List of Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica episodes

T.O Entertainment adapted Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica into a twelve episode anime series directed by Junichi Watanabe and Masami Shimoda and written by Ichiro Sakaki. On February 6, 2007, one month after the first manga adaptation was announced, the anime adaptation was announced.[1] Broadcast on TBS, the series premiered on April 3, 2007 and aired weekly until its conclusion on June 19, 2007.[2][3][4] The music was composed by Hikaru Nanase. Two pieces of theme music were used for the first. "Apocrypha" is performed by eufonius as the opening theme. "Concordia" (コンコルディア Konkorudia) is performed by kukui as the ending theme.

Diomedea adapted the series into another season entitled Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Crimson S, directed by Toshimasa Suzuki and written by Ken'ichi Kanemaki, that is not a continuation of the first season but a prequel to it and will tie into Ichiro Sakaki and Noboru Kannatsuki's light novel adaptation of the same name.[5] The official website was launched on November 11, 2008 and began streaming a promotional video on March 23, 2009 featuring the anime's openig theme but contained no actual anime footage.[5][6] The series premiered on TVK and TVS on March 4, 2009 and is currently broadcasting weekly. The series was also broadcast on AT-X, Gifu Broadcasting, MBS, and Mie TV.[7] The music is directed by Jin Aketagawa and composed by Magic Capsule. Two pieces of theme music were used for the second season. "Phosphorous" is performed by eufonius as the opening theme. Koi no Uta (こいのうた) is performed by Haruka Tomatsu as ending theme.

Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica (season one)

# Title[4] Original air date[4]
1 "Prelude: The Crimson Spirit"
"Pureryūdo - Aka no Seirei" (プレリュード 紅の精霊) 
April 3, 2007
While getting his motorbike fixed, Phoron and Corticarte decide to tour the town. They see a girl sitting on a bench in a park looking puzzled, and Phoron decides to approach her. The girl, Misaki, wonders if she should get her grandmother's memento from the house where she used to live before she died. Phoron and Corticarte encourage Misaki to get it. 
2 "Operetta: The Watching Spirit"
"Operetta - Mitsumeru Seirei" (オペレッタ 見つめる精霊) 
April 10, 2007
A woman by the name of Maura Ren comes to Tsuge Divine Music Player Office and asks Eufinley to get rid of a spirit that has been peeping in her house. Eufinley sends Renbart to investigate while Phoron and Corticarte are sent to help with some demolition work. 
3 "Polka: The Left-Behind Item on the Ocean Bed"
"Poruka - Umi no Soko no Wasuremono" (ポルカ 海の底の忘れ物) 
April 17, 2007
Tsuge's office gets a request to recover lost object from a sunken ship. The object is a test between two brothers over the inheritance of their father's company. The opponent's side also requests Divine Music player, but who is he? 
4 "Dal Segno: The Day It All Began"
"Daru Sēnyo - Hajimari no Hi" (ダルセーニョ 始まりの日) 
April 24, 2007
Upon taking out their father's memento, the Yugiri twins remember the day they went to visit Torvas Divine Song Players Academy before entering the academy to study. They meet Phoron and Eufinley for the first time. Later, Perserte finds that she left her father's memento in the changing room, so the twins retrieve it. After they find the memento, Prinesca hears Phoron singing. At the same time, Corticarte goes berserk from Phoron's singing voice and breaks free from her prison. 
5 "Affannato: The Bond of Betrayal"
"Affannāto - Uragiri no Kizuna" (アッファンナート 裏切りの絆) 
May 1, 2007
Suzuna thinks Kochino, her spirit, has left her and made contract with another Dantist. She goes to Tsuge Divine Music Player Office and asks the group to investigate. It turned out that Kochino made a contract with a Dantist a year before she made a contract with Suzuna. The former Dantist was in a band and when Kochino was there, they were popular, but the former Dantist was so involved in their popularity that his soul got warped and divine songs are a player's soul. So she broke the contract. 
6 "Scherzo: The Reason to be Together"
"Sukerutso - Soba ni Iru Riyū" (スケルツォ 傍にいる理由) 
May 8, 2007
Eufinley gets a phone call from another Divine Music Player Office asking Renbart to transfer to their office. Meanwhile, Phoron falls into a river and catches a cold while helping Aria to find her runaway cat as a volunteer work, so Eufinley tells Renbart to help Aria find her cat instead. While Prinesca and Phoron are worried if Renbart will transfer or not, Perserte and Corticarte fight with each other trying to take care of the sick Phoron. 
7 "Violenza: The Dark Pursuer"
"Vaiorentsa - Kuroi Tsuisekisha" (ヴァイオレンツァ 黒い追跡者) 
May 15, 2007
In their day off, the Tsuge Office gets a visitor. Yamna, Phoron's old friend from school, comes to ask for help because a mysterious and persistent tall man and a little girl in black have been pursuing him ever since he found a strange suitcase during work. At the end, on the way home Phoron and Corticarte are holding each other hands. (The girl in black and the large man are featured in the end credits. They are characters from the Black Series and show up in later episodes.) 
8 "Serenade: Between Human and Spirit"
"Serenāde - Hito to Seirei no Hazama ni" (セレナーデ 人と精霊の狭間に) 
May 22, 2007
One day in school, Prinesca receives a love letter in her locker. Her office mates encourage Prinesca to meet the guy when Perserte tells them. However, she seems to be worried with something when she saw the letter, and Corticarte appears to have something on her mind as well. 
9 "Rhapsody: The Tale of a Divine Song Player"
"Rapusodi - Toaru Shinkyoku Gakushi no Hanashi" (ラプソディ とある神曲楽士の話) 
May 29, 2007
Phoron seems to be in a slump about his inability to play Commandia well lately, and Corticarte is worried about it. Eufinley tells Corticarte to find a composer named Zare to see if he can help with Phoron's depressed state or not. 
10 "Ballade: What Comes After Hatred"
"Barādo - Aizō no Ketchaku" (バラード 愛憎の決着) 
June 5, 2007
Akatsuki and Mailreit injure Renbart's hand during a demolition work, so Phoron and Corticarte are sent to replace Renbart until the job's done. However, it seems that Akatsuki is protecting the house and doing every possible to prevent the group from tearing it down. Could the old burnt house have something to do with Akatsuki's past and why he hates Mailreit? 
11 "Requiem: The Singing Spirit"
"Rekuiemu - Utau Seirei" (レクイエム 歌う精霊) 
June 12, 2007
Terero Termin, a renowned One-Man Orchestra developer, asks the Tsuge Office for help in developing his Counterfeit Rainbow, an automatic instrument that can play Commandia without a Dantist. However, he dies before finishing it. While in the town, activity from anti-spirits movement are becoming more dangerous, and rumors about a spirit who can Commandia. Believing that the Counterfeit Rainbow has the soul of Termin, Krista sings the Commandia even though it endangers her own life. 
12 "Symphony: The Divine Song of the Rainbow"
"Shinfonī - Niji no Gakkyoku" (シンフォニー 虹の楽曲) 
June 19, 2007
Phoron and Corti keep trying to convince Krista that continuing on singing for the fake Commandia from the Counterfeit Rainbow will just hurt her. In the mean time, the anti-spirits movement has set up their spirit bomb. When it's opened by accident, the berserk spirit inside causes all lower level spirits to lose control and creates havoc across the city. 

Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Crimson S (season two)

Although broadcast as season two it is a prequel series to season one.

# Title Original air date[8]
1 "A Chance Meeting: misterioso"
"Kaikō: Misterioso" (邂逅: misterioso) 
April 4, 2009
Some 12 years past, Corticarte Apa Lagranges is being chased by a number of other spirits. As she tries to get away from them, a young Phoron sits on the roof of his orphanage singing to himself. Corticarte hears his song and is entranced by it, and by extension the singer. She flies to the source of the song and finds Phoron. Corticarte reveals herself and that she wants him all for herself because of his pure heart and asks if he will sing only for her. She tries to make a contract with him, but is interrupted by the spirits that were chasing her. Back in the present, Phoron is cleaning the canteen of the Dantist Academy, to pay his tuition. Dantists are people who summon spirit through music and Phoron decided to be a Dantist after he met Corticarte. However, even though he has trained and was able to entrance a spirit as a child, he is unable summon any spirits. His latest attempt to play an Commandia fails, but as he leaves, dejected, he recalls Corticarte complimenting his singing as a child. He then decides to sing the same song he sang the night that Corticarte appeared in front of him. As he sings an unknown man removes the seal from a room in which a dark spirit has been imprisoned. On hearing the song, the dark spirit destroys everything that gets in its way looking for the source of the song. Eufinly tries to stop it, but her spirit is overpowered. As Phoron calls out Eufinly's name the dark spirit stops its rampage and approaches him. The spirit sloughs off its dark shell revealing a little girl with red hair - Corticarte, in the form of a child. Phoron doesn't recognize her as Corticarte until she actually tells him, partly because of her child-like appearance and also because he thought that their previous encounter was a dream. Corticarte berates Phoron and then completes her contract with him, which was previously interrupted, with a kiss. 
2 "Maze: Piangendo"
"Meiro: Piangendo" (迷路: piangendo) 
April 11, 2009
Phoron has a Commandia performance the following day and is deeply worried by Corticarte. During the performance students in the audience make remarks about him and his poor music causing Corticate to lose her temper. Phoron uses his Divine song to try to calm her but it is so poorly done that it actually angers her and she leaves Phoron for several days. Feeling lost without her, Phoron encounters the Headmaster who gives him some friendly advice. Phoron takes the advice to heart and comes up with a new Commandia which he plans to try out in private but he encounters Renbart, who asks if he can sit in. Phoron agrees and Renbart pulls a fast one on him, ushering Prine and Perse into the hall along with him. Resigned to an expanded audience, Phoron plays his new Commandia which is so beguiling that not only is he able to call forth lesser two-winged spirits, which he has never been able to do before, but he also summons a number of mid-level four-winged spirits, which very few Dantists with his level of experience can do. Corti also hears the song and returns to Phoron, though she takes objection to Renbart suggesting that if Phoron makes covenants with all of the four-winged spirits that appeared he would be a Dantist to be reckoned with. 
3 "Covenant: Loco"
"Meiyaku: Loco" (盟約: loco) 
April 18, 2009
4 "Secret Maneuvers: Rubato"
"An'yaku: Rubato" (暗躍: rubato) 
April 25, 2009
5 "Conspiracy: Feroce"
"Bōryaku: Feroce" (謀略: feroce) 
May 2, 2009
6 "Pair of Souls: Affettuoso"
"Sōkon: Affettuoso" (双魂: affettuoso) 
May 9, 2009
7 "Startup: Amabile"
"Shidō: Amabile" (始動: amabile) 
May 16, 2009
8 "Earthquake: Furioso"
"Gekishin: Furioso" (激震: furioso) 
May 23, 2009
9 "Ambitions: Marcato"
"Yabō: Marcato" (野望: marcato) 
May 30, 2009
10 "The Attack: Risoluto"
"Shinkō: Risoluto" (進攻: risoluto) 
June 6, 2009
11 "Dismemberment: Tempestoso"
"Kaitai: Tempestoso" (解体: tempestoso) 
June 13, 2009
12 "Hope: Vivace"
"Kibō: Vivace" (希望: vivace) 
June 20, 2009

Viewer's Note: Consider that the opening for Crimson S is the same as the first season, but takes on a slightly different take on the story as the first. Crimson S depicts Phoron's reunion with Corticarte and their experiences together when they first met, while the first season is actually later in the future.

References

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