During the Hibike! Euphonium 6-kaime Da yo! Uji de O-Matsuri Festival event, Kyoto Animations announced a brand-new Sound Euphonium TV anime series planned for 2024, which will focus on the main character Kumiko in her 3rd year.
Furthermore, the Ensemble Concert “medium-length theater anime” will also air the year before, 2023, featuring episodes that are longer than an anime short. The Ensemble Concert anime will be available in Blu-ray and theatrical screenings, with a premiere date yet to be announced.
▍Concert Coming Soon!
The in-story band (as represented by the franchise’s real-life Progressive! Wind Orchestra, theme song artist TRUE, and the cast in stage readings) will be performing summer concerts on August 13 and 14 at Tokyo’s Line Cube Shibuya.
▍About Sound Euphonium
Sound! Euphonium is a series about the band once again focusing on getting gold at Nationals. Kumiko is the new band president, with her ex-boyfriend Shuuichi Tsukamaoto as vice president, and Reina Kousaka as the drum major. As with the previous year, new first years enter the band with their own quirks, chief among them being Maya Kuroe, a euphonium player from Seira Girls School. Maya is a formidable presence in the school competition circuit and Sapphire’s former school.
The first 13-episode television anime series for the franchise premiered in April 2015. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and Ponycan USA released the series on home video. The anime also inspired the Sound! Euphonium: Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band “flashback” film in April 2016.
The second season, Sound! Euphonium 2, premiered in October 2016 with 13 episodes. Crunchyroll again streamed the series as it aired and Ponycan USA released the series on home video. The sequel series inspired the Sound! Euphonium: May the Melody Reach You! compilation film in September 2017.
After the success of both seasons, two anime films for the franchise debuted in 2017. The Liz and the Blue Bird film centering on Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki opened in Japan in April 2018. Eleven Arts screened the film in United States theaters with English subtitles and English dub in November 2018. Shout! Factory released the film on Blu-ray discs and DVD in March 2019.
The second new film, Sound! Euphonium The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day, opened in Japan in April 2019. The film follows Kumiko as a second-year student. Eleven Arts screened the film in the U.S. in July 2019 and released the film on home video on June 2, 2020.
