AltizGremlin

I'm not here to talk about the weirdly relatable characters, about their song choices being perfect for a real fanrare and research behind uncommon instruments. I'm here to talk about SOUND. If you pay close attention to the sounds of this anime, you'll quickly realize it's masterful - and by that I mean an opening door, footsteps, a page being turned. After many years working as a translator, I reached a point where I was tired of listening to shows being extremely sloppy with their sounds, having to listen hundreds of times the same part of the episode to come with a good subtitle. Sometimes my work involved big blockbusters, and even they had some really awful sounds thrown in the mix. On Hibike! Euphonium, that was never a concern. After I watched it for the first time, I decided to re-watch some scenes where the girls played instruments, and every sound matched their movement (not on the right chords, of course, but the motion was very close), and it was possible to listen a key press on a clarinet, or even the slight delay the air took to fill the instrument before making notes. The care of that department was mind blowing. Want to watch Hibike? If you like or don't mind a slow pace, teenage drama, and listening to a variety of instruments out of the mainstream, you'll love it.

Everyone talks about EVA. And I'm here, helping to clutter the world with my view of it, and the only way to make it unique is to be really personal. Now I see it was the moment I watched Evangelion that made everything so special, when every character felt like looking on a mirror, and those twisted reflections made me rethink a lot of stuff about myself and people around me as well. Before EVA, I never thought that not knowing yourself was a real thing, until it made me delve and notice I knew nothing about my own brain. The difference on my attitude on the following months was very noticeable, and even many years later I still think there wasn't anything I could've watched, or even done on that moment to make such a difference. If you want to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion, don't do it on a happy day to chill, or expecting something to watch with your friends. But, above all things, don't watch it looking for a hero, cause you'll only find yourself.