With the third game announced recently by KOEI Tecmo, more details were bound to come sooner rather than later and sooner is definitely here. The game that it’s based on that was released back in September is actually a special edition version of the same game that was released in 2010, but has been updated a bit with full voice dialogue in it. The anime adaptation for it is going to be called La Corda d’Oro – Blue Sky and it’s been announced that it will be an April 2014 season series. The property is based off of the manga of the same name by Yuki Kure which ran for seventeen volumes between 2004 and 2011 and has been released in full in English by Viz Media. The work was previously adapted into a twenty-five episode series which was released in 2010 in the US through Sentai Filmworks. The show also had a few TV specials that were broadcast in 2009.
The staff for the new series was announced as well:
Chief director: Koujin Ochi
Director: Takahiro Natori
Series composition: Keiichiro Ouchi
Original character design: Yuki Kure
Anime Character design: Maki Fujioaka
Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta
Production: TYO Animations
[Source: Crunchyroll]