K-ONcord One Year Server Anniversary

Starting 29 June 2021 and ending 4 July 2021, K-ONcord celebrated it's one year anniversary since the creation (29 June 2020) and opening (30 June 2020) of the server.

by Deehudeehby Shiro Neko

## K-ON! Marathon

On 29 June 2021, Racecat began the K-ON! watch party marathon with the entirety of K-ON! Season 1. With a sizable audience, the stream lasted for approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes. Season 2, Episodes 1-14 continued on 30 June 2021, hosted again by Racecat. Season 2, Episodes 15-24 continued on 1 July 2021, hosted by whk. Season 2, Episodes 25-27 and the K-ON! Movie continued on 2 July 2021, hosted again by whk.

The watch parties were well attended and lively. Attendees attempted to send the emote corresponding to the scene in the anime as well as find potential emotes as well. Members offered their commentary on scenes and reminisced on the first times they watched the anime.

Following the anime watch parties, on 4 July 2021, Racecat hosted a watch party of the K-ON!! Come With Me!! Concert where attendees enjoyed the music and skits played by the VA's of the K-ON! characters.

## Server Dub and Collab

On 30 June 2021, Confidential streamed the K-ON! Server Dub and Fuwa Fuwa Time Server Collab to an unknowing audience.

### Server Dub History

In October 2020, Marty began the K-ON Server Dub Project and wrote the script for an Season 1, Episode 1 dub filled with curse words. Employing the voice acting skills of several active members at the time, including I. onely, waffle, Confidential, Commie, Bud, Ami, Sora, and Hejeiabehsk. However the project quickly died out, and around mid-November 2020, the project had died completely.

On 1 April 2021, the r/Nichijou discord server hosted their April Fools' project in a VC stream, which was a Double Dub of one episode of Nichijou and one episode of Azumanga Daioh. Wonton watched this dub and was reminded of Marty's K-ON Server Dub Project. He pitched the idea of reviving the dub project to Confidential with the goal being the Server's Anniversary on 30 June 2021, and together they took the idea and changed it to be highlights across several episodes of K-ON!. Wonton pitched the dub project to the Staff and Event Council team, and Habzee Wabzee gave the OK to make a dedicated secret channel for the dub project, `#server-dub`. The project invited members from the Staff Team, Event Council, Light Music Squad, and a couple other members.

On 5 April 2021, the script was finished. The script was written by Wonton, Confidential, Racecat, Habzee Wabzee, and Marty. Roles were assigned on 18 April 2021, but assignments were changed a couple times following that due to circumstances. Roles were filled by new mods and event council members.

The `#server-dub` channel name was changed several times during the three months April, May, and June as a way to mess with members. Some examples include `#staff-idol-project`, `#staff-cosplay`, `#staff-memes`, and `#staff-onlyfans`.

Confidential requested that lines were to be due by the end of May, and so, all lines were submitted by 4 June 2021. With this, Confidential began his grind of editing the entire video in less than a month. He released the first teaser video of Season 1 Episode 1 to the channel on 12 June 2021, to the excitement of members in the channel. On 28 June 2021, after review by Wonton and Confidential, it was announced to the channel that the editing was finished.

* **Director:** Wonton
* **Editor:** Confi
* **Scriptwriters:** Confi, Hab, Marty, Racecat, Wonton
* **Voice Actors:** Aaron, Ajay, Bear, Confi, Dave, Drippy, Han, Kaiser, Marty, Nth, Pepe, Shibasu, Twi, Weeb, Wonton
* **Special Thanks To:** 2ii, Ban, Kurylo

### Fuwa Fuwa Time Server Collab

On 15 April 2021, Wonton revealed to `#server-dub` that a Fuwa Fuwa Time (FFT) Server Collab was planned. It was to be used as the credits song for the dub and "the only part of the dub that is public." On 15 May 2021, Wonton announced in `#events-giveaways` with a `@everyone` ping of the FFT Server Collab and 3 Nitro raffles for participants. Submissions were closed on 31 May 2021. Wonton finished the mixing on 14 June 2021, and sent it to Confidential to edit the video and credits.

* **Mix:** Wonton
* **Vocals:** Hansen, Iphone5se\_boi, Kaiser, oceanrei, Wonton
* **Guitar:** AzunyanFan4Life, e, K-On!\_Gang, stardorito, strugglesgamingYT2008, Yakun
* **Bass:** Eveloution27, hirka, Iphone5se\_boi, okon
* **Piano:** ChrisTheTrumPet, LessTime
* **Drums:** EarthPanda, Santi Cunha
* **Cello:** Hibiki
* **Art:** Deehudeeh, Shiro Neko

### Hype and Reception

On 28 June 2021, Wonton announced the time for the premiere of the Fuwa Fuwa Time Server Collab as well as a "little sneak preview of K-ON! 'season 3.'" This sparked confusion among the members who were curious as to what "season 3" meant since there was no official announcement from Kyoto Animations. Furthermore, active members recalled the server meme where Violet declared that "the moment season 3 is announced the server will be deleted."

On 30 June 2021, Confidential and Wonton opened a temporary VC channel `Server Anniversary` to stream the project. Around 40 members joined the VC almost instantly after it opened. Members were surprised to see a dub of K-ON! and the project had an overwhelmingly positive reception with members. You can read through the entire stream chat here.

Following the stream, Wonton, Marty, and Dave gave a speeches and words to the audience about the server and the dub project. Marty's final words to the stream were "Mugi." Wonton also held the 3 Nitro raffles for participants of the FFT Server Collab, of which the winners were stardorito, Deehudeeh, and AzunyanFan4Life.

* **Server Dub:** https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/18F6uEKnvb-T6myUZk-q4tSUgkFkrhT6W
* **Server Covers:** https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGBC4JrIRwHuRu27tE0UsUfgN6Q7iHqXi