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Sound! Euphonium 3 Anime Debuts on April 7
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The official website for NHK Educational on Sundays at 5:00 p.m JST. The anime will have a total of 13 episodes.
Kyoto Animation is also streaming a character video for Kumiko.
The anime's first two episodes will screen in Tokyo on March 16 and in Kyoto on March 17.
Original light novel author Ayano Takeda published the story of Kumiko's third year in high school in two novel volumes. The first volume shipped in April 2019 and the second volume shipped in June 2019.
Note: The next paragraph contains spoilers for the novels.
In the novels, the band once again focuses 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 and transfer students enter the band with their own quirks, chief among them being Mayu Kuroe, a euphonium player from Seira Girls School. Mayu 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. The anime Gekijō-ban Hibike! Euphonium: Todoketai Melody compilation film in September 2017.
The opened in Japan in April 2019. The film follows Kumiko as a second-year student.
anime of the "Ensemble Concert" arc, opened in Japan on August 4 in 74 theaters. The film is the first new sequel anime in four years for the franchise.
Sources: Sound! Euphonium anime's website, Comic Natalie, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
