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Sound! Euphonium: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Apr 8, 2015 Updated Jul 21, 2026

Sound! Euphonium is a Japanese television series that premiered in 2015. Based on a novel series written by Ayano Takeda, the story is set in Uji, Kyoto. The narrative focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, where the concert band works to improve under the strict instruction of a newly appointed adviser. The plot begins in the spring of the first year of high school when a student named Kumiko, who was a memb

Season overview

Sound! Euphonium is a Japanese television series that premiered in 2015. Based on a novel series written by Ayano Takeda, the story is set in Uji, Kyoto. The narrative focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, where the concert band works to improve under the strict instruction of a newly appointed adviser. The plot begins in the spring of the first year of high school when a student named Kumiko, who was a member of a brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club. She is accompanied by her classmates, Hazuki and Sapphire. During this visit, Kumiko encounters Reina, a former classmate from her junior high school days. While Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, Kumiko struggles to make a decision regarding her own participation. Her hesitation is influenced by her recollection of an experience she shared with Reina during a junior high school competition. The series is categorized as animation and drama.

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Episodes

S1·E1

Welcome to High School

Apr 8, 2015 · 24 min

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

S1·E2

Nice to Meet You, Euphonium

Apr 15, 2015 · 24 min

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

S1·E3

The First Ensemble

Apr 22, 2015 · 24 min

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

S1·E4

Singing Solfège

Apr 29, 2015 · 24 min

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.

S1·E5

Festival Time

May 6, 2015 · 24 min

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 practi

S1·E6

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tuba

May 13, 2015 · 24 min

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 encoura

S1·E7

Crybaby Saxophone

May 20, 2015 · 24 min

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?"

S1·E8

Festival Triangle

May 27, 2015 · 24 min

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.

S1·E9

Please, Audition

Jun 3, 2015 · 24 min

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.

S1·E10

Straight Trumpet

Jun 10, 2015 · 24 min

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.

S1·E11

Welcome Back, Audition

Jun 17, 2015 · 24 min

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 Y

S1·E12

My Euphonium

Jun 24, 2015 · 24 min

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

S1·E13

Goodbye Competition

Jul 1, 2015 · 24 min

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 Kitauj