Kure, Yuki. La corda d'oro, vol. 1.KURE, Yuki. La corda d'oro, vol. 1. Viz. 184p. illus. c2006. 1-4215-0583-5. $8.99. JS Kahoko Hino can't play a musical instrument, so imagine her surprise when she's chosen to compete in the prestigious Seisou Academy Music Contest. The reason for this strange twist of Fate is Lili, a music fairy fairy, in folklore, one of a variety of supernatural beings endowed with the powers of magic and enchantment. Belief in fairies has existed from earliest times, and literatures all over the world have tales of fairies and their relations with humans. . Lili gets Kahoko into the contest, gives her a magic violin violin, family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two f-hole-shaped resonance holes. and bids her good luck. Kahoko is in a quandary: she's never played the violin in her life, and some of the other competitors are wondering why she was chosen. To make matters worse, the violin doesn't always work. When Kahoko has an emotional connection to the music, the violin will take care of the technical details and let her passion shine through. If there's no connection, the violin won't work. This shojo (girl's) manga maNga is a popular Turkish nu metal/rapcore band. Their music is mainly a fusion of alternative metal and hip hop music, with a touch of Anatolian melodies; with heavy use of turntables, invoking comparisons with modern American nu metal bands. is based on a video game available only in Japan. The manga is beautifully drawn--the characters have delicate facial features Facial Features See also anatomy; beards; body, human; eyes. gnathism the condition of having an upper jaw that protrudes beyond the plane of the face. — gnathic, adj. , and there are a number of good-looking, suitably mysterious guys. I did not feel a great deal of connection to the storyline Noun 1. storyline - the plot of a book or play or film plot line plot - the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal" ; it seems to me that passion and good intentions are nice, but no substitute for the practice and hard work it takes to do something as technically difficult as learning a musical instrument. However, I am not this manga's intended audience; younger girls will no doubt enjoy this. Recommended for collections that emphasize manga for junior high school girls High School Girls (女子高生 Joshi Kōsei . George Galuschak, YA Libn., Montvale PL, Montvale, NI J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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