Ao no Orchestra Season 2 • Blue Orchestra Season 2 - Episode 14 discussion

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Is that a hint / clue on the final ship?

Possibly future mothers-in-law (Hajime's mother and Ritsuko's mother) seated next to each other.

Surprisingly, Senou sensei is capable of being the conductor for both the choir and orchestra combined.

Lastly, having Nao being able to speak with his mother over the phone, even if just to wish her Merry Christmas, is a sweet ending to this particular mini arc.

Where did you guys watch it?

Of all the songs, I loved the Messiah sequence. I hated the fact I saw Face/Off & liked because I resisted the urge to headbang to it.

I'm glad Nao called his mom to greet her Merry Christmas.

I wonder if both moms decided to interact properly after that scene or not.

I love how the 2 songs also had the Orchestra Club play.

Did they sing Ave Maria in Latin or in Japanese because Messiah was clearly in English?

are they finally done with singing in an orchestra anime?

Yeah, when you're on stage, _smile_. If you don't look like you want to be there, the _audience_ certainly won't.

But it's not the performance yet, for now it's just venue practice.

Are they just doing warm-ups?

Yep. The acoustics in there must be amazing.

Ah. The show is about to start.

And so it's the crucial moment, waiting backstage for their cue to go on stage and perform.

Weren't they doing Joy To The World?

Yep that is indeed that.

The subs are delayed by one line from the second line of the second verse onwards lol.

Oh and it only gets worse as the second verse goes on... I _know_ the lyrics by heart after practicing and performing it so much but if I didn't this would probably be really weird.

It's not just that, it's mostly orchestra members who probably couldn't be arsed shanghaied into singing with the choir.

And so here's a proper combined performance with the orchestra providing instrumentals. Again I pity whoever has to stand behind the drums and sing.

Huh. No one is on the drums. I guess for the aforementioned reason of whoever stands behind those can't hear themselves _think_.

Huh. They're actually singing in English. This is entirely not out of the ordinary, I myself am currently learning a couple of songs in Japanese among other languages, just interesting to see it in anime. It's just putting sounds to music after all, the sound doesn't matter if it's in English, Latin, Japanese, or any other language.

Oh god someone _is_ on the drums for this one. Looks like he's right in front of the basses.

On the one hand yes I'm sure more combined stuff would be interesting I'm sure the choir is just about done with lugging around the dead weight and the orchestra is glad to be going back to be doing _what they signed up for_.

Oh hey jingle bells.