Story- synopsis is available for ya if you want but in short its about a girl who in junior highschool was in a brass band club and there was a competition to make it to nationals they didnt make it and she didnt really care but her friend reina did and showed her emotions so fast forward shes ends up joining a band club in her new highschool as a first year she meets reina again her old classmate who also attends the same school and the incident that occured when they didnt make nationals in junior highschool. So now the MC Kumiko wants to become a better euphonium player (the instrument she uses is the euphonium) and wants to go to nationals and that becomes her goal.
I thought the story was very good and well executed within the 13 episodes it had quite a bit of development in the characters and also had some funny moments along with some dramatic stuff but it was good overall but i cannot say it was amazing mainly because some of the dramatic moments and whats so ever are not elaborated on and seemingly just skipped people who have watched will know the confession episode and the 12th episode are 2 examples of what im talking about.
Art- Amazing simply amazing beautiful colors everything is so vibrant the character designs sleek shiny beautiful it has a really great appeal to it kyoto animation for the win putting out amazingly animated and beautiful looking anime for some time. Nothing here i hate everything was just perfect my only gripe would be if people dont like the super shiny bright colourful artwork then its definitly not something you'll like it.
Sound- Its basically classical band choir music or something like that you get the wood winds, brass and some drums all the categories are split into the euphoniums, trumphets, drums, flutes i mean it has everything that would fit with the type of band that the students are in and i must say not alot of music to be 100% honest i thought the music scenes and or practice scenes would be majority of the anime but it wasnt but in the mean time the classical music was great to hear even if you dislike that type of music like myself but i appreciated it sounded great and also the op is one of the best ops in the spring anime season just a really catchy song.
Character- Some of the better characters ive seen in the entire anime season no matter the genre the main character if the anime kumiko honestly wasnt the star in my opinon that spot belongs to reina kousaka and the two of them go on to inspire and help eachother as well as build a friendship after their rocky ending in the past and also make for some beautifully done scenes throughout the anime and some of the most funny moments in the anime. You get a salty b**** excuse me for that but you get her just a bunch of randoms in the band and the characters who are minor but dont really add to the story but overall kumikos friends and her bandmates help her and just give a really good vibe.
(The two characters i mentioned were just the two i found best there are more characters that actually add to the story)
Enjoyment- 9/10
overall- im giving this an 8/10 personally would give it like an 8.3/10 but rounding it so 8/10 it is or something along those lines it was a really good anime in my opinion one of the best looking anime of the spring season and very enjoyable after not hearing any hype or anything special about it until i actually watched it suprised me and was suprisingly really good.
