Episode 7 – Sound! Euphonium 3

Some fairly monumental occasions happen on this week’s episode Sound! Euphonium. Yuko and Natsuki return for a cameo look! Kumiko and Reina put on matching swimsuits! Really a real spectacle of story content material. Okay, the episode additionally confirms that the Kitauji band received gold of their competitors and can advance to the Kansai competitors, however that was such a foregone conclusion that exhibiting the precise efficiency of the music on this music anime was skipped . Which is sort of becoming, since this episode is in regards to the minimal distraction that the highschool band membership poses to college students’ futures. Kumiko nonetheless lets it take up her time; even the summer time trip she will get right here is spent organizing conferences for the bass part whereas making an attempt (and failing) to have a very good dialog with Kuroe.

The purpose is: progress is which continues to be being made by Kumiko by way of emotional vary and future planning. She is amusingly comfortable to listen to that Kanade, her junior, is extra conscious of highschool plans than she is. In fact, understanding Kanade, half the explanation she went by way of these efforts was particularly to mess with Kumiko. Kumiko additionally attends a university truthful with Hazuki, the place the subject of educating as a profession possibility is mentioned. As Hazuki factors out, typically it simply takes another person asking if you happen to’re interested by one thing earlier than you notice that you simply truly are. Kumiko as a music trainer appears now an apparent path, particularly now that she has come into her personal as president of the membership. Nevertheless it would not have occurred as an possibility if it weren’t for this innocent break indulgence.

The return of Yuko and Natsuki performs a job on this evaluation of the longer term. They’re reminders of the inevitability of rising up. They’re additionally admirably married, sporting matching hair clips and taking photographs at one another for it. It’s their love language. Plus, I like that Natsuki can punish Kanade’s bullshit effortlessly; she is aware of that kind precisely. As a lot as Sound! Euphonium has all the time been a glorification of the highschool stage of life, performances like this, and Asuka on the finish of the movie, reinforce that the longer term and adults are nonetheless concerned. Senpai furthers their schooling, sure, however they’ll nonetheless make time to drop by and supply some perspective.

Kumiko gathers perspective in all the pieces she offers with. The break additionally makes it the best time for her sister Mamiko to come back over. It’s acknowledged that the issues brought on by Mamiko’s college dropout/profession change add one other layer to Kumiko’s stress in selecting her profession path. No surprise she prefers to pay attention as a lot as doable on managing the band. Nobody’s choices are made in a vacuum – Mamiko is a microcosm of that, however this concept can be seen within the pool journey deliberate round this episode.

It begins with Reina desperately eager to exit with Kumiko to point out off the matching swimsuits they picked out collectively (cute!) bass part. Your complete group turns into inadvertently concerned due to the competing affections and wishes of only a few individuals.

That unavoidable affect illustrates how Kuroe’s want to not trigger issues for others is essentially incompatible with the hassle required of the band. The efficiency of “Liz and the Blue Hen” by…Liz and the Blue Hen is invoked right here, a reminder {that a} participant cannot really be nice except he is enjoying for one thing he loves. This was the awakening that allowed Kumiko to pursue enchancment, and Kuroe’s self-imposed lack of ardour naturally reminds Kumiko of her comparable self in highschool. There however for the grace of God, and all that, with the added layer of irony that Kumiko is aware of precisely how a lot that angle can harm individuals, even if you happen to undertake it particularly to keep away from ache. This intersects with Kumiko’s ongoing issues together with her worry of non-public publicity: solely when you may love are you able to achieve this. are liked.

It is not the open dialog Kumiko hoped to have with Kuroe, but it surely’s shut, at the very least by way of speaking issues to the viewers. The path drives the concept inward Sound! Euphonium‘s common, unsubtle manner, isolating Kumiko and Kuroe from one another in digicam photographs, even after they’re sitting proper subsequent to one another. It’s the reverse of the intimate understanding communicated by Kumiko and Reina’s swimsuits.

Kumiko’s efforts are well-intentioned, however her try to incorporate Kuroe within the picture with the group she had beforehand stayed away from may solely have backfired on this lopsided manner. Kuroe solely feels extra assured that she’s not meant to slot in with the Kitauji crew, so what does that imply for the way she’ll play to win on the auditions? Generally it simply takes another person asking if you happen to’re interested by one thing earlier than you notice that you simply actually are. Haruka Tomatsu expresses her ideas on understanding that she should do what’s greatest for the band as such risk and that i like it. This episode was about maintaining a tally of all the weather of the longer term, from the inevitable profession decisions the scholars will in the end choose, to the ominous storm on the fast horizon after this quiet summer time break.

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Sound! Euphonium 3 presently streaming on Crunchyroll.

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