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| Takeda-sensei's old school: Chiba Prefecture's Umikaku High School, is the next milestone for Hajime and Akine, and now it's the smart Akine's turn to repay the favour by tutoring him to prepare the way ahead while he tutors her on the violin, starting from the most basic and fundamental foundation: bowing. And no other than Hajime's mother feels satisfied that her own son finally is getting back into the groove and having someone work together. Though Akine will sometimes play the romantic teasing aspect on Hajime, now she has a dream that she wants to chase for: make her own sound, and Umimaku High is where she wants to be, though she hopes that Hajime will also work hard to reach there as well. The day of the admission results upon graduation, and Hajime worked hard on his tests, though he barely passed. Together with Akine, will become high schoolers in Umimaku High. Takeda-sensei treating the both of them and praising Hajime to no end, him picking up the violin after all these years is a testament, and now this picture being superseded by the both of them, they'll carve out a new path for themselves. For Akine, getting to see her friend Haru Kozakura in the same school, it brings great joy, though with expectations that wrangle the girl's mind. The entrance ceremony towards Umikaku High School, both Hajime and Akine are in the same class. The first friend registered on his smartphone, and Haru is introduced to Hajime, though she's shy and has a weird affection on him, knowing that the both of them have seen each other before. The typical arrangement of the 1st Years joining a club, and the 164-member strong Symphonic Orchestra Club is the biggest club in school with their conductor Hiroaki Ayukawa, aiming to have more male members. Sincerely, this is quite the sound effect (aside from the weird-looking CGI) that bands together as one. The first taste of the Umikaku High School Orchestra Club in its entirety...IT'S NO SLOUCH in its grandeur. |
KANLen09Apr 29, 2023 9:03 PM
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| the CGI ... Unfortunately, that's the only thing I remember from this episode, and not for a good reason... |
| Enjoyed that last segment although the cgi was underwhelming. I was vibing like Aono though xD |
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| Didn't expect things would already moving so fast, not that I mind. CGI looked hella awkward, hope we don't see that again. Hope to see teacher play a role in the future again. |
| OOF that 3D animation of the orchestral performance was painful. It was especially jarring, since up to this point the show had very pleasing animation that looked mostly 2D. The scenes with solo violin performances have been great. I thought the sweeping wide shots were decent, but the closer shots, with one or two people shown from the front, looked very awkward and unpleasant. The conductor in particular looked like an automaton, with stiff joints and a frozen porcelain face. I understand it's not feasible to produce a 100-man orchestra performance in 2D, but there has to be a better way than this. Maybe they could have stuck with 3D but simply avoided close-up shots as much as possible. The few close-ups that they do have could have been done in 2D. Alternatively, I would have been happy with fully 2D wide shots that made some compromises to the level of detail. It's a bummer that the worst part of a music anime had to be a musical scene. The main characters have been slowly growing on me, and the setting change could be interesting. Hopefully the direction and animation quality during performances will improve once the main characters begin to take part. |
| We've advanced to high school, but de-evolved in the animation department by bringing shitty 3D animation in the mix. I get it with the number of characters that needed to be animated, though. I hope that the main characters won't be met with the same treatement. |
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| So Haru is probably some kid from competitions Hajime attended in and she has a crush on him. This show has some CSM movement added in, too bad. |
| Man that high school is amazing, reminds me of the Nijigaku girls school lol. I like how aono has got his joy back for the violin and is getting along with Akine. I think their conversation at the end of the last episode did wonders for both of them. Haru potential love interest?? Guessing it’s like an Emi/Arima thing from Shigatsu The CGI during the orchestra scenes was pretty rough and I feel like they should’ve been able to do some decent 2D animation for some of those shots. Especially of the conductor and the close ups.. then again nippon animation are on the smaller side and with this not being a big manga they may not have the resources. The 2D stuff looks gorgeous and so bright tho. |
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| CGI was rough but besides that it was a very good episode. Seems like Kozakura knows Aono. Probably played together as kids. Interesting to see what happens from here. |
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| the cgi during the orchestra scene wasn't that great, but im a total band nerd so im willing to overlook it. did anyone else think aono was going to recognize haru and drop his phone over the railing he was leaning on? lmao |
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| The teacher is the MVP in all this. What a way to end the episode too, showcasing the greatness of this orchestra club that has won the nationals for 8 consecutive times. |
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| The music was good, but the CGI threw me off... really ruined the immersion. A positive thing about the episode was that the pace moved on and they already entered high-school. I didn't expect it to happen so soon, but I'm glad it did, we'll now get to see new characters, and the orchestra dynemics. |
| Well, production is bad and they completely ruined the performance with the CGI, that killed it for me ngl. Computers ruined anime. |
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DutchEllie said: def agree with you on that, the difference in color between the teacher's face and neck was CRAZYYY lmfao. And the 3D. I am still not the biggest fan of 3D. It was most especially bad on the teacher, that was just awful. On the orchestra it had its moments, it wasn't all bad. I wonder why 3D is so hard to execute well, yet everyone keeps using it. I guess it must be so much easier that it's worth it. it doesn't look too bad when it's from far away but when you see them up close, it's a lil uncanny. |
| Akine is being very supportive of Aono. And although the manga's focus isn't romance, it's nice to see these kinds of things. |
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| A decent episode overall as Hajime and Akine transitioned to a new high school, and got to witness a live orchestra performance. I wonder how Haru knows Hajime from, probably a competition from a long time ago I'm guessing. Obviously, the CGI performance at the end was disappointing, but I hope that in future performances, there's a better blend of 2D and 3D in there to make it look a bit less jarring. |
| Their high school is like a well funded University. Dang, didn't know Japan high school is this high end. Anyway, I'm actually glad this is CGI rather than static images. It's actually very reasonable they use CGI for this , otherwise imagine them animating like 80 people playing instruments at once, it'd kill the animator lolz That's why not many anime dare to make shows about Orchestra cuz it's insane to animate it in 2D. Many of them are about solo Piano so they only need to draw one person playing instrument. Hiruuu_ said: Playing a whole orchestra during club introductions at the opening ceremony is a bit too extra. I know the whole point of their school and this anime is the 'orchestra', but I just think it's so funny. Also it's good f-- music, not as good as the 3DCG but I'll give this one a pass. It's not "funny" if the orchestra club is their largest/ most pride club in the school rly. Ofc they get privilege. Mod Edit: Merged double posts |
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| They should've used more stills than CGI for the performance. |
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SodaPop0912 said: No, he's surprised about a mere "school band" can perform this well, it's not about first time hearing concert.There’s no way that this is Aono’s first time listening to a live orchestra performance. He’s been playing for years and with a professional violinist as a father but hasn’t been to a concert??? I say bullshit but whatever. The 3d is bad as I expected, there’s no weight in the bowings, stiff body movement, just robotic and no life. Animating string instruments close to real-life performance is probably impossible. I want to like the show, since I also played the violin, but man it didn’t look good. I hope the story pulls through. He said during his middle school year he just cant bother joining the band club cuz they kinda suck. Jun_008 said: I hope this will be the last time their using 3d cgi on the musical performances. I doubt it, if it's scene of full band playing I bet it's gonna be CGI cuz it rly is very very difficult to animate 100+ ppl playing instruments at once. Is either static images or CGI, pick your poison. Mod Edit: Merged double posts |
KayKimiiApr 26, 2023 6:17 AM
Jun_008 said: Ventus_S said: they don't have to animate 100+ people at once. Hibike euphonium already did this similar type of setup without 3d cgi.I doubt it, if it's scene of full band playing I bet it's gonna be CGI cuz it rly is very very difficult to animate 100+ ppl playing instruments at once. Is either static images or CGI, pick your poison. Hibike is made by Kyoto ani , the standard is on a totally different level, haha. They got their reputation that way and not many companies can replicate |
| Sensei has always been great. Love him. They're finally in high school and it looks like the orchestral performance took them straight into that club. New female character. The CGI has also been done decently. Nothing that would take me out of this show. |
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| This episode was pretty good, but the 3D animation during the orchestra sequence was a bit unsettling. I'm not exactly looking forward to seeing that again and again, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. |
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| Glad they both made it. Orchestra club performance sounded nice but nothing that hooked me in. Also why was it in cg? Did thet outsource the performance portion? Also what's up with Haru? |
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| Hmm, wondering what that girl's meeting was about. Was she his rival or something? Anyways im liking this series. Looking forward to where this goes. |
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