Hear the Clasic in Nodame Cantabile

I’ve just recently watch the anime version of Nodame Cantabile. And I must say, I really love this anime. I would say the genre is drama-comedy. I usually don’t like drama, but this one is some exception.

The story is about a very talented, perfectionist, and handsome Chiaki Shinichi who study in Musical College. He is well known for his talent in piano and actually he can play the violin very well too. He is taking a piano class eventhough he actually really wants to become a conductor. When he was a little kid, he saw a really talented conductor in Vienna, thus he planned to become the cundoctor’s pupil. Unfortunatelly, on his way home to Japan, the plane got a little accident, and that made him never want to ride a plane anymore.

Because one event, Chiaki got a fight with his teacher, and the teacher decide not to teach him anymore. Chiaki then got transfered under different teacher, and here, he met Noda Megumi (or Nodame), a girl who always got the lowest rank in the school, because she can’t read any partiture. The teacher managed to asked Chiaki to do piano duet with her. But, of course Nodame way of playing made Chiaki got headache. Nodame apparently play any piece in her own way: skipped notes, didn’t look at the dinamica, etc.

And as if that’s not enough, Nodame actually lived next door to Chiaki. Being a perfectionist himself, Chiaki couldn’t stand seeing her room, thus he cleaned it, and give Nodame dinner because...... well, she is hopeless. Ever since, Nodame always came to Chiaki’s room for dinner, bath, etc. ^_^; because so many different reason: her electricity and gas were cut, don’t have food, etc. And then Chiaki’s live become more lively. Slowly, Nodame managed to make Chiaki strugle for his dream, and Chiaki managed to make Nodame realised her dream.

Aww....... isn’t that sweet?? Btw, I really like the ending, when Chiaki finally realised that he missed Nodame’s piano playing, and went to her hometown to smacked her some sense. Meanwhile Nodame realised that she actually love to play piano and enjoy it, so she decided to become a pro. Then, when she told Chiaki about her plan via handphone (which made Chiaki facefaulted and happy at the same time), he hugged her from behind. Awww........ I couldn’t helped but awwed. It soooo swweeettt...... <3

Okay, that’s enough about romance. Other thing I like in this anime is how the animator made hand movements while playing the instruments. It’s exactly how it should move!! Beautifull!! Not to mention I learned so many thing about orchestra here. Actually I feel ashamed. I mean, I was born in a family who really like clasical musics, I study clasical piano from when I was 7 years old till 19 years old (with little progress -_-;), yet there’s so many pieces I haven’t ever heard before?? Not to mention I know nothing about orchestra. Ah... so embarasing.

And for the music, I really really like the musics in this anime. For clasicall pieces, Mozart is still my favorite. Pity they didn’t play any Tchaikovsky pieces, maybe because it’s too long. And I also like the OP and both of Eds. Beautifully written songs, as you can expect from such an anime.