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La Corda D'oro

Posted by RICA

Sadly, I am still waiting for Kure Yuki’s Kiniro no Corda scanlations to be posted… somewhere. Anywhere. god, why aren’t the English volumes available here? I’m sure Amazon has some of the volumes, but sometimes it’s futile to search for it, order it online, and have it delivered to your country. I am just not that patient.

Really, it kills me that I can’t have as much La Corda as I would want.

In case some people are wondering (really, I think it’s just me), nope, there’s no La Corda D’oro anime season 3 – there isn’t even a season 2 yet (it was reported that a special called Kin’iro no Corda ~secondo passo~ will start airing March 2009. YAY!). As with the manga, I’ve seen up to chapter 56 only, and they’re just raws. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by Rio S.

Face it, you’re screwed. Your presentation (for the company’s biggest client, no less) was torn to smithereens; your report-slash-plan (that was supposed to be your company’s panacea to survive the recession) was a Hindenburg. Everything was peachy for a while and a split second later, everything’s ablaze and everybody’s running for the exits. You’ve kissed your raise – which was due three months ago – goodbye. Or if you’re a freelance writer like myself, your article was flamed to hell and back. Get my drift?

After failure of epic proportions, what’s the next step?

Take it with grace. Do not go into the light – at least, not just yet. You still have a job, unless of course the plodding creature that is your boss fired your ass on the spot. And no, keep that pointer finger down, looking for a scapegoat is not only cowardly; it’s also a vile, vile practice done by people with no backbones (i.e. single celled organisms like amoeba and your ex-boyfriend). Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by Rica

La Corda D’oro by Kure Yuki is probably the best music-themed anime I’ve watched so far, and I’m not saying this because I’m so fangirl-ing (is that even a word?) over the bishies here, but because it really is good. The music is what got me, honestly. The animation is nothing new – we’ve seen better-looking bishies and more sensible hair colors in other anime shows – but this one really gets you hooked. Again, it’s the music.

Comments on the Manga

Before I prattle on and on about how good La Corda D’oro is, let me just say this: the I-really-like-this-because-of-the-music sentiment doesn’t apply to the manga version. Why? Because I don’t think anyone – however good their imaginations are – can possibly hear the music the characters are supposedly playing through the pages of the manga. Even I, the know-it-all when it comes to classical music, can’t enjoy parts of the manga showing the bishies playing their respective instruments. [Deep sigh] But I will have to admit that the art is consistent in the manga. I just can’t tell apart their hair colors, haha.

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(Subtitle: Willing suspension of disbelief)

Posted by Rica

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Posted by Rica

Posts on anime/manga fangirlism won’t be random; they’ll be selective and most probably be subject to my whims. I’ve come up with a plan to let you all in on what keeps a yuppie (our own definition of the word) like me from going overboard/over bored with obsessing about characters or plots of anime shows or mangas I’ve already watched/read, am watching/reading, or will watch/read.

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