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Chapter 3: Sudden Rain
Maeda and Yui go to high school together and only intersect with Sawamura. Maeda has a dream of finding someone who knows the tune that her grandmother was humming. Maeda’s cell phone was accidentally confiscated, but the grandmother’s hum could be heard. Sawamura heard and thought it was the same sound as his grandfather’s sound, so he cares and they talk. After a discussion, the teacher responsible for the club shamisen mentions that he will take her to a professional who was the one who left the shamisen in the classrooms. Seiryuu Kamiki’s presentation is excellent and behind the scenes he forces Sawamura to play, but he doesn’t find his sound and is stopped, runs away and is confronted by Yui. In the end, he decides to continue with the club.
Chapter Opinion
I keep reiterating that the best we can find is the soundtrack, the touch of the shamisen together with the atmosphere it creates a truly magical atmosphere. Also, I recommend that you close your eyes when you go to play but with a good performance and you will be carried away by the magic. This chapter has made me feel heavy, it made me move on in some things, and the conveniences have already become very apparent. Even so, I like that it comes to a point where there is more room for future events and better character development, which I hope because the only ones that were developed were Sawamura and Yuna, and that doesn’t seem to appear anymore, at least not soon. At the moment, the first chapter was definitely the best.
Friends and new members
For him opening The integration of Yui and Kaito, Maeda’s childhood friends, could already be felt. So the integration was pretty obvious, I don’t think it’s a type introduction Jujutsu Kaisen. And the integration of Sawamura came too. We already know this type of event, it’s very classic in anime. Yui is the one I find the most interesting. She tried to use what she learned from Sawamura for fun or pull the strings when she didn’t do it that well. Kaito, I don’t have an exact opinion, sometimes I liked him and sometimes I liked others badly. Good for his sincerity, and bad because I have a feeling that he was only used as a trinket in this chapter, which doesn’t mean it will always be. At the moment there is nothing new at the level of the story and plot, but it is possible to enjoy it in its own way.
An old, familiar and different sound
The heart of the first part and to a large extent the trigger of the events was the melody of Maeda’s grandmother, which she recorded on her cell phone. The sound is similar to Shungyou from Sawamura’s grandfather. We know from the mouth of the little student that her grandmother listened to her during the war (the Great East Asian War? Korean War? That makes me curious), so we can assume that these grandparents had an affair or that she may have fallen in love with them the Lord. He’ll likely tell us as the chapters progress.
Something Sawamura said that I really liked is that the sound is similar, it’s the initial sound of the Shungyou his grandfather’s because its tune has changed over the years. I like this because it emphasizes that a song, a score or a melody does not stagnate, but takes on new nuances with the years and the performers, a work that is always in motion and depends on the feeling of the moment.
Sound differences
We meet Seiryuu Kamiki, an interpreter for Shimasen very good, if you live and enjoy what you do, it shows when you play this melody, the name of which I don’t know, but the one in the end in Japanese. Kamiki is not joking, the feeling of the instrumentalist is very important to him in order to find the right sound. When Sawamura played it it made a difference, he didn’t know what to play, how to play it, who to play it for, he lacked motivation. Based on what he said, he’s trying to play for the other person, not himself, and that limits him: he’s trying to please others. When he was opening act, he played for Yuna; with Omeko he played for her. Sawamura is empty, but he wants to fill up, find the right sound and decides to enter the club.
Despite the fact that above it can be assumed that I am marking it as bad, it is not. It seems like a good anime to me, not for everyone, but the shortcomings have to be said, although I am not denying that there are people out there who enjoy this rhythm and types of stories. I hope the chapters are better and that they develop the secondary ones like Kamiki which seems very interesting.