Audience reviews
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TrMin228
If S1 was merely the opening act of a still-fragmented club, then S2 of Hibike is where human emotions and conflicts reach their peak. This is the part where each character not only faces music, but also confronts themselves, their passion, their pressure, and their most intimate fears. Kumiko is no longer the girl who simply drifts along, she’s now placed in situations that force her to choose between personal feelings and collective responsibility. She grows by learning to listen, to empathize, and to face the unspoken struggles within others, and within herself.
Reina, though less in the spotlight than before, shows remarkable maturity. Her journey of overcoming her feelings for her teacher and moving toward her own future is quiet yet deeply meaningful. And Asuka, arguably the soul of…
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It's one thing for this show to queerbait me, but to do it twice? To do it the second time while switching from a love interest who had a developed and meaningful connection with the protagonist, to one who is basically just an impossible-to-read weirdo that no-one in their right mind would be in love with? Awful. Combine that with excessive focus on interpersonal drama between marginal characters with very little payoff or meaning, and a general lack of focus on what should be the crux of the anime - the craft of music itself - and what you get is a waste of time.
Looks great, though!
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Oh, brother, this anime made me love classical and orchestral music more and more. I especially like competitions more and more, not just music.
Story, Characters, Animation, Soundtrack
Story: The story is an extremely good one, even if it is a little sadder than the one from season one, it is still great. And the Ova brothers are brilliant especially the ones with Midori-chan.
Characters: The characters are still the same Midori is still excited and stays where she is not her business and returns to her balls, Hazuki-chan is still nice and always with positive thoughts, Kumiko is all Kumiko is always shy and not she goes where she shouldn't just not to hurt them, cum And how could she not say something about our wonderful Asuka-Senpai she still stays in any situation whether she gets s…
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The second season of Hibike! Euphonium, in my opinion, is better than the first. This season feels like a more refined and concentrated version of what Hibike! Euphonium is, and that improvement alone turns a good anime into a great anime.
The story isn't any different on paper. The Kitauji high school orchestra continues working hard to achieve their goal of playing at the nationals. However, this second season shifts the main focus from playing in a respectable competition to the individual characters behind the music, their personal struggles, and giving some insight to the history that made them who they are today, and how it sets them on a path for the future. I think this is a fantastic direction to take this series. As great as the music is in Hibike! Euphonium, the characters all…
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Since i first saw this anime, i saw the kind of potential i can't see in other music animes. and one might compare every music anime with shigatsu, because it is the most praised one, but shigatsu and this anime show us two distinct views of the music practice.
Hibike! Euphonium and Hibiki! Euphonium 2 have a sport anime vibe to it. The way that the obstacles and practices are presented to the watcher are common in the sports anime.
This serie as a whole can also be so aware of the music world they are presentig (just open an youtube page of a important music in the series and you will see a lot of comments saying something like "wow, they realliy made the movements realistic"), just as making the conductor conduct right, when he is shown, in the 4/4 time, and show the concert pitch and tu…
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In this review I will review both the first and the second season of Hibike! Euphonium. If you haven't watched the anime I don't recommend reading this review because there will be SPOILERS up ahead.
First I'll start with talking about the story, which I give a 9/10.
I think the story is really well written. Sometimes in anime drama that has been done the wrong way can cause me to hate a show because all what the characters do is cry and fight over some bullshit reason. In Hibike! Euphoium however this is not the case, when I just started it, I was a bit scared the show would turn out like this, but the show maintained its enjoyment to watch. The drama was done really well there wasn't a moment where I was annoyed by it. The character development in the story was there at the right time…
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Writing a review for the second season of Hibike was not an easy task to do. Maybe because I'm a musician, this get even more emotional and hard to express in words. But all I can feel for this anime is love. I have the most deep and fond love for this whole story. So, please, don't expect a totally unbiased review, I really can't talk about it without showing how awesome for a musician is to see a music genre anime like that and not talk about it with passion and even excuse some minor failures. Specially because here I'm talking more as musician than as an anime fan. Even more specially when there are so few animes about concert music.
One of the things that enchants me the most in this anime without a doubt is the art: the typical trait from Kyoto Animation purely amazes me. You can lo…
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The review counts the first season score too!
Hibike! Euphonium is a musical anime (woooow, really?), but doesn't shows just music, I would say. The focus doesn't is the music in itself, but in how the music and the effort at the trainings can interfere at socializations between the musicist and your family, school and objectives. That anime is sooooo cute, have an so pretty weather, even when happens the hardest scenes and with psychological fight. Also have comedy, isn't as that slapstick comedy tho, maybe a pinch of Yuri or just fanservice?! Thriller, yes, Thriller, always happens that thriller in what gonna happen and how the characters will feel about yourselves, and mainly, Drama! Dude, what dramatical anime, some episodes will make you do want to cry with the character or just want…
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After the disappointing third season of Haikyuu!! I was hoping that Hibike Euphonium would atleast have a good second season that I would've enjoyed. Unfortunately I was wrong. Although not as broken as Haikyuu!! S3, Hibike Euphonium season 2 was still a very disappointing sequel to what was otherwise a great first season.
I first want to address the obvious. Yes, the animation is f***ing orgasmic in Hibike Euphonium. However, is this quality of animation necessary for something like Hibike Euphonium? I know that HE season 1 also had great animation, but in comparison to season 2 it was still pretty tame. In this season you have a lot of complicated and beautiful shots for the simplest scenes. It also does this with scenes that were supposed to show the friendship between the two characte…
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You know that awkward moment when all the yuri shipping you did made people think you made a LGBT anime to the point that Crunchyroll had to tweet about it?
So what to do? You could leave the ambiguity over their romantic relationships and handle it tastefully or dismantle the relationships between the characters you had climbing over each other in S1 in the most cringeworthy way in S2...
Guess what KyoAni did.
Apparently it's not gay if it happens in high school/college. The series writers do their best to remind us that Reina liked Kumiko for her passion for music and all that handholding and confessions of love were nothing more--in fact she's yandere for widower-sensei and confesses in one of the most cringeworthy moments in recent memory. Think Graduate meets Nabokov for roofie-la…
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There's a joke that you watch Hibike! Euphonium for the yuri bait, but stay for the story and characters, and it's completely true. Rarely have I seen a studio pay so much attention to detail in developing character relationships.
Chronologically, the second season begins immediately where the first one left off, where the band is faced with increasingly more difficult obstacles as they hope to advance to higher competitions. You'll experience the ups and downs with them as they triumph and fail in their band goals, while learning more about what makes each character tick, and their various motivations for participating in the band.
This is developed through masterful usage of symbolism, and what is unique about this show is the studio actually respects the viewer's intelligence enough t…
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A Sound! Euphonium 2 Review
The first season of Sound! Euphonium was “utterly fantastic” (quoting myself from my review of season one). It took me by surprise and delivered something thoroughly thought provoking. Characters were handled flawlessly, hackneyed themes were dodged with grace, and not a moment of my time felt wasted as I embraced its concepts of what it means to be a part of something, and what it means to be special. It was undoubtedly a brilliant season, and unfortunately for KyoAni, the sequel would have to be held to those standards. So that begs the question: Did KyoAni reach or surpass the heights it set for itself with season one?
Short answer: No. Long answer? Well, it all starts with the character arcs. Sound! Euphonium 2’s first arc focuses on a character that’s be…
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Sequels are like a double-edged sword. For the good shows, the creators are always under immense pressure to replicate the success from the first season, but if done correctly, will be able to grow the cult following for an even bigger profit. For the bad shows, though there are no such expectations, the need to create a series to a non-existent fan base is illogical. Hibike! Euphonium season 1 was in the middle of the spectrum, dwarfed by the popularity and sales of the likes of K-ON while still having sales and popularity success to be remembered by the anime community for a while. It is a show that has promise, known for beautiful visuals in typical KyoAni fashion, niche concert band soundtrack, drama among friends, and the all but famous YURI vibes between our two wonderful heroines.…
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If I had to thank KyoAni for one thing, it'd be for their ability to prove that it's really hard not to enjoy a good anime, which they've proven many times. Regardless of its art style, the way it presents its characters via voice acting and personalities, the setting of the series, or whatever else it may have that turns a lot of people off (and even causes some to denounce the series completely because of it), KyoAni proves to you that if it's good, it's good. And for that, you will enjoy it.
Ultimately, that was exactly how I felt about Hibike! Euphonium's 2nd season. The first season, to me at least, was disappointing in many ways because of various little things like the ones I listed above. To me, the fact that it had an extremely moe art style, characters that played well with the…
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Hibike Euphonium getting a sequel was a big surprise for me but I was excited nonetheless. As someone who loved the first season so much (mostly because I'm part of a concert band (Percussionist) ), I had high expectations for the sequel and now that it's over. It definitely lived up to my expectations.
(There will be SPOILERS in my review)
[Story]: (8.5/10)
The 2nd Season of Hibike Euphonium picks up right where the first season ended. The Kitauiji High School Concert Band has won a gold and they now have have a new goal: To reach and win the Nationals.
You'll notice something different when you decide to watch the 2nd Season of Hibike. Unlike the first season which focused more on band performances and the Kitauji Band trying to improve so they can win a gold, this season focuses mo…
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"And then, the next piece begins." -Kumiko Oumae
When season one of Hibike! Euphonium aired back in 2015, anyone who watched it was in for some beautiful animation, band performances, and yuri bait. I only watched it because of Kyoto Animation, but I ended up enjoying it a lot; it really connected with me, considering the fact that I am a flute player in my school's band. When it ended, however, it definitely felt like there should have been more; that was why, when season 2 was announced, it was welcomed with open arms. However, now that season 2 has finished its run, can I honestly say that it lived up to season 1? Yes, it did and more.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my review of Hibike! Euphonium 2.
In case you don't already know, Hibike! Euphonium revolves around the concert band…
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Band has becoming a dying medium as the importance of academics and becoming a top student have gained importance. It's come to the point that many schools have cut off art programs like these entirely simply because they either no longer have the budget to support it, or see it as something that has no real importance in students' lives. So, at the time of this review, while we still have the concept of the school band alive, we return back to KyoAni's adaptation of Hibike! Euphonium, the drama-filled band with aspirations as big as their sound.
Story: Picking up from the first season, Hibike! Euphonium 2 continues the same plotline as the first season. Our merry band of...band members at Kitauji high school continue their journey towards Nationals in hopes of winning the event and takin…
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And so the next piece begins...with the second season of Hibike Euphoinum!. Nach und nach belebter und leidenschaftlicher!
The second season left off where the OVA finished and really the second season brings in more highschool drama, character development to characters who didn't get it during the first season and OVA as well as in Regionals. Another words...ALOT of s**t gonna happen this season.
LA wants to dive right into this so let's start with the characters and their development. The character development at the early start of the season are from the two new characters into the mix of the second season, that being Mizore Yoroizuka voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki and Nozomi Kasai voiced by Nao Touyama and their dilemma throughout the first quarter of the anime revolves around them and wi…
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School is the perfect location for coming of age stories. It's a shame that this potential is little utilized. Thankfully, Hibike is an exception. It's an anime with chewed to death school settings, with clichéd competition aspect, that manages to be a fresh breath of air. Hibike is a well-told simple story.
In Hibike, the tribulation of the characters is small everyday problems that in general order of things are not that important. The stakes are low. At worst they’ll lose a competition which is hard to relate to. To be honest, they have pretty small individual worlds. But Hibike explores those little aspects of life deeply. Rather than giving a fast-paced adrenaline rush to the top, we see characters face the stress of their situation.
The competition itself takes a little time. But…
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Spring 2015 was a heavy season. Out of all the shows though, there was one particular that stood out and it’s Hibike Euphonium (Sound Euphonium). Produced by one of the highest quality anime studios ever, the show is still much more than an eye candy fest. So when I heard the series was returning for a sequel, I was ecstatic. Hibike Euphonium 2 is like a gift that keeps on giving.
Adapted by Kyoto Animation, the second season hits off with a memorable start. The first episode is actually double length and will easily get the audience back into the mood from season 1. Or perhaps a bit too much? If you’re a fan of Kumiko and Reina’s relationship then it will definitely bring you some popcorn entertainment. In the meantime, the series continuously adds more drama to the story. From the start…
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