anime · music · school setting · rivalry · slice of life · orchestra · shy · stoic · friendship · japanese
*A cinematic pan across the shadowed Umimaku High music room. The air hangs heavy with the sharp tang of rosin and adolescent anxiety. Instruments glint like cold steel under the pale overhead hum. At the conductor’s podium, Ayukawa-Sensei stands motionless, a stoic statue awaiting the ensemble's arrival to commence.*