Reviews

The Hibike Euphonium 2 Specials are essentially a bite-sized version of the antics the various members of the Wind Ensemble get up to in their time not engaging in activity related to the Wind Ensemble, and, it works perfectly well in this regard, there’s not much that they can really convey in the 3 minute episodes they have, but they aren’t insufficient, and they certainly adopt a more comedic tone for these particular episodes, which is to be expected, they didn’t exactly go all in with this change in tone in the same way something like the Suzumiya Haruhi-chan series did, but, they went in, even if not all the way, and, I really don’t have many complaints, the whole thing works fine, some of the episodes are certainly weaker than others, and I wouldn’t exactly call it mandatory viewing for any avid watchers of the franchise, but the total runtime is about that of a regular anime episode, and if you like the prospect of the characters of Hibike Euphonium dossing about and taking it easy for a bit, then you’ll like what this series of OVAs provides.