Kyoukai no Kanata (TV)

[shinta|hikari]

The ending really felt like it was screaming a second season. I would not be surprised if something like that is already in the works, or at least in a plan somwhere.

[Buffalobiian]

K-ON was better.

[Ryllharu]

Nice troll attempt, except you can't even compare the two series.

One is slice of life with basically zero character development, this was always an action show with elements of a comedy-romance, with plenty of character development. Let's not pretend that the incremental reveal of moe traits among five girls and their teacher is the same thing as actual character development.

Akihito, Mirai, Sakura, and Mitsuki all got a good amount of character development. We learned more about them over these 12 episodes than we did 36 episodes and a movie for the K-ON cast. With ample room for more.

edit:
Mitsuki might have been the most interesting one, since her character arc was subtle and took place mostly in the background. We saw most of her cool and confident façade ripped away at one point or another, in varying degrees and in a different way each time depending on the other character.

[Buffalobiian]

I'm comparing the two solely on enjoyment, and picked K-ON because it's the one responsible (or widely held responsible) for making the moe trend seem worthy of adaptation.

I'm also comparing the two because both of them started out pretty enjoyable for me and also maintained some sort of goal. Both shows lost that partway through (K-ON because the characters stopped caring for their musical goals, KnK because things went ?????). Given the way things ended up, I still enjoyed watching K-ON's derailment over KnK's. This is largely because K-ON still had their main attraction (moe) while KnK lost its (story and revealing the conspiracy/world). If you were just after a showcase of smooth action scenes and subtle facial features to show how good at animation KyoAni is, then KnK wouldn't have have disappointed you.

KnK got the individual character developments in there as you say. To me it didn't matter to the overall story however. The individual parts were better than the whole. As for K-ON, I'd tend to say that the opposite is true.

[Ryllharu]

while KnK lost its [main attraction] (story and revealing the conspiracy/world).

I have absolutely no idea how you believe this to be true.

KnK just didn't give the audience all the answers yet, and I covered why that's okay in a previous post.