Hibike! Euphonium 3, episode 9
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Hibike! Euphonium: Kumiko 3 Nensei-hen, Sound! Euphonium 3, Sound! Euphonium Season 3, 響け! ユーフォニアム 久美子3年生編
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This season has very light music (see what I did there?), but when it comes to character analysis, it’s a feast.
Oooh, the fallout over 1) dropping some members from the Kansai prefectural, and 2) not choosing Kumiko as a soloist divides the band club.
Is it necessarily a zero sum game between having fun at band club, and striving to win the prefectural and national championships?
The atmosphere in the club is tense and Reina’s really feeling pressure on having to control it.
Done!
Is it necessarily a zero sum game between having fun at band club, and striving to win the prefectural and national championships?
For Reina, definitely yes. She’s always put results before everything else. Always been a bit unfeeling about how others feel when they fail. I think that’ll be her arcs this season. It gets worse when Taki-sensei is involved in why people failed. She’s incredibly biased after all.
It doesn’t help that she personally hasn’t failed yet. I kinda hope she fails at some point during this season. Not because I don’t like Reina, but because I think she needs to learn.
Reina more or less disavowing Kumiko as president, because she dared criticize Taki-sensei, was not unexpected, but certainly sad and a bit closeminded. Not being able to criticize your leaders is not a good thing.
Great episode with some great character drama. Kumiko was fence-sitting so hard this episode. Luckily, she realised that doesn’t help the situation and said what she actually thinks. Sadly, that seemed to cause a rift between Kumiko and Reina.
Kumiko hiding her frustration that she didn’t get the soli was a bit hard to watch too. You can be frustrated while also accepting the result. Mayu also doesn’t seem to realise that her need to people please can also be quite hurtful.
I think part of the reason why people are displeased is that Taki-sensei doesn’t explain his decisions. They are left to figure out for themselves why. Like, why switch Kumiko with Mayu if they’re about even? Why suddenly use 4 tubas and 2 euphos instead of the previous 3 and 3? This was shown the previous audition too, where a tuba player who was less skilled was chosen over a more skilled player. Taki had his reasons, but because no one knew, it was uncomfortable, hence why Kumiko asked about it. To Reina, his rationale doesn’t matter, since she thinks he knows best, but I think it’s fair that people are criticizing him. Sadly, Reina is a bit too utilitarian, unempathetic and biased to see this.
Maybe it’s a culture difference, but not allowing criticism of your leader seems quite counterproductive. Blind faith is rarely a good thing.
