La Corda D' Oro

[Souji Seta]

I stumbled upon this anime by accident. I didn't know what to expect from it. I watched it and was pretty impressed. I kinda like it and it's theme of music. Does anyone has some thoughts on this anime?

[VraieEsprit]

I like Koruda a lot I've played it on PSP and I've just bought the manga so I can read the story through.

I got interested in it because of the neo festas and the various things the seiyuu did - particularly the songs by Taniyama Kishou of Granrodeo fame - but its a really nice series. And I loved the fact it involved so much beautiful classical music along the way. Very few series do that, so it was really nice to have that running through it. it actually made me get my violin out again after a long time not having played it! *LOL*

Yunoki and Tsukimori were my favourite characters, followed by Hihara for being insane. Or maybe I like Hihara because of Morita Masakazu's mad jumping around on stage during the neoromance lives...oh well, either or...

Vraie

[sa5m]

I've watched until the 14th episode when it began to bore me.

At first the concept of music and hot guys really attracted me to the anime. But I hated the way they wrote it. The things that happen to the characters are not really what happens in the situations that the characters are placed in. The original author of the manga did not know anything about music prior to doing research on it and writing a manga about it. I feel that the things portrayed in the anime are not as geniune as they could be.

But I guess not all manga are meant to follow real life. Anyway, it makes for a good story I guess.

[VraieEsprit]

I've watched until the 14th episode when it began to bore me.
The original author of the manga did not know anything about music prior to doing research on it and writing a manga about it.

That's probably because she (I guess its a she, my books are still en route from Japan at present) was writing based on the precepts of a PS2/PSP game within the neoromance genre, and that put certain constraints on her musical accuracy. Because the game hasn't been released in the western market, it's more difficult to get the setting that all of this has come from so I guess I can see how you'd look at it that way. It's not meant to be a musical anime, however. It's meant to be a neoromance anime (reverse harem) based on the concept of Ruby Party's Kiniro no Koruda game and characters.

The game has a lot of similarities to the anime - the opening, RiRi, the way Tsuichura comes in late, Yunoki's attitude, the violin string breaking...the concours rounds, etc...all of those are fairly true to the game and the anime so the manga-ka was probably somewhat confined in that regard.

It's not so much the musical technicalities that make me like the series. I've learnt to play violin and clarinet and I know that it's impossible for someone to learn to play as quickly as Kahoko does, even with "magic".

But the characters entertain me, especially having seen them outside the anime in dramas and the like. I guess it's one of those things - you either like it or you don't, ne?

Vraie

[sa5m]

That's probably because she (I guess its a she, my books are still en route from Japan at present) was writing based on the precepts of a PS2/PSP game within the neoromance genre, and that put certain constraints on her musical accuracy. Because the game hasn't been released in the western market, it's more difficult to get the setting that all of this has come from so I guess I can see how you'd look at it that way. It's not meant to be a musical anime, however. It's meant to be a neoromance anime (reverse harem) based on the concept of Ruby Party's Kiniro no Koruda game and characters.

The game has a lot of similarities to the anime - the opening, RiRi, the way Tsuichura comes in late, Yunoki's attitude, the violin string breaking...the concours rounds, etc...all of those are fairly true to the game and the anime so the manga-ka was probably somewhat confined in that regard.

It's not so much the musical technicalities that make me like the series. I've learnt to play violin and clarinet and I know that it's impossible for someone to learn to play as quickly as Kahoko does, even with "magic".

But the characters entertain me, especially having seen them outside the anime in dramas and the like. I guess it's one of those things - you either like it or you don't, ne?

Vraie

Oh hmmm... I didn't know that the manga was based on the game. I thought that the manga came first. I guess that changes my opinion of it a bit.

[VraieEsprit]

Yeah - it's like with Ange or HaruToki - the games came first, followed by manga, anime, drama CDs etc. Koruda's actually more straight forward because it has no OVA (yet - there is Koruda 2 on PS2 and so far nothing's been done with that in terms of anime, so you never know). HaruToki for example has three OVAs and a movie as well as the TV series based on the manga (that's based on the game...) HaruToki 2 and 3 each have an OVA/special...and Angelique is even more messed up and complex than that :-/ :S

Basically it's Ruby Party and Koei making more money - though there are a lot of anime series that began life as games *lol*

Vraie

[Souji Seta]

Wow, someone posted! I actually gave up on this thread when no one would post for a long time. It's good to see that other people also like this anime. It's kinda unique isn't it? Its a good watch although I've been stck on ep 8 because I had a really choking schedule but now, I'm more flexible. I'll continue watching it.
I think that Tsukimori's attitude is kinda cool but I'll probably find that annoying in real life.

[hoshima haruna]

i stumbled upon the manga a few months back and i have to say that i enjoyed it a lot