This weekend was supposed to be Uji Winter Festa in the Kyoto prefectural town, and inside the Winter Festa was a special Sound! Festa, celebrating the Kyoto Animation anime series with performances from local junior high and high school bands and a talk with Sound! Euphonium novel author Ayano Takeda.
The performances would have featured eight different schools over three locations each performing music from Sound! Euphonium, with one of those locations, Mampukuji Temple, being where the talk with Takeda was to be held.
But the newest State of Emergency declaration to combat the rapid increase of coronavirus cases in Japan have halted those plans.