After reading the manga and watching this episode, I finally realise that the S Orchestra is pretty much just the first stage in Chiaki's story. I'm a bit disappointed about this since I've gotten attached to the S Orchestra. I feel that as Chiaki steps up into the world stage, his Orchestra's members get less and less interesting personality-wise. Thankfully the live action series is still at the stage where the majority of the Orchestra members still have personality. It also helps that some of the original cast members are still around. Speaking of new characters, it looks like the majority of the cast members for this drama has been pulled either from Swing Girls (Ueno Juri, Takenata Naoto) or Water Boys/Water Boys Summer 2005 films (Tamaki Hiroshi, Eita, Koide Keisuke, Fukushi Seiji).
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