It's also a show for people who want a very simple character-driven story where the main action comes through an introspective heroine trying to sort out her thoughts and then her relationship concerning a childhood friend of hers whom she had a falling out with during their middle-school band days. There is also a bright and cheerful character who knows nothing about concert band, and her interactions with the other characters are pretty cute. In addition there is the super-moe double bassist, who's an interesting case in that I expected her to be the shy, unconfident type, but she actually has quite a bit of fire.
The characters themselves, though, are all that there are, because the story itself could be superimposed over any other situation and be mostly the same. Another reviewer here mentioned the same thing, but honestly, they could be magical girls, they could be vampires, they could even be on a sports team, and nothing would change, because it would still be a slow-moving story about a very boring girl just sort of slogging through life wondering what she should do about her past relationship.
As for the art, everything was amazing, it's Kyoto Animation. The sound was all good, but none of the BGMs particularly stood out.
I haven't finished the show, as it is not finished as of the time of this writing, but I just wanted to drop a short review for anyone thinking about getting into this show. It's very slow-paced, the plot doesn't exist, and it will only be interesting if you happen to like the characters for who they are, whereas I didn't find them all that fascinating. Also, if you have no experience with concert band, you're going to spend a lot of time staring at your screen wondering either what hilarious joke or fond memory you're missing out on because the show caters pretty hard to the concert band crowd.
