Talk:Noboru Taki/@comment-25978928-20160614222449/@comment-27182901-20160704035626

i kind of like how the story showed that no one clapped though. a lot of anime is like "CLUBS! YEAH! GO TEAM! UNENDING ENTHUSIASM!" and band is not really like that. Band geeks know this and so did the author of Hibike. Before competitions they cheer and everything but behind the scenes it's really like no one wants to stick their neck out or say what they're really thinking out of fear that they'll be judged either way, and the anime really shows that-- both with the vote to aim for nationals and the audition scene.

Also, considering Reina and Taki are family friends, it might have been done with her permission, since she didn't look shocked when he announced it in the show.

In any case, I wish my own band director would have done this when a similar case happened in my high school band. He didn't, and things did not end well.