K-ON!! 20

The day of the live performance has finally arrived. Seeing that Mio was still fast asleep in her sleeping bag, the others decide to draw something on Mio's hand when she was unaware. Mio later wakes up to find a huge number of scribbles on her hand and screamed, for which she later hits Ritsu on the head for doing that. The time of their performance have arrived and the girls quickly changed into their HTT t-shirts before moving to the stage. After the previous performance had ended, the girls quickly prepared their instruments and get ready to make it a wonderful performance and Ritsu just had to remind Mio of what had happened to her two years ago and Yui as well, who had forgotten her Gitah last year. Just when the stage curtains were about to unveil, Yui tangled herself with the wires and fell but picked herself up quickly after the audience is able to see them. The girls then realised that everyone was wearing their HTT shirts and even Nodoka was wearing it too. Further questions led Nodoka into disclosing that it was Sawa-chan who had helped in it and as the "president" of the Mio fanclub, she felt that she should be doing something to support the band. Sawa-chan was also feeling pleased with herself after hearing words of thanks from the students which she initially wanted to hear. The girls then started on their first song, Gohan no Okazu, where the lyrics were all just about food... the audience seems to like it though and Yui got as high and took the mite out for the audience to sing-a-long as well. Then came the introduction where Yui introduced Mio and asked her to perform a line of Romeo the day before and had squeals from her fanclub after she reluctantly agreed to do it. Ritsu was also given the chance to speak her Juliet lines, Mugi thanking everyone for coming to the concert and even inviting the others to join then for tea and also Azusa which Yui introduces someone who has superb guitar skills. Yui had even introduced Sawa-chan by "Sawa-chan" and had changed to Sawako-sensei after Mio gave her a disapproving look. Yui went on and had almost introduced Nodoka as well until she prompts her to continue with the performance. Meanwhile while they're performing Fuwa Fuwa Time, audiences streaming in were given a HTT t-shirt as well when they stay to listen to the performance. Yui thanks everyone for supporting them and listening to their performance before moving on to their last song, U and I. The song was somewhat dedicated to show the close bonds between Ui and Yui after looking at the lyrics and the song had a little more meaning than Gohan no Okazu which was just all about food. The performance ends and the girls returned to the music room and sat on the floor, staring at the ceiling. Yui asks them if it was a success and that it was truly fun even though they had forgotten whether they had played the pieces well. Yui also took the chance and "revived" the naming process where Mio and Azusa seems to have already accepted their bass and guitar to be Elizabeth and Muttan respectively. She then hopes that next year's performance would get even better, being able to perform in front of the freshmen and also go on training camps together. But, the truth sinks into them and the last and final performance they could ever have together in high school was over. Yui started to cry and the others as well, thinking about all the fun times they had and performing together but all those have come to an end now. There won't be another high school festival for them anymore but at least their final performance was definitely a good one. Sawa-chan and Nodoka later comes to music room and sees the girls sleeping by the wall, holding each other's hands and having such happy expressions.

this could be the possibly the one episode of the K-ON! series that actually made me feel sour. the episode had of cos, the debut of the two new songs, which i personally prefer U & I. and those totally random words coming out from Yui's mouth. and after all that, the impact really came when you can actually feel how sad the girls were feeling, the last chance they could play together as a band and that they could be all separated after they graduate from high school and perhaps after the university. the manga would be ending after they finally do graduate from high school but this was definitely an episode with the most touching scene i have ever seen in any of the K-ON! episodes...