It is 3 AM, I have work in the morning, and my brain is keeping me awake agonizing over how Reina's crush on Taki-sensei has been set up for the most brutal reality check imaginable in Hibike season 3 and how much it's going to hurt when it finally arrives.
Like, here's the thing about Reina: when she loves someone, she has absolute, unconditional faith in them. All throughout this season, she's said over and over that she thinks Kumiko's playing is second to none. And all throughout the series, she's been willing to shank anyone who so much as questions Taki-sensei's dental hygiene. When Reina Kousaka loves someone, that person can basically do no wrong in her eyes. In a way, it's an extension of her own sense of ego: "I believe I am special, so anyone I love must also be special." And she will suck you into her vortex and make you believe it right alongside her because her conviction is just that strong.
But now we've been set on a collision course. With all the foreshadowing around Mayu, it's basically inevitable that she's going to steal at least one of the soli auditions out from under Kumiko's nose. And because of Taki-sensei choosing an inexperienced freshman over a more consistent junior in episode 6, we've already been set up to wonder if his judgement is actually as infallible as we've so often assumed. Which means it's all but guaranteed that at some point- probably in the very next audition, I predict- Taki-sensei is not going to choose Kumiko to play the eupho part in the soli. And suddenly, Reina will be forced to confront a situation where one of these two people she loves is wrong. Either Kumiko isn't actually good enough a player to stand alongside her, or Taki-sensei made the wrong call.
And she's going to have to decide where her faith truly lies: with faraway dream she's been futilely chasing for years... or the girl who actually had the courage to answer her confession of love.
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★ 【すぺ】 「 響け!ユーフォニアム☆詰め合わせ 」 ☆
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Have To Love A Good KyoAni (Eupho) Background
Been making my way through a re-watch of Sound! Euphonium to refamiliarize myself with the content, but it's been taking ages as I constantly stop to soak up the art. Season 2 has had such a night and day different to season one across the board, but all the same these environments catch my eye more than anything else (though the instruments are definitely a close 2nd).
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So I come back from vacation just in time to find this snippet from an interview with Kumiko and Reina's VAs talking about the upcoming Eupho Season 3, which some Discord friends have helpfully translated for me:
"--What do you think of Kumiko and Reina's relationship at the start of the 3rd season?
Kurosawa: Married couple.
Anzai: A pair that everyone agrees is married.
Kurosawa: Newlywed type."
Bros...
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★ 【仁井学】 「 響け!ユーフォニアム_243 」 ☆
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