The holiday episodes may get the most attention, but some of the best episodes in anime feature cast members who attend local festivals. In Japan, festivals are held to celebrate a number of special occasions: people often wear traditional costumes, enjoy delicious food and fun games, and gather at the end of the night to watch performances. firework. Schools often organize festivals and fairs, largely run by students, that showcase sports, food and other skills they want to show off to classmates and visitors.
These episodes vary greatly in tone between shows. Some will use the festivals as a pause in the action or squeeze them out to create as much comedy as possible. Others will use them as a piece for some of the most dramatic and even heartbreaking moments in any anime. Here is a list of the best festival episodes in anime history.
10 Geass Code (2006-2008)
As Lelouch whines, his student council duties have a nasty way of interfering with his plans to launch a coup against his evil emperor father. However, there are certain events that he should pay more attention to. “The School Festival Statement” includes some interesting twists and turns in the efforts of all players to achieve their goals in Area 11, making for an engaging and enjoyable episode.
While Lelouch tries to sort out his civil obligations and some of the best revenge plots in anime, Kallen and the Black Knights examine their plans and feelings about his secret identity. is Zero. As royals Britannia Schneizel and Cornelia build up their forces for war, their sister Euphemia makes a startling announcement that she will act to return rights to the Japanese. And in the meantime, Suzaku uses his state-of-the-art machine to make a giant pizza for his classmates!
9 Free! (2013 – 2021)
Free of charge! there are a few festival episodes. In “Hesitation let loose!”, a masked Rei who doesn’t stealthily follows Rin through crowded stalls is the high point of the first season comedy. However, it was the Eternal Summer moment that was more memorable for many fans. The title of “The Butterfly of Farewell!” may mislead viewers into thinking it’s tragic, but as it turns out at the end of the season, this episode highlights some of the warmest friendships in Free!
When Iwatobi High School holds a culture festival, Haruka represents the swim team in the school’s relay competition, giving a different inner monologue about how patriotic he is, but ultimately didn’t feel the wind so much. Later, although the group worries that Rei’s recent secrecy means he will quit, he reveals that he is taking private lessons from Rin: the two are now so close that Rin is having a good time. Looks to help Rei get out of the butterfly game.
8 Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun (2014)
In keeping with such a romantic comedy, the ending of the anime revolves around the summer festival of the Roman Academy. All of Nozaki-kun’s funniest characters and their unique comedic antics are in top form in this volume. Fireworks are only half the way “If This Feeling Is Not Love, Then There Is No Love in the World” ends the anime successfully.
All the couples in the film enjoy the festival together, from Seo pulling Wakamatsu out to play games with her to Kashima joining Hori for a reference photo shoot for Nozaki’s manga. As for Chiyo, after reminiscing about the moment she fell in love with Nozaki in the first episode, she finally confesses her love for him as fireworks explode above their heads. Nozaki’s answer made it unclear whether he heard and understood what she was trying to tell him.
7 Pokémon (1998 – present)
As Ash and company traveled from region to region, they attended many local festivals. One of the most notable of these is also one of Pokémon’s darkest episodes. Maiden’s Peak’s summer festival commemorates the local legend of a ghost whose true love died at sea two thousand years ago and lurked on the mountaintops waiting for young men to take their place.
Just like in real-life summer festivals, Ash and Misty happily dress up, dance, and enjoy carnival games and food. The event ends with the people of Maiden’s Peak releasing small boats lit by candles into the ocean, to guide the spirits of the dead peacefully. Unfortunately for Brock and James, the ghost’s newest target, expelling this lost spirit is a bit more difficult.
6 Assassination Classes (2013 – 2016)
In “School Festival Time,” Class 3-E is finally starting to shed its status as one of the best anime heroes with the worst reputation. For over a season and a half, the kids have been secretly honing their various skills as they train to assassinate their alien teacher. Fortunately, many of these skills also help them in their personal lives and in the harsh environment of Kunugigaoka Academy.
Usually separate from the rest of the student body, the class shocks everyone with their successful cafe. It didn’t outstrip the better-funded project of the top students, but came in third after it was reported on the school. Even Nagisa’s terribly controlling mother was impressed enough by his success and happiness to begin to accept his independence and support him.
5 A Silent Voice (2016)
Based on the manga of the same name, Naoko Hamada’s adaptation of A Silent Voice is among the animated films that are guaranteed to make you cry. As a child, Shouya Ishida and her friends bullied Shouko Nishimiya for being deaf, until she had to transfer schools. Despised by society for his role in the bullying incident, teenage Shouya reconnects with Shouko to try to atone for hurting her, and the two quickly become close.
A fireworks festival creates one of the film’s most heartbreaking scenes. Blaming herself for her friends and family’s problems, Shouko uses the festival as a pastime so she can take her own life. Shouya is mortally wounded when he stops her, and tearfully admits his past attempt with Shouko to convince her to keep living. Then, highlighting the film’s themes of making connections and re-entering the community, Shouya eventually realizes that they have transcended the past that also took place at a school festival.
4 Ouran High School Host Club (2006)
Although Ouran ranks highly among the anime fans yearn for a second season, “This Is Our Ouran Fair!” is a farewell not only suitable for the Host Club. Tamaki’s arranged engagement to Éclair Tonnerre and the conspiracies in the background between the powerful families involved led to the disbandment of the Hosts Club. However, after everything Tamaki has done for them, his friends won’t give up on him so easily.
The annual Ouran Fair is the Hosts Club’s biggest opportunity to showcase their products to their colleagues and families. This time around, their costumes, carriage rentals, and crazy display of skills are more than just entertainment: they’re a rescue mission! Their outpouring of love causes Tamaki to jump off a moving vehicle and down a bridge to reunite with Haruhi and affirm his loyalty to his best friends, and the final scene of it all. The other Hosts dancing with Haruhi under the fireworks display was perfect.
3 Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019 – present)
The second season of this hilarious comedy used the critically acclaimed sports carnival episode to reveal the tragic story of a little-known supporting character. While Kaguya-sama: Love is War may be one of the funniest anime of the 2010s, it’s made great by its handling of the serious and emotionally heavy points of the story. When Kaguya and Miyuki begin to crack under pressure to confess their feelings, they use Shuchiin’s cultural festival as an opportunity to make big strides.
The climactic episodes of the third season show Kaguya struggling to find a way to get Miyuki to confess to her, while Miyuki plans to create the perfect setting for Kaguya to confess to her. Their signature over-thinking and dramatic personalities drive much of the humor of these episodes, but that only makes things harder when the two finally go public with their feelings. . Amid a storm of heart-shaped balloons, Miyuki admits that he wants Kaguya to go to university abroad with her, and Kaguya reciprocates by kissing him for the first time.
2 Blue Demons (2011 – 2017)
Although this part is technically yet to be made into an animated movie, fans are still waiting faithfully for the announcement of a third season of Blue Exorcist. Among the events they wanted to see animated was the Academy’s Seven Wonders Arc. After the Exwires investigate the school’s famous mysteries, they prepare seriously for True Cross Academy’s school festival in an arc that blends humor and tension.
Some nights of the festival require students to join in pairs, leaving Rin and her classmates hilariously scrambling for the day for several chapters. But the plot is still hidden behind, and the festival abruptly ends with the Illuminati spy at the school being exposed, Lucifer himself appearing to provoke the exorcists, and Izumo being kidnapped.
1 My Hero Academia (2016 – present)
UA’s sports festival includes one of the best tournaments in anime. However, the cultural festival depicted in the fourth season is equally interesting for different reasons. After harrowing battles with Shie Hassaikai, Class 1-A refuses to rest on their laurels, determined to show their classmates the best time possible (and show the public the best image possible). their) at the UA school festival.
Their efforts to form a live and dance band have been wildly successful, with Kyouka using her Quirk and her secret wonderful voice to lead and Bakugou dealing with his aggression issues. on the drum at the back. The scene was so exhilarating that Eri, a child so badly mistreated by the Shie Hassaikai that he forgot how to express happiness, revealed a grin. Even though Izuku is currently fighting a villain and isn’t there to witness it, the happiness he’s protecting is more than obvious enough for the audience to see.
