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Sound! Euphonium's 2nd Promo Video Introduces Cast
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Kyoto Animation began streaming the second promotional video for the Sound! Euphonium TV anime on Sunday. The video introduces the series' main characters and previews the series' classical-inspired score. The video also previews True's "DREAM SOLISTER," the show's opening theme song.
Hazuki: Huh? UFO?
Kumiko: Not a UFO, a euphonium.
Text: Kumiko Ōmae. Instrument: Euphonium.
Hazuki: It made a sound! It made a sound just now, right?
Text: Hazuki Katō. Instrument: Tuba.
Sapphire: It's that thing that looks like a giant violin. Do you know it?
Text: Sapphire Kawashima. Instrument: Contrabass.
Reina: I want to join the club.
Text: Reina Kōsaka. Instrument: Trumpet.
Text: The club the girls join...
Sapphire: Will you join the concert band club with me?
Kumiko: Sure.
Text: ...is a concert band club with problems?!
Sapphire: The concert band club in this school, is... um, how do I put it...
Hazuki: Not as good as we thought.
Asuka: Come on! Join us!
Text: Welcome!
Text: To the world of concert bands!
Text: The girls...
Text: Will give their all!
Hazuki: I knew it.
Text: Music and youth.
Noboru: Let's start practice, shall we?
Text: The goal is the Nationals!
Text: Let it ring every day.
Kumiko: And then, our performance soon began.
Kumiko, Hazuki, Sapphire, Reina: Sound! Euphonium
Lantis also began streaming the short version of the music video of True's "DREAM SOLISTER" on Monday.
The show's official website is streaming two commercials, as well as an earlier promo video.
The cast includes:
Tomoyo Kurosawa as Kumiko Ōmae
Instrument: Euphonium
Ayaka Asai as Hazuki Katō
Instrument: Tuba
Moe Toyota as Sapphire Kawashima
Instrument: Contrabass
Chika Anzai as Reina Kōsaka
Instrument: Trumpet
Minako Kotobuki as Asuka Tanaka
Instrument: Euphonium
Saori Hayami as Haruka Ogasawara
Instrument: Saxophone
Minori Chihara as Kaori Nakaseko
Instrument: Trumpet
Haruki Ishiya as Shūichi Takamoto
Instrument: Trombone
Takahiro Sakurai as Noboru Taki
Kenjiro Tsuda as Takuya Kudō
Instrument: Tuba
A tall, serious second year who doesn't talk much.
Miyuki Kobori as Riko Nagase
Instrument: Tuba
A second year who offers guidance to Hazuki.
Konomi Fujimura as Natsuki Nakagawa
Instrument: Euphonium
A second year who rarely works hard at club activities.
Yuri Yamaoka as Yūko Yoshikawa
Instrument: Trumpet
A second year who adores her upperclassman Kaori.
Yōko Hikasa as Aoi Saitō
Instrument: Tenor Saxophone
A third year who's an old acquaintance of Kumiko. She also goes to cram school to prepare for tests.
Manami Numakura as Mamiko Ōmae
Kumiko's older sister and a third year in college. An experienced trombone player.
Aya Hisakawa as Michie Matsumoto
The assistant adviser for the Kitauji music club. The students call her "ogre sergeant."
TRUE will provide the opening theme song, titled "DREAM SOLISTER," while Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, and Chika Anzai (as their characters) will sing the ending theme song, titled "Tutti." "DREAM SOLISTER" and "Tutti" will go on sale on April 22 and May 13, respectively.
A kickoff event for the anime was held at AnimeJapan 2015 on March 21, and the four main cast members (Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, Chika Anzai), Saori Hayami, Minori Chihara, and Takahiro Sakurai made an appearance.
The anime adapts Ayano Takeda's Hibike! Euphonium Kitauji Kōkō Suisōgaku-bu e Yōkoso (Sound! Euphonium Welcome to Kitauji High School's Musical Instrument Club) novel. The original novel's story follows the Kitauji Music club, which used to always advance to national competitions. Ever since the adviser changed, though, it has not advanced past the Kansai tournament. However, thanks to the newly appointed adviser's strict instruction, the students are steadily improving. The club members' daily lives are full of ups and downs including fights over solos and the decision to resign club activities to focus on studies.
The anime begins when Kumiko Ōmae, a girl who was in the concert band club in junior high school, visits her high school's concert band club as a first year. Kumiko's classmates Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko sees her old classmate Reina there and hesitates. She remembers an incident she had with Reina at a concert band club contest in junior high school...
Tatsuya Ishihara is directing the anime, and Jukki Hanada is in charge of the series scripts. Shoko Ikeda is designing the characters, and Naoko Yamada is the series technical director. Mutsuo Shinohara is the art director, and Akiyo Takeda is color key artist. Hiroyuki Takahashi is in charge of the musical instrument designs, and Kazuya Takao is the director of photography. Yota Tsuruoka is directing the sound, and Akito Matsuda is composing the music. Kyoto Animation, Pony Canyon, Lantis, and Rakuonsya make up the Hibike! Production Committee.
The anime will premiere on April 7 on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. It will air on BS 11 on April 8, and on AT-X on April 10.