However I am reading the new K-On! Shuffle spin off and so far i'm not really sure how to feel about it. I've read every chapter that's been released so far, but i'm kind of neutral on it and i'm not into these new girls that much at the moment. The girl that was on the cover kind of annoys me so that's not good.
Basically Kakifly is just recycling the original story, but with new girls who are in middle school around the same time our Keion girls are in high school. The main girl saw one of there concerts and wanted to start a band at there school. So yeah some tweaks here and there, but I suppose that's why it's called shuffle. I'll keep reading it, but i'm not into it as much as the original, but will see as it looks like things might start to pick up a little more as all the members just got there instruments at the end of chapter 5 which is the newest chapter.
There is a slight nod towards the original story as there's a little line at the very bottom of the page at the end of chapter 4 that reads "The story would be different if she knew the company presidents daughter or someone like that".
I seriously thought Mugi was going to just randomly show up and be like "Hello you want that guitar sure thing i'll take care of it for you" while they were at the music store, but no such luck. Yeah these new girls went to the same music store to get there instruments and of course one girl can't afford the guitar she wants and is upset about it, but eventually it gets solved as her friend had been saving a ton of money and she bought it for her. So everyone has there instruments so will see how things go from here now. Also these new girls don't have much music experience.