#nodame cantabile

[jariten]

のだめカンタービレ (Nodame Cantabile), Tomoko Ninomiya

[averinna]

Big list of anime to show you that the most popular ones don't mean that the medium is only made of shonen nekketsu, shonen romcom and isekai.

There's of course more example but I didn't watch all anime in existence, I think it's still a good start.

[sivavakkiyar]

amazing

[playstationpark]

A Japanese commercial for 'Nodame Cantabile' on the PlayStation 2. Support us on Patreon

[romchat]

How did I just learn Netflix picked up Nodame Cantabile???

After this year in a week, I needed my OG comfort watch 😭

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Here’s part 1: https://www.tumblr.com/giveamadeuschohisownmovie/735552718846984192/i-got-a-specific-question-for-you-all-of-the

[moonsuke]

Netflix recommended me nodame cantabile the jdrama… and the acting is so trash and over the top, the characters so annoying and tropey, yet I’m still watching this train wreck cuz the main couple reminded me of REONAGI. I don’t think I could have gotten through the first ep if I wasn’t just linking everything back to them lol.

The male lead comes from a well to do family, is the top student in his music university, is very popular amongst the students (basically a super elite), but struggles being stuck in japan with instructors who only restrict his potential (!!), and has big goals that he’s aiming to achieve. The story starts when he got into a fight with his instructor who was scolding him for improvising and putting down his dreams of being a conductor rather than a pianist.

Like isn’t this basically Reo’s story with his father?

Once again, male lead laments being stuck here with a bunch of peers he’s so unimpressed by until he heard the female lead playing the piano “messily�� yet still so right and immediately senses her potential. He was so enamoured with her playing and was staring at them exactly the way Reo did when he first discovered Nagi’s genius lol

It’s only through a twist of fate that they actually met, and he found out how much of a sloth she really is that he just couldn’t stand it anymore and was helping her clean out her entire room, cooking for her, even washing and blow drying her hair??? Like bruh this is exactly like Reonagi I was dying at the hair drying part wtf. She was comparing her pampering to being a princess, and he was comparing taking care of her to taking care of a huge dog 😭 He also not so secretly seemed to enjoy taking care of her?? Since it seems that it became a sorta norm for him to cool luxurious dinners for her???

The female lead too is written exactly like an eccentric genius. The reason why her playing is so “messy” is cuz she plays by ear and never bothers reading the score (kinda like Nagi just doing stuff his way and getting by with his genius). She also really hates practicing and is overall just someone who goes by “feeling”. Lazy, quirky, kinda manic pixie-ish which is similar to Nagi being like an “alien” and weird to everyone else. Oh and she’s also “potential girl” like Nagi 🙂

So seeing this, male lead took it upon himself to “train” her, (so Reonagi 😭), he scolds her for her childish whims and stuff (again, so Reonagi) and not just over music, to the point he finally lost his patience and lashed out at her for improvising which triggered him to compare himself to his instructor?? Which is exactly like Reo realising he’s acting just like his father to Nagi?? Like this first episode is just Episode Nagi I swear!!

Realising this, he decided he should be the one, with his first class techniques and precision, to match her genius instead and told her to play however she wants during their duet practice.

“You can play freely today”

“I can see it. There’s something special about her. And the only one who could keep up with her is me”

Like dude this is literally Reonagi 😭😭😭

When he said “the only one who could keep up with her is me”, he said it with so much ego too (called himself “ore sama”) exactly like how Reo’s ego was to make Nagi the best striker and to pass to him etc… Male lead’s real dream of wanting to be a conductor kinda matches Reo’s football style too? To control and direct everyone?

We also learnt male lead is stuck in Japan cuz of his trauma from disastrous air and sea travel as a kid which kinda reminds me of Reo being fearful of change too (like its a mental block basically).

Oh yea male lead also got cucked tho not by the female lead but his ex, but still it’s funny to see this trope in common too 🤡

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I actually really disliked shojo (or just romance genre in general) when I was much younger, especially ones with the hyper kinda dumb and manic pixie-ish female plus angry and cool male leads (reminded me of ooc SN portrayals). It’s only until recent years I can sorta just casually watch them without letting it get the best of me, but I still don’t particularly like this genre, especially the older “heisei era” shojos lol.

BUT!! Watching it through a Reonagi lens makes things much more fun 😭

I think I’ll just continue watching to see if the similarities continue as the story and characters develop lol. Like maybe the female lead also becomes more motivated to be the best pianist or something 👀 since now she doesn’t give a fuck lol

[dnana-2809-blog]

Yes, most of my favorite ships are m/m & f/f ones, and now I'm not interested at all with consuming any het romance focused media.

Like, I can't stand with any media that only focused on maleMC/FL or femMC/ML and prefer maleMC/ML & femMC/FL ones....

After saying that, here are some m/f that I love from my younger days (before I began to ship m/m and f/f ones)

Some are canon and some are non-canon....

To me, they are special for some reasons....

[old-dramas]

Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part II (2010) dir. by Takeuchi Hideki, Kawamura Taisuke

[skiptoyuri]

can he go to hellhsjshdk

[fujunfuren]

Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part II (2010) dir. by Takeuchi Hideki, Kawamura Taisuke

[jariten]

のだめカンタービレ (Nodame Cantabile), Tomoko Ninomiya

[dirtyriver]

Yes! Nodame Cantabile New Edition collecting the complete series in 13 volumes is being published in France starting this month!

[dum-spiro-spero99]

TELL ME IT'S NOT JUST ME

NODAME CANTABILE X MLOR

[ran-orimoto]

Why do you like something boring like opera

NEXT!

Ahaha Anon, don’t worry, I totally get you but at the same time I can’t get myself and what goes on in my mind most time, so giving you a reason why I spend my free time on the sofa with opera or classica in bg is actually a mystery to me as well ahahah. I assure you nobody can stand me in my family. My father hates this fixation of mine with all his heart ahahha.

Have you ever experienced feelings you just can’t explain? Beautiful feelings that just surge in your heart and make you feel all the most overwhelming sensations? It’s a bit like when you get into a church and feel crushed by how majestic everything seems and feels. You might not even believe in God, but you are caught in that whirl.

Well, I don’t play any instrument, I don’t sing opera. I just happened to watch Barbie movies as a kid ,and back then I could already sense a connection between me and ballet. In middle school I was in love with music lessons: Vivaldi, Verdi, Mozart, Bach…I adored singing Va Pensiero or Bach’s Ave Maria ahahhaha. Then, Nodame Cantabile came, I started listening to Beethoven, Rachmaninoff on my train journey to uni during my first year. Randomly. And then…

And then in summer 2021 Junpei came ahhahahah. And drawing stuff related to opera, classica and such, writing about them surely made me fall in love even more, desperately, with no way to come back.

Ehm…Sometimes I like thinking events just happen because they are supposed to. Boring or not, I believe I was supposed to get into this super lame passion of mine agahah.

A minute of silence for all my twitter friends dealing with me rambling about opera at midnight. You’re really VIPs.

[anime--food]

Nodame Cantabile - Episode 1