Hibike! Euphonium 2 (Sound! Euphonium 2)

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Synonyms: Hibike! Euphonium Second Season

Japanese: 響け！ユーフォニアム2

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 6, 2016 to Dec 29, 2016

Premiered: Fall 2016

Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: Lantis, Pony Canyon, Rakuonsha

Licensors: Ponycan USA

Studios: Kyoto Animation

Source: Novel

Genre: Drama

Themes: Music, Performing Arts, School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.31¹ (scored by 114,510 users)

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Ranked: #241²

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Popularity: #1046

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Following their success in the qualifying round for the Kansai regional competition, the members of the Kitauji High School concert band set their sights on the next upcoming performance. Utilizing their summer break to the utmost, the band participates in a camp where they are instructed by their band advisor Noboru Taki and his friends who make their living as professional musicians.

Kumiko Oumae and her friends remain determined to attain gold at the Kansai competition, but trouble arises when a student who once quit the band shows interest in rejoining and sparks unpleasant memories for the second-year members. Kumiko also learns about her teacher's surprising past and the motivation behind his desire to lead the band to victory. Reaching nationals will require hard work, and the adamant conviction in each student's commitment to the band will be put to the test.

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Adaptation:	Hibike! Euphonium
Prequel:	Hibike! Euphonium
Other:	Hibike! Euphonium 2 Specials, Kimi wa Tennen Shoku
Summary:	Hibike! Euphonium Movie 2: Todoketai Melody
Side story:	Liz to Aoi Tori
Sequel:	Hibike! Euphonium Movie 3: Chikai no Finale

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Oumae, Kumiko

Main

Kurosawa, Tomoyo
Japanese

Kousaka, Reina

Main

Anzai, Chika
Japanese

Tanaka, Asuka

Main

Kotobuki, Minako
Japanese

Yoroizuka, Mizore

Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi
Japanese

Nakagawa, Natsuki

Supporting

Fujimura, Konomi
Japanese

Kasaki, Nozomi

Supporting

Touyama, Nao
Japanese

Tsukamoto, Shuuichi

Supporting

Ishiya, Haruki
Japanese

Katou, Hazuki

Supporting

Asai, Ayaka
Japanese

Yoshikawa, Yuuko

Supporting

Yamaoka, Yuri
Japanese

Taki, Noboru

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
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Nakamura, Shinichi

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Senami, Riri

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Saitou, Shigeru

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Ishihara, Tatsuya

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Opening Theme

"Soundscape (サウンドスケープ)" by TRUE

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Ending Theme

"Vivace! (ヴィヴァーチェ！)" by Kitauji Quartet (北宇治カルテット) Kumiko Oumae (Tomoyo Kurosawa), Hazuki Katou (Ayaka Asai), Sapphire Kawashima (Moe Toyota), Reina Kousaka (Chika Anzai) (eps 1-8, 10-13)

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Aug 5, 2022

takutomaruki

Recommended

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. ...

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Feb 6, 2017

Ragna1999

Mixed Feelings

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 characters, but the way it was animated was so dramatic and over the top that it felt like it was supposed to be a romantic relationship. This led to an incredible amount of people coming to the conclusion that HE2 was just queerbaiting the audience. And I don't think it's wrong to think that because the show was presented like that. The overanimation was also very distracting. It was kind of difficult to take the dramatic scenes seriously or to even pay attention to what was happening.

Now let's talk about the story and characters. The story has unfortunately become very standard compared to the first season. The reason why I loved the first season was that almost every conflict or problem were there from the start. And by the end of it almost every problem is solved. In season 2 though most of the main conflicts of the show tend to be problems that have suddenly showed up out of nowhere and there was only one conflict that was there from the very beginning and it's my favorite storyline of the entire second season (it is the conflict between kumiko and her sister). It's also notable that the conflicts appeared one by one. This did not happen in the first season and that's why the first season felt like a breath of fresh air. This kind of story structure made season 2 look like a very well produced by the books highschool anime, but that's not what HE was. I can understand if people don't care about this kind of stuff, but for me it was drag to watch through. It also doesn't help that season 2 has a crap ton of flashbacks which I really hate. The first season was able to avoid most of them but it seems that that kind of writing has been lost in season 2.
Some characters in season 2 are completely ruined. Let's take Asuka as an example. The reason why she worked in the first season was that she was a very mysterious big sister kind of character and no one really understood what was going on with her and that's why she was my favorite character. She deliberately acted mysterious for the sake of the concert band. This character is completely ruined because she was the focuspoint of one of the storylines AND she got a backstory. I can talk about more characters who were completely ruined but this review is already pretty long so I'm going to keep it at that.

But what about the soundtrack and the sound though? That has to be good right? And to be fairly honest the soundtrack itself is really good. The same is for the sound design. My only problem with the sound is that I sometimes felt that the soundtrack was used way too much in dramatic scenes for EXTRA DRAMATIC EFFECT, but that is just my personal opinion. The sound of concerts is as good as season 1 and the sound of the instruments itself are again very well done.

When I look back at my viewing experience of HE S2 I would say that I very rarely enjoyed this sequel. There were moments where I was amazed at what Kyoto Animation had done with this second season but it immediately disappeared as soon as I dived deep into the story.

So would I recommend Hibike Euphonium season 2? Well it's difficult to say since I can see why most people would enjoy it. But if you want a well written story with a good structure with fun and consistent characters, I would recommend the first season of Hibike Euphonium. The first season can stand on its own feet since it's a complete story. I would only recommend season 2 to people who really want to know how the story would've continued, but even then I would just recommend reading everything online instead of actually watching the second season.

If you're still here after all that gibberish then congrats and thanks for reading this review and not immediately ignore it because of the score!

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Aug 17, 2022

Itkovian

Not Recommended

It's one thing to queerbait me, but it's another thing to not only queerbait me, but do it twice, after 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. 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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