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Season 3 (2024)

With the ensemble contest behind them, the members of the Kitauji High School concert band now aim to win a gold medal at the national competition. For third-year club president Kumiko Oumae and her friends, it is their last chance before graduation. Filled with anticipation and anxiety, Kumiko worries if she can successfully lead the band. Amid her struggles, Kumiko encounters transfer student Mayu Kuroe. From her gentle demeanor to her talented euphonium skills, Mayu was a member of the Seira Girls' School concert band—a regular at nationals. While Mayu is friendly, Kumiko cannot help but have an indescribable feeling from their meeting. As new members arrive and plans are set in motion, the club, with an insatiable hunger for a gold medal, learns what it truly takes to propel themselves to reach the national level.

Release date: 2024-04-07

User rating:

8.5 / 10

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara

Novel: Ayano Takeda

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Episodes (13):

1. New Euphonium

A new year is starting at Kitauji Kyoto Prefectural High School, and that means clubs are clamoring to recruit new members. The concert band welcomes newcomers and sets their goals for the season. Will they choose to fight for gold at Nationals?

2. Triangle Syncopation

Taki decides to let the band executives choose their competition piece this year. The leadership deliberates on this decision while trying to get the rest of the band ready to perform at the Sunrise Festival.

3. Blue Prelude

The concert band begins taking itself very seriously to give itself the best chance possible of winning gold at Nationals. Unfortunately, the intense environment has some of the new recruits discouraged and intimidated.

4. Etude with You

The day of the Sunrise Festival finally arrives, and it's time for the concert band to have their first performance of the year. Proximity to other schools and bands brings some of Motomu's family issues to light.

5. Twilight for Two

Now that she's well into her third-year, Kumiko is now facing pressure from teachers and parents alike to choose what she's doing after high school. Concert band members form groups to attend the Agata Festival, but Kumiko has other plans.

6. Wavering Dissonance

The Prefecturals are coming up and that means the first of many auditions for the members of the concert band. Mayu is still hesitant to audition despite reassurance from the others. Some of Taki's choices for the competition confuse members.

7. Summer Fermata

Members of the concert band are given a brief, three-day summer break that quickly fills with plans of all sorts. Some of the third-years attend an event to gather information on different colleges and plan their futures.

8. Melancholy Ostinato

The three-day summer camp has begun, and members of the concert band are faced with a rigorous training regimen. Mayu hesitates to audition yet again, afraid that she'll take the soli part from Kumiko. Motomu speaks to Midori in private.

9. Dissonant Tuning

Mayu taking the soli part has made the concert band uneasy. Despite Kumiko's insistence that this is how it should be, several members take issue with Taki's decision.

10. Expressing Arpeggios

The Kansai competition is right around the corner, and the band's dissent about Taki-sensei's decisions only continues to grow. Kumiko goes to speak with him, and she has to decide whether to speak her mind.

11. Orchestra to the Future

The concert band receives its Kansai competition results. Reina and Kumiko see Yoroizuka perform with some of their senpais. However, Kumiko and Reina's relationship becomes precarious as she continues to insist she won't go to music school.

12. The Last Soloist

Taki decides that the band will choose the euphonium soli player by voting on one final audition. Kumiko then decides that they should choose based on sound alone, and so the two of them audition anonymously.

13. Connecting Melodies

The final competition for the third-years is at hand. The Kitauji High School Concert Band performs together one last time in a bid for National gold.

Cast

Tomoyo Kurosawa

as Kumiko Oumae (voice)

Chika Anzai

as Reina Kousaka (voice)

Ayaka Asai

as Hazuki Katou (voice)

Moe Toyota

as Sapphire 'Midori' Kawashima (voice)

Haruka Tomatsu

as Mayu Kuroe (voice)

Crew - click here to expand

Hideaki Hatta - Production Supervisor, Taichi Ogawa - Assistant Director, Takuma Nagao - Music Director, Yoshifumi Yarimizu - Producer, Manabu Kuroda - Executive Producer, Kazunari Yasui - Producer, Rio Sato - Sound Effects, Aro Torigoe - Other, Masayuki Nishide - Executive Producer, Norihiro Tomiita - 3D Director, Eri Matsuo - Assistant Editor, Kazumi Ikeda - Character Designer, Hayato Miyamoto - Online Editor, Ryutaro Usukura - Producer, Masahiro Owada - Other, Kazunari Okuma - Executive Producer, Kazumi Ikeda - Supervising Animation Director, Kazuki Ueno - Assistant Director of Photography, Hiroyuki Takahashi - Prop Designer, Riri Senami - Producer, Shinichi Nakamura - Producer, Jukki Hanada - Series Composition, Tatsuya Ishihara - Series Director, Eiko Morikawa - Sound Effects, Rina Miura - Special Effects, Shouko Ikeda - Character Designer, Akiyo Takeda - Color Designer, Yota Tsuruoka - Executive Producer, Mutsuo Shinohara - Art Direction, Naoki Kanazawa - Online Editor, Yasushi Nagura - Sound Recordist, Joji Unoguchi - 3D Artist, Kazuya Takao - Director of Photography, Shigeru Saito - Music Producer, Yoko Hatta - Executive Producer, Kengo Shigemura - Editor, Ayano Takeda - Novel