In contrast, Megumi Noda, or "Nodame", is a piano student at Momogaoka, notorious for messiness and eccentric behavior.
Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy (namely Prague), but is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. Shinichi Chiaki, an arrogant, multilingual perfectionist, is the top student at Momogaoka College of Music and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. It received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga.įurther information: List of Nodame Cantabile characters
#Cantabile 3 series#
The series has currently 37 million copies in circulation, making it the best selling josei manga in history. A South Korean drama live action adaptation aired on the KBS network in 2014. In addition, several soundtrack albums of classical music have been released, as well as three video games.
#Cantabile 3 movie#
Two live-action movie sequels to the Japanese television drama, with the same actors, were produced with release dates of 18 December 2009 and April 2010. The series has been adapted as four different television series: as an award-winning Japanese live-action drama that aired in 2006 followed by a sequel television special that aired in January 2008, as an anime series spanning three seasons with the first broadcast in 2007, the second in 2008 and the third in 2010. The series depicts the relationship between two aspiring classical musicians, Megumi "Nodame" Noda and Shinichi Chiaki, as university students and after graduation. It was licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga.
In 2016 a one-shot epilogue chapter was published in the April edition of Kiss. A two-volume sequel, called Nodame Cantabile: Encore Opera Chapter, which began serialization in the December 2009 issue of Kiss, was released in 2010. It was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the josei manga magazine Kiss from July 2001 to October 2009 and collected in 23 tankōbon volumes. Nodame Cantabile ( Japanese: のだめカンタービレ, Hepburn: Nodame Kantābire) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoko Ninomiya. Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe