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Sound! Euphonium: Oath's Finale Anime Film Listed With July Screenings in the U.S.
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
U.S. theater chain AMC and ticketing service Fandango are listing a July 11 screening by Fathom Events for Gekijōban Hibike! Euphonium: Chikai no Finale (Sound! Euphonium: Oath's Finale), Kyoto Animation's second of two new films in the Sound! Euphonium franchise. Additionally, theater chain Emagine is listing similar screenings for July 11 that have English subtitles, but also lists July 15 screenings with an English dub.
The movie opened in Japan on April 19, and it earned 93,022,800 yen (about US$831,500) from Friday to Sunday to rank at #5 in its opening weekend.
The film features a returning cast and staff. Tatsuya Ishihara returned from the series to direct the film, and main writer Jukki Hanada also returned to pen the script. Shoko Ikeda returned from the series as character designer, and Akito Matsuda returned as composer. Lantis is credited for music production, and Shochiku is distributing the film in Japan. The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music's Freshman Wind Ensemble also returned for music production cooperation and musical performance.
In the film's story, Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year trumpeter Tomoe Kabe have been chosen to lead the new underclassmen members. Among the new members to Kumiko's bass section are euphonist Kanade Hisaishi, whose appearances are deceiving; tuba player Mirei Suzuki, who cannot adapt to her new environment; tuba player Satsuki Suzuki, who wants to get along with Mirei; and double bassist Motomu Tsukinaga, who cannot talk about himself. Between the Sunrise Festival, chair placement auditions, and the competition, a number of problems quickly begin to arise.
Liz and the Blue Bird (Liz to Aoitori), the first of the two new films, opened in Japan in April 2018. Eleven Arts screened the film in Japanese with English subtitles and an English dub in the United States last November.
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