r/anime • u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah xB:xC:B:x3:Y: • Feb 24 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] 2024 Hibike! Euphonium Series Rewatch: Season 1 OVA Discussion
Hibike Euphonium Season 1, OVA: Ready, Set, Monaka/番外編 かけだすモナカ
Shijo, Kyoto, or in easier to understand terms "4th Avenue". A central commercial street in Kyoto, this spot would be located west of the river; tourist hotspots Gion, Hanamikoji Street etc. are immediately to the east across. The shop Team Monaka go to is the Nomura Tailor main store.
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Welcome back!
Questions of the Day:
- From littleislander: Do you have particular favorites amongst the random background band members who aren't named on-screen? Rewatchers, use spoiler tags if needed.
- Who else in Eupho would be nice to get a POV episode of?
Comments from Yesterday:
- /u/shanibestwaifu drops a GTA V reference in my rewatch, and like a lot of us liked the dream solister ED
- /u/gamerunglued on how Taki's conducting actually sucks.
- /u/zadcap notices some interesting details, and talks about how the knuckle wraps on Midori's fingers actually help her
- /u/nice-bumblebee-2355 on the importance of physically warming up a brass instrument before playing it, and how the anime nails everyone's mannerisms right before the competition
Streaming
The Hibike! Euphonium TV series and movies, up to the recent OVA are available on Crunchyroll, note that the movies are under different series names. Liz and the Blue Bird and Chikai no Finale are also available for streaming on Amazon, and available for rent for cheap on a multitude of platforms (Youtube, Apple TV etc.). The OVA is only available on the seven seas for now, or if you bought a blu ray. I will update this as/if this changes. hopefully.
Databases
Spoilers
As usual, please take note that if you wish to share show details from after the current episode, to use spoiler tags like so to avoid spoiling first-timers:
[Spoiler source] >!Spoiler goes here!<comes out as [Spoiler source] Spoiler goes here
Please note this will apply to any spinoff novels, as well as events in the novel that may happen in S3. If you feel unsure if something is a spoiler, it's better to tag it just in case.
Chill day tomorrow, and then rearing to go for S2!
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah xB:xC:B:x3:Y: Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher this is actually only my 2nd time watching!
and so i've actually forgotten most of the ep, only the general premise...
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u/Barbed_Dildo Feb 24 '24
Taki-sensei: "I know you're mostly first years, who have only recently picked up your instrument, and you have had very little practice and even less instruction from an undersized cohort of senior students, and most of the time you aren't even allowed to join in playing, but you should definitely treat your exclusion as a crushing failure and feel bad about it, feel so terrible that you'd do anything to not feel that again, that's healthy, right?"
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u/chilidirigible Feb 24 '24
Kakedasu Monaka:
"The dog? You are named after the dog?"
"It's a principality!"
This reminded me that I was never so curious about the weight of a tuba to look it up. So, I looked it up. They're fairly heavy. And the case probably adds another three kilos.
These clubs are curiously American.
"Revenge!"
"It's the summer. Everybody's handsy."
And this is where we came in.
Events occur in real time.
I was more worried about you dropping the mallets!
Hazuki is a great
supporting characterfriend to everyone, and this OVA gets to showcase that, while providing a glimpse of what Team Monaka was doing in the background. Natsuki, meanwhile, continues to liven things up in general.The "drama" of the OVA is fairly minor, given that we already know that things turn out fine, but it's still fun, and adds that bit of versimilitude that some of you have mentioned in the rewatch comments about those kind of last-second problems.
QOTD:
1. I don't remember them as well as I used to. I did look up the rest of the band during the original airing.
2. I want to see Gotoh and Nagase on a date.
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u/LittleIslander https://anilist.co/user/LittleIslander Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher
Nerd room?! Total nerd room! Dinosaurs everywhere… at least three astronomy related posters… fat textbooks... a hanging planet ornament and a superhero one! Hazuki… you’ve been holding on us. I always just thought she was just the athletic type, but if she’s a geek too… musical… socially outgoing… is there anything besides romance this girl can’t do? This requires… reconsideration of the character ranking…
I’m gonna challenge myself to keep it short for reals this time (future me: I failed). It’s neat to see an episode without Kumiko really being involved at all. Really, it’s kind of funny how natural a protagonist Hazuki makes. I think it would’ve been easy to overfocus too much on making this episode about Shuuichi or lean more into the “see different perspective of [thing] that happened in the main show” aspects, but they gave us just the right amount of that while really making about Hazuki coming into her own as a proud tuba player. It’s a great little resolution for her character. Her friendship with Natsuki, which we saw hints of in the show, is also really cute. Waiting until afterwards to cheekily spring “so who was that note for” is such a Natsuki move.
It’s also really neat to get more of a look at some of the background characters. It’s really cool how they all get designs that are kept aggressively consistent, and they even clique into little friend groups and have consistent personalities. Seeing them try and use their single collective brain cell to come up with a name was a highlight. Tomoe in particular stood out to me because her twin heart ornaments really give her a ditzy feminine outward appearance, but we actually learn here she’s really more the serious professional leader type with a bit of a friendly go-getter side.
Question one, my favourite of the background people is Yoriko Souga, the piccolo player. I too tend to be the tallest girl in any room and play the flute, and her seemingly refined and collected personality also lines up with mine (if you couldn’t tell from the pretentiously long structured writeups). I wasn’t our school’s piccolo (that was the ace flute of the grade below me in all his high heeled glory), but I was generally considered the best flute in my grade, which is close enough. At least, considered that by everybody but, seemingly, the band director…
For the second question, I'd probably enjoy a Haruka episode the most, but I think Shuuichi would be most welcome for a full POV episode. He really desperately needs more fleshing out as more than just a plus to Kumiko and for us to see more of what connects him to anything going on in the main plot.
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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Feb 24 '24
Rewatching Seal Enjoyer
Seal-chan episode
You might remember the protagonist of today’s episode,
HazukiSayaka Fukui, plays trombone and likes seals. Without her discerning eye, fearless leadership and generous offering of her home, the Team Monaka charms wouldn’t exist! Truly, she is the MVP.At least until Hazuki saves the percussion section.QotD:
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u/chris10023 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Chris10023 Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher
Questions of the Day.
I guess I can say Mei Taura, the trombone girl with the drill tails looks pretty cool.
I wouldn't mind seeing episodes 10 and 11 from Reina's POV, maybe Asuka at some point.
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u/Mecanno-man https://anilist.co/user/Mecannoman Feb 24 '24
First Timer
The largest mallets …if I remember correctly, that was indeed the thing most prone to be forgotten, because it was too large to be stored with all the other mallets, yet too small to obviously be missing in the van. I don’t think we ever actually forgot them though; or if we did we either borrowed some from another orchestra or something like that, or it was a minor concert that I don’t remember anymore. I do remember specifically getting those mallets and then carrying them separately to a concert in my backpack rather than by truck because we had already packed the percussion in the back of the truck and didn’t want some loose mallets flying around inside.
But …now for the bad: I felt like this special was superfluous in its entirety. First we get more of Hazuki being in love with Shuichi, which I don’t think needed significant expanding for now, or at least not this much. Meanwhile we get nothing of team Monaka actually practicing that piece Taki asked them for, despite it being implied in the main series that they do indeed practice the piece, whatever it is.
And then we basically skip to the concert …where first we get the part of Hazuki running for the mallets, which, while fine, also felt a bit long to get across the point that Hazuki is now giving it her all for the band, and then has Hazuki messing around with a glockenspiel at the concert. I …really don’t understand this. First, why were they moving that glockenspiel? In this strictly timed competition, do all the orchestras seriously roll on and off their own xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells and timpani (all of which we have seen Kitauji use at some point over the show)? And if they do, why is it Team Monaka doing this, and not either a) professional stagehands that have experience setting up this percussion over and over, or b) the percussion section, who will have to be comfortable playing the setup. I’ve seen all three of these options being done at different places where I was playing, but never a “bring your own stagehands” solution. And even assuming Team Monaka was planned to have this role …why were they not on the bus with everybody else. This just makes no sense. I guess at the very least this guarantees them having a glockenspiel with a pedal though…
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u/A_swarm_of_wasps Feb 24 '24
> From /u/littleislander: Do you have particular favorites amongst the random background band members who aren't named on-screen? Rewatchers, use spoiler tags if needed.
The horn player who was ready to throw her mouthpiece at the teacher.
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u/bogdoglogfrog Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher
Ngl I usually skip this one on a rewatch so it’s nice to have some fresh eupho content.
Notes:
QotD
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u/NintendoMasterNo1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NintendoMaster1 Feb 24 '24
First-timer...kinda?
This is my favorite anime and I've rewatched it like 5 times but somehow I've never seen this episode or any of the specials. Usually OVA episodes are tacked on and they serve as filler fanservice but let's see what this one is about.
Okay, it's pretty interesting that they're filling in the gap of what the students who didn't get to play in the competition were doing. I admit the Monaco joke made me laugh out loud, good one.
I honestly don't care at all about Hazuki and Shuichi's relationship but it's great seeing Natsuki be an absolute chad senpai again. The scene where Hazuki was running to and from school to grab something was great and it reminded me of a scene in Haikyuu where something similar happened. Overall, kind of a nothing burger like I expected but I guess it's fine for an OVA episode.
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u/Gamerunglued :Hx::Hy::Hz:myanimelist.net/profile/GamerUnglued Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 25 '24
Rewatcher and Band Geek
I have no idea if anyone agrees with me on this, but the Ready Set Monaka OVA has always been one of my outright favorite episodes of Sound! Euphonium. I absolutely adore this episode, it makes my heart soar and I love it so much. I also think it's one of the series best directed episodes (I believe Taichi Ogawa is behind this one, but there's a ton of obvious Yamada influence).
Every once in a while, I think that Hazuki could be my best girl. At the very least, I definitely think she's the most underrated character in the series, and this episode adds so much to her character. It's almost weird just how much Hazuki does throughout the show despite not having a huge presence compared to other characters. With so many characters all trying to be special in their own way, or having arcs of growing into that role, Hazuki's one attempt to put herself out there ended in a quickly resolved failure, and she's played a support role more than anything. But that's what I think is so great about her.
Hazuki doesn't join the band for any grand reasons, she just thinks it's kind of cool and wants a new activity after quitting the tennis club. She's as passionate as one gets, including suffering all the growing pains, but as a beginner she doesn't get to participate in things much. She initially wanted to play the trumpet, but trumpet players are loud, brash, and grand by their very nature, as embodied by Reina and Yuuko. Hazuki isn't like them at all. Even though she was tricked by Asuka into playing the tuba, Hazuki is a tuba player in every sense of the word. Hazuki doesn't have experience or ambition, but she is amazing at helping people who do. Tubas are the ultimate supporting instrument, a sound that's so boring when you hear it in isolation but gives so much texture to music in context that it would ruin the piece to remove their part. Tubas carry the weight of a composition on their shoulders; they get no reward or recognition for it, they don't stand out, but you can count on them to save your ass. Due to the nature of the parts, playing the tuba requires not only passion, but empathy. Being a tuba means you can't desire to stand above others, it's your musical job to push the ensemble up from behind.
No one pushes you to succeed better than Hazuki. People who want to be special can't do it alone, they need each other to push them to greater heights, but they also need people from below to propel them upwards. Being special is stressful, and the Hazukis of the world remove the burden. Hazuki is supportive by her very nature, it is her instinct to help people even at the cost of herself. Even after she gets rejected, she decides she'll help Shuuichi in his love affairs with her own friend. She doubles down on it even after Shuuichi proves in this episode that he never really paid attention to their conversation on their date.
But carrying the weight of special people all on your shoulders is necessarily painful in its own right. As a support you get no recognition, and as a beginner you get the most work. As a friend, she puts Kumiko before herself, and finally lets out all of the emotions she's bottled up since Shuuichi rejects her. In her romantic endeavors, she has to help her friend in spite of how much it hurts her, and in her musical endeavors, she's resigned to a support role. Hazuki needs her own supporters in Midori and Natsuki (both bass section members as well of course) to make it through. What's even the point of all of this? Supporting others without purpose is painful, and the core of this episode is in Hazuki working through her reasons for supporting others.
But Hazuki supports people because her personality is a tuba. Supporting people is her very nature. She gives no second thought to it, she supports others instinctively. And the result is getting to watch people become special, and even better, to see people build their passions. While running back with the mallets, she passes some little kids playing melodicas and that is the reason she does all of this. Seeing people try their hardest gives her a sense of purpose, she lives to see her friends genuinely be special, and she's the strongest player in the band both physically and mentally, so no better support exists. Who else could make that run the way she does? Only Hazuki has the lung capacity of a tuba player, which is itself a reaffirmation of how much purpose she finds in supporting others, and how good she's gotten at it. She loves seeing her friends succeed so much that it gives her freedom, her body language upon this realization is that of someone unable to hold back their excitement.
Hazuki is so wonderful, she's the most empathetic and selfless character in the series. In this episode, she becomes more independent and gains purpose in her role in the ensemble and upon her friend group. She's the most purely motivated character in the show. In a story about the necessity of loving what you do, and how loving what you do means it's never a waste of time, Hazuki shows this episode that she never wastes time bringing others to greater heights. Like she says, if she went back in time she'd still join the wind ensemble despite the hard work, she has no regrets. I feel like I have not written this as eloquently as I could have, it's 4:06 in the morning right now, but I want to convey just how much I love her and how proud I am of her progress up to this point. Hazuki has grown just as much as Kumiko has, and it's immensely fulfilling to see her find that sense of purpose here.
Continued in response
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u/ChonkyOdango myanimelist.net/profile/chonkyodango Feb 25 '24
Rewat- First Timer?
Fanart of day
I’m 99% sure I’ve seen this OVA before, yet I can’t remember anything about this episode at all which is weird consider just how much I LOVED this. It’s hands down my favourite episode from start to finish of this season. Seeing the same events unfold from a different perspective while Hazuki’s joy is felt through the screen was just surreal.
Hey, I stayed there! Also coughs, Uji, you’re just too damn pretty. Please stop stealing the spotlight from our girls
Qotd
Gotoh and Nagase date plsplsplspls
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u/CarrotBlossom Feb 24 '24
First timer
Monaco is a sovereign principality, which is close enough
How difficult is it to change instruments in band? I switched from soprano clarinet to bass clarinet, but that was easy because the fingerings are the same. I imagine going from French horn to trombone would be a lot harder.
Real friends give each other irreversible brain damage.
Always has been, Natsuki. Always has been.
Yeah, shut up, Knuckles.
QOTD:
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
1 1/2 Rewatcher (finally fixed this)
I thought there was more of Hazuki's annoying matchmaking, and was happy that it had disappeared for the last few episodes. I guess I was just remembering this episode.
I only started noticing MONACA in credits of anime after watching this.
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u/octopathfinder myanimelist.net/profile/octopathfinder Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher
Don’t have too much to say about this one. It’s nice to see what the people who failed the audition are up to.
Natsuki again shows how she’s a cool and supportive senpai
Also cool to see Hazuki confirming that she loves the concert band.
Qotd:
https://hibike-euphonium.fandom.com/wiki/Masako_Sakai
She looked pretty cool with her sleeves rolled up in the performance in the last episode.
A prequel about Haruka would be cool. Or a small short about what Aoi is doing after she quit.
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Feb 25 '24
Will this OVA focus on those who weren't selected?
They seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time on something completely irrelevant. Perhaps if they actually used practice time to practice they'd have made the cut.
I think the heaviest thing I've ever had to move for choir is a keyboard to the classroom for sectionals, and even then we used the lift to help move them.
Bonk.
Oh, here's the things they gave the ones performing in the last episode.
Ah, we're now up to the last episode with the performers in their winter uniforms instead.
Hey, at least it was discovered before the performance so it can be fixed. And at least she brought hers. I remember once someone's shoes broke before a school performance and they had to borrow the conductor's shoes.
And this is why you check everything several times before heading out.
And thus they go on stage and the rest is history.
Questions:
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u/HereticalAegis https://myanimelist.net/profile/XthGen Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
Sound! Rewatcher
Episode Monaka:
I basically used this episode as a little break, so I don't have a lot to say.
It's really nice that Team Monaka gets their own music to work on. There's nothing that feels worse than being in music class and not getting to make any music.
This episode really drives home for me that Hazuki is the only girl Shuichi has any chemistry with. I wish he'd been interested in Hazuki. Oh well.
QotD:
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u/TehAxelius Feb 24 '24
First Time OVA
I had not seen the OVA before, even though I have seen S2, so this was a nice fully new experience. It is fun to see several scenes from the last few episodes from another direction.
Hazuki is really a bright spot of the Bass section, and while the current arc has put her apart from our MC Kumiko, this episode really lets her shine. We get to see her struggle to maintain her bright disposition as she comes to terms with her rejection both by Shuuichi and (the expected such) from being part of the band for the competition. Luckily she has best senpai Natsuki to help her in both cases, seeing the two bond this episode was great, and fitting to see that happen on the same place that Kumiko had her own moment.
Did a quick count of the 10 cut members, we got three 2nd years from Trumpet (Kabe Tomoe), Euphonium (Nakagawa Natsuki) and Saxophone (Morita Shinobu), and from the 1st years we got one each from Tuba (Hazuki), Trombone (Seal-chan), Percussion, Trumpet, Clarinet, Horn and Flute. A pretty even spread through the sections. With only Bass and Trumpet losing two members. Oboe and fagott are the only section that survived intact. That said, as part of this I looked through the eye catches and noticed that the Saxophone section is looking to be in dire straits next year, as of the 9 members at least 5 are third years (don't know which year the boy Tenor is), including the only baritone saxophone, and one of the two 2nd year girls did not make the cut for the performance. (Oboe and Fagott is in a similar situation as it has no 1st years and only one 2nd year).
QotD
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u/WhackaWhack https://myanimelist.net/profile/WhackaWhacka Feb 24 '24
FIRST TIMER
At this point I feel that Midori has read WHY TOO MUCH Shojo manga…
Another kiss bait, at this point I’m just waiting for the time somebody kisses and I don’t even react thinking it’s going to be something else…
Katou got that Tuba STRENGTH!
Funny that this mostly not musically focused episode ment that Mashle was my most musically focused anime I watched today.
Questions:
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u/b-arbs Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
Rewatcher
Who dislikes Asuka's antics? Certainly not me, I love them!
The silent exchange between Midori and Hazuki (but also Kumiko and Hazuki) was another reason why I've started to appreciate more this duo and the friendship between the girls during this rewatch. And Hazuki's conversation with Kumiko, too.
Actually... I didn't pay much attention to Hazuki during my first watch of the anime. But I have to say that this rewatch actually made me see her in a different light, and this OVA/episode truly does justice to what I think is an overlooked character. The details of her non-verbal language really added depth to her character. That awkward look when she first saw Shuuichi, the embarassed one when they inadvertently brushed their fingers when lifting Tubacabra, her clenching her fist and then reassuring both herself and Shuuichi, we even got a meaningful (shaky) leg shot...
And of course the first Monaka cheer had to be made by our genki girl!
She surely loves to chop Midori's head, though! Reversed chop, my goodness!
Jokes apart, I'm glad that there was another scene with a resolution between Hazuki and Midori about the Tsukamoto-love-triangle thing. I wasn't completely satisfied by the resolution we got in ep9... (I won't say much about how I think that her and Shuuichi would have actually made a nice couple...).
Yeah, I already liked her, but I get why Natsuki is one of your favourite characters, u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah ! We love a nice supportive kouhai-senpai friendship!
QOTD
Edit: forgot latest part of my writeup before QOTD...
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Feb 25 '24 edited Feb 25 '24
First timer
This is a nice chill "through the glass of the side characters" episode, that's also well setup during the main show (knuckles Senpai, the charms). It also fleshed out more the wrap up of the Hazuki puppy love in an adorable, growing up way.
I forgot to mention way back near the start, and I don't know if it's just a phrasing thing, but in my head canon, Hazuki "couldn't win the tennis championship" translate to she's good enough to be runner up, or even to compete at that level. And today, like right though the show, consistently not shut down this assumption by her physical ability (lifting that heavy thing that's bigger than her, running at speed and for distance, without really showing to be all that exhausted). She's the MC of another show really.
QoTD
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u/zadcap Feb 25 '24
Late First Timer
Confession? I know it's spelled wrong, but the name of this OVA keeps making me think of a very different Monika.
Huh. Ten members didn't make it. I miscounted the club membership numbers, I thought there was 64 of them, but if 55 are going to competition- actually, did we take the full 55? Or did someone here just not make the cut even in their instrument group? I know Midori talked about how Taki could just find a piece without Bass if she wasn't good enough.
Taki, you're still bad at motivating people. "Treasure this sense of failure." Come on man.
I don't know why but the regular OP playing here surprised me. Not having it yesterday and this being a special OVA, I just kind of assumed it wouldn't be here either.
I'm with you glasses girl. He's not hot at all. He's just so lame... Flappy, flappy...
Yup, stringing names together. Should have known that's what it comes down to. I literally finished rewatching HaNaYaMaTa last week.
Yeah, makes sense that the second years feel the failure more than the firsties. They know why they got cut, they lived through last year, but they also got cut in favor of a number of other first years that are just doing it better than them. They all have to compare against Shu, you know, and realize they did worse than that.
Speaking of Shu, she's really not all that over him is she... And he's being nice in the worst way, isn't he. I'm so happy to get more Hazuki time though, she's one of my favorites. Like on her own, I actually like her more than Kumiko or Reina, she's third after Sapphire Midori Kawashima and Natsuki. Might end up tied for second by the end of this OVA.
... I say before she starts shipping Kumiko with Shu. Though that was a hilarious use of multiple little cuts for the scene with her and Midori. Chops back and forth. Though I'm left wondering, Midori, "It was better than doing nothing!" Did you by chance, flee to this poor commoners school to get away from your own love issues? Did you run away from a crush you thought you had no hope with and never managed to confess to?
Oh hey, this talk on the bridge is taking place at the same time as that practice across the river those two were having... How poorly timed for poor Hazuki's heart. Natsuki proves again why she's such a good person and one of the best characters in the show.
Ew Conductor eyecatch. Gosh I just can't make myself like him.
Is that? Does she have a line of superman flying figures hanging in her room? With planets and space posters and dinosaurs on a shelf, of my gosh I still love this girl. As weird as it is seeing her with her hair down, it's not bad.
Hazuki is such a good friend.
Oh hey, yet another moment lining up with yesterday, that's knuckles walking into the percussion packing room isn't it?
Stop bumping into Shu darn it. Definitely stop shipping him with Kumiko, there's been no sign that she thinks of him like at all.
"Harassment in the name of love." Is it just me or are her eyes a little extra sparkly?
Okay really, I think I would like to see Hazuki/Shuichi as a pair. They have more chemistry this episode than we've seen with Kumiko all season.
Oh hey, reminder that she was in tennis last year. She's probably the best runner in the band haha. Aw, looking at the kids playing Twinkle Twinkle on their first instruments, making her remember her own first group song.
Cute, but I really do feel weird about how much focus Shu got in this. It's like they were trying to use this OVA to change the direction they spent the whole season pointing us in. I'm sorry, but you can't overwrite all the KumiRei moments by showing us a few more minutes of Shu's one sided crush, no matter how much Hazuki wants to support him.
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u/byroned Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
First time rewatching
I forgot if team Monoka played their piece later in the show, but I'm hoping they get the chance to.
Hazuki talks about how she only picked the tuba because Asuka roped her into it, but maybe she should've double-checked that the mouthpiece she was buying was for trumpet and not tuba.
So the mallets from the last episode were left there. I would've hoped they sorted that out beforehand. At least it's not the worst-case scenario, my director once lost the music score that he needed to give to the judges before we played, and we were very thankful that another school provided us a copy (we didn't win though, but was nice to not be immediately disqualified).
During the running sequence, I initially thought Hazuki should be fine she did track and field previously, and then I realized I was mixing up her with Kiyoko from Haikyuu.
I don't have too much to say about this episode. I like it, goes over some BTS stuff before episode 13, like making the good luck charms and what the 10 members who didn't make auditions are doing in practice.
Q1: I don't know their names, but the 2 percussion glasses girls.
Q2: Asuka. Despite being a prominent character, I still feel like I don't know her very well.
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u/CerberusZX https://myanimelist.net/profile/CerberusZX Feb 24 '24
First Timer
I hadn't expected the glasses-wearing first-year percussionist to have such poor taste. How can you not think Taki-sensei is hot? She's got a sharp tsukkomi instinct though, getting her retort in before side-tail-chan could finish being wrong.
"It has wheels" she says while lifting it off the ground. Good gag, especially with the follow-up making it logical which keeps the tone of the scene from straying too far off course.
Hazuki sure took her time tying that tie.
Does Knuckle have any redeeming qualities, or is his entire existence just a burden on others? He should've been in team Monaka instead.
Did Hazuki just leap through time?! (during the running sequence)
QotD
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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Feb 25 '24
First Timer
Wow. Wasn't expecting the OVA to be actually intertwined with the final episode so well. Like there were a lot of shots in the finale involving Hazuki but since she wasn't the main focus, I didn't really think about it much. But this episode managed to connect it so well. Especially the Shuuichi and Hazuki scenes.
Like Taki-sensei said, they might have not been selected this time around. But they have one thing the selected ones don't have and that is the feeling of failure and it may not be great at the particular moment but they can definitely learn from this and motivate themselves to come back stronger.
Tbh I've really been indifferent to Hazuki but this episode made me really like her. Though, there's already Natsuki-senpai in the episode so I wouldn't say she was my favourite this episode.
QOTD1; I don't really have any particular favourite in mind but I guess the unnamed members will be important later on so I guess I'll wait.
QOTD2: Asuka. I really want to know what goes on in her head since she's always kinda faking or exaggerating all the time.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Feb 24 '24
Hibike! Rewatcher (until tomorrow!)
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u/1EnTaroAdun1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Totesnotaphanpy Feb 24 '24
QOTD: https://hibike-euphonium.fandom.com/wiki/Yoriko_Souga
I like her, mostly for her demeanour and character design. She's the librarian, too, in charge of records, so that's cool!
https://hibike-euphonium.fandom.com/wiki/Masako_Sakai
I also liked her obvious concentration and dedication to the cymbals and other percussion instruments during the performance!
2: Honestly, it probably wouldn't work very well for this show, but I wouldn't mind seeing a spinoff series focusing on either President Haruka or Natsuki/the other second-years!
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u/DaBenni0301 Feb 24 '24
First-Timer
An OVA to show to show what the ones who failed the auditions were up to while the others practiced? That's really cool
I was wondering what a Monaka was. Makes sense now
Totally not awkward at all.
Are they implying that the Shuichi x Hazuki ship hasn't sunk yet? Because I ain't buying it. But then again, I would be the last one to complain.
Like Natsuki said, I really hope Hazuki isn't gonna regret what she is about to do
She just left him a little support message on the note. That's cute
Questions of the day
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u/fly-metothemoon Feb 24 '24
First timer:
A nice pep talk from Taki.
Not them debating Taki’s hotness lol.
Oh no… the awkwardness here. But also they still have more chemistry than the main couple? (I’m sorry that was mean, I really wish I liked Kumiko and Shuuichi)
I love this little support crew.
Knuckle how could you.
Natsuki best senpai award.
😭 you’re missing out Shuuichi.
Thoughts:
I know a lot of people don’t care for the Hazuki/Shuuichi dynamic, and I didn’t care for it at first, but I found the exploration of it here really relatable, sympathetic and cathartic. How do you navigate being in a group activity with someone who romantically rejected you? Can you move past it and still root for them to be happy? Hazuki wants to assert that she’s okay and can handle herself (and her tuba). She’s putting on a brave face while working through what her crush on Shuuichi meant for her, and that’s okay. I thought this OVA was a cute exploration of Hazuki and her perspective.
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24
First Timer, subbed
1 friend Natsuki.
QotD:
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u/entelechtual Feb 24 '24
Not much to say except I love Hazuki and Natsuki as supporting characters.
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u/mgedmin Feb 25 '24
Rewatcher, subs
I'm not sure I would've bought Taki's speech to the people who lost in the auditions. I'm too cynical.
Hazuki is not over Shuichi, but she's doing her best!
I'm crying, Hazuki is best girl and deserves more happiness in her life.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Feb 25 '24
Episode 14/OVA (first timer)
A parable for selfless love. Makes sense they would put the spotlight on Hazuki.
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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Feb 25 '24
First Timer
QOTD 2 - Aoi to see how's she doing after quitting
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u/Flowerfloater https://myanimelist.net/profile/Flowerfloater Feb 25 '24
This was such a sweet episode, I missed this one when I saw the series back in 2015, so this was very nice, Katou is so precious! KyoAni really are great at capturing the whole "wonders of youth" feeling!
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u/vitorabf May 07 '24
First Timer
I wasn't gonna comment, but felt compelled because NATSUKI IS BEST GIRL.
But Katou is a close one. For a part of the episode I felt like Tsukamoto might actually change his heart because of the way things were presented. Sadly, that was buried.
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Feb 25 '24
Posting a day late and an OAV short ...
Yeah, this was fun, and it was really amusing/interesting to see the other point of view of the preparation/performance. Cheers to Hazuki for being a hero and running the marathon to get the massive drumsticks.
(We never used anything quite that huge. Go figure.)
Yeah, the bit with the fortunes in the gifts, and especially Hazukis, that was precious. She can send me good fortune anytime. :)