The BEST episodes directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
#1 - Festival Time
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 5
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.
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#3 - Miraculous Harmony
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 5
Only three schools will be selected at the Kansai Concert Band Competition to compete in the Nationals. Will Kitauji High School be one of them?
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#4 - Crybaby Saxophone
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 7
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?"
#5 - My Euphonium
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 12
The competition's coming up. Kumiko is suddenly asked to play a difficult phrase from a different part. She begins practicing, but...
#6 - First Love Trumpet
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 11
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.
#7 - Nice to Meet You, Euphonium
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 2
Kumiko and the others join the concert band, and they choose their instruments. Their eccentric senior, Asuka, still likes to mess with them.
#8 - The Last Competition
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 12
It's the big day: the All Japan Concert Band Competition Nationals.
#9 - Mid-summer Fanfare
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
#10 - Goodbye Competition
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 13
The competition performance is "only" 12 minutes long. It's both a blink of an eye and an eternity. The Concert Band members bet their entire youths on this competition. And Kitauji High School Concert Band's performance begins.
#11 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tuba
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 6
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.
#12 - Exiled... Just the Two of Them
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 8
After refusing to face the truth about her father, Rikka "retreats" to her home with Yuta in tow. Makoto is finding it tough to figure out his feelings for Kumin, and Yuta shares a night together with Rikka that impacts them both in a very meaningful way.
#13 - Singing Solfège
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
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#14 - Please, Audition
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 9
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.
#15 - Straight Trumpet
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 10
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.
#16 - Welcome to High School
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 1
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.
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#17 - Troubled Nocturnes
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 3
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.
#18 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Season 1 - Episode 14
Haruhi becomes frustrated and jealous of Mikuru's friendly relationship with Kyon. One night, Haruhi's power is activated without her knowing. Haruhi and Kyon become trapped in a sealed reality at their school. Before long, a blue giant appears and begins to destroy the school and the surrounding area. As more appear, Kyon and Haruhi evacuate the school. Kyon uses hints, provided by Yuki and Mikuru beforehand, to defuse the situation and escape
#19 - Sound! Euphonium
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 9
Asuka is about to lose her seat competing in the Nationals. But that might not be why she invited Kumiko over.
#20 - Hesitation Flute
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 2
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.
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#21 - Rhapsody in Flu
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 8
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.
#22 - Air
Air - Season 1 - Episode 12
The summer festival has finally arrived, but unfortunately it rains that day and thus the festival is canceled. Wanting to do anything she can for Misuzu, Haruko brings her to the local shrine. As mother and daughter bond, can Haruko ultimately save Misuzu from returning to her other self in the vast blue sky?
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#23 - After-school Obbligato
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 10
Taki's deadline for Asuka draws near. She refuses to admit that she wants, more than anyone, to compete in the Nationals.
#24 - Reminiscences... of Paradise Lost
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 7
A trip to Rika's hometown reveals more about her than Yuta had anticipated. Dekomori continues her antics against her nemesis "Mori-Summer". Yuta and Rika escape the house and end up in a place Rika holds dear to her heart.
#25 - Festival Triangle
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 8
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.
#26 - Station Concert
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 7
Asuka's mother wants her to quit the concert band. This upsets everyone -- including her mother.
#27 - Holy Mother's... Pandora's Box
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 10
Rikka and Yuta each gets some advice from a friend. Rikka's sister reveals her intention of studying the culinary arts in France, and asks Yuta to help her with Rikka. Through their own special ways, Yuta and Rikka confess to each other.
#28 - Awakening Oboe
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 4
Nozomi finally meets Mizore. She learns, the hard way, why Asuka had been keeping her away.
#29 - Early-Spring Epilogue
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 13
With the competition over and the third-years graduating, Kumiko is left to sort through her feelings: Is it a love of concert band, of the euphonium, or of something else?
#30 - Rainy Conductor
Sound! Euphonium - Season 2 - Episode 6
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.
#31 - Welcome Back, Audition
Sound! Euphonium - Season 1 - Episode 11
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.
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#32 - Eternal Engage
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 12
Yuta begins to worry when it becomes apparent that Rikka may not come back. Sanae ditches her Dekomori persona to follow Rikka, while Kumin "inherits" Wicked Lord Shingan's powers. Yuta can't bear being without Rikka and sets off to find her.
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#33 - Priestess... of the Melody
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 2
Yuta wants to crush on the beautiful Shinka, but Rikka's antics prohibit it. A visit to Rikka's house reveals how delusional she really is. Her eclectic collections are almost stranger than her behavior! What's worse: Rikka's sister knows about Yuta's past!
#34 - A Binding... Hard Study
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 5
Rikka and Yuta face their low grades, and their club is fingered as the culprit! Rikka begins a new battle with her latest opponent: math! Meanwhile, Dekomori and Nibutani continue to butt heads.
#35 - A Confused... Chaos Heart
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 9
The school festival is on, and amidst Shinka's attempts to turn their club into something legitimate, Rikka battles strange feelings that she only experiences when Yuta is around. Shinka decides to help her understand these feelings, but Rikka's full blown case of chunibyo keeps getting in the way.
#36 - One-Winged... Fallen Angel
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 11
Rikka begins to acclimate herself to living a normal life, successfully making friends in the process. Sanae, however, isn't too happy about it. Rikka heads off to visit her father's grave, with Yuta left at the station, waiting for her to return.
#37 - The Atoned... Innocent
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 6
Rikka makes club uniforms for everyone, further humiliating Yuta; tension between Nibutani and Dekomori continues to grow. Isshiki receives a love letter, but his plans hit a snag before they even begin.
#38 - The Heretical... Pigtailed Girl
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 3
Yuta tries to decide what club to join, but Rikka is already a step ahead of him. She creates the "Far-Eastern Magic Society" and manages to rope in two members. Given a provisional club status, Yuta revokes his membership... until Shinka joins the club, too.
#39 - Regret of... the Mabinogion
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 4
Yuta is puzzled that Nibutani wants to join Rikka's club. He wonders if she could really like him back, but the answer he gets isn't the one he imagined!
#40 - Magical Devil Girl in Pursuit
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 3
Rikka becomes very excited about the presence of a magic user she is supposedly doing unvisible battle with, but it soon becomes apparent that this magic user is an actual person. She is a girl Yuta knows from his middle school days who first infected him with chunibyo. Rikka is both fascinated and terrified of the threat the new girl poses to her and Yuta's love contract, and either wants to be friends with her or be rid of her for all eternity.
#41 - Travelling to the Island of Tsukushi... of Hesitation
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 6
The class trip is here, and while Rikka and Dekomori must separate, now is a good time for her to get some alone time with Yuta... if their class mates let them!
#42 - Gauntlet of Rain (A Midsummer Night's... Rain and Whip)
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 10
Shichimiya continues to wrestle with her newfound feelings, and only one thing can save her from herself: a showdown!
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#43 - Resort... Last Resort
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 9
While helping Kumin's aunt run a shop by the beach, Rikka realizes that her powers are fading... and she may want them to.
#44 - Blue Moon Ragnarok
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 11
Rikka is determined to find the necessary items to revive the Dark Flame Dragon, and puts herself in danger in the process.
#45 - Chance Encounter... with Wicked Lord Shingan
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 1 - Episode 1
After recovering from adolescent delusions, Yuta transfers schools to begin anew. As he tastes the succulent fruit of normalcy, Rikka Takanashi discovers Yuta's delusional past and declares that they are soul mates, which makes things anything but normal.
#46 - The Election for President of the Student Council (Queen Maker)...of Purity
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 4
Nibutani attempts to run for Student Council president, but a pesky little blonde girl is foiling her every attempt at normalcy. What can she do to keep her in check? The unthinkable...
#47 - The Superior Contract... of Twilight
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 12
Rikka is acting strangely around Yuta, and it takes all of her courage to confess her true feelings to him.
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#48 - Wicked Lord Shingan... Reborn
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 1
Unusual circumstances forces Yuta and Rikka to live under one roof. Keeping it under wraps is top priority as the new school year starts.
#49 - Triangle... of Missed Encounters
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 7
Togashi hopes to spend the entire day alone with Rikka, but Shichimiya somehow finds her way to the couple, dragging them into her secret mission.
#50 - Meeting of the Club Delegates Meeting
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! - Season 2 - Episode 5
In danger of losing the club room, The Magical Napping Society - Summer thereof decides to do the only club activity that the student council will accept: competitive napping!
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