Sound! Euphonium

2015-04-08 · Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school.

S01 E01 · 2015-04-08 · 24 min

Welcome to High School

Kumiko enters Kitauji High School having been unable to forget what Reina said at a middle school concert band competition. She goes to visit the concert band at school along with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire, where they meet Reina again.

S01 E02 · 2015-04-15 · 24 min

Nice to Meet You, Euphonium

Kumiko and the others join the concert band, and they choose their instruments. Their eccentric senior, Asuka, still likes to mess with them.

S01 E03 · 2015-04-22 · 24 min

The First Ensemble

Kitauji High School Concert Band is preparing their parts for the ensemble, but some students are fooling around when they should be practicing.

S01 E04 · 2015-04-29 · 24 min

Singing Solfège

Kumiko and the others prepare for Sunrise Festival. Kumiko and Shuichi talk about Taki-sensei on the way home from school, when they run into Reina.

S01 E05 · 2015-05-06 · 24 min

Festival Time

The concert band receives their marching band uniforms and begins marching practice in preperation for SunFes. Things are different now, with the members all more engaged in practice. And SunFes day arrives.

S01 E06 · 2015-05-13 · 24 min

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tuba

Starting this year, the band holds auditions for members participating in the competition. First-year Hazuki has a chance, too. The bass section does everything they can to encourage her.

S01 E07 · 2015-05-20 · 24 min

Crybaby Saxophone

The band is hard at work preparing for the audition and the competition. Aoi has trouble with her part, to which Taki says, "when will you be better by?"

S01 E08 · 2015-05-27 · 24 min

Festival Triangle

The band is abuzz with talk about who they'll be going to the upcoming festival with. There's someone Hazuki wants to go with, but that someone is already going with someone else. Meanwhile Kumiko somehow ends up going with you-know-who.

S01 E09 · 2015-06-03 · 24 min

Please, Audition

The audition for the competition participants has come. Everyone must demonstrate their abilities, whether they're a third-year or a first-year. And then, the results are revealed.

S01 E10 · 2015-06-10 · 24 min

Straight Trumpet

The band suspects Taki played favorites in choosing Reina in the auditions. Noticing the band's rising distrust of Taki and Reina, he makes a proposal.

S01 E11 · 2015-06-17 · 24 min

Welcome Back, Audition

Taki-sensei's proposal relieves the upset within the band, and everyone returns to practicing. Reina no longer isolates herself either, much to Kumiko's relief. But then she sees Yuko, who's been antagonizing Reina, speaking with her.

S01 E12 · 2015-06-24 · 24 min

My Euphonium

The competition's coming up. Kumiko is suddenly asked to play a difficult phrase from a different part. She begins practicing, but...

S01 E13 · 2015-07-01 · 24 min

Goodbye Competition

The competition performance is "only" 12 minutes long. It's both a blink of an eye and an eternity. The Concert Band members bet their entire youths on this competition. And Kitauji High School Concert Band's performance begins.

2016-10-06 · Kumiko and her teammates have won the Kyoto regional tournament. From now on, life will be getting a lot more hectic. With the national tournament fast approaching, Kumiko's band is doubling down on practice and discipline, leaving little time for sleep or other recreational activities. The redoubled practice schedule brings Kumiko and Reina closer together, but elsewhere in the band, it seems like drama threatens to tear the group's unity apart. The ghost of the prior year's mass band exodus still haunts many of Kumiko's classmates, and with former band member Nozomi Masumi now asking to return, it seems like the grudges of the past will soon be impossible to ignore.

S02 E01 · 2016-10-06 · 48 min

Mid-summer Fanfare

Having won first place at the Kyoto competition, Kumiko and the band are preparing to compete in the Kansai competition. A shadow looms over them when an old member, Nozomi Kasaki, enters the picture.

S02 E02 · 2016-10-13 · 24 min

Hesitation Flute

Kumiko and her buddies head to the pool for one last breath of freedom before their grueling concert band training. There, Nozomi reveals some of what had happened the year before.

S02 E03 · 2016-10-20 · 24 min

Troubled Nocturnes

The high school Kitauji fanfare begins its intensive summer camp before the Kansai competition. Kumiko is still trying to find out more about Asuka's refusal to reinstate Nozomi and intends to respect her promise to the girl.

S02 E04 · 2016-10-27 · 24 min

Awakening Oboe

Nozomi finally meets Mizore. She learns, the hard way, why Asuka had been keeping her away.

S02 E05 · 2016-11-03 · 24 min

Miraculous Harmony

Only three schools will be selected at the Kansai Concert Band Competition to compete in the Nationals. Will Kitauji High School be one of them?

S02 E06 · 2016-11-10 · 24 min

Rainy Conductor

It's the school festival at Kitauji High School. Kumiko's sister insists on quitting college, while Taki reveals some things about his past with his wife.

S02 E07 · 2016-11-17 · 24 min

Station Concert

Asuka's mother wants her to quit the concert band. This upsets everyone -- including her mother.

S02 E08 · 2016-11-24 · 24 min

Rhapsody in Flu

Asuka invites Kumiko over for a study party. With Kumiko's sister quitting college and Asuka's band membership uncertain, Kumiko and Reina are forced to contemplate the role of music in their lives.

S02 E09 · 2016-12-01 · 24 min

Sound! Euphonium

Asuka is about to lose her seat competing in the Nationals. But that might not be why she invited Kumiko over.

S02 E10 · 2016-12-08 · 24 min

After-school Obbligato

Taki's deadline for Asuka draws near. She refuses to admit that she wants, more than anyone, to compete in the Nationals.

S02 E11 · 2016-12-15 · 24 min

First Love Trumpet

With Asuka back in the competition, the orchestra is just about set for the Nationals. Meanwhile, Kumiko tries to understand why Reina is upset at her.

S02 E12 · 2016-12-22 · 24 min

The Last Competition

It's the big day: the All Japan Concert Band Competition Nationals.

S02 E13 · 2016-12-29 · 24 min

Early-Spring Epilogue

With the competition over and the third-years graduating, Kumiko is left to sort through her feelings: Is it a love of concert band, of the euphonium, or of something else?

2024-04-07 · Kumiko's third year finally begins! With the concert band at Kitauji High School over 90 members, Kumiko is now the president and does her best with her final high school club activities to try to win her long-desired gold at nationals.

S03 E01 · 2024-04-07 · 25 min

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?

S03 E02 · 2024-04-14 · 25 min

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.

S03 E03 · 2024-04-21 · 25 min

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.

S03 E04 · 2024-04-28 · 25 min

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.

S03 E05 · 2024-05-05 · 25 min

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.

S03 E06 · 2024-05-12 · 25 min

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.

S03 E07 · 2024-05-19 · 25 min

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.

S03 E08 · 2024-05-26 · 25 min

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.

S03 E09 · 2024-06-02 · 25 min

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.

S03 E10 · 2024-06-09 · 25 min

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.

S03 E11 · 2024-06-16 · 25 min

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.

S03 E12 · 2024-06-23 · 25 min

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.

S03 E13 · 2024-06-30 · 25 min

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.