~ Sitting, waiting, wishing.

Something to say on La Corda D'Oro characters... I liked them so much I deemed it necessary to post a separate entry to ramble on. Lol.  Fanservice? Perhaps quite a bit. Bishounen galore in one take. *wink*



A lot of good-looking guys with wonderful skills in playing their respective instruments. The ladies aren't too shabby themselves.

I have 4 favorite characters... (1) Tsukimori, (2) HIhara, (3) Tsuchiura, and  (4) Hino. Let's start from the bottom up, shall we?

How about you? Which of the La Corda characters do you have a liking for?

This is also known as "Kiniro No Corda"



Synopsis:  La Corda D'Oro (Italian for "The Golden String") is about Hino Kahoko, a 2nd year student at a music academy where the students are divided into two groups: those who wear the gray uniforms are the normal students, and those who wear the cream colored blazers have chosen a musical instrument as their course of study. This musical academy was founded by a musician who loved everything about music and made it his life to learn as much as he could. One day, he found a small fairy who he from that day on, decided to care for on his own. This fairy, Lili, suggested that he create a school which teaches music and that is how this academy was formed.

Hino meets Lili at the school's entrance as a surprise to both of them because only a select few people have the ability to see Lili, and those who do are chosen by Lili to participate in the school's music contest. In the past, only music students participated have participated in this annual contest, but this year the normal student Hino Kahoko will compete. At first, she is completely against this as she has never played an instrument before that day, but Lili reassures her and gives her a magical violin that can be played by anyone, as long as they have the music in their heart. Reluctantly, Kahoko finally agrees and competes in the contest.

As a result of entering the music contest, she meets the other contestants and must face the pressures from her peers and prejudice from the music students to the general education students.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiniro_no_corda)

Genre: Comedy, romance, shoujo 
Status: Anime - 25 episodes, completed
              Manga - 8 volumes, ongoing
Aired:  Oct 2006 - Mar 2007



Thoughts / Review:
TO START OFF...  The opening song, "Brand New Breeze" by Kanon, sounds okay to me. I initially didn't like it much but I guess it kind of grew on me after the 3rd episode.  It's not too ballad but it's not that upbeat either, somewhere in between. The tune is kinda nice. The ending theme is called Crescendo by Stella Quintet. 

The first two episodes introduces us to Hino Kahoko where, basically, what happens is what is written in the synopsis up there *points up there* (kindly scroll a bit upward and refer to that). This anime has a reverse harem feel to it with a bunch of good-looking guys with Hino as the leading lady character.  The magic violin is given to her and she is able to play it from the heart. Every episode, she gets to learn a valuable lesson in life and she is able to apply this in her music and play beautifully. Playing from her heart, the people watching the concours also feel this emanating from her music. There are 4 selections for the concours and each selection, the 7 participants are ranked based on their overall performance. For each selection there is a certain theme and the participant would choose a piece to play related to that theme.

It's a total of 25 episodes. I've only seen until ep 12 because that's where the subbed episodes are at the time of this entry... so I'd plug in a quick shout out to strawberrymint subs, thanks for your hardwork! We really appreciate it. ^-^

How about you? What did you think of it? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. :)