7.4/1090 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.5/1099 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.5/1093 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.6/1090 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.6/1075 votesLoading...#5 - Hesitation Flute
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2016
Kumiko and her buddies head to the pool for one last breath of freedom before their grueling concert band training. There, Nozomi reveals some of what had happened the year before.
Director: Taichi Ishidate
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.7/10110 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.8/1074 votesLoading...#7 - Troubled Nocturnes
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2016
The high school Kitauji fanfare begins its intensive summer camp before the Kansai competition. Kumiko is still trying to find out more about Asuka's refusal to reinstate Nozomi and intends to respect her promise to the girl.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
7.9/1089 votesLoading...#8 - 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
8.0/1089 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.2/1091 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.2/1079 votesLoading...#11 - Rainy Conductor
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2016
It's the school festival at Kitauji High School. Kumiko's sister insists on quitting college, while Taki reveals some things about his past with his wife.
Director: Eisaku Kawanami
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.2/1078 votesLoading...#12 - Station Concert
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2016
Asuka's mother wants her to quit the concert band. This upsets everyone -- including her mother.
Director: Haruka Fujita
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.2/1076 votesLoading...#13 - Rhapsody in Flu
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2016
Asuka invites Kumiko over for a study party. With Kumiko's sister quitting college and Asuka's band membership uncertain, Kumiko and Reina are forced to contemplate the role of music in their lives.
Director: Noriyuki Kitanohara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.2/1048 votesLoading...#14 - Summer Fermata
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2024
Members of the concert band are given a brief, three-day summer break that quickly fills with plans of all sorts. Some of the third-years attend an event to gather information on different colleges and plan their futures.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/1093 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.3/1081 votesLoading...#16 - Awakening Oboe
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2016
Nozomi finally meets Mizore. She learns, the hard way, why Asuka had been keeping her away.
Director: Taichi Ogawa
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/1077 votesLoading...#17 - First Love Trumpet
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2016
With Asuka back in the competition, the orchestra is just about set for the Nationals. Meanwhile, Kumiko tries to understand why Reina is upset at her.
Director: Taichi Ogawa
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.3/1055 votesLoading...#18 - Triangle Syncopation
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2024
Taki decides to let the band executives choose their competition piece this year. The leadership deliberates on this decision while trying to get the rest of the band ready to perform at the Sunrise Festival.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.4/10107 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.4/1096 votesLoading...#20 - Mid-summer Fanfare
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2016
Having won first place at the Kyoto competition, Kumiko and the band are preparing to compete in the Kansai competition. A shadow looms over them when an old member, Nozomi Kasaki, enters the picture.
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara, Haruka Fujita
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.4/1057 votesLoading...#21 - Etude With You
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2024
The day of the Sunrise Festival finally arrives, and it's time for the concert band to have their first performance of the year. Proximity to other schools and bands brings some of Motomu's family issues to light.
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.5/1093 votesLoading...#22 - Sound! Euphonium
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2016
Asuka is about to lose her seat competing in the Nationals. But that might not be why she invited Kumiko over.
Director: Taichi Ishidate
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.5/1054 votesLoading...#23 - Blue Prelude
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2024
The concert band begins taking itself very seriously to give itself the best chance possible of winning gold at Nationals. Unfortunately, the intense environment has some of the new recruits discouraged and intimidated.
Director: Mei Isai
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.5/1046 votesLoading...#24 - Wavering Dissonance
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2024
The Prefecturals are coming up and that means the first of many auditions for the members of the concert band. Mayu is still hesitant to audition despite reassurance from the others. Some of Taki's choices for the competition confuse members.
Director: Noriyuki Kitanohara
Writer: Jukki Hanada
8.6/10138 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Sound! Euphonium
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tuba" is the worst rated episode of "Sound! Euphonium". It scored 7.4/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by Eisaku Kawanami and written by Jukki Hanada, it aired on 5/13/2015. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Welcome to High School".