Nodame Cantabile Paris - 01 October 9
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OP: 「Sky High」 by ゴスペラーズ (Gospellers)
Watch the OP! Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Stream
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Summary:
Having arrived in Paris, Nodame and Chiaki head to his mother’s family’s apartment building and move into adjoining rooms. After seeing the place, Nodame starts playing Ravel’s Miroirs on the piano in Chiaki’s room, and all the other residents of the apartment building hear it. This includes two students named Tanya and Frank, and Nodame recognizes the latter because they had already met at the Conservatoire entrance exam. That night, Chiaki and Nodame go to a concert being conducted by Vieira, and although Chiaki is quite touched by the performance, he doesn’t go to see Vieira afterward because he wants to first test himself by taking part in a conducting competition. He and Nodame also go out to dinner, but Nodame has hard time with the French menu and language, so she screws up ordering and says some embarrassing things. She gets depressed, and her frustrations boil over in a drunken outburst about how Paris is like Chiaki’s hometown. After bringing her home, Chiaki watches Nodame sleep and reflects on how she didn’t have time to learn language because she worked so hard in her piano studies to get here.
The next morning, Nodame is back to her normal self and wants to go sightseeing. Chiaki, however, needs to practice for the competition and refuses to accompany her. In lieu of this, Nodame pays a visit to Frank’s room and finds him and Tanya arguing over how he’s an otaku and how she has no luck with men. When Nodame notices that Frank has her favorite Puri Gorota anime playing, she immediately sits herself in front of the TV and starts reciting the episode’s script in Japanese. Since what’s playing is in French, she’s able to use this to learn the language. Tanya meanwhile pays a visit to Chiaki and gets him to connect her laptop to the Internet. While he’s working, Tanya tells him about how Nodame and Frank are busy talking about anime, but Chiaki denies that Nodame is his girlfriend. Tanya sees an opportunity in this and starts telling Chiaki about how she came from Russia and about her failed relationship. Thinking about how Tanya has been alone since she was young, Chiaki asks to hear her play the piano. Unfortunately, Tanya isn’t very good, and Chiaki spends most of the afternoon yelling at her and making her practice. To Chiaki’s surprise, Nodame later shows up at his door and uses her newly learned French on him, and he makes her dinner.
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ED: 「東京 et 巴里 」 (Tokyo et Paris) by 宮本笑里xSolita (Miyamoto Emiri x Solita)
Watch the ED! Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Stream
The new OP and ED are alright, but I really prefer the ones from the original series, especially the CRYSTAL KAY song. Of these two though, I like the ED a little better. I thought the OP was rather disappointing all around, and it made me unsure of how good the series would be.
Despite the OP, I was actually pretty happy with how the first episode of the Paris chapter turned out. It might be nostalgia talking, but I was rather charmed with the series and enjoyed all the jokes, especially the scene where Nodame says in French that she was raped. And despite following the manga fairly closely (albeit with some jumping around), they even threw in a few Shana references as part of Frank’s otakuness. The only thing that was detracting from the episode was the fact that the animation felt a bit different compared to the first series. I’m not sure if that’s because of the influence of the new director or just a change in the animation staff - the backgrounds maintained the same watercolor-esque flavor as the first series, but character faces and other little stuff just weren’t as detailed.
If this were airing in a different season, I’d probably commit to blogging it from just the first episode, but since this season’s Thursdays are so overloaded with good shows, I can’t quite do that yet. Hopefully, episode two of the other shows will help me decide.
Abbey at 8:16 pm on October 9th, 2008
Mukyaa~
pimpolla at 8:20 pm on October 9th, 2008
wow! i this will love this anime! 2nd!
Xiomay at 8:30 pm on October 9th, 2008
heh, shana. =]
alex at 8:33 pm on October 9th, 2008
aww, yayyyyyy :]
V6 at 8:42 pm on October 9th, 2008
Gyabo~~~ it is back!
AnimeFantasyDraft at 8:42 pm on October 9th, 2008
Same feeling…not as detailed in the animation but Shana is there.
Still going to watch it though!
Hei at 8:43 pm on October 9th, 2008
Chiaki Sempai~
DarkMatter at 8:43 pm on October 9th, 2008
Yes, it finally started, can’t wait for the subs to come out..:*(
Putang at 9:15 pm on October 9th, 2008
ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t wait… I’m so excited, reading the manga is definitely not as satisfying as watching the show seeing as I can’t hear anything for some odd reason o_o… can’t wait for the ending :3…. [no manga is not over (I think) just I have a feeling where they might end it and if they don’t end it there I’ll be doing more Fanboy roars]
Sailor Enlil at 9:38 pm on October 9th, 2008
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Nodame%20Cantabile/Nodame%20Cantabile%20Paris%20-%2001%20-%20Large%2003.jpg
Who’s this girl? Quite a fashion statement to be in a bikini top (which looks almost too small for her).
Anon at 9:40 pm on October 9th, 2008
Mukyaa~~
Eri at 9:41 pm on October 9th, 2008
NODAME!
Eri at 9:43 pm on October 9th, 2008
Yeah…the art was kinda weird compared to the first season.
lunchbox at 9:54 pm on October 9th, 2008
omg finally im cant wait for the subs!!!!! <333333
Putang at 9:59 pm on October 9th, 2008
@sailor Enlil, that my friend is the Show Spoiler ▼
shirokiryuu at 10:12 pm on October 9th, 2008
@Sailor Enlil:
That’s Tanya from Russia, she’s supposed to have terrible fashion sense
yaku at 10:22 pm on October 9th, 2008
I just hope all the budget they saved from making a more elaborate opening got used in making better animation. One of my -unfair- peeves about the Nodame anime is that when they are supposed to be playing, they just show tons of static images and rarely anyone is seeing “playing”.
calde at 10:36 pm on October 9th, 2008
So, Mukyaa is back. I’m quite happy to hear that again.
As for the animation quality, I think it is decent and after all, the “season 1″ was not THAT good either.
The manga is still ongoing, although the author Ninomiya Tomoko has stopped writing for a while because she is pregnant. It is not known exactly when she will be back to her business, but it might be early next year I guess. The season 1 covered 9 volumes and a little bit of the 10th of the manga in 6 months, and this 2nd one goes just for 3 months(Asaki Yume Mishi is scheduled to come out for noitaminA early next year) while the manga has 21 volumes already. Therefore, they certainly don’t have any shortage of the original story for this season 2, and I have very little doubt there will the season 3, or even 4.
Anyways, with “Index”, “Tora Dora” and “Nodame”…I guess JC Staff is quite busy this fall season, and I’m planning to keep watching with all the 3 shows.
sarcastic_weasel at 10:39 pm on October 9th, 2008
What’s that horrifying screeching sound? I think it’s the sound of the French Language screaming in incomprehensible mortal agony.
Man, and I thought English got butchered in anime. XD
Other than that, fun show as usual.
Eirias at 11:48 pm on October 9th, 2008
Where is my Suemitsu & The Suemith?
And the French in this anime is indeed hilariously butchered.