'Hibike! Euphonium' Gets New Anime Project

by Sakana-san
Jun 1, 2019 8:14 AM | 55 Comments

During the "Hibike! Euphonium 5-kaime da yo! Uji de Omatsuri Festival" event on Saturday, it was announced that Kyoto Animation's Hibike! Euphonium has a new anime project in the works. It will center on Kumiko Oumae and her third and final year at high school. To commemorate the announcement, character designer Shoko Ikeda drew an illustration (pictured).

The project will be based on Ayano Takeda's two-volume novel Hibike! Euphonium: Kitauji Suisougaku-bu, Ketsui no Saishuu Gakushou. The second and final novel is scheduled to ship on June 22.

Takeda's novels received two TV anime adaptations and four movies. The first 13-episode TV anime aired in Spring 2015 and was followed by a sequel in Fall 2016. Two compilation films, Hibike! Euphonium Movie 1: Kitauji Koukou Suisougaku-bu e Youkoso and Hibike! Euphonium Movie 2: Todoketai Melody, summarized the events of the two TV series and premiered in April 2016 and September 2017, respectively.

A side-story film, Liz to Aoi Tori, premiered in April last year that centers on Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki. Hibike! Euphonium Movie 3: Chikai no Finale premiered on April 19, and takes place during the students' second year.

Crunchyroll provided a simulcast for both seasons on its platform. Pony Canyon USA shipped the first season as three collector's editions between June 2016 and August 2016, and released volume one of the second season in August 2018. Eleven Arts licensed Liz to Aoi Tori and shipped it on Blu-ray and DVD in March.

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Source: Comic Natalie

Hibike! Euphonium: Kumiko 3 Nensei-hen on MAL

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I hope they get to this one day. Just one day, but I do hope they can rebuild as well as they had been one day, and then they'd get this back on track. Hibike! Euphonium has been my absolute favourite next to Clannad After Story, so I pray they'd get this and get it right.
Prayers up to Kyoani.

Aug 7, 2019 3:00 AM by csws

Hoping for a full season! Movies are great but the wait for the US release and even longer wait for other countries is agonizing.

Jun 19, 2019 11:22 AM by YoshiYogurt

More Hibike Euphonium for me then

Jun 7, 2019 1:48 AM by xchyssa

Great! I'm always up for a new Hibike Euphonium sequel (or Spin-off). I never thought I'd enjoy it as much as I did and the spin-off movie Liz and the Blue Bird is also a masterpiece. Can't wait for more. Hoping the new one's a series. But I would be fine with a movie too.

Jun 5, 2019 10:41 PM by Raibyou

Btw, found this lovely MAD of Hibike! Might help those who would like to give the anime a shot!

Incredible arts. √
Unmatched details. √
Outstanding animations. √
Unparalleled usage of sounds. √
Very likeable and diverse characters. √
One of the most REAL protagonists in anime. √
And an unbelievably relatable coming-of-age story. √

That's Hibike! for you!

Jun 3, 2019 11:30 AM by shanimebib

Gailo said:
But yeah nice to see there’s gonna be a third season. Really expected the last movie to be the ending.

Fingers crossed, but we are all hoping for a TV series because the format has not been announced yet.

Jun 3, 2019 6:36 AM by shanimebib

All this fight in the comments about ships when you all could damn I don’t know... let people ship whoever they want (canon or not who cares)

But yeah nice to see there’s gonna be a third season. Really expected the last movie to be the ending.

Jun 3, 2019 6:09 AM by Gailo

Automatic Plan to watch list!

Jun 3, 2019 5:53 AM by Slarkero

I say, is there going to be any music in this new installment? If the people at KyoAni read the discussion above they would drop all that ensemble stuff (which must be a pain to animate) and do only the shipping bits.

Jun 2, 2019 7:43 PM by Tirinchas

LightSpectrum said:

Rosary_Diva said:
The interactions of the characters from the body language and subtle gestures in their way of acting is incredible the advanced emotional social communication that they possess , while with the guy never even bothered to build that up ... for the sake of the congruence of the characters I would prefer that be no one ends up with anyone.

Very well said! One of the reasons why I like Eupho so much is that the animation and direction is so RICH in conveying the complex intimacy between characters, whether platonic or romantic or something other (eg. Kumiko and Asuka). So the fact that in anime canon Kumiko BARELY has any of these interactions with Shuichi before the 3rd movie yet they're supposed to ultimately be a couple in the end?? I'm not buying it as anything other than forced and unnecessary...

I completely invite KyoAni to change my mind but with how things are now, I really hope they deviate from the source material since it hasn't stopped them before (see: basically the entirety of Liz to Aoi Tori lol). I haven't watched the 3rd movie yet, though, so maybe KyoAni DID manage to completely justify KumiShui's relationship somehow without it being too OOC... but I digress.

I look forward to this new anime adaption and I hope it'll be a TV season!

They didn't really deviate with Liz to Aoi, they just changed the POV of the story arc of Mizore and Nozomi to them, instead of Kumiko as it was in the original.

And Kyoani already adapted Shuichi to be with Kumiko in Chikai no Finale, we already know that they get together in the movie and we see all the time of them together and then separating due to them wanting to focus on the club.

As far as the third year, we don't know how anything end as the last novel will get out on june 22 but it's likely that she's going to end with Shuichi due to how everything was developed and made on the novel. With the anime, we'll have to wait and see but I would bet on that happening as well, considering that they also adapted Reina love for Taiki.

Jun 2, 2019 5:12 PM by brzzcode

Yeees! This makes me so happy! I'm really excited for season 3

Jun 2, 2019 2:04 PM by wandavion

Jun 2, 2019 1:56 PM by LightSpectrum

@El_Caguai: Btw, if you got that spoiler~ish content from ANN, the writer had too much going on when they wrote that news article. First of all, they had a couple of names spelled incorrectly: the blatant one was Shuuichi's surname. Okay I give it to them as there is no Kana but surely the other name is not Maya (not with that Kanji). It should be either Mayu or Mayuu (the most common ones for her Kanji.)

Secondly, the new girl Mayu is a third year transferee from SeiJo. She is not a first year as the news makes her to be (merging the line about the first years joining, the bane in translating Japanese is not being able to separate subjects from objects).

This is what happens when you use google translator and search engines to write synopsis from a language you have no idea of. In other words: >>Garbage synopsis writer.<<

Jun 2, 2019 12:05 PM by shanimebib

shanimebib said:

Vhailor said:
Eh, I don't see any new scenes in that trailer.

Umm, it just announced that Kumiko's third year is under production. Do you think they will be able to add clips from something that got a decision in no more than a week perhaps, heck maybe the decision was made after seeing the success of Chikai no Finale so it could be less than 48 hours.

That's what happens when you don't read the OP, and are an illiterate when it comes to moonspeak. Thanks for clearing that up, mate.

Jun 2, 2019 10:12 AM by Vhailor

FragileGlass said:

MemeRetro said:

I'm not trolling, I really think it's a terrible show.

Says the dude who has K-ON as a favorite show which is inferior compared to this series.

Good job being as useless as that initial troll.

Jun 2, 2019 9:57 AM by ArrRti

Vhailor said:
Eh, I don't see any new scenes in that trailer.

Jun 2, 2019 9:09 AM by shanimebib

Eh, I don't see any new scenes in that trailer. Looks like it's going to be more like a summary movie for a theatrical release. Still better than a fucking Pachinko game.

Jun 2, 2019 8:08 AM by Vhailor

FragileGlass said:

MemeRetro said:

I'm not trolling, I really think it's a terrible show.

Says the dude who has K-ON as a favorite show which is inferior compared to this series.

Those two shows aren't even in the same genre, you can't compare them.

Jun 2, 2019 7:59 AM by PurePureHeart

FragileGlass said:

ClickBaitBuster said:

shanimebib said:
Yeah, read that earlier but still happy to read it again in MAL.

El_Caguai said:
I had seen on another website a very curious and revealing synopsis

I still hope for the KumiRei ship :3

I have read the actual synopsis of the novel so it's fantastic that someone managed to squeeze that highlighted word in in the synopsis because it wasn't there in the actual one.

Also, to make life easier for you and everyone else:

So, yeah, while you can certainly hope for it, just don't get too invested on it all over again.

but the fact that the anime didn't even properly establish the romance between the two is kinda heartbreaking If i remember correctly i think it was around season 2 when shuuichi finally has some lines that are more than a minute long and even if he had that the relationship between the two is not clear because kyoani gives us the yuribait treatment since season 1

Excuse me!

Who discussed the earlier issues of the band with Kumiko? Who brought up his concern about their childhood friend Aoi? Who discussed with Kumiko about the first time that Asuka-senpai seem to have something about her? Who discussed KitaUji's chances in the nationals for the first time? Who got caught trying to defend Reina while questioning Taki-sensei's way of handling things (which Reina heard halfway through and has been mean with him ever since)?

The riverbed meetings under sunsets, the meeting under the shed in a rain, talking while returning home by the train in multiple occasions?

The answer to all of these is Shuuichi.

Watch the season 1 again. While none of these (apart from the invitation to Agata matsuri) might have been romantic, he had more interaction with Kumiko than anyone else in the earlier episodes, sharing intel of the band and the rumours surrounding it.

Needless to say, they are childhood friends so it's not like the story needs to show us that they are close. Their constant bickering just showed that they are very close.

Meanwhile, Kumiko has silently shown signs that she might like Shuuichi. And the very first hint was her dropping her egg-roll when got asked by Hazuki if she liked him. The follow-up reaction from her in the next episode was so bad that it made me laugh. Maybe because I am well aware of the "dropping food from the chopstick/ spoon" trope used in Asian literature so I could pick that up. But the biggest hint was her tightening the grip on Reina's arm after allowing Hazuki to take him away. Look at her face at that very instant. It was a face of someone allowing something very important taken from them which was followed by her dropping her shoes in front of the locker (an extremely impolite thing to do in school ground in Japanese culture and is often shown as signs of emotional instability).

Episode 8 of S1 just brainwashed majority of the viewers into that that Shuuichi never had any interaction with Kumiko up to that point nor Kumiko's out of the ordinary behaviours when it came to Shuuichi. The signs were there. Just not picked by many.

Jun 2, 2019 7:05 AM by shanimebib

More Kumiko. Hype!

Also, fuck yurifag

Jun 2, 2019 5:28 AM by Edocchi

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