>>280285609
It starts off lighthearted and SoL-ey, but it pretty quickly gets into much more drama-focused stories and the cast slowly expands very naturally so you'll PROBABLY end up caring about every single character in some form or other by the end. It's very well written with good pacing and it takes itself seriously without ever being too melodramatic or overbearing, which would have been easy to slip into considering it's a teenage band drama show. K-on is pure SoL/cgdct, Hibike! Uses those genres as a jumping point to a more focused narrative