A Reflection on Hibike! Euphonium Review
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Spoilers Ahead (You have been warned).
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I really enjoyed the opening but the really memorable one for me was actually the ending. Although that might just be because I'm a sucker for having the seiyuus sing.
Lachlan Still Thank you, I too liked the song itself too much to not add it in
Psych! I guess Free won't be my last reflection (This will probably be though for a while).
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+Departed Reflections I loved Hibike with all my heart and soul, literally my favorite show, kyoani did a stellar job.
Not a Poker Chip aka Napsy I thought It was pretty chill too
Departed Reflections
Yeh...
/)*3*(\
By the way I'm amazed at the number of people who call Hibike uninteresting, claim the stakes aren't high enough (well sorry in-universe for the characters they are) or that it pushes style before substance. Why should a sports/music ANIME be Coach Carter or Remember the Titans? Even if it was the movies would still be better and non-anime fans would still likely ditch Hibike. Watch Giant Killing if you want a realistic sports anime with "high stakes" and adults.
Ribbon-chan is a horrible person, not a horrible character :<
Good video though
Sephyxer Perhaps from a standpoint of storytelling that's true I admit (Good point). but I generally think of character as the essence of a person
Parts of your review reminded me of points a guy named Flawfinder made on MAL while bringing up some new ones like the show being more of a sports than a music anime. Liked and subbed
Aww, Thanks, I hope to make more vids later
I wasn't the only one that thought about whiplash while watching this!
+2it nope : )
+Departed Reflections :D
Hey, I really like your content! I think you can make it far in the youtube anime community! Just keep doing what your doing. (P.S ThatAnimeSnob sent me here.)
Sloan The Female Otaku Interesting, Thank you. : )
Just a reminder that i love you.
100% agree that Asuka is the most interesting character out of all of them.
Great review!
+Reiko33 Aww, thanks : )
Saw the opening skit, thought it was hilarious, watched bits of whiplash. Man, Taki-sensei for best teacher (im talking about you Flecther).
+jondonom it would be win if taki was voiced by J. K. Simmons
Wow great reflection man I got a good laugh out of it
Ricardo Pastor Thank you Ricardo, I see you're a fan of sword art online, did you catch my little jab at the series at 1:26
Yes I did sorry for the late reply
This video just made me sub so I'm new and I was wondering when you said free was your last reflection does that mean you're not planing to make any more video or you're just gonna be doing it in a different way? Over all great video funny and informative thanks for the awesome stuff.
larry nguyen Thank you for watching I'm glad you liked it. I just need to take a little break from videos because of school. I plan to continue uploading in the future tho-
Taki-sensei had a little whiplash sub-plot with zucchini (shuuichi lol) but at least Taki-sensei didnt go ape shit on shuuichi and he (shuuichi) managed to inspire Kumiko to get better too. Taki-sensei also acknowledged shuuichi performance by giving a smile during the final performance after the part where shuuichi was struggling before but nailed it. At least no chairs where harm during the times taki-sensei was roasting shuuichi.
jondonom sounds interesting, but my personal take on Whiplash is a lot darker, I really think the Fletcther Character is just all around bad and ultimately, little Miles will end up dead, drugged up at 30 (and maybe one of the "greats" but I dunno)
Great review)
P.S. Personally i think Kumiko has more chemistry with Reina, at least in anime)
+Flora Ambarstumyan : )
Cool. Earned a sub m8. Keep em commin
Obradoom Thanks for the kind comment, might take a while though
Good overview, but I think the negatives needed more attention. Though the animation is high quality and consistent, I felt that, episodes 8 and 11 aside, very little was actually memorable. Most of the time was taken up in a detailed, yet blandly coloured and uninteresting room. Story wise, most side characters are terribly annoying, and the series didn't pick and choose its focal points very well. I mean, we spend two episodes on a re-audition with two characters who could easily have been cut out, but Reina's feelings and Askua's attitude are never addressed? The opening and ending aren't that good to me, I can name several superior ones from just Hibike's season. Don't get me wrong, you did a great job breaking down the positives, and I agree that only slice-of-life fans will find this worthwhile, but for me there were just too many missed opportunities.
as with many slice of life stories, it's like real life. There isn't a 100% on every subject, and the beauty you find is not in the special, but in the everyday scenarios
+Radi Bear (Radioactive TeddyBear) I don't necessarily agree with that logic. Oregairu was my favourite series from 2015, and it was a slice of life where no matter what the characters did, they just couldn't fix the world around them. However, they as characters grew, and I feel that Euphonium didn't do that. By having Reina not confront Taki, not lose the part, not break down really and not develop a full romance with Kumiko, the series prevented her from growing. She just sort of stayed the same the whole way through.
Hound Nobelman There is a lot of character development going on, but it's in the animation, not in the plot. That's how KyoAni works. At first, I didn't notice much (only watched for the art and seemingly lacking plot). But then I applied the skills I learned in English class to the show. You will not believe how much it worked.
An example is to look at the physical distance between Kumiko and Reina during key points when they meet
+Radi Bear (Radioactive TeddyBear) I saw this series over half a year ago and my stance has not changed. Visual representation of intimacy is insufficient if that's the only way you express it. Unlimited Blade Words, Bakemonogatari and Oregairu also do this, but they also express character relationships through vocal mannerisms, changes in perspective once they know more about the other. Hibike had some well done scenes, like in episode 8, but I could not for the life of me really care in the long term.
Hound Nobelman
In Hibike, there are all of the things you listed.
But it's all about the perspective, and which types of scenes viewers find important and their relation to the story.
Nice Whiplash intro :)
Jonathan Alvarez thanks : )
Reina and Kumiko OTP
1:06 Spring*
KabyAlkaris Jeez, what a stupid mistake. You're absolutely right, thanks
Noooooo!!!! Part-senpai! Why you leave us?!
Akabayashi school, and thank you for watching the video Akabayashi
Departed Reflections no prub. luv u.
Kumiko wasn't that likable to me in the beginning. She came across as one of those apathetic teenagers who're 2kool4skool and would rather coast by with a relatively normal, uneventful life. Nothing wrong with living in a way that society expects you to live, (I guess the worst crime would be that it'd be kinda boring?) but usually characters who lack drive or passion towards anything, (without so much as even an odd quirk) usually make me roll my eyes because they bring down everyone else's mood with their "wow calm down, lol" kind of attitude.
Thankfully she doesn't stay this way, and honestly I would say that it was a smart decision to introduce her in such a matter, as it leaves room for character development later on in the series.
Lori P I didn't really get the 2kool4skool vibe - more like too cool for band - but even then not so much. In any case I didn't really have an problem with her initial attitude but she definitely does change (I like to think for the better)
Thanks for watching : )
Departed Reflections I guess I took notice of scenes where she was wearing her hair up on the first day, or skipping breakfast, or only grabbing a slice of toast made me think that she was 2kool for anything in a kind of apathetic way and not just a band geek type of way, but yeah I definitely think she changed for the better :)
You should watch Uchuu Kyoudai (space brothers) from A-1 Pictures.
+Skylar Perritt I might check it out, thank you
Your welcome and thank you for checking it out.
Great Video, whats the song at 0:58?
LonelyCrowbar a modified AC/DC thunderstruck
Michael Becket thanks man!
LonelyCrowbar its actually two versions of the song combined and cut
Sounds so cool in the background
LonelyCrowbar yes, it was between the series opening song and thunderstruck and the latter just sounded to good not to include
kumiko is lesbian BTW
or I just looked too much into it out of it in spite of my ship between her and Reina.
Nobody knows if Kumiko is lesbian or not. Even after season 2 and the final ending. But Reina surely isn't.
the AC/DC is unnecessary and annoying
+Dewey Breaux unnecessary yes, annoying....well that's a matter of opinion
+Departed Reflections when you've played football your whole life and that song plays at every event its hard to ever like them again.
Dewey Breaux Ahh, I see, and now your perspective makes more sense.
4:16 black skinhead?
just high - the joke is: implication that there are worse (less productive) past-times
Gotcha haha the joke was good, I was just wondering where that little scream was sampled from. It sounded very familiar
Ahh, that I don't remember....I believe I edited the the sound speed anyway.