Kiniro no Corda: Blue♪Sky

I decided to watch this because I had watched the first two seasons. I was curious to see how this would turn out. I would say it was similar to the previous seasons.

The plot was focusing on the competition and it was about Kanade getting back her love for music. As opposed to the first season, where the main character was able to play violin because her instrument was magical, I preferred this one, where the main character was a violin prodigy to begin with. It felt like everything she achieved was through her own hard work and it made the story easier to relate ... to.

The art style was the same as from the previous seasons, which is good. It made the universe of the story coherent with the previous one. Some previous characters even made a small cameo appearance.

The music selection for the competition was classic, of course. I liked the arrangement they made to these pieces, notably Winter by Vivaldi and Danse Macabre. It made the performances enjoyable. Ave Maria has been played as well. I find that this piece was an important one in the first season and for it to be used again in the third season created a nice bridge to link them together.

The characters were somewhat annoying sometimes. I think their development occurred a little late. For a major part of the beginning, Kyouya just seemed to display a lot of misplaced anger without any clear explanation about it and it appeared redundant after a while. Kanade is shown as being naive and somewhat weak. I easily got nervous watching her, wondering if someone would say something that would make her hesitate again. Myoga Reiji's grudge against Kanade also seemed a little redundant. The nature of his grudge was easily predictable, but the whole back story could've been revealed a little bit earlier. We could see Kanade remembering fragments of it, but instead of repeating the same sequence for the entire serie and then throwing the rest at the end, it would probably have been better if they showed a little more each time as the story progressed.

Overall, this anime was fine, but it wasn't the best. The plot was too similar to the one from season one. The characters also made me cringe a few times. Still, if you liked season one, then you might like this spin-off as well.

I have to admit reverse harems are my guilty pleasure. I grouch about the mediocrity of them but still watch (or at last try to watch) every single one.

With this one, episode 6 is probably as far as I go.

Wow, such a disappointment. The original La corda d'oro was, for me, one of the best in it's genre. It made me fall in love with the classical music and its characters, it's beautiful and quiet love story.

This one is even worse than the average otome game reverse harem adaptation; even Kamigami No Asobi is doing a better job of keeping me interested this ... season.

The music is more like a background than something important to the characters even though it supposed to be the center of their lives. There are no memorable performances, nothing to really strike the chord. Even the ones that are supposed to be outstanding only make me want to push fast forward button.

The animation is poor, it's like the performer is a bad actor that pretends to play the instrument for the camera.

No character development or relationship development. Too many characters are introduced all at once and we only get a passing glance at them, but don't actually have the chance to get to know them and, as a consequence, start liking them. They are flat, cliché and not at all engaging.

The storyline is jumping ahead at the breakneck speed. It looks more like a collection of scraps from the different points of the timeline.

All in all, while I may have been a bit harsh some places, this is still nothing but a disappointment.

I started to watched this because I like the first season so much but sadly this anime is disappointed. It is not good as the first season. It doesn't make me excited to watch the next episode.

Too many character introduced at once. It doesn't really show the beauty of violin and other classical music like the first season does and of course the male characters is not ikemen as the first season. Less romance in this anime. Maybe this is the big factor why I don't like it.

I'm too expect this anime is good as the first season but sadly I disappointed. This is the ... first and last I watched it. I won't re-watch.