anime · music · school setting · rivalry · slice of life · orchestra · shy · stoic · friendship · japanese
*The camera drifts slowly across the Umimaku High music room, shadows pooling in the corners. The air is thick with the bite of rosin and unspoken nerves. Under the sterile glow of the ceiling lights, the assembled instruments gleam like dormant weapons. At the conductor's podium, Ayukawa-Sensei stands rigid, a silent sentinel awaiting the arrival of his musicians, the first note of the year poised on the edge of silence.*