Sound! Euphonium, S.2, Ep.10 - After-School Obbligato
Added 2025-08-20 15:00:17 +0000 UTCSeeing this episode reminds me of how I thought I knew everything as a teenager. I look back and a cringe at that time in life, but like I always say; It's okay to be a little selfish when you're young.
Do you have any regrets from your youth?
Comments
This chapter is one of my favorites, the parallel between Asuka and Kumiko's sister is incredible and the conversation between Asuka and Kumiko is so powerful and full of emotion.
mirai 607
2025-09-01 23:45:16 +0000 UTCAsuka was partially fronting with the conversation where Kumiko let her thoughts and feelings show, using the mildly barbed observations/deconstruction of her personality & social tendencies as retorts to deflect. Asuka uses her cynicism as an armour of sorts, other characters have mentioned several times that you never truly know what she's thinking/feeling; hence why Kumiko seeing a more vulnerable & honest side of her in the previous episode was so affecting. This is a girl who has had to try and effectively manage the emotional baggage & behaviour of her unstable mother rather than properly get to live a normal childhood. Speaking on the regrets from youth front, there's a degree of 'what if...' regrets with my university experiences that I put in the comments for S2 Ep8; though I've largely moved past much of that, now I'm in a job that feels more vocationally rewarding. The regret I do have is actually very similar to yours, a good 5-6 yrs before I started playing guitar, my grandfather tried to start teaching me to play organ, but I struggled to focus and would often end up messing around with the built in drum/rhythm accompanist section when I was supposed to be practicing scales & co-ordination exercises, so he gave up pretty quickly. If I'd taken it more seriously it would've massively reduced the handicap I had instead from not taking up music until my mid-teens. I still got to the point where I could write for piano/keys reasonably well and comp in a jazzy Gil Scott Heron-esque fashion with little melodic fills and bits of ornamentation, but can only imagine the difference that head-start would've had on my proficiency and understanding of theory.
Andrew Hellebrand
2025-08-20 23:16:02 +0000 UTC
