Oct 23, 2015
Hibike! Euphonium is a wasted opportunity. It has great attention to detail in both art and sound design when it comes to the instruments, but falls flat on its face in almost every other aspect. Having just come off of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso/Your Lie in April, which has two great musical sequences in the first two episodes, the fact that it took until episode 3 for any real music to pop up in this series frustrated me too much than it should have. That frustration followed me throughout the series.
The series seems to at times WANT to be about music, but is dragged
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into drama because that tension is supposed to move the story and characters along. Ultimately, it seems as if only a few characters really meaningfully change, and we're left with maybe four decent performances in the 13 episode series.
In spite of the fact that the series roughly covers a school year, the entire pace seems slow, since there are only really two major plot points that involve playing pieces of music, and the series builds to the second over the course of the majority of its episodes. This is slightly understandable, since the point of the series is the drama of the club more than them actually playing music. If there's a sequel and it continues to follow this format it will be inexcusable.
Overall, I'm probably judging this harsher than I should for what it is, but looking at it as a fan of music anime and seeing what it could have been... In the end, I'm just glad that I'm done watching this series so I don't have to fret over how much it annoys me any more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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