Kyoto Animation has revealed the artist who will perform the opening theme for Sound! Euphonium The Final Movie Part 1. The film will premiere in 200 theaters across Japan on April 24.
TRUE, the artist behind the opening themes for Sound! Euphonium The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day and Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest Arc, will perform the opening track for the upcoming film. The movie will mark the first part of the Sound! Euphonium The Final Movie project.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Kumiko Oumae
- Ayaka Asai as Hazuki Kato
- Moe Toyota as Sapphire Kawashima
- Chika Anzai as Reina Kousaka
- Haruka Tomatsu as Mayu Kuroe
- Haruki Ishiya as Shuuichi Tsukamoto
- Ayaka Ōhashi as Tsubame Kamaya
- Sora Amamiya as Kanade Hisaishi
- Ayaka Nanase as Mirei Suzuki
- Misaki Kuno as Satsuki Suzuki
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Motomu Tsukinaga
- Shiori Sugiura as Ririka Kenzaki
- Shiina Natsukawa as Suzume Kamaya
- Ayane Matsuda as Yayoi Kamiishi
- Momoka Terasawa as Kaho Hariya
- Emiri Suyama as Sari Yoshii
- Takahiro Sakurai as Noboru Taki
Taichi Ogawa directs the anime, and Tatsuya Ishihara is the chief director. Jukki Hanada is in charge of the script and series composition. Shoko Ikeda and Kazumi Ikeda are character designers, and Ikeda is also the chief animation director. Akito Matsuda composes the music at Lantis and Heart Company, with music cooperation by Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.
Additional staff members include:
- Instrument Design: Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Instrument Animation Director: Minoru Ōta, Nobuaki Maruki
- Art Director: Mutsuo Shinohara
- Color Design: Akiyo Takeda
- Director of Photography: Kazuya Takao
- 3D Director: Rin Yamamoto
- Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
- Performance Cooperation: Progressive! Wind Orchestra
- Brass Band Supervision: Masahiro Ōwada
- Production: Sound! Production Committee 2024
- Distributor: Shochiku Co. Ltd.
The Sound! Euphonium anime first premiered in 2015, and its latest season, Sound! Euphonium 3, premiered on April 7, 2024. The third season ran for 13 episodes, which covered Kumiko’s third year in high school. Crunchyroll is currently streaming all three seasons of Sound! Euphonium with English subs outside of Japan.
Lastly, here’s an official overview of the series, via Crunchyroll:
Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school.
