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Sound! Euphonium (響け! ユーフォニアム, Hibike! Yūfoniamu) is a Japanese novel series written by Ayano Takeda. The story takes place in Uji, Kyoto, and focuses on the Kitauji High School Concert Band which is steadily improving thanks to the newly appointed adviser's strict instruction.[1] A manga adaptation illustrated by Hami was serialized on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web website. A 13-episode anime adaptation, produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, aired in Japan between April and July 2015. An animated film premiered in theaters in April 2016, while a second season of the anime aired between October and December 2016.
After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka.
A 13-episode anime television series adaptation of the first volume of the novel series, directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Jukki Hanada, and produced by Kyoto Animation, aired in Japan between April 8 and July 1, 2015. The opening theme is "DREAM SOLISTER" by True, and the ending theme is "Tutti!" by Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, and Chika Anzai. The ending theme for episode 8 is a trumpet and euphonium duet version of "Ai o Mitsuketa Basho", ("The Place Where We Found Love") and the ending theme for episode 13 is a wind orchestra version of "Dream Solister". The anime is licensed by Ponycan USA in North America, and by Anime Limited in the United Kingdom. The seventh DVD/BD volume, released on December 16, 2015, bundled an original video animation (OVA) episode titled "Dash Monaka". Kyoto Animation produced an anime film retelling the events of the television series named Sound! Euphonium The Movie: Welcome To The Kitauji High School Concert Band, which premiered on April 23, 2016.
There have been numerous spinoff novels from the main series, like Sound! Euphonium: Welcome to the Rikka High School Marching Band. On October 6, 2016, Sound! Euphonium: Kitauji High School Concert Band Diary was released. Then Sound! Euphonium: True Stories from the Kitauji High School Concert Band was released on April 5, 2018. Finally, Watching as You Fly Away, a spin-off following Natsuki Nakagawa, was released on August 4, 2023.
I mean, one of the first things we learned about Reina was that she had a crush on the music teacher. And Kumiko had a couple awkward moments with that trombone guy over their relationship. Whatever else was going on, there was always that element in the background.
It always felt like there was some weird internal struggle in that show. Lots of people just say "fucking yuribait" and leave it at that, but it never felt that cynical to me. It's like there was some artistic dispute over the direction of the series, or maybe the creators were trying to say something I just haven't been able to understand.
It never was. Books are 100% het. Girls relationship was always meant to be just a close, intense friendship. The fact author has no clue how close, intense friendship between girls look like and instead wrote something close to 2 girls dating is different matter. The fact KyoAni was actively downplaying het parts (few crucial moments that were showing Kumiko liked the guy in season 1 already were cut or changed to look as if she didn't care that much about him), while portraying girls relationship in very romantic way, didn't help either. From what I know, they actually didn't add anything to make them gayer, they were already like that in the books. So despite source material always being about het romance, it seemed like KyoAni tried to change that part, but didn't quite go full yuri route either. Whatever there was some disagreement between stuff or with author, is hard to tell, but what we got feels like trying to be both ways and failing at either.
It's kyotoani, of course it was yuri bait. It always is with them. Good thing i already totally squashed any hopes i have of yuri being a thing in hibike euphonium.
What bothered me the most was people's comments in that recent pv people saying all that yuri thing was crap tho. I know it's just random people on the internet, but still. It's not the fans' fault for making yuri ships, kyotoani always baits us. ;w;
Well just watch Lize to Aoi if you want yuri... as for me, I'm glad I dropped the main series in s1 because that element in the background was a mess from what I've heard in s2 and the new pv makes me not want to watch the last movie anymore. Why? because despite all the chemistry between the girls, according to this author and the pv is just youth and it only takes one confession from the guy to be like "well, I guess this is how it is lol"
This. that's the worst kind of subtext. Kumiko barely gave any fuck about Shuuichi throughout the anime and now she's head over heels for him? that's some serious levels of forced romance crap. I don't blame the author tho, I blame KyoAni for attempting to create the shittiest yuri subtext ever.
Kumiko comes off as extensively gay and not the least bit interested in Shuuichi through both seasons. If this changes in the new movie, well, that's just shitty writing at this point. They made a conscious decision to code Kumiko as gay for two seasons.
And let me say, I don't hate Shuuichi, far from it... I just don't care about him and that's the worse part, like take away Reina or Asuka subtexty moments and we still have WAAAAAAAYYY More character development from Kumiko and all the side characters (to the point where 2 of them get their own movie) than him (unless I missed a huge character arc about him in s2?), so if this is how it's mean to be, it feels like "Well, it can't be helped :l... I mean, he confessed and we know each other for so long so I guess I'll try?" so it's impossible to feel happy for them even if you take away the yuri parts... In fact, the people most happy about this are the yuri haters and that tells you more about bad writing than anything else.
It always has and always will be yuribait, when they sunk the ship in season 2 people jumped to Liz and the Blue Bird but they are just not learning from history. It's just angst and adolescence not worth the effort.
On the other hand, per this tweet from the anime thread a while back:
In the latest volume of the novels, Kumiko and Shuuichi break up. So it's still up in the air whether Kumiko's really hetero.
Although I do agree with the notion that the series (Kyoani in general) isn't really worth getting invested in. Even Liz and the Blue Bird wasn't particularly interesting on the characterization front, it's only noteworthy yuri-wise due to the production values. Basically, I'd say keep expectations low but wait for stuff to actually come out before deciding if Kyoani shit is "yuri"/"not yuri".
I too got some spoiler like, after the confession of Yuuichi apparently they don't even kiss and in the novel they have a date twice and then break up because she wants to focus on music.... REALLY what was the point of that poor guy? I actually feel bad for him, the series wouldn't change without him.
Hibike is kind of a sore subject for me as well... I'm not usually against subtext, so my main problem with Hibike wasn't that it was "bait", but that it was bait AND switch. Meaning that even though, in S1, the "main" sapphic pairing (i.e. Kumiko x Reina) by far outperformed the het pairings (i.e. Hazuki's crush on Shuuichi and Reina's crush on Taki) both in terms of screen time, chemistry and (mutual) UST, only the latter were explicitly acknowledged as romantic, while zero sapphic pairings or even feelings were ever explicitly acknowledged throughout the story.
This. The anime's focus was on the girl's interactions with each other, it's like it's a yuri work with het subtext in it. The guys only ever show up to tell people that it's not a yuri work, otherwise, they really don't have any impact on the story. I bet if you remove every scene witha guy in it, it'll still be a complete anime. Even Taki doesn't have much screen time, just there to remind people they're practicing for a competition. The anime was focused on girls interactions then suddenly bam, het all around. Like, the heck are you guys even doing. If you don't call that yuri baiting I don't know what is.
Liz is a story that essentially stands on its own. It's not an adaptation of any of the books, watching the TV anime isn't necessary to understand it, and it tells a complete story that needs no sequel.
Naturally everyone is entitled to interpret things how the want.... but Naoko Yamada specifically said that Liz to Ao Tori is not a romance movie. She stated in an interview that she likes making platonic relationships look romantic. She very directly said that there is no actual romance going on between the girls...
That aside, I want to defend KyoAni just a little and say it isn't completely yuribait. They did adapt Kobayashi-san, which is overtly yuri both in the manga and their anime adaptation. Can't wait for season 2.
Just because they adapted Kobayashi-san, doesn't mean they're suddenly not responsible for the bait and switch that is Hibike. If my friend smacks me across the face, and then offers me ice cream, does that mean I was never slapped in the first place?
If Naoko Yamada really said that and meant that, I'm very disappointed in her. That's basically a big middle finger for the LGBTQ+ audiences. But it's not like it should be a big surprise. Obviously, hijacking the aesthetic of queer romance for moe / sexy points and then discarding it / denying it is what we should have come to expect from mainstream media by now.