Episode 13 – Sound! Euphonium 3

The stone chilly blast that was the penultimate of final week Sound! Euphonium The episode did an outstanding job of wrapping up lots of the story’s plot threads. Regardless of its departure from the novels, it felt like precisely the purpose the collection had been constructing in the direction of all alongside. It was a triumph that, in fact, left the finale itself this week to function only a victory lap after all the pieces else this complete collection has achieved. As vital as it’s, Kitauji’s victory could possibly be a foregone conclusion by now: they’ve already gained over each coronary heart and thoughts they probably can.

That’s to not say that this closing installment is something to go by, nor does the importance of the band’s victory to the story. Kitauji taking the gold at Nationals is strictly the jubilant, fist-pumping second viewers may have hoped for in spite of everything this time getting there. However the true energy of Sound! Euphonium‘s finale lies in the best way it acknowledges and honors that passage of time. A few of that may simply be anticipated from the format; the band’s closing efficiency is accompanied by flashbacks to all of the years Kumiko and co. have spent within the story. It is a highly effective, evocative approach to outline this efficiency of the competitors and to tell apart it from earlier performances which have tended to meditate on the taking part in of the items themselves. It offers a particular purpose for Why this efficiency takes residence the gold the place the earlier ones failed, and embodies all the pieces that Kitauji introduced right here.

However the energy of these three years of highschool, which really feel like a lifetime, is clear nearly all over the place else on this closing chapter. Kumiko’s follow nook is a hanging instance of this. She has returned right here repeatedly, the picture of her sitting and rehearsing a recurring picture that’s seemingly static: being in the identical place time and again. However the stands of the place is consistently altering and has been frequently disrupted this season, particularly by Kuroe, whose intruders have been waving the shadows backwards and forwards throughout Kumiko’s place. Now that the mud has lastly settled between the euphonium gamers, Kumiko can invite Kuroe in and alter the follow place one final time. And Kanade is allowed to return too, in order that Kumiko can go Asuka’s piece on correctly to the subsequent technology.”Sound! Euphonium” will proceed, it’s confirmed right here. That’s fairly good, in context.

A giant a part of this finale is like this: cherishing these final moments to be spent with these characters. Taking the time to linger in these on a regular basis scenes is the sort of materials that requires Kyoto animation has all the time excelled at it – and the final time is not any much less stunning than the primary dozen occasions, right here or of their different anime. Seeing Kumiko and Reina collectively on the mountain does not have the identical merciless dread that sounded in final week’s episode, however as an alternative highlights their time spent collectively one final time as they resolve to maneuver on towards the long run they’d mapped out. These easy moments with the folks you’re keen on are what you miss most whenever you depart highschool – and it is what audiences will miss most now that their time with Kumiko and Reina in highschool is over.

In fact, it is by no means actually the tip. Sound! Euphonium‘s closing piece passes as shortly as all of the cherished occasions, ending with a flash-forward coda to convey all of it full circle. These aforementioned flashbacks and repetitions of fastened areas already did that conceptually, however right here we get probably the most concrete connecting conclusion. Regardless of all of the painful efforts made all season to resolve it, Kumiko’s eventual future as a instructor at Kitauji was all the time the pure selection. It is the proper approach to resolve her points along with her decisions all through the season: as an advisor to the band, she will be able to nonetheless cope with music, which she loves, in her grownup life and profession. And her time as president proved her management expertise and willpower. Simply as Kumiko had no selection however to return to the band after highschool, she should additionally return to it after highschool. That is offered not as a reluctant inevitability, however as an alternative as her triumphant step in the direction of the place she all the time belonged. It is like her follow nook: the place is technically the identical, however the context has moved it throughout mountains.

It was a robust journey for KyoAni and Sound! Euphonium. It was a privilege to see it unfold because it was delivered in actual time, and it gave a lot weight to reaching this ending. However I imagine going again and watching the anime in a single sitting will likely be simply pretty much as good for its qualities. The collection’ wholesome respect for the passage of time – and folks’s notion of it – is what makes it really feel just like the run-of-the-mill epic that it’s. It is not completely flawless and even this nice finale was emphatically surpassed by the earlier piece. However it could actually nonetheless be confirmed as an general glorious triumph now that it has ended. And it simply is likely to be potential Kyoto Animation‘s finest work.

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