It's an indication of how old and weary of the world I am, I think, that I had the reaction I did to the episode of K-On!! where the five girls in Hōkago Tea Time went to the fictionalized analog of the Fuji Rock Festival. You know the kind of thing. Huge crowds, outdoor stages, camping, what have you.

As you might expect from five high-school rockers in a high-school rock comedy, they had a stonking good time, but throughout the episode - despite the fact that I know full well that it's not that kind of show - I kept thinking, Oh my God that's dangerous. Five adorable teenage girls loose at a three-day outdoor rock festival? And with only the one pathologically irresponsible teacher along? She'll be lucky if she gets back home with more than three of them.

Nothing of the kind occasioned, of course, and consciously I wasn't expecting it to, but that tension was always lurking just below the surface. I kind of hate that I live in a world where that's become a default expectation.

--G.
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