K-ON branded Pet Food bowls and Golf Club Covers

The online shop of Japanese production company Pony Canyon, Canime.jp, have begun selling new K-ON! merchandise, including branded cat and dog food bowls. These will be selling for 1,500 yen for the smaller bowls, and 2,000 yen for the medium sized bowls.

Another novelty item they have started to sell are Golf Club covers, which are plush dolls of the girls with the cover behind them:

I personally am quite tempted to get my dog one of the food bowls, but am not too sure how my wife will take it ^_^

K-ON Fans Celebrate Mio Akiyama's Birthday

For Japanese fans of the cutesy anime K-ON! today, 15th January, is more than just a normal day, as it is also Mio Akiyama's birthday. To celebrate this the online shop of the station that broadcasts K-ON! in Japan, TBS, are selling exclusive Birthday Cards in honor of her birthday. They will be selling 1,150 cards whilst stocks last. To get these cards the first 650 people to spend at least 5,000 yen will receive the birthday card, the other 500 will be distributed randomly amongst other online customers.

Fans have also started to post their own celebratory cakes and items online, many of which can be seen on this site here

Manga UK announces Anime Blu-Ray Cancellations

In a rather upsetting and unforeseen piece of news, MangaEntertainment UK have announced that quite a few popular series blu-ray releases are being cancelled. The affected series' are K-ON!, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. They have, however, announced that many other blu-ray titles will still be released as planned, and includes titles such as the first three spinoff Bleach movies (Memories of Nobody, The Diamond Dust Rebellion, and Fade to Black), Samurai Girls, and Mardock Scramble: The First Compression.

A Manga UK representative stated that the cancellations were purely economic, due to the costs of remastering and manufacturing the titles on to the blu-ray format. The representative also acknowledged that UK anime fans would be disappointed by the news, and that it had been a very hard decision to cancel these titles.

In a statement after this announcement Jerome Mazandarani, of Manga Entertainment UK, released this statement:

"I personally, fought to maintain these Blu-ray releases against stiff opposition from my superiors, but the commercial considerations of running a successful company overruled my objections about the damage to our brand's credibility should we not release these titles. In summary, I would say that while we have made a sensible commercial decision, we have created a situation that is alienating to a good deal many of you and I sincerely hope that over time we can make it up to you."

K-ON! Film reaches 1 Billion Yen Milestone

New figures released on Monday 26th December have confirmed that the K-ON! Movie has now made over 1 Billion Yen! This landmark amount had taken only 24 days to be reached.

The previous figures were announced last week showed that the film had made almost 1 billion yen and had sold over 700,000 tickets. The week before that figures were released that showed the film had made 691million yen and sold 523,274 tickets in the nine days after it's release.

With these figures now released, it appears that the K-ON! movie is still very much a fan favourite, and is still one of the most popular films in Japanese cinemas.

K-ON! Film has made almost ¥1billion, sold over 700,000 tickets

I posted last week that the K-ON! Movie had sold over 500,000 tickets and made ¥691million. The same site has now updated it's figures on the film, and latest data shows that it has now sold over 700,000 tickets and made almost ¥1billion yen in the 16 days since it's release.
The film was also ranked fifth in the Japanese box office, after having strong competition from Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki which is currently in fourth at the box office.
Unfortunately there is currently no anticipated release date for any other areas, but I personally hope it does make it to foreign cinemas as K-ON! has a very large fanbase the world over.

K-ON! Movie makes over ¥600million in just 9 days

Figures released earlier this week show that the K-ON! Movie, the first full length film of the Light Music Club, made ¥691million yen and sold over 523,000 seats at the cinemas.
If there was any doubt about the popularity of K-ON! I believe these figures will prove it is still as big a fan favourite as when we first saw Yui, Mio, Ritsu, Mugi and Azu-nyan on our small screens, enjoying cake and tea more than their music.