La Corda d'Oro
La Corda d'Oro (Japanese: 金色のコルダ, Hepburn: Kin'iro no Koruda) is a role-playing game series targeted at a female audience under the Neoromance series from Koei. The title is Italian for The Golden String.
The story was adapted into a manga by the game’s character designer, Yuki Kure, which is serialized in LaLa magazine. An anime adaptation, titled La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo, was first broadcast by TV Tokyo from October 2006 to March 2007. The anime also premiered on Animax. It was aired across its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and also translated and dubbed into English for its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and other regions. Sentai Filmworks acquired North American rights to the series, has released it in two half-season box sets, and is streaming it online. The first of a 2-episode anime special, entitled La Corda d'Oro: Secondo Passo, was aired by Kids Station on March 26, 2009, but the season ends on a cliffhanger. Secondo Passo was meant strictly to promote the video game.
List of La Corda d'Oro episodes
The episodes from the anime La Corda d'Oro are based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Yuki Kure, that is itself an adaptation of a video game with designs done by Kure. The series is produced by Ruby Party (a division of Koei), animated by Yumeta Company, and directed by Kōjin Ochi. The story is about a high school girl, Kahoko, who is given a magic violin by a musical fairy and must take part in an elite music competition surrounded by attractive men, but at the same time it's about her love for the violin and none of the men.
The series is made of two seasons. The first, entitled La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo, aired on Japanese television from October 2, 2006 to March 26, 2007. The 25 TV episode and one OVA were compiled into 9 DVD volumes. The second season has only two episodes, the first of which aired on March 26, 2009 and the second on June 5, 2009. Both seasons are available for streaming on Crunchyroll and the first has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
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