Fujimi Orchestra

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Fujimi Orchestra (, Fujimi Orchestra^?) is a Boy's Love (yaoi) Japanese novel series that has also had a manga and an anime Original Video Animation created for it.

Fujimi Block No. 2 Symphony Orchestra (富士見二丁目交響楽団), written by Akizuki Koh (秋月こお), is a Japanese yaoi novel series featuring an amateur orchestra, its concertmaster and its conductor. Tonoin Kei, a musical genius who has studied extensively in the area of conducting, falls in love at first sight (or sound, as it were) with a music teacher, Morimura Yuuki. Morimura also happens to act as the concertmaster for a small amateur orchestra that meets three times a week at the Fujimi Civic Center. Morimura is in love with Kawashima Natsuko, a female flutist in the orchestra, but Kawashima falls for Tonoin when he joins to act as the group's new conductor in order to get closer to Morimura.

Fujimi Orchestra is, at first, primarily about Tonoin and Morimura's romance, but the story follows the lives of Kei and Yuuki, and their musical careers.

The author, Akizuki Koh, also wrote Yatteraneeze! (やってらんねェぜ！), Tenpera (テンペラ) and a number of other popular novels that have been since made into manga.

The novels are put out by Kodokawa Ruby Bunko (角川ルビー文庫), a publishing company which specializes in Boy's Love titles. The first 16 novels and 3 additional character books were illustrated by Nishi Keiko (西炯子), while all those that have been released since have been illustrated by Sey Goto (後藤星). The first and fourth stories in the series were made into a manga which was illustrated by Sey Goto.

The series is still running as of 2006. The next novel release date is June 30th, 2006.

The following is a list of the released novels/character guides in the series and when they were released, put out by Ruby Bunko:

Illustrated by Nishi Keiko (西炯子)

 寒冷前線コンダクター 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434601-1 (1994/03)
 さまよえるバイオリニスト 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434602-X ; (1994/07) 
 マンハッタン・ソナタ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434603-8 ; (1995/01)
 リサイタル狂騒曲 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434604-6 ; (1995/04)
 未完成行進曲 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434608-9 ; (1996/01)
 アクシデント・イン・ブルー 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434609-7 ; (1996/04) 
 ファンキー・モンキー・ギャングＳ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434611-9 ;  (1996/09) 
 金のバイオリン・木のバイオリン 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434612-7 ;  (1996/11)
 サンセット・サンライズ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434613-5 ; (1997/02)
 アレグロ・アジタート 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434615-1 ; (1997/06)
 奈津子玉砕 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-700194-5 ; (1997/10) 
 運命はかく扉をたたく 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434618-6 ; (1998/02) 
 シンデレラ・ウォーズ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434621-6 ; (1998/10) 
 桐院小夜子さまのキモチ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434623-2 ; (1998/12)
 リクエスト 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434624-0 ; (1999/03) 
 退団勧告 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434625-9 ; (1999/07) 
 ボン・ボワイヤージュの横断幕のもとに 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434628-3 ; (1999/11) 
 ライナーノーツ　悠季 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-700290-9 ; (1999/12) 
 ライナーノーツ　圭 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-700291-7 ; (1999/12) 

Illustrated by Sey Goto (後藤星)

 マエストロエミリオ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434631-3 ; (2000/07) 
 アポロンの懊能 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434634-8 ; (2000/11) 
 バッコスの民 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434635-6 ; (2001/06) 
 その青き男 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434636-4 ; (2001/11) 
 幻想のシャコンヌ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434637-2 ; (2002/02) 
 プザンソンにて 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434639-9 ; (2002/11)
 ミューズの寵児 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434640-2 ; (2003/06)
 闘うバイオリニストのための奇想曲 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434641-0 ; (2003/11) 
 その男、指揮者につき 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434642-9 ; (2004/06/29) 
 華麗なる復讐 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434643-7 ;(2004/11/29)
 フジミ・ソルフェージュ 富士見二丁目交響楽団 ISBN 4-04-434644-5 ; (2005/03/31) 
 クラシカル・ロンド - 富士見二丁目交響楽団シリーズ ISBN 4-04-873604-3 ; (2005/03/30) 
 バイオリン弾きの弟子たち 富士見二丁目交響楽団シリーズ ISBN 4-04-434645-3 ; (2005/06/30) 
 センシティブな暴君の愛し方 富士見二丁目交響楽団シリーズ ISBN 4-04-434646-1 ; (2005/11/30) 

The next novel to be released, illustrated by Sey Goto is: 人騒がせなロメオ 富士見二丁目交響楽団シリーズ ISBN 4-04-434647-X ; (to be released 2006/06/30)

The manga's title and call number, released by Asuka Comics CL-DX: 寒冷前線コンダクター 富士見二丁目交響楽団シリーズ ISBN 4-04-853832-2 ; (released 2005/03/29)

The series also has a number of audio drama and musical accompaniment CDs released for its fans (numbering over 30 CDs total), by Sony Music {Liner Notes Music) and June Collections. While the first 7 Drama CDs (audio dramas) follow stories from the novels very closely, those that follow take various approaches to the stories. The Dramas range from serious stories in which Kei and Yuki suffer hardships, to light hearted adventures about trips to amusement parks and characters reviewing the stories in various ways.

Morimura's character has been voiced by Okiayu Ryoutarou, Ryo Horikawa and Soichiro Hoshi.

Tonoin's character has been voiced by Yasunori Masutani, Kunihiko Yasui, Ken Narita, and in a doujinshi CD, by Toshiyuki Morikawa.

Kawashima's character is voiced by Masako Katsuki.

Igarashi's character is voiced by Akira Ishida.

Ishida's character is voiced by Hideyuki Umezu.

Takane's character is voiced by Kazuki Yao.

Sora's character is voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi.

The sound track of Fujimi Orchestra is composed primarily of european classical music. The soundtracks include music from a number of composers including Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss II, Maurice Ravel, Antonín Dvořák and Erik Satie, among others. All the original music composed for Fujimi Orchestra is written by Takano Fujio (高野ふじお) and is released on various CDs by Liner Notes Music, a Sony Music company.

The series also had an Original Video Animation made for it, which featured the first story (entitled 'Cold Front Conductor' in the novel), in which Kei and Yuuki meet and events are set into motion. The OVA is actually from Morimura's perspective (as are the novels and the majority of the drama CDs), and is set after things have begun, so Yuuki explains the situation in retrospect.