Finished watching La Corda d'Oro. Cloying sentimentality + classical music + pretty boys = happy Elin. It also carries the odd distinction of being the first anime I've ever watched with French subtitles. English subtitles on Japanese media are really just a distraction for me at this point, so I figured I'd grab it in French and improve my French reading a little along with my Japanese listening. It also tends to be much, much easier to find French fansubs than raw anime (luckily .mkvs with soft subs have made that less of an issue, but hardsubbed files are still the norm for lots of lesser known series... ).
My brother got me to watch that with him when he was home over the holidays. Was actually kind of cute despite all the gratuitous fanservice. Though like yourself, I'll basically go for anything with cats.
Season 3 has some of the best episodes! Tears. So many tears...