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It's a very belated response to this, but retrospectively, I enjoyed Sora no Woto more than I enjoyed K-On. It just struck a chord with me. No pun intended.

But, in general, I don't get the moe-bashing at all.

K-On! and K-On!! are exactly what they were intended to be, adaptations from the 4koma of the same name. There's a lot of added in stuff for the music-otaku to otaku-gasm about, but in general, it's about as close an adaptation of the 4koma as 4koma adaptations get. On that end, I'd argue it made the transition better than Lucky Star did. I don't quite get how one could bash it for being a good adaptation of the in my opinion just as moe-blobby source material. It seems sorta ass-backwards to expect anything different.

I mean. Two words: Kanon. Uguu.

The chardesigns in Kanon are basically the definition of strangely-distorted moeblobs, this goes especially for Ayu. It was still very well done. There was no flaming for the chardesigns.

I'm thinking people who flame about this stuff nowadays just have their heads up their own asses too far to just go and comfortably sit down to enjoy it.