Matsugorou Sawamura is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Setsu Sawamura, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Setsu finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachiki Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Setsu imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.
1 season · 12 episodes
S1 E1Desolate
Apr 3, 202124 min
Sawamura Matsugorou, the grandfather of a young Tsugaru shamisen player, Sawamura Setsu, has died. In losing the grandfather whom he'd always admired, Setsu has lost his own sound, and so he has gone to Tokyo with no plans other than to sea
S1 E2Apple Blossoms
Apr 10, 202124 min
Setsu's unconventional mother, Sawamura Umeko, has suddenly descended and forced him to enroll at Umezono Academy. In helping to assemble a shamisen which has lain long disused, he meets Maeda Shuri, a girl in the same grade as him. While a
S1 E3Sudden Downpour
Apr 17, 202124 min
Shuri is caught listening to music during class and has her cellphone confiscated. The song heard through her earphones is Setsu's grandfather, Matsugoro's, improvisation piece "Shungyou." How? How does she know that song? When Setsu asks a
S1 E4Spring Dawn
Apr 24, 202124 min
Shuri wants her grandmother to be able to hear "Shungyou: Spring Dawn" again, but Setsu tells her it isn't something he's capable of playing and ends up denying her request to perform. After Setsu confronts "Shungyou" once more, he finds hi
S1 E5Playing Together
May 1, 202124 min
After being so deeply moved by Setsu's performance, Shuri decides to seriously pursue playing the shamisen. With Setsu at the center, Shuri, Shuri's childhood friends Yamazato Yui and Yaguchi Kaito, and the addition of Nagamori Rai, a fello
S1 E6Homeland
May 8, 202124 min
The owner of a shop selling traditional Japanese instruments, Oodawara Hiroshi, has taken the Tsugaru Shamisen Appreciation Club to Aomori for a training camp. The members start practicing right away, but Shuri falls into a slump and Setsu,
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Setsu Sawamura (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Wakana Sawamura (voice)
Takako Honda
Umeko Sawamura (voice)
Yume Miyamoto
Shuri Maeda (voice)
Reina Kondo
Yui Yamazato (voice)
Shiori Mikami
Mai Tanuma (voice)
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Kaito Yaguchi (voice)
Tomoyo Takayanagi
Keiko Koyabu (voice)
Noritomo Yamaguchi
Kota Kawaragi (voice)
Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Rai Nagamori (voice)
Tasuku Hatanaka
Soichi Tanuma (voice)
Yuna Taniguchi
Sakura Yamano (voice)
