Neiro no Kanata - Kitauji Quartet

Anime: Hibike! Euphonium

Hibike! Euphonium 3 (Sound! Euphonium 3) - Opening Theme "ReCoda" by TRUE Jacket Illustration. Release: 24 April 2024. Ending Theme "Neiro no Kanata" by Kitauji Quartet (VAs of Kumiko, Hazuki, Sapphire and Reina), releasing on 26 June 2024.

i WAS going to sleep but its 2 am and i ended up drawing Them on microsoft whiteboard close ups + a bonus kumirei 

I am repeating myself but I love these rainbow behind them :p

Thoughts on Liz to Aoi Tori

I wouldn’t want to call this a review because it won’t be just a straight up review, but also include some of my analyses and personal opinions. Anyway, when Kyoani announced a slew of Hibike spin-off movies after Season 2, I admit I wasn’t that hyped about the NozoMizo movie, since Kumiko and friends were the main stars and what kept fans like me following the Hibike story after all. But after they released the key visuals and trailer, as well as watching some Youtube reviews of the movie upon its box office release, I knew I had to go watch it.

Liz to Aoi Tori, if I could put it simply, was beautiful. Everything from the visuals to the camera work to the sound design was so masterfully put together and directed. Every shot and movement was so deliberately thought out, and even the moments of silence were just right, neither too long nor too short. But I’ll leave my thoughts on the artistic direction just here, since I don’t have the film expertise to analyse it at length, and the many Youtube reviews have done this area justice anyway.

What I’d like to focus on is the plot and characters instead. The movie is a short one - just under one and a half hours, and only has one main story line (about Nozomi and Mizore) and a small sub-plot on Mizore’s relationship with her oboe and double reed juniors. Yet this story was told so masterfully, I was enraptured from the start to the end.

Like I mentioned in my Hibike S2 review, I did enjoy the NozoMizo subplot in the anime. However, it was clearly overshadowed by the main focus of the series - Asuka and Kumiko’s character development. Having a standalone film just focusing on Nozomi and Mizore alone allowed me to fully immerse myself and appreciate the dynamic in Nozomi and Mizore’s relationship, and experience the emotions felt by the characters in their rawest form through every action, every word spoken and every word unspoken.

The story within the story - the fairytale of Liz and the Bluebird - was a great device in mirroring Nozomi and Mizore’s relationship and was seamlessly into the plot. In the beginning, it seemed quite obvious to us as the viewer and the characters that Mizore was like Liz, the lonely girl who made friends with the Bluebird/girl and wants to be with her forever, while Nozomi resembled the Bluebird, making the first contact with Liz, but was somehow held back from being free to do what she wanted because of her friendship with Liz. But the dramatic turning point came when we realise that the roles are switched instead - Mizore is like the Bluebird, who has the potential to achieve greater musical heights and even enter a music college, whereas Nozomi is like Liz, whose love for her was holding the Bluebird back the whole time. This dramatic climax was not only put into words but in the titular musical piece which included a Nozomi and Mizore duet, which was extremely moving.

As I was watching Hibike S2 and the whole time while watching Liz, I was pondering over Nozomi and Mizore’s relationship and their feelings for each other. It seemed that the reason for the tension was the imbalance in the way they perceived each other. To Mizore, Nozomi was her entire world; but to Nozomi, Mizore was just another friend to her, as so Mizore thought. But after mulling about it, I realised that this is not exactly that case - Nozomi did care about Mizore as much as Mizore does for Nozomi, it’s just that their motivations are different. Nozomi was a more self-motivated girl, taking her own initiative and making decisions based on her own reasoning - she made her own decision to quit the band at the end of her 1st year, she decided on her own to enter a music college, and later reasoned with herself to not enroll in a music college in the end. On the other hand, Mizore was a lot less opinionated, making her decisions based on what Nozomi wanted, and always following Nozomi - she plays the oboe because she wanted to be with Nozomi, and decided to enroll into a music college because Nozomi decided to.

In the end, what was beautiful about the resolution of this story was the subtle change in their relationship. Nozomi and Mizore still loved each other just as much, but Nozomi knew she had to let Mizore go to fulfill her true potential, and Mizore started to be less passive and take things in her own stride.

And just a random side note I decided to slip in - some more yuri-loving fans may interpret NozoMizo’s relationship as romantic, while others may feel that their relationship was just platonic. I personally feel that the beauty of this film is that the nature of their relationship can be whatever you’d perceive it to be. One of the themes of this story is love after all, and loving someone, be it as a friend or as a romantic partner, means that you want them to be happy, even if that means you need to let go of them once in a while.

All in all, Liz to Aoi Tori was a masterful piece, and hands down one of the best anime movies I have watched (as good or maybe even better than a certain popular movie about meteorites and body switching teenagers). Forgive me if I’m gushing too much or viewing this movie through rose-tinted glass since I was a fan of the Hibike series to begin with, but you can’t deny the amazing skill and effort put in by Kyoani in this film. Even if you haven’t watched Hibike before, I believe this film can still be enjoyed on its own. In my opinion, this movie was hands down better than Hibike S2 (which already I enjoyed a lot) - can’t really say about S1 because it’s quite a distant memory - and I just hope that the next movie installment about the Kitauji Quartet (which seems to follow the anime canon more closely in terms of plot and art style) would not disappoint as well.

Sound! Euphonium Brings Its Sweet Songs to Streaming Services Worldwide

  The tunes of Kyoto Animation's Sound! Euphonium was released on streaming services across the world this week, bringing not only the ending themes from the Kitauji Quartet but also the orchestral tracks featured in the big band moments, as well as the original soundtracks from the films, including Liz and the Blue Bird.

    本日よりシリーズ関連楽曲のサブスクリプション配信が開始????！ 楽曲のラインナップは、「トゥッティ！」や「ヴィヴァーチェ！」のほか、数々の名シーンを彩った吹奏楽曲、劇伴など多数解禁✨ ぜひ音楽でもユーフォの世界を楽しんでくださいね???? ????詳細はこちらhttps://t.co/VSNyb8VHMA#anime_eupho pic.twitter.com/pNcOkew9ZG

— アニメ「響け！ユーフォニアム」公式 (@anime_eupho) April 4, 2022

    The songs are available on most major music streaming platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, YouTube Music and many more.

  The original Sound! Euphonium novels are published in Japan by Takarajimasha under their Takarajimasha Bunko imprint, and an English language version is also available from Yen Press. The Sound! Euphonium TV anime is directed by Tatsuya Ishihara with Naoko Yamada chief directing the series and directing the spin-off film Liz and the Blue Bird. The series' and films feature animation produced at Kyoto Animation. A new anime project is currently in production.

  Crunchyroll currently streams seasons 1 and 2 of Sound! Euphonium, describing the story as such:

  Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school. 

  Source: Sound! Euphonium official website

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

울려라! 유포니엄 (Sound! Euphonium OST) - Vivace! (Kitauji Quartet) COVER https://youtu.be/4wQBJUXYpn8 #울려라유포니엄 #SoundEuphonium #OST #Vivace #KitaujiQuartet #COVER https://www.instagram.com/p/CQduV_yFYKB/?utm_medium=tumblr

I was tagged by @ninanobyminzy~ <3

Rules: List 10 songs you’re vibing on and tag 10 mutuals

1) The Cranberries - Linger 2) Jean Leloup - I Lost My Baby 3) Princess Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet 4) Shivaree - Goodnight Moon 5) Shakey Graves - Roll the Bones 6)  Kitauji Quartet - Tutti! 7) Brandon Flowers - Can’t Deny My Love 8) Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better 9) NieR: Automata - Pascal’s Village 10) Kenichiro Nishihara - Beautiful Things

Vivace! - Kitauji Quartet

Troublesome Freshmen Join the Band in "Sound! Euphonium" Anime Film Trailer

Troublesome Freshmen Join the Band in “Sound! Euphonium” Anime Film Trailer

  A quartet of rookie musicians get ready to strike up the band in a new trailer for Sound! Euphonium the Movie: Oath’s Finale, the concluding part of a two-part anime theatrical film that continues to struggles of the Kitauji High School Concert Band Club from Ayano Takeda’s Sound! Euphonium light novel series.

    In Sound! Euphonium the Movie: Oath’s Finale, Kumiko is now a second year…

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Sound! Euphonium 2 , vu sur Akihabara no Sasayaki http://ift.tt/2lYkSLu Sound! Euphonium 2 # Bloc TechniqueTitre original : 響け! ユーフォニアム 2, Hibike! Euphonium 2Genre : Musique, Tranche-de-vieDurée : 13 épisodesAuteur : Ayano TakedaChara-designer : Shoko IkedaRéalisateur : Tatsuya IshiharaScénariste : Jukki HanadaStudio d'animation : Kyoto AnimationLicencié : ouiEditeur Français : crunchyroll - Voir les épisodes légalement en cliquant sur ce lienAnnée : 2016Site officiel : http://ift.tt/2kNZFPx : "Soundscape" de TRUEEnding : "Vivace!" de Kitauji Quartet # Synopsis Editeur La fanfare du lycée Kitauji est partie de loin pour se hisser au plus haut niveau de la compétition organisée par la ville de Kyoto. Nous retrouvons notre jeune musicienne, Kumiko Ômae, et son euphonium, qui poursuit cette aventure avec ses camarades. La fanfare vise à présent l’étape qui les sépare du concours national : celui du Kansai… # Trailer Tags : #anime #Sound-Euphonium-2 #Hibike-Euphonium-2 #Musique #Tranche-de-vie #13-épisodes #Ayano-Takeda #Shoko-Ikeda #Tatsuya-Ishihara #Jukki-Hanada #Kyoto-Animation #crunchyroll #2016 http://ift.tt/2kCf89O

This one never felt to melt me, it’s just adorable

Kyoto Animation Reveals Final Line-Up for 1st Ever Music Festival

  Kyoto Animation announced the final artist listing for their first-ever music festival today, revealing that KITAUJI QUARTET, Free! composer Tatsuya Kato, Super Chorogons, Evan Call, and many more will be appearing over the two days. Kyoani also announced that live stream tickets have gone on sale for the event, with streaming available all over the world.

    The complete first day, November 20, will see Mai Aizawa, SCREEN mode, Aya Suzaki, TRUE, Homecomings, LUCKLIFE, Tatsuya Kato, KITAUJI QUARTET, Azusa Tadokoro, and ChouCho, representing Tamako Market, Tsurune, Sound! Euphonium, Free!, Myriad Colors Phantom World, MUNTO, and Liz and the Blue Bird. OLDCODEX's performance at the event has been canceled as the band is currently on hiatus. Nobunaga Shimazaki, who voices Haruka in Free!, will also be making an appearance on the first day.

  The full line-up for the second day, November 21, includes, Mai Aizawa, Minori Chihara, TRUE, fhána, Aira Yuuki, ZAQ, Evan Call, Super Chorogons, and Black Raison d'être representing Violet Evergarden, Beyond the Boundary, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, and MUNTO.

    Live stream tickets went on sale today through e+'s online service for people around the world. The live-streamed version will also include an archive that can be watched for two weeks after the event has been completed. Tickets for each day cost 6,080 yen (US$55).

  The KyoAni Music Festival was announced back in May with a theme of "inspiration for the future" as a thank you to fans who have stuck by the studio over the past couple of years. 

  Source: KyoAni Music Festival website

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

TRUE y Kitauji Quartet se encargarán de los temas de Hibike! Euphonium 2

La página web oficial de Hibike! Euphonium 2, ha revelado quiénes serán los encargados de interpretar el opening y el ending del anime. TRUE, que ya se encargó del opening de la primera temporada, interpretará el opening, de nombre Soundscape. Por su parte, Kitauji Quartet interpretará el ending, que por ahora no tiene título. El anime se estrenará en octubre. La entrada TRUE y Kitauji Quartet se encargarán de los temas de Hibike! Euphonium 2 se publicó en koi-nya. http://bit.ly/2a6fTn2 「Bot」