7.6/10102 votes#1 - Welcome to High School
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/2015
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 classmates Hazuki and Sapphire, where they meet Reina again.
Director: Naoko Yamada
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.5/1095 votes#2 - Nice to Meet You, Euphonium
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/2015
Kumiko and the others join the concert band, and they choose their instruments. Their eccentric senior, Asuka, still likes to mess with them.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.6/1093 votes#3 - The First Ensemble
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/2015
Kitauji High School Concert Band is preparing their parts for the ensemble, but some students are fooling around when they should be practicing.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.9/1091 votes#4 - Singing Solfège
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/2015
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.
Director: Ai Yukimura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.7/10113 votes#5 - Festival Time
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/2015
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 practice. And SunFes day arrives.
Director: Yoshiji Kigami
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.5/1092 votes#6 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tuba
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/2015
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 encourage her.
Director: Eisaku Kawanami
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.0/1092 votes#7 - Crybaby Saxophone
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/2015
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?"
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.6/10142 votes#8 - Festival Triangle
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/27/2015
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. Meanwhile Kumiko somehow ends up going with you-know-who.
Director: Haruka Fujita
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.2/1093 votes#9 - Please, Audition
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/3/2015
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.
Director: Noriyuki Kitanohara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/1096 votes#10 - Straight Trumpet
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/2015
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.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.4/10110 votes#11 - Welcome Back, Audition
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/17/2015
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 Yuko, who's been antagonizing Reina, speaking with her.
Director: Ai Yukimura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.7/10132 votes#12 - My Euphonium
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/24/2015
The competition's coming up. Kumiko is suddenly asked to play a difficult phrase from a different part. She begins practicing, but...
Director: Yoshiji Kigami
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.9/10133 votes#13 - Goodbye Competition
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/1/2015
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 Kitauji High School Concert Band's performance begins.
Director: Eisaku Kawanami
Writer: Jukki Hanada
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Welcome to High School" is the best rated episode of "Sound! Euphonium" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 102 votes. Directed by Naoko Yamada and written by Jukki Hanada, it aired on 4/8/2015. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Nice to Meet You, Euphonium".