Ao no Orchestra Season 2

After the regular concert, the Umimaku High orchestra club resets under a new second year led structure and starts pushing toward the national competition again. The first cracks show up immediately. Morning practice is short on violinists, and the percussion section leader Sakuma needles the new concertmaster Yo Hatori and the string players until nerves flare. Hajime Aono gets caught between frustration and responsibility, while Nao Saeki and Ritsuko Akine refuse to swallow the insults. At the same time, Takimoto is moved from 1st to 2nd violin and made part leader, then keeps skipping morning training. Meetings turn ugly, the second violin group explodes at him, and Aono watches the section start to split. When Aono later finds Takimoto crying alone, Takimoto admits he has lost the point of playing after a painful incident tied to a member who quit. Aono answers with his own history of once giving up the violin because of his father, and the conversation forces a decision that the whole club will feel.