Introduction
Phoron Tatara's no ordinary musician. As one of the rare Dantists who can summon elder spirits using music called Commandia, his gift is so strong that his spirit partner is none other than the infamous Corticarte Apa Lagranges. Sure, she may look like a young girl in her human form, but you don't get nicknames like "The Crimson Annihilator" and "The Bloody Duchess" for sitting back and watching the daisies grow.
Now, at the behest of the Tsuge Divine Music Player Office, this dynamic duet travels the continent of Polyphonica on Phoron's combination motorcycle/organ, following the song of the open road, orchestrating rescues and generally fixing whatever's baroque! Some musicians wait for a muse to hit them, but Phoron makes his work for scale!
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Audience reviews
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LegendAqua
QUALITY VAN
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica is one of those base music animes LA thought was something more from the premise itself, what LA got was a rather slimmed down watered down vers. of what the premise gives us, with spread too thin character development, isolated incidents almost "Day in the Life of a Dantist" plot structure and flimsy world building.
Let's start with the clunky character development, well this being released in 2007, we have the typical bland male main protagonist in the form of Phoron Tatara voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya being able to summon and made a contract with an elder spirit of Corticarte Apa Langranges voiced by Haruka Tomatsu and she's the designated tsundere and with her being a spirit and all, she's abrasive and has little care about "human things" gimmick…
Read at the sourceKiliianSleipnir
first of all, Diomedea did a MUCH better job on Polyphonica Crimson S than Ginga Ya did on this anime. I've looked Ginga Ya up and apparently all they've ever done is support animation. AND IT SHOWS! frankly, this 'first anime' in the Polyphonica franchise sucks. it's barely passing as a medium grade anime from 2007.
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Sentai Filmworks did the sub on this one and it's terrible. I watched this one on KissAnime AFTER I watched Crimson S. Sentai wrote the nicknames of almost all the characters wrong in the subs. plus their grammar and writing/translating/localization was terrible. the music was good, but it didn't fit which character was playing all the time. you'd have a piano playing character getting rock n roll guitars, and the 'bad guy' would also be playing a piano but it's still roc…
Read at the sourceSwiggityCricket
Firstly, I have not read the manga. I have heard that it is much better.
Secondly, this is my first review. Figured I've got to try it out sometime.
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica was, to sum it up in four words, downright disappointing but intriguing. This anime had a lot of potential, and might have been a wonderfully fulfilling anime if not for the plot and characters. Both were lacking majorly.
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The plot in Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica skipped all over the place. It had no real direction. Characters, events, problems, and other details were sifted through like the director was going through a pile of useless toys, playing with one after the other. At the beginning of the anime, the story seems good. The main character, Phoron, is obviously the protagonist, and h…
Read at the sourceDrAgNmAsTr
Well what can i say, Downright Disappointing?
From it's promising setting of a boy who made a contract with a special spirit when he was young, got seperated, has grown up, and then got reunited with the spirit after about ten years to do what, some random job that helps people? There is absolutely no story in this as it is episodic and the only thing you can hope for in a next episode is for some good music that they'll hopefully play(since they dont each ep even though it's a music focused anime).
At least they did have some decent music in there with a good op and ed. If they didn't have a good soundtrack, watching this anime would be completely pointless.
*Tip before watching? Don't expect any story in any ep so you won't have a disappointed feeling like i did and that might make you…
Read at the sourceMeow-kun
Not much to say about the story. They were episodic and didn't really have anything significant to them. A couple of background episodes was the only highlight. The rest were a kind of 'been there, done that'.
Art was fine. Sound was fine, though the singing thing kind of weirds me out with the protagonist. Nothing spectacular with the characters, they were pretty flat.
The main reason I watch a series most of the time is for the romance, unless I get bored of that genre and go looking for action or some sort. Four hours, yeah, four hours of my life and all I get is a *beep* blush from the heroine?
Seriously, you're not missing out on anything by not watching this. You'll probably lose what hopes you had riding on this series by reading the summary.
Read at the sourceArchaeon
There aren't many anime that heavily feature music. The most well known would be Macross (any of them), Nodame Cantabile and La Corda Doro, and those anime that do rely on music are often reasonably straightforward affairs. Every so often though, an anime basen on music will appear that deviates from what we've pretty much come to accept as the norm. Happiness! is one such show, as is Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica.
The series is based on the highly successfuly visual novel created by Ocelot in 2006, which spawned several light novel adaptations, a manga version in March 2007, and finally an anime in April 2007. Since then there has also been another anime adaptation (Crimson S), which was released earlier this year.
The story is set in a fantasy world, on the continent of Polyphonica, and…
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This is solely my opinion and i do not care if some poeple think otherwise. This anime started out very nicely, the Story seems to be very unusual but do not let it discourage you, it might be a little boring in begining but middle part and ending are absolutely amazing. Art looks pretty good, nothing too fancy and not too plain it is well within standarts. Sound, sound was absolutely gorgeous. I do not think i've ever heard this much beautiful and romantic sound in any anime. I greatly enjoyed this anime and if you are into anime with abit of romance,superpowers and decent art, you wount regret watching it.
Read at the sourceN41X
Writers note: This is my first review so be “gentle” =D
Firstly let me start by saying that I´m not the biggest romance/school/drama genre fan there is but from time to time even I need to take a break and watch something just for the sake of seeing something “different” from what I usually prefer/watch and as luck would have it I managed to stumble upon a jewel that nicely surprised me.
Now that the intro is done let me get straight to the point. Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica (later only SSP) can be seen as your every-day normal romance/slice of life/fantasy anime with all the basic elements (via spirits, magic/abilities, school, romance etc.) but it also has something you won´t find in many (if any) anime of this genre and that is the concept behind it all. Sure, spirits, contacts, huge…
Read at the sourcekagome57
okay. my first review. let's see how this plays out.
STORY
the story was cool. kinda like a master has a spirit fairy like thing and you give it the ultimate power by playing music. some people are preppy and others are emo. as you watch it, later on a story unfolds.
ART
this show was umm... colorful. i didn't pay much attention to the art. simple clothing, jumpsuit and a school uniform. i like the wings on the spirits though.
SOUND
something that can not get below a 10! if the master has no song to play, the spirit that they made a contract with goes berserk. the rhythms made me want to beat along, but i, the couch potatoe that i am, was lying on the bed.very awesome part to look forward to. i hate it when the people sang. the dudes sounded like a low pitched girl and the girls sounded…
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