And 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

Phew! 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