Ao no Orchestra Season 2

EP1 - Coming Apart

After their successful subscription concert performance, the Umimaku High School Orchestra Club sets their sights on winning the national competition. But with a new lineup of second-years leading, things are off to a rocky start. Only a few violinists turn up for the first morning practice, and Sakuma, the percussion section leader, bluntly criticizes Hatori, the newly appointed concertmaster, and other string members.

EP2 - Ripples

Takimoto has been skipping morning practice without explanation despite being newly appointed as the second violin section leader. When Sakuma and other section leaders question her about it, she tries avoids the subject. Later, frustrated second violin members confront her. She responds by walking away, but not before muttering something. Susono is worried and gives Takimoto a surprising suggestion.

EP3 - Responsibility

On his way home from school, Aono unexpectedly bumps into Takimoto, who is crying alone in pain. As Aono shows concern for his senior, Takimoto slowly begins to speak. He talks about the events surrounding the club member who quit, and his own cold feelings and confusion after no longer finding meaning in club activities. These feelings overlap with Aono's, who once gave up the violin due to his relationship with his father. Aono talks about the pain he felt when he stopped playing, and how his feelings toward his father are different now than they were back then. Aono's words make Takimoto decide.

EP4 - Sports Day

With two months until the competition, the string instruments are beginning to come together under the guidance of concertmaster Hatori, and the sports festival is upon us. Ritsuko, a member of the inter-club relay team, is inspired by Aono's determination to have fun and give it her all as she competes. However, she is also chosen as the class's leader for the horse-riding battle. Aono is timid, and Saeki, who is also competing in the battle, becomes competitive. Haru, who can't help but root for Aono, who is in a different group, asks him a question that has been bothering her for a while.

EP5 - Issues

There is one month until the competition. With the entire band still unable to agree on an interpretation of the piece, they split into three groups and begin block practice, with Aono ending up in the same group as Sakuma. Bacchanale from Saint-Saëns' opera Samson and Delilah depicts the love and hate between a man and a woman amidst an antagonistic relationship. It is filled with elegance and charm, anger and sadness, lies and secrets. Haru, who is in a different group from Aono, grasps something from a conversation with Machii, a third-year senior who knows how Haru feels about Aono.

EP6 - Regret and Progress

Tachibana, who is in the same group as Ritsuko during block practice, is irritated by the other members of the club who refuse to take the initiative. Ritsuko senses that Tachibana is always conscious of Sakuma, a senior from the same junior high school. Tachibana tells Ritsuko about how he took over as captain from Sakuma at the junior high school orchestra club, which was a regular gold medalist in competitions, and about the bitter experience and regret he had when his own enthusiasm and sense of responsibility didn't translate into results. Tachibana and Ritsuko are tuning their instruments together. Sakuma is playing the timpani in a separate room.

EP7 - Anger

Aono is at home nursing a cold and is haunted by terrible nightmares. The competition is just around the corner, and he should be diving into rehearsals; however, everything is at a standstill. Apparently, the theme of the play has still not been fully grasped by everyone. In several meetings, they are searching for the anger that Samson must have felt, which needs to be expressed musically.

EP8 - The Competition

The big day has arrived, and the competition is underway. Old acquaintances sit in the audience, watching over their former protégés. The competition is fierce, and just now, Mr. Ayukawa is criticizing his club members more severely than ever.

EP9 - Bacchanale

The Kaimaku High School Orchestra Club has overcome differences in motivation among its members and discord over interpretations of the pieces they are performing by seriously competing with each other. Now they are taking on the competition, a stage where performances are judged on their merits. They have discovered the anger they feel in the story of Bacchanale, which depicts the love and hate between Samson and Delilah. Aono and his friends play with all their might, filled with emotion and emotion, a sound that can only be produced in this moment. Will they be able to achieve their ninth consecutive national victory?

EP10 - Identity

After the competition is over and there are no club activities, Aono and Haru go out together. Their destination is a music store that Aono has been going to since he was a child.

EP11 - Episode 11

頼みがあると、律子に呼び出された青野。母が好きな、バッハの「２つのヴァイオリンのための協奏曲」の演奏を、誕生日にプレゼントしたいのだという。中学の頃のように、律子は青野に勉強を教え、青野は律子にヴァイオリンを教える。誕生日当日、青野は、初めて訪れた女子の部屋にドキドキ。律子の母は、初めて会う青野に興味津々だ。演奏を始める２人。ヴァイオリンの音は、律子と母２人の関係にとって、特別な意味を持っていた。

EP12 - Episode 12

青野、律子、ハル。ゆれる気持ちに戸惑いながら、いつもどおりに振る舞う３人。青野は、律子とハルに勉強を教えてもらい、期末テストを終える。オーケストラ部の次の出番は、合唱部と合同で開催するクリスマスコンサートだ。オーケストラの演奏とともに合唱部員が歌うだけでなく、一部の曲ではオケ部員たちも合唱に参加する。人前で歌う恥ずかしさもあり、慣れない歌に苦戦する青野。そこに、堂々とした歌声が響く。その声の主は？

EP13 - Episode 13

EP14 - Episode 14

EP15 - Episode 15

EP16 - Episode 16

EP17 - Episode 17

EP18 - Episode 18

EP19 - Episode 19

EP20 - Episode 20

EP21 - Episode 21