so i watched k-on! for the first time recently and uh. are yuki's polycule exactly like the cast of k-on! by design? i mean we've got
- the clumsy scatterbrained protagonist who's just joined the group and is extremely silly but also lovable, and also, has almost exactly the same name in both media (yui/yuki),
- the tall aloof girl whose friends all think she's utterly gorgeous, and also she's very very transgender, and she's a total sweetheart who loves her friends deeply but she has trouble expressing her feelings toward them (mio/haruka),
- the athletic genki girl who comes off as super confident, and who's very loudly supportive and adoring toward mio/haruka to the point of unintentionally making her kinda uncomfortable (ritsu/spica),
- and of course, the mom friend with long blonde flowing hair who makes the tea for everyone and is very soft and huggable, and also her name is a bit longer so it often gets affectionately shortened to the last two syllables (tsumugi/chinatsu)!
i have no idea whether this was intended or whether it's a gigantic coincidence!
but regardless of intent, this is basically an explicitly canon version of the sapphic relationship implied between the k-on! girls (and also mio is explicitly trans now!!), and i think that's absolutely beautiful 🥺