Nodame Cantabile is an adaptation of a famous Anime. It is a story about a student (Noda Megumi a.k.a Nodame) in a Musical School who was really talented at playing piano but she hadn't notice her talent yet and instead of aiming to be a professional pianist, she was aiming to become a Kindergarten teacher. However she met with a guy who was her senior in the school, also from the Piano division (Chiaki Shinichi) and fell in love. Chiaki, although he was in the Piano division, his real dream was to become a conductor of an orchestra. Spending time with Chiaki, Nodame became very attracted to him and followed him wherever he goes like a lost puppy. Chiaki was annoyed but still he let her hang around him and even let her into his apartment. He also feed her and helped her with her practices.
In the first series, the story focused on Chiaki's journey to become a professional conductor. With the help from Megumi, he managed to conduct his first orchestra called S-Oke. As he became the conductor of this orchestra which the members were mostly underachievers, Chiaki met a lot of different kinds of people and learnt a lot from them. Although he was disliked at first, eventually he managed to gain trust from the members and became really close to them all. He also became the pupil of a famous conductor from Germany, Stresseman.
After the series, two special movies were released, as the sequel of the drama series. Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score Part 1 and Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score Part 2. This special movies focused on Nodame and Chiaki's story in Paris where they were studying. These special movies answered a lot of things. And it also completed the romance between the two characters. It was really fun to see how both main characters, Nodame and Chiaki, developed in the series and followed by the two special movies.
Today is the 2nd day of school holiday and so spent the whole day watching the series and the movies. I finished it just now. About the ending, I'm not gonna spoil it here because it is better for those who haven't watch this drama to watch it themselves. But one thing for sure, the ending would definitely satisfy everyone.
The good things about this drama is that it contains not only love, but also friendship and how we are not suppose to give easily in achieving our dreams. Because of this drama also, I'm now seeing classical music in a different way. This is highly recommended so if you guys have some free time, please do watch it.
Oh ya, the casts:
Noda Megumi - Ueno Juri
Chiaki Shinichi - Hiroshi Tamaki
- Miki Ariaka
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