Kyoto Animation's last Sound! Euphonium trailer looks back on 11 years as The Final Movie Part 2 plays in Japan
The studio's final video for the concert-band franchise pairs a retrospective of the series with new scenes from the closing film, now in Japanese theaters.
Eleven years after Kumiko Oumae first joined the Kitauji High School Concert Band on television, Kyoto Animation has released one final trailer for the Sound! Euphonium anime. Posted to the studio's YouTube channel and reported by Crunchyroll on October 1, the video combines a look back across the franchise's long run with previously unseen footage from Sound! Euphonium, The Final Movie Part 2, which is currently screening in Japanese cinemas.
The new scenes focus on Kumiko, her close friend Reina Kousaka and her rival Mayu Kuroe as the band chases a gold prize at the National Competition, the ambition that has driven the story from the beginning and the one this film finally resolves.
A finale drawn from the third season
The Final Movie retells the third TV season, which aired in spring 2024, for theaters, with refreshed animation and added material, including performance sequences that never appeared in the broadcast version. Per AniList, Part 1 opened on April 24, 2026, and Part 2 followed on September 11.
The team
Taichi Ogawa takes the director's credit on the films, while Tatsuya Ishihara, who led the TV series for years, moves up to chief director. The rest of the third season's crew stayed on. Jukki Hanada again handles series composition and wrote a new screenplay for the theatrical cut, Kazumi Ikeda is chief animation director, and composer Akito Matsuda returns, once more working with Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and the Progressive! Wind Orchestra.
Where it all started
The anime adapts Ayano Takeda's novels, illustrated by Nikki Asada and published by Takarajimasha under its Takarajimasha Bunko imprint from December 2013 to June 2024, 14 volumes in total; Yen Press publishes them in English. Kyoto Animation's first season premiered in April 2015, a second followed in fall 2016, and the third arrived in 2024, with theatrical films in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and OVAs along the way. Crunchyroll streams the TV seasons, including the one these two films are built from.
