This series ran 23-episodes long and covered Volumes 1 – 9 (a little bit of 10) of the manga. The series, overall, was faithful to the manga, although, a couple of tidbits were trimmed to keep the story moving. I’ve written quite a bit about this series in the past, so I won’t go into more. They decided to end
Read moreAnd so the conducting competition starts. There is some ongoing joke about Chiaki’s bed-head and various characters keep asking him whether he’s a late sleeper or sleeps a lot (the translation to English is a little unclear here). Some musical stuff happens and since I’m not very familiar with musical terminology, it’s not clear to me what a lot the
Read morePhew! I finally finished mucking my way through the untranslated version of the 10th volume of Nodame Cantabile. It sucked that there is no furigana next to the kanji’s so it took an extra long time to wade through the manga. In total it took 8-weeks for me translate the manga. I think I understood about 85 – 90% of
Read moreIn thinking about my last post, I realized that I missed some points about the live action version of Nodame Cantabile. That would be Streseman, casting Japanese actors to play white people, and Mine’s father. The way that Streseman was done was most curious to me. His personality was not as implied in the manga or portrayed in the amine
Read moreI finished watching the first season of the live action version of “Nodame Cantabile” a couple of days ago. Portions of it I downloaded from d-addicts via bittorent and portions of it I downloaded from crunchyroll.com (after I got tired of waiting for the bittorrorrent to trickle down). The version on d-addicts is very high-quality (widescreen and high resolution) compared
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