Mio Akiyama on bass, and together they might be able to convince choir-inclined Tsumugi Kotobuki to join on the keyboards. But even then, they’ll still need a hero, preferably of the juke-box variety with stars in her eyes. Instead they find Yui Hirasawa, who’s looking for a club to join and who’s never held a guitar in her life. But when Yui does pick up a beat-up six-string, it feels good in her hands, and it doesn’t take long to understand that maybe she’s finally found a place where she belongs. Because you can’t stop the music when four girls share a dream, even if it’s something as crazy as someday playing at the famous Budokan. It’s going to be a long and winding road, but if they find their passion and follow their muse, they could go anywhere in K-ON!
