Doing High School Anime Correctly

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A Video Essay examining Hibike! Euphonium and how I related its story to the high school experience at large and my own viewpoint of my time in high school.
This is yet another show that I really had no expectations going into but was pleasantly surprised by once I got a few episodes in. I didn't watch season 1 when it originally aired, so watching the first couple of episodes and binge-watching it going into season 2 was naturally the way things turned out.
Kumiko is now one of my favorite protagonists now, and her funny and cute noises aren't the only reason why. She's among the most realistic yet earnest characters I've encountered in any show. I say "yet" because earnestness - despite how great I find it - is somewhat synonymous with being extremely bubbly and fun. Yet Kumiko isn't those things at all. In fact, she's rather reluctant to be open in that regard. Ultimately though, she's a people person, constantly wanting to be involved in her friends and classmates lives, and I admire her genuine desires to be as helpful as she actually ends up being. Even if she doesn't always understand the consequences of prying into other people's business.
This video is ultimately about exploring how Kumiko handles her first year in high school through joining the band and making friends there. Through that, I relate it back to my own view of high school. And even if my initial outlook might not be too great, there's always something valuable to be gained by taking the time to formulate connections.
Keep in mind this isn't a review. As always, I just enjoy sharing why I like the stuff I like. Hopefully you'll enjoy it, too!
Thanks to everyone for continually being patient in waiting for new videos. I'm always out to keep the quality of my videos ever higher and to really push my skills, so that makes it extra rewarding when these connect well. Not only that, but seeing as I'm back in college that will take priority over videos at times.
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Music Used:
Fat Jon - Spacesuit Proper
Fat Jon - Kissed in Shadow
Nujabes - Rainy Way Back Home
Vanilla - Arrow
Jinsang - Genesis
Jinsang - First Luv
Jinsang - Dusk

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9 сен 2024

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@dcresistance 7 лет назад

"All of its characters felt like real people". That's a beautiful element of series that Naoko Yamada is involved in, whether she's a director, like with K-On! and Tamako Market/Love Story, or a series production director, like with Hibike. She's said before in K-On! interviews that she looks at characters as real people. One of the reasons why she's my favorite director in the industry. There are some great interviews with some of the staff of Hibike, like the scriptwriter, animation director/character designer, and composer, to name a few. ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/animestyle-007-sound-euphonium-interview-jukki-hanada-translated-part-1/ ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/animestyle-007-sound-euphonium-interview-jukki-hanada-translated-part-2/ ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/animestyle-007-sound-euphonium-interview-director-tatsuya-ishihara-series-director-naoko-yamada-part-1/ ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/animestyle-007-sound-euphonium-interview-director-tatsuya-ishihara-series-director-naoko-yamada-part-2/ ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/sound-euphonium-interview-chief-animation-directorcharacter-designer-shoko-ikeda/ ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/sound-euphonium-interview-composer-akito-matsuda-music-producer-shigeru-saito-translated/

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

That's really neat! Much as I've started watching and enjoying more anime in recent years, I'm still lacking a bit of knowledge when it comes to the people in the industry. Luckily I have some friends that are more well-versed than I that I can learn from. Nonetheless, this is really interesting and helpful, so thanks for dropping some links for me to check out. If anything, I think it's kinda cool that I picked up on some of that without knowing of her direct influence. I guess it speaks as much to how talented she is.

@dcresistance 7 лет назад

There are over a dozen interviews with Yamada on her anime, and reading through them, you get a sense of her style of directing and the techniques she employs. If you took note of all the leg shots in Hibike, they're all Yamada (not animated by her, but definitely storyboarded/included). There's a great 47-second long cut in the K-On! Movie that's just a shot of the characters' legs as they're walking, but you can tell who they are based on just the way they're animated. " ''The eyes may be the window to the soul,' but I think our legs are like that too. Usually we hide our legs under our desks or else they'll reveal our true emotions."

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Oh, I totally noticed all the leg shots in Hibike. Pretty cool to be able to put that down to the focus of someone involved with the project, though.

@jamaru3870 3 года назад

Awesome video for an awesome anime

@misterknite 7 лет назад

The editing on this one is *really* smooth. Nice work Ian! Always love your uploads.

@Rael199327 7 лет назад

Those editing skill, tho'

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Thanks fo' the love, Dude!

@ChrisDaPatriot 7 лет назад

Looking at your uploaded history I feel spoiled. These last number of videos have been on anime/games that I absolutely adore and have thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them. Fantastic stuff, man, I can only hope for more.

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Super glad to hear that! Thanks very much.

@MoonSpiritChannel 7 лет назад

Dude, seriously. Your work is most def high quality. And I really love the production quality and this essay. Pardon the expression, but you're stuff of legends to come. As for my time in high school, I can remember them fondly, and that was 12 years ago. God, just remembering that it was over a decade ago kind of depresses me.

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Well thank you! That's high praise that I can hopefully live up to going forward. As for high school, yeah, it's a bit weird to think back on at times, eh?

@JustClaude13 4 года назад

A measure of the quality of the series is the number of reviews analyzing the interactions and growth of the characters. As for me, at 59 I've reached the age where I can look back through rose colored glasses, forgetting the bad parts and reminiscing on the better parts of my youth. But, nah, high school was miserable. I like these shows partly because they had the high school experience I didn't .

@nihilistneet4648 7 лет назад

Impeccable editing, amazing content, great choice of music. It's not always that I get to see a small youtuber before they go viral/become famous. Subbed, keep up the great work!

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

You're very kind. I dunno that I'll ever have that kind of following, but the fact that you think so is encouraging. Thanks!

@heythere1273 3 года назад

Ngl that editing made me feel some sort of way I’ve never felt before

@TheIvoryDingo 7 лет назад

I mostly got into the show because I'm in a band myself. Not a school band but certainly one the focuses mainly on brass instruments (I'm personally a percussionist).

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

I remember reading comments from band people when I first started watching the show saying how much they were enjoying it. I'm sure at first it was cool to see we were getting a show like this.

@LightAssassinx 7 лет назад

That production quality tho 👌🏻

@xuelee7520 6 лет назад

love the script and editing, gj

@WallyTheLegend 6 лет назад

Thank you very much! I worked pretty hard on this one so it's always nice to get that feedback.

@indieknytt1427 7 лет назад

great video with amazing production as always. one of your first anime videos (the samurai champloo one) is one of the reasons i got into anime. and all the video's since then have been great spotlights for some i've really enoyed. side note: that jinsang track in the video was a treat. im a big fan of his work and randomly hearing it in the vid was dope

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Well, I'm really glad I could help you get into anime with my videos. That's always been some of my intent in talking about stuff so to hear that is nice. And yeah! I heard some of Jinsang's stuff recently and wanted to try and work some into a video.

@Michirin9801 7 лет назад

That's another show that I want to watch but haven't gotten around to... My problem is that I start watching shows that are so obscure that I can't even find all of the episodes on the internet, instead of watching what's actually available >w> (That and the fact that I spend FAR more time playing video games than watching anime or cartoons)

@devbyrd1 7 лет назад

CLASS OF 2010 IN THE HOUSE!!!

@_Adie 7 лет назад

Don't really have anything big to say. Haven't seen the show (yet! After watching this video I have to, now), still in high-school myself. What I WANT to say, though, is: goddamn, the editing. The production value, man. And the content. I can see you're putting your heart into these. I wanted to watch it while doing something else, but thought to myself "No. Hell no. This video should get 100% of my attention" Amazing job, once again.

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Well, A) hopefully it ends up being relatable in different ways for you since you're still in high school. I'd be curious to hear about that. And B) thank you so much yet again for the kind words. Editing is definitely something I love to work on, so I'm glad it's noticeable. Hopefully, I can impress even more in the future!

@lolidayo 7 лет назад

Good episode as always. Last time, I watched showa genroku just after finishing watching your video. I think I ll do the same this time

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Cool! Glad you checked out Rakugo (and hopefully you enjoyed it!) Glad you're gonna give this one a chance, too. I hope it's to your liking.

@lachlanstill4813 7 лет назад

Yeah, I reference this one all the time in my own videos; it's such an excellent example of strong craftsmanship. "It's all very...human, if I'm at liberty to toss that word around." >mfw my Hibike video is titled "How Hibike Euphonium Crafted The Most Human Characters In Anime"

@HxH2011DRA 7 лет назад

Lachlan Still This fucking guy XD

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Well, it sounds like we have similar thoughts on Hibike, in which case I'm not surprised you'd reference back to it! Definitely a great combination of characters and storytelling with all the effort KyoAni put into it.

@HxH2011DRA 7 лет назад

I know a guy who will *LOVE* this XD

@jonsitoa 6 лет назад

Good job

@unor1ginalname 5 лет назад

And I'm over here still thinking "how the f**k did they get a bloody band in a series anime budget?"

@JoseRivera-rl3qv 7 лет назад

Hey Wally The Legend just come here to say you have to make a video for Metroid Prime 4

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Obviously gonna be a long way off, but I'm open to doing that when the time comes!

@OmegaJester09 7 лет назад

Uknow I fucking love kyoani, honestly one of my fave animation studios and I think the animation/look of this show is out standing... But I only made it 6 or so episodes in and something about this show just didn't click with me. The main character just didn't gel with me, she was a little cynical but still kinda felt like a little miss perfect which kinda bothered me. Plus the show just felt a little to high strung for me. It's weird because I typically love high school anime series and K-on is one of my favourite series. Great review though I think I need to give the series another go and hopefully if I push on a bit more I will find more enjoyment in it.

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

It's been fun for me in learning about studios because I've actually super enjoyed other shows that they've worked on without knowing it was their work at the time. I would say at this point based on what I've really liked that they're one of my favorite studios. I can understand based on what you like in characters maybe not liking Kumiko as much at first. Though she does grow up a bit and change for the better as the series goes on, so might be worth giving it another go! If you do decide to watch more I'd love to hear back from ya.

@OmegaJester09 7 лет назад

Yea I do plan to give it a go again something and hopefully enjoy it once I push though a bit... haha I have the same exact problem with the anime 'Your Lie in April' actually I hear its amazing, but I just find it hard to push though it. ...maybe I'm just a horrible person who prefers shows with imperfect characters like 'Genshiken' or 'welcome to the NHK'.

@WallyTheLegend 7 лет назад

Well, I would say Kumiko is very much an imperfect character (though I don't think you were saying differently). That being said, Welcome to the NHK is fantastic so I know what you're getting at.

@possum3083 5 лет назад

Печально, что нет русских субтитров у таких видео. Англоязычной аудитории это аниме понравилось больше, чем русскоязычной. У русских ютуберов просто нет таких видео Т_Т