Mukya! Why’d I Deprive Myself of This Masterpiece For So Long? Gyabo! Been meaning to get into some live-action manga adaptations for a while, but the trick was deciding which ones to go into. Whilst I’m a fan of Japanese theatrical stuff and all, the serialized TV shows do about as much for me as […]
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Mukya! Why’d I Deprive Myself of This Masterpiece For So Long? Gyabo! Been meaning to get into some live-action manga adaptations for a while, but the trick was deciding which ones to go into. Whilst I’m a fan of Japanese theatrical stuff and all, the serialized TV shows do about as much for me as […]
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Musicfags unite!
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Gyabo!! I’m a recent entrant into the Nodame Cantabile fandom. I love the first season for being both funny and a good deal deeper than I expected it to be, and while the second season feels like a step back from that, it nonetheless retained a good portion of the charm that makes the first season [...]
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Finally, finally, Nodame's back. And even though it's a little bittersweet knowing that this is the final season, I've been anticipating this show like nobody else's business.
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<style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> OP: "Allegro Cantabile" by SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH - It's great... fine... I like the animation and all but somehow, just somehow, the music is only fine with me. <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> Summary: Lesson 1 Shinichi Chiaki, due to anger, made did a mistake while playing a piano on purpose although he is good at playing it. Kouzou Etou, his teacher, slaps him, and they start to make a fight. He was so disappointed at it, hoping that he would be a good student, and getting a bad impression. He left him and got rejected from his class. While walking down the hallway, he hears someone play Beethoven's Piano Sonata Pathetique. Thinking that it was all random, he admire it as well. In a bar, Saiko Tagaya talks with Shinichi, telling him to apologize an ask for his forgiveness, and about Shinichi quiting music. While walking to Megumi Noda's apartment, she meets up with Shinichi sleeping outside the door drunk. Upon waking up the next day, Shinichi notices that he was in Megumi's apartment that is extermely dirty. He leaves the apartment immediately as he notices his apartment is right beside hers. In school, he takes a drink reminscing what happened yesterday. Out of the blue, Nodame (Megumi Noda) gives him back his belt claiming that it was left in her apartment although he denies that it is his. While looking at the bulletin board for his new instructor, Hajime Tanioka, he takes a peek in Hajime's teaching with Nodame. Shinichi overhears two guys talking about Hajime having an alias, delinquent expert as he thinks that he is a delinquent. Back to his apartment, he wonders about quiting music but out of a blue, he smells trash from Noda's room. Reluctantly, he cleans her place after smelling the trash. Few hours later, he's done arranging and throwing the trashes and everything else. While washing the last thing to clean, the dishes, he overhears Megumi play the piano with the song "Pathetique". He was impress although there was a mistake, they ended up teaching each other. Later, in school, Shinichi's new teacher, Hajime Tanioka, thought of having the two of them play a piece for two pianos. Even though Shinichi was against the idea, he had to do it after being convince that he is the best piano player in the academy and everything else. After settling it, they play the Mozart Sonata in D Major for two pianos, a fast tempo piece with 8-minute duration. With Shinichi's leadership abilities, he teaches Megumi in a few days. As it was the day for them to perform, Shinichi remembers the moments when he was willing to be a conductor talking to Sebastiano Viera. Playing the piano was something great for him. After finishing the play, Hajime's real purpose for them to play is said that it was a lesson for Shinichi to overcome the "wall". Their day ended with Megumi idiotically telling that it's her first time experiencing "falling in love". <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> ED: "Konna ni Chikaku de..." by CRYSTAL KAY - I found it better than the OP, and the lyrics were really great... impressive! It kinds of give a good "lovely" feeling. <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> Preview: Lesson 2 Impression: Frankly, I found the first episode great although the introduction wasn't much since it's a bit more on the "understand-it" part (because it's really logical). I kind of watched animes that contain romantic comedies as their genres but I didn't expect that something like this would be brought up in this anime: their crappy personalities. Really, it's just so crappy that it's funny... So, Shinichi Chiaki is short-tempered and all who really does sound like a sore loser, and Megumi "Nodame" Noda doesn't have good hygiene at all but I do found her ears special. It was great how they point out those evil personalities of both of them even though I still think it was too much. Shinichi's personality when he was a kid was kind of great and pretty much has the determination to succeed. I kind of like those kids who have set those minds to what occupation they will take in their later future. Pretty much, it gives me the feeling of expecting a lot from this series.
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"People's memories tend to become embellished..."The episode starts with a rather intriguing flashback of a certain person's memories against actual reality. He remembers how, as a kid, he used to sit in and watch an orchestra practice and was even offered to try conducting. However in actuality, he was often thrown out of the practice room by the conductor. The flashback ends with a scene inside a turbulent plane cabin and a dropped bottle of pills.In present time, Chiaki, the son of renowned pianist Chiaki Masayuki, is a piano student of a musical academy. He was dissatisfied with the other students as he felt that they were without talent. During a lesson, mulling over a fellow student's big break to study overseas while he was stuck in Japan, he expressed his anger while playing the piano and was hit by his teacher. Picking up the fallen musical notes, the teacher notices Chiaki's notes and ridicules his dream to be a conductor. Chiaki blew off his top and after saying his regrets, the teacher left the room.Walking down the hall, he heard the sounds of a piano being played messily. Although at first he dismissed it another lousy play, he was struck by the realization that the piece was played without any mistakes. Before he could find out who was playing, a girl angrily called out to him, intent on finding out what happened. They went off to a bar and Saiko tried to reason with him. Although he wanted to become a conductor, Chiaki had no intentions of transferring to the conducting section until he has perfected his piano. She tells him to study abroad but he can't take a plane after experiencing an emergency landing when he was a boy, nor can he take a boat after nearly drowning as well. In the end, he was dumped by his girlfriend for complaining too much.A drunken Chiaki was found sleeping in a corridor by a young girl. He awakes the next morning to the same music he heard being played by the mystery student at the academy. Much to his chagrin, he found himself in a room filled with thrash and quickly ran out of the room only to find out that he will not be able to escape her. She was his next door neighbour!At school, Chiaki was found by his weird neighbour who calls out happily that he had left his belt at her place. Wanting to avoid mistaken perceptions of the other students, he denies it and escapes from her again. Not for long. His new teacher, Tanioka Hajime was also the teacher of Nodame! While watching Tanioka and Nodame's lesson, he overheard some students commenting on Tanioka's reputation of teaching "failures". Mulling over his current situation (geez, Chiaki complains a lot >:/), Chiaki smells a waft of weird stench coming from next door and peeks over the balcony to see Nodame's balcony overflowing with thrash. He instantly runs over and ended up cleaning her whole apartment for her. The next day, Tanioka-sensei entrusts them with the task of playing a piano duet. Chiaki at first refuses, but after being persuaded by the teacher, he agrees to take it on as "guiding his junior". Being the impatient ass that he is, he decides to jump straight into it after only giving the both of them 8 minutes of practice. Of course, Nodame screws it up before long. Tanioka-sensei explains that Nodame learns to play by listening to the music instead of reading the musical scores and so Chiaki decides to play for her in order for her to learn. Nodame was able to reduce her mistakes rapidly much to his surprise.And then they were ready to show off their efforts. Nodame was obviously having the jitters though, she was shaking like a leaf! Before they start, Chiaki turned to her and told her to play however way she wanted. He recognized that she had talent and was confident that the only person who could match her pace was him. After going through so much practice together, Chiaki was familiar to Nodame's way of playing and was able to match her effortlessly. He remembers how his idol Vieira-sensei had once told him that it was really rare to pull off a performance so emotionally moving that it makes one's heart go doki-doki and felt that it was at that moment that his heart moved. Tanioka-sensei applauded him for successfully crossing over his hurdle and he realizes that the lesson was actually designed for him. The episode ends with Nodame's unsure love confession... Mukyaaa~ <3Truthfully, I hated Chiaki's character at the start. He's snobbish, he's too gloomy and he complains too much. But it was funny how he found himself taking care of Nodame unconsciously. And I felt the part when he told Nodame to play as she like was just too sweet. He was definitely thinking of her. And Chiaki, lesson well learned. Instead of trying to change people, change yourself. :D But Nodame on the other hand, I absolutely adored her right from the start. She's just too cute! Really, who could hate such a simple-minded person?
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Summary: Shinichi and Nodame arrive in Paris and move into neighbouring apartments in a block owned by Shinichi’s mom, Seiko. Nodame plays Ravel’s Mirrors, drawing in the neighbours, Tanya and Frank. The latter met Nodame at the one of the entrance exams and tries to pick her up (again) but the language barrier saves them from [...]
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GYABO~ Nodame Cantabile, Paris Chapter 1 finally came out over the weekend. Chiaki finally got up the guts over overcome his fear of airplanes and travel back to France with Nodame to attend music school. Episode one is spent on them moving in and Nodame getting used to France and their neighbors… (or rather their [...]
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Oh yeah! It’s finally out on subs, it’s Nodame Cantabile and it’s taken my anime viewing time like a storm! For all of you who didn’t quite get it yet, I loved the first season but didn’t blog it because, well, I hadn’t started my anime blog when the first season aired. Summary; - Nodame & Shinichi [...]
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