Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo (La corda d'oro: primo passo)

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Synonyms: Kin'iro no Chord, Kiniro no Chord, Kin-iro no Corda: Primo Passo, The Golden Chord

Japanese: 金色のコルダ～primo passo～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 2, 2006 to Mar 26, 2007

Premiered: Fall 2006

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex, Hakusensha, Koei, TYO

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Yumeta Company

Source: Visual novel

Genre: Romance

Themes: Music, Performing Arts, Reverse Harem, School

Demographic: Josei

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.43¹ (scored by 49,382 users)

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Ranked: #2267²

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Popularity: #2103

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Seiso Academy is a prestigious high school that sorts students into two majors: General Studies, characterized by distinct grey uniforms, and Music Studies, characterized by pristine white uniforms. While rushing to class one morning, General Studies student Kahoko Hino has a chance encounter with Lili, a small fairy searching for someone with the ability to see her. Lili flies away, and Kahoko, puzzled by their meeting, continues on her way.

Later that day, the participants of a school-wide music competition are announced, and all of them are, unsurprisingly, Music Studies students—at least until Kahoko's name is read out. Immediately tracking down Lili, the small fairy gifts Kahoko a magical violin and convinces her to participate in the competition.

Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo follows Kahoko's endeavors alongside Lili, as the young student must now face the challenges of competition and go head-to-head against her competitors while navigating a new world of classical music.

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Adaptation:	Kiniro no Corda
Side story:	Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo - Hitonatsu no Encore
Sequel:	Kiniro no Corda: Secondo Passo
Spin-off:	Kiniro no Corda: Blue♪Sky

Konishi, Katsuyuki
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Ochi, Koujin

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Kikuta, Hiromi

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Kimura, Nobukage

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Katagai, Shin

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Opening Theme

"Brand New Breeze" by Kanon (eps 1-24, 26)

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	1: "Crescendo" by Stella Quintet (eps 1-24, 26)
	2: "Brand New Breeze" by Kanon (eps 25)

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Aug 20, 2023

yume_xoxo

Recommended

Short review: The character design, settings, stereotypical characters and sub-plots are very typical of an otome-game adaptation. But I should say, compared to other reverse harem series where the FL is timid, helpless and needs to be saved all the time, Kahoko is somehow strong and stubborn. Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo's story is character-centric, thus, the focus is more on their development rather than adding extremely shocking scenes that will put you on the edge of your seat. If you like these elements so far, I recommend watching the anime.

Now, here's a longer review.

General Plot: There was nothing very grand about the plot, but ... I like how they managed to give the love interests, even the side characters enough (fair) screen time and backstories (very fitting for role play game adaptation). Although the male characters have the same bishounen look with different hairstyles, they were given a chance to be remembered in their own unique ways. It's also refereshing that there are significant female characters (friends) who have their stories highlighted and who aren't annoying.

Climax : There were a lot of things left unclosed. The dialogues are very vague, but somehow they understand each other. Most of the conflicts are internal, and everything gets fixed by again, vague words. I wish there were actual confrontations but it's a role play game adaptation, you really can't expect something very deep.

Romance: If you're looking for a music anime with a strong romance plot, don't expect much from Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo. As I mentioned, they tried to give each male character fair screen time and some romantic scenes with the FL. Although it's a bit obvious who the main guy is, nothing grand really happened till the end in terms of romance. The friendships are beautiful, though. There were some cute FL + male character moments, too, that you may enjoy.

Art style: I like this anime's art style compared to the latest versions. I wish there were more emphasis on their hands when playing music, but I guess it's out of the budget since most of the well-animated parts are during the major characters' performance (violin and piano).

Music: I really enjoyed hearing the music while watching this anime. I also love that each character has their own musical flavor based on their traits. Len, for instance, has a skillful, technical style which fits his perfectionist character. However, it is not heavy on the music but focuses more on what's happening to the characters internally while practicing or performing.

Overall, it's a good, wholesome series if you want something lighthearted and not too complicated.

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Mar 26, 2023

ilymoon

Mixed Feelings

It’s not the greatest thing to watch out there, but it’s also not the worst. If you have anything else you’ve been putting off watching you’re better off watching that, its kind of like EvolxLove which is more recent but yeah, watch if you want just don’t expect this like awesome story, the romance is basically the drama. I thought dark green hair guy was obviously preferred here, as in she liked him it would’ve been better if they had a little bit more of everyone so that it would seem like everyone has a shot with her, or if they gave dark green hair ...

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Jan 22, 2012

Bishounen_Hunter

Not Recommended

OMG this was an incredibly boring anime...it took but sheer force of will not to drop this title! But rest assured I wasn't sitting in front of the monitor the whole time. Such a waste with all the lovely bishounen, but I guess it goes to show; "you can't put lipstick on a pig" and having all the bishounen in the world isn't a guaranteed success. But seriously, I shouldn't have to be a classical music major or aficionado to appreciate this anime. If I could enjoy an anime about baseball [Big Windup] when I dislike sports or be completely entertained by a story about ... galactic garbage collectors [PlanetES] then I should be able to enjoy this anime. But I don't and not because of the subject matter but because of the story itself which I found to be very slow, non-existent in some parts, non-committal in others and totally indecisive.

Hhmmm, the art....,I wouldn't say it was terrible, but for a 2006-2007 title, I'm pretty much underwhelmed. Barring the character designs, which were lovely, there is absolutely nothing interesting about the art. The backdrops were generic, the sceneries were boring...actually anything that went beyond the characters was boring and inconsequential. Oh and be prepared for lots and LOTS of still shots like when the characters are playing their instruments, a lot of the time you'll just see still shots of them holding their instrument of choice with some serene look on their face. It doesn't happen all the time, some of the animation is nice [it's nice to see the fingers moving on the strings] but the static images do appear very frequently. And I feel, the topic of classical music is already boring enough as it is, they could have at least put some proper effort into the animation. Also expect to see the same audience for ALL FOUR concerts, there is a lot of recycling of stock images.

Not much I can say about the music either, since I'm not a fan of classical music...I might have a vague interest in Baroque and some piano works but that's as far as it goes for me. I'm sure it's all lovely but it did nothing for me. Which if anything made me like the anime even less, but before you jump down my throat and say stuff like “then why did you pick an anime about classical music if you don't like classical music???” But like I said, from my own experience, anime titles in the past have taken topics I've had zero to little interest in and made them fascinating. I hate sports, but liked Wild Striker, Prince of Tennis and totally LOVED Big Windup! I hate Westerns but loved Gun Frontier, I hate talking animals and god knows how many of those are in anime? So I expected an interesting [if at the very least informative] story about classical music, but there was none of that, so I'm still pretty much an outsider when it comes to classical music.
I also have mixed feelings for the intro song “Brand New Breeze” part of me likes it but the other part of me think it sounds a little bit too much like a commercial for some kind of laundry detergent or feminine product....[just keeping it real, sorry]

Story....hhhhmmmm, one word: ABYSMAL! OK so the story is about a girl who was magically chosen [for some reason or another, which is irrelevant since it's only some thinly veiled premise to get her surrounded by a bunch of hot guys] to participate in some sort of classical music playoff. But the contest is not the central theme, the actual theme is music appreciation and each character's relation to it...which, yes, may sound deep but none of this came across to the viewer. There was nothing that really drew me into being interested in classical music like I felt when I watched a baseball game with Big Windup, for example. There's no humour, there's no romance to speak of, they didn't even get into the technical aspects of classical music. In Hikaru no Go, they made moving those little game pieces on a board seem so exciting and dramatic and they also informed me about how the game of GO is played and even certain strategies and tactics. There is none of that in this series, except maybe if you want to count the fairy at the end talking about Bach and Beethoven, which I don't.
This series seriously spent the better part of 24 episodes to talk about how each of them loved music or played their music [which to be honest sounded just a little more than pretentious “Ah this sonatta is so brilliant and the strings are so vibrant and so transparent”....yeah bull***t] There’s nothing else to this anime besides this and maybe some minor romantic innuendo [FAIL]. It's only after episode 20 when all the B.S. goes away, such as the magic violin and all that reverse harem kitsch that she, Kahoko, has to really deal with the fact of being a such novice violinist does the show even have any sort of merit.

So Like I said before, the character designs were lovely. I can't really complain there! And to be honest, that's the only real selling point of this series: very nice character designs and a lot of time spent on character development. That being said, it's not like we're going to discover anything new with these characters, they all pretty much follow the typical anime character templates: The Femme/Bishie Heartthrob, The Sporty one, The Angelic/Loli one, The Loud Comic one, The Posh/Stuck-up one, The Glasses one, etc... It's all pretty much colour-by-number, isn't it?

My Verdict: The cast is PRETTY, but the show's BORING so overall it's "pretty boring"....get it? Hey, gotta do something to entertain myself cuz god knows this anime ain't doing it for me.

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