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A piano teacher also known as the "] teacher", because he always carries one during his class which uses to punish his students for his mistakes. He was Chiaki's teacher at the start of the story, until he was abandoned by him. One day he listened one of Nodame's performances and decided he would become her teacher even if refused. A piano teacher also known as the "] teacher", because he always carries one during his class which uses to punish his students for their mistakes. He was Chiaki's teacher at the start of the story, until he was abandoned by him. One day he listened one of Nodame's performances and decided to become her teacher even if refused by her.


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Nodame Cantabile
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GenreComedy
Manga
Written byTomoko Ninomiya
Published byJapan Kodansha
Anime
Directed byTakeuchi Hideki, Kawamura Yasuhiro
Anime
Directed byKenichi Kasai
StudioJ.C.Staff

Nodame Cantabile (のだめカンタービレ, Nodame Kantābire) is a manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. It received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo and has been licenced in North America by Del Rey Manga. In Japan it already received two adaptations to TV, a live-action drama which aired in 2006 and an anime series which started airing on January 11, 2007. A game based on the manga was announced for the Nintendo DS, for release in Spring 2007.

Plot

Shinichi Chiaki is the top piano student at the Momogaoka College of Music and an excellent violinist, but Chiaki doesn't care about playing these instruments as much as he dreams of someday being a conductor. Chiaki, however, has several deeply rooted fears about traveling, and so finds himself "trapped" in Japan. Because he's trapped, Chiaki starts to question exactly how far he can possibly go in music, especially when he's passed over again and again by others he believes less worthy of musical scholarship and fame.

Recently dumped by his girlfriend for a "ham" looking fellow, passed over for a chance to go overseas, and removed from his star spot in the piano competition because he walked out on his piano instructor, Chiaki is at his limit. This is when he meets Nodame, or Megumi Noda. Nodame is a free — and filthy — spirit who reminds Chiaki that music can be fun and what drew him to be a conductor in the first place. In learning how to deal with Nodame, Chiaki learns how to deal with others. Chiaki begins to realize what is possible for him, even within the country of Japan.

For Nodame, Chiaki is everything she isn't. Clean, neat, dedicated, studious and inherently arrogant about his accomplishments and capabilities, Chiaki constantly bullies her into being more serious about life. He sees potential in her and her abilities as a pianist that she doesn't care about. She loves Chiaki and wants to be with him, but because she's not serious about her piano studies nor her personal hygiene, Chiaki always denies her affections.

Drawn together in a turbulent relationship, Chiaki's perfectionism and Nodame's untamed nature ends up complementing each other. As the story progresses, they mature as individuals, as musicians and as a couple.

Characters

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Chiaki and Nodame as portrayed in the anime series...
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...and their Live action counterparts

Shinichi Chiaki (千秋 真一, Chiaki Shin'ichi)

The protagonist of the story, Chiaki is twenty-two years old and a 3rd-year piano student at Momogaoka Music Academy. He is an accomplished pianist and violinist, but is also known to be a perfectionist and highly critical of himself and others. While he dreams of studying abroad and becoming a famous conductor like his mentor, Sebastino Viera, but must overcome his traumatic fear of flying and the sea to do so. He quickly develops a sort of empathy with Nodame when he discovers the hidden potential on her to be a great pianist, which she reluctant to do, by her own personal reasons.

Megumi Noda (野田 恵, Noda Megumi)

Also known as Nodame (のだめ) which is an abbreviation of her name. Twenty-one year old Noda is a free-spirited 2nd-year music student and a complete slob. Although she cannot cook or clean to the point of having mushrooms grow on her clothes. She is an incredibly talented pianist who primarily plays by ear, in a Cantabile style. In love with Chiaki, she follows him around constantly and leans on him to help her get through sticky situations. She sometimes compulsively needs to play the piano and has been known to neglect everything in order to do it.
Nodame is based on her real-life counterpart with same name.

Ryutaro Mine (峰 龍太郎, Mine Ryūtarō)

3rd-year Violin student. His father owns a Chinese restaurant "Uraken" right next to the university. He is something of a prima donna whose violin technique is seen by himself to be deeply personal but by others to be simply sloppy. He sees Chiaki as a rival for attention and tries hard to compete with his "Princely" image of him. He likes Nodame for her free-spirited ways. He is the concertmaster of the S Orchestra conducted by Chiaki, and a violinist in the R-S Orchestra too.

Masumi Okuyama (奥山 真澄, Okuyama Masumi)

A claustrophobic 4th-year timpanist (percussion). Despite being a man, he developed a crush on Chiaki. Since Nodame starts to hang out with Chiaki, he considers her his rival and often bullies her (and anyone else who dares to get close to him). Despite his idiosyncrasies he excels on his percussion skills, earning him the title of "Queen of Percussion." and a place in the S and R-S orchestras conducted by Chiaki.

Maestro Franz von Stresemann (フランツ・フォン・シュトレーゼマン, Furantsu Fon Shutorēzeman)

Stresemann is a highly-respected internationally famous conductor who comes to Momogaoka Music Academy as a guest instructor. In love with the Academy's Director, he comes as a favor and immediately is pegged as an oddball lech. Perverted, demanding, and not at all dignified, Stresemann seems to be opposite of what his reputation makes him. Stresemann, however, immediately takes to Nodame and Chiaki, and even accepts Chiaki as his (one and only) apprentice. His wild behavior constantly gets Chiaki in trouble, but he also teaches him how to feel and express music in a way that only he can.

Kiyora Miki

A prodigious violinist Chiaki met at the Nina Lutz's seminar, she joins him to form the R-S Orchestra as his concertmaster. She also become Mine's girlfriend.

Saiko Tagaya

Chiaki's former girlfriend. A rich songstress student who suffers because despite she pretends she does not like Chiaki anymore, she alyaws loved him, but always knew the trait he liked most on her was her voice.

Sakura Saku

A double bass player whose family was in trouble because despite her father's business were about to bankrupt, he did not want to part with his collection of rare violins, until he got some "persuasion" from Chiaki.

Kouzou Etoh

A piano teacher also known as the "Harisen teacher", because he always carries one during his class which uses to punish his students for their mistakes. He was Chiaki's teacher at the start of the story, until he was abandoned by him. One day he listened one of Nodame's performances and decided to become her teacher even if refused by her.

Yasunori Kuroki

An oboe player who falls for Nodame at first sight (oblivious to her true nature) and performs the inaugural solo of the R-S orchestra.

Toru Kikuchi

  • Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe

A womanizer Cello player and one of the founders of the R-S Orchestra along Chiaki, Miki, and Kuroki.

Music

Live action

Opening Theme: 1st movement from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, played by the Nodame Orchestra, conducted by Toshiaki Umeda

Ending Theme: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, played by the Nodame Orchestra, conducted by Toshiaki Umeda

* The Nodame Orchestra consists of members specially selected for the live action drama, and receives professional support from the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Anime

Opening Theme: "Allegro Cantabile Sound" by SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH

Ending Theme 1: "Konna ni Chikaku de..." by Crystal Kay (from Ep. (Lesson) 1 until Ep. (Lesson) 12)

Ending Theme 2: "Sagittarius" by SUEMITSU & THE NODAME ORCHESTRA (from Ep. (Lesson) 13)


List of Episodes (anime)

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References

  1. "Will the real Noda Megumi please stand up?". Mainichi News. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-02. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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