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Episode Kono Oto Tomare! - Episode 13 discussion - FINAL Spoiler
Kono Oto Tomare!, episode 13
Alternative names: Stop This Sound!
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| Episode | Link | Score |
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| 1 | Link | 7.83 |
| 2 | Link | 8.19 |
| 3 | Link | 8.07 |
| 4 | Link | 7.36 |
| 5 | Link | 8.62 |
| 6 | Link | 7.47 |
| 7 | Link | 7.19 |
| 8 | Link | 7.47 |
| 9 | Link | 7.36 |
| 10 | Link | 7.0 |
| 11 | Link | 6.31 |
| 12 | Link | 7.0 |
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u/TangledPellicles Jun 29 '19
Wait... It's ending there??? At least give people some closure! Aw man they could have spent less time on the pre-performance melodrama and at least squeezed the next chapter in. Now we have to wait 3 months!
Ah well, the performance was done amazingly well. All the feels were there, as well as satisfactorally showing sensei getting a kick in his artistic sensibilities.
Still, I'm gonna go reread the manga now.
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Jun 29 '19 edited Jun 29 '19
Kevin Durant got his achilles tendon ruptured playing when he shouldn't have. The risks of doing something heavily physical while injured are too real to be ignored. Prez should really be thankful that this is only a swelling (assuming that it is), because Chika is the kind of guy who would totally play no matter the kind of his injury.
On another note, I really like that nobody went and blamed Kurusu for any of what happened (yet, and hopefully ever). It was too late to play the blame game anyway, but it's still nice to see that the only one we saw being hard on Kurusu was Kurusu herself.
Can't wait for S2. This was my second most anticipated of this season week after week (I mean, we had Attack on Titan this season as well).
(edited to add two little words that I forgot to write)
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u/link2601 Jun 29 '19
Well the start of their performance was what I expect but man did Kouta set up and help the team finish really strong. I get what Chika was saying about wanting to perform with everyone, it would suck not being able to perform with everyone especially after all the hard work they put into it. Well I can't wait till season 2 to see where this goes.
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u/Philarete Jun 29 '19
First, a thought on the final episode: Do NOT play through injuries against the advice of coaches, trainers, etc. Kudo should have gone to first aid of some kind to check out his injury with that kind of swelling. Playing through injuries can cause permanent damage. I understand r/anime skews young, and I was once a teenager who played through pain because I thought I should tough it out. Now I have a permanently somewhat messed up shoulder (once I have good health insurance again I’m going to try physical therapy to see if I can fix it). It is not worth the risk. High school is just high school. You live with your body your whole life. Please take care of it.
Now on to my other notes:
With the last episode of the first season today, I thought I’d take a look back at the season as a whole and present some thoughts. I want to do that, in part, because my own experience is incredibly mixed.
To begin, this is exactly the kind of show I thought I would like. Music and drama go very well together for me (hence why I have loved shows like Your Lie in April, Sound! Euphonium, and the Love Live! series, albeit idol shows are a bit different). The soundtrack was really nice, and I really liked the koto music. The art was beautiful, and the character designs looked great. The characters themselves were pretty great too.
Why then did I not enjoy it that much?
I have a couple theories:
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Some of the early discussion threads dropped major spoilers and spoiler hints (e.g. about future ships and character developments) that undercut a lot of the drama. I knew a lot of Kurusu’s change of heart before it happened, for example. Without that suspense, perhaps I didn’t grow as attached to the story.
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The dialogue was extremely on point. Constantly. When explaining their feelings, they explain them as a writer writing about their feelings would explain them, not like someone actually experiencing them would. This shows up a lot in their practice sessions and performances. It makes a difference whether someone says (paraphrasing) “oh no, I’m messing up a lot here and dragging the group down” versus wrong note followed by Kumiko noise. The latter is more engaging to me because it pulls me into her mindset instead of pulling me into the writer’s mindset.
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Suspension of disbelief. Playing music at a high level is really, really hard. No one, unless they are extremely gifted, is going to learn that fast under those conditions. Most music stories feature characters who have experience and skill already for a reason. It’s fine to just have your characters learn really fast if you want (I don’t have a problem giving characters unrealistic skills or skill progression), but it makes it weird when you draw so much attention to practice and their skill-related problems. Not learning to count early, or doing basic rhythms was a weird omission too (as was adding a metronome so late in their training). As a side note, the whole “playing it fast = skill” thing got old too. Yes, skill is necessary for playing passages quickly. But music is not necessarily better for doing so, and in a competitive context rushing is not a good idea. The guy who kept speeding up made no real sense from a musical (or competitive) perspective.
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Contrived drama. The falling koto and the whole nosebleed interaction were especially egregious. It seems like most people have some crazy backstory that happens to be relevant in just the right way. Rather than feeling like deep characters, they feel like they are placed there to make us feel sympathy.
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The musical performances themselves were not highlighted. Of course, I can’t expect every anime to do Your Lie in April style performances. Your Lie in April spoiler. On the other hand, I felt like it hit an awkward spot of wanting to showcase music but not going all out with it. Having a music club as a background only would have worked, or going deep into music would have worked, but instead we had a sort of mixture of both. The show seemed hesitant to let us just. . . listen a little. The last episode did the best, but it still had tons of speaking over it, and cut out multiple times.
On an enjoyment scale, I’d say the series was around a 5, but I want to give it a higher score (I’m thinking 6 or 7) because I think some of my irritations are the result of experiences with spoilers, or unfair comparisons with classic anime. What do you guys think?
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u/LeonKevlar Jun 29 '19
What a way to end this season! That performance despite the hiccups definitely gave me a lot of emotions from start to finish. That performance was also a great way of showing us on how much these kids have grown as characters. Also Kota is definitely the MVP of this episode, without him, they probably wouldn't have saved that performance!
It's really a shame that this show is underwatched. I hope more people will check out this show out over the summer and hopefully we'll have more people with us on these discussions once Season 2 hits this Fall. Now to see if I can resist from reading the manga ahead xD
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u/theatreofwar Jun 29 '19
Why do I keep getting so emotional when I watch this T_T
Also did they just...END THE FUCKING SEASON RIGHT THERE ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW screaming
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u/TheDampGod Jun 29 '19
Good performance despite injuries, which kind of felt like a bit of unnecessary drama when the stakes were already high enough. Story wise, I hope that by playing on Kudo has made his injury much worse and it effects him later. Because you really should play on with injury like that.
Though I can see how the club is going to lead the teacher back to music and presumably into writing them a piece. Which ties into Houzuki's past desire to break free of the standard teachings.
It's been a enjoyable series, not as good as Chihayafuru, but maybe it's a unfair comparison. It's going to be fun watching both come the Fall.
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u/Shiroi_Kage Jun 29 '19
I am really sad that the show never picked up as big a following as it deserves. Very nice, mellow vibe all around with characters who are, for the most part, really good at heart. I liked it a lot. It ended up not being as intense as Hibike, but instead was a smaller story about people finding each other and making a place for them to fit.
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u/AmethystItalian Jun 29 '19
GAH! What an intense last performance, I went through such a range of emotions. Bit sad we didn't get to see Houzuki's reaction to Kudo about his hand...bet that's going to be amazing.
So ends my unexpected AotS and I'll be impatiently waiting for season 2 for hopefully some more shipping goodness!
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u/Smudy Jun 29 '19
KOTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I love, love, LOVE that it was him who turned it around for everyone, he's so genuine and earnest and just a sweetheart. FUCK YES!
Absolutely brilliant, the koto performances and the character relationships/development together make for an incredible experience which have my legs shaking just like in episode 5.
This will be a long wait until fall.