Comments on: Nodame Cantabile – Anime First Impressions

By: gaugnin

gaugnin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:33:02 +0000

Eureka!
i have only started watching anime for a year or something and a couple of months ago i searched for an anime about classical music but didn’t had any luck.
Anyway, looks like my prayers have been heard!
Great preview, thx!

By: jinichigo

jinichigo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:28:24 +0000

I thougth this was the best anime I’ve seen this year, It’s true that you don’t always get a Music Anime often. I thought the plot was somethign that could stick to someone who wasn’t in to classical, if they were into wacky characters, this would be the anime to watch, ne? Nodame and Chiaki = match made in heaven? xD Well, I loved their wacky encounters x3

By: atra

atra — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:50:22 +0000

oh Nodame cantabile is an amazing anime , and i really love it , you can’t compare it to K Corda because it’s aboring anime
but Nodame is more realistic and the drama live action is amaaazing tooooooo it’s a MUST WATCH of this year !!

By: Shirahime

Shirahime — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:18:09 +0000

I love your little synopsis of episode 1 ^_^ I haven’t watched the drama, nor have I read the manga before, so the anime really stunned me…it’s SO GOOD. So I frantically read all of the manga available up to vol.16, and hope that they are going to make seasons of this series, it’s so worth it. I think this will at least be same as Honey & Clover, which has 36 episodes…and Nodame hasn’t even ended yet, so they better keep making it like NANA XD

By: FireFox (nanashi)

FireFox (nanashi) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:36:22 +0000

I am TL’ing for one of the fansub groups for this project. Funny, I TL’ed for a competing group on Eureka 7 for a bit. How I got involved was while I was visiting my folks over the holidays, my folks were hooked to the drama series aired by FujiTV. (My dad, who is in his 70′s hung up on me when I called him in the middle of the show. LOL). Although I did not see everything, I probably watched about 6 shows total. (first 3, and last 3). I got in touch with fansub group, which I TL’ed couple of things like Honey and Clover, and told the gan we need to do this one! Don’t worry, there are at least 3 groups working on it.

Rating:
It’s going to be tough. TV Series (non-anime) were so popular and left a really good impression based on Japanese forums my father goes to. My folks’ opinion, which they said is pretty much what everyone else on Japanese forums, is that it’s not in par with TV series. I think the goal is to go beyond 16th episodes (not volumes). Content wise, I’m reading the manga for expisode 1 to proof my TL (in Japanese), and except for the very beginning part, it looks pretty much the same. Will people be happy with 3rd version of this series? I hope they can be patient and wait past episode 16. What may be exciting is because of success of TV series, this anime could attract non anime watchers and perhaps introduce them the world of Anime. (But how can they not, when there are dozens of semi-monthly manga magazines published in Japan?)

Translation (AKA TL):
Is tough. There are lots of artistic comments and lots of symbolism, and Nodame uses lots of words based on sounds. (There is a word for this, but it’s slipping my mind). Also, foreign words translated into Japanese, that needs to be translated back. Things like “Korrete ‘fall in love’ desuka?”? Trying to figure out whether to represent ‘fall in love’ in English in French, Italian, or maybe Japanese. (Have to look at the anime in whole, and culture). That said, I hope first episode will be out in a bit. (I think they are waiting for the final edits on song… Ending song is a bit tough.). If all goes well, episode 1 should be out in

By: Michael Kerpan

Michael Kerpan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:12:12 +0000

The manga translations are up to to vol. 7 (with 8 due out in a month or so). I’ve been intrigued by this since the time I bought the Japanese edition of the first volume of the manga. This is a bit uneven — but the best parts are very very good. Nodame is a darling (if frustrating) heroine. I’d say that this, Cat Street (Yoko Kamio’s follow-up to boys Over Flowers) and Yotsuba & (Azuma’s follow-up to Azumanga Daioh) are pretty much the best of the current crop of everyday life manga.

I found Ep. 1 of the anime version a bit more likeable than the live action series.

By: tse

tse — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:47:23 +0000

I’ve watched the chinese subs and I think for the 2007 year, it’s the best for now.Since i’ve watched the live-action drama plus the manga,excluding the OP and ED(they are good), if i were to give A for the OST and music in the drama then i’ll give A- for the anime. This is because the music from the drama give a stronger impression(or maybe because the shooting scenes just sychronise better than the anime).However, there is one important thing which is the voice actors for CHIAKI and NODAME are perfect,better than the drama.Furthermore, i like the way how the characters interact.They are not as exagerrating in the drama,particullarly Chiaki’s personality. Abt the storyline, I’ve no complains at all. We’ll just see how much minor stuff they will cut from the manga.

By: tj han

tj han — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:50:32 +0000

OH looks good! I’m been extremely busy and unable to watch new anime much, so recently these first impressions post have been very useful. Well done Hung! I will watch this for sure.

By: Naddie

Naddie — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:34:31 +0000

Hopefully some great subbers will pick this up I can’t wait to watch it now… I’ve a feeling it’ll be a weird transition from watching the jdrama to the anime, but it looks like it’ll be a fun ride.

By: Chrno

Chrno — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:33:35 +0000

“All they need is an awesome trumpet playing character now.”

Ask and ye shall receive…