Nodame Cantabile (Japanese Drama)

Genre: Slice of Life, Romantic Comedies, Drama, Classical Music

Episodes: 11

+Nodame Cantabile In Europe: 2

+Nodame Cantabile The Movie I: 1

+Nodame Cantabile The Movie II: 1

(Explanations at the bottom about the difference in style for this post)

Main Cast:

Hiroshi Tamaki as Chiaki Shinichi

Ueno Juri as Noda "Nodame" Megumi

Eita as Mine Ryutaro

Koide Keisuke as Okuyama Masumi

Mizukawa Asami as Miki Kiyora

Synopsis:

An elite meticulous musical genius and a messy out-of-control pianist. This unlike pair somehow matches up and together with a group of colorful young classical musicians and an eccentric world-famous conductor, they start to create the most unique wonderful world of music. They are all against the conventional orders and rules, and try to make the most of their lives with humor and passion for music. Each character has a special (or weird) story to tell and they confront with each other hard and unite strongly. Based on a popular comic, this is a hilarious comedy with brilliant young ensemble cast and full of great classical music.

Thoughts:

Can't believe I forgot about this. This is totally one of the top contenders for first place in Best Asian Drama I ever watch. The synopsis tells a lot about the drama already. Fan of classical music? If yes, then give this a try. The best drama to show the greatness of classical music. No, then still give it a try, I was not a fan of classical music but after laughing through the humor and comedy, I became a fan of classical music. Huge use of slapstick-comedy in here.

Best concept, story and music. It even caused South Korea to produce a remake of it called Tomorrow's Cantabile. But the remake is not as good as the original probably because I'm biased but I will not post the drama here because it is not a strong competitor as of right now.

So, to explain what happen up there, This drama is complicated, not the story but the way they divide the story. The drama itself has 11 episodes which only covers until volume 9 of the manga it was based from. The pluses up there are continuation of the story in a continuous form basis. Fusing everything together, Every single one up there together with the pluses is in a sense or entirety the drama itself.