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“Seiso Academy's elite music competition opens to non-music students for the first time.”
La Corda d'Oro
金色のコルダ
7.83
1,353 rank · 12,370 readers · 275 favorites
Shoujo
Music
Reverse Harem
Comedy
Drama
Romance
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Synopsis
Seiso Academy's elite music competition opens to non-music students for the first time.
Every few years, the prestigious Seiso Academy holds a prominent musical competition, and only the very best students at the Academy are allowed to participate. Though all are eligible to apply, only students from the music department actually make it to the competition...until now. (Source: VIZ Media)
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Derived from 5 sampled reviews
8.4
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 1.62
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.62 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.60
Running avg · Jun 2010 → Dec 2016
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This can only be described as a beautiful manga, the art was drawn so well, you could see each character grow as well. Personally this manga just made me really happy while reading it, the author...”
- 10 “It's one of the best manga I'd ever read! the characters are drawn nicely. Yuki Kure really did the best job. The story is outstanding! It's better than the anime. Although there's some drawings...”
- 9 “This is by far one of the best manga series I've read. As a music student, I really enjoy music school themed anime/manga so I loved La Corda d'Oro. Story 8/10 The story is intriguing and...”
Verbosity
Short · 60%
Medium · 20%
Long · 20%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 75 × 17 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 00m approx
- Published Mar 2004 – Mar 2011
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0973 catalog