The supporting cast is strong, especially the rocker friend, who grows alongside the protagonists. All the characters make plans for their careers after graduation. Chiaki helps found an orchestra Nodame enters her first competitions. Nodame performs as a pianica soloist in a big band, donning a mongoose costume to play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
A German professor appears who’d rather chase women than conduct his special orchestra, giving Chiaki his first opportunity. The plot follows Chiaki and Nodame as they move through music university, collecting friends including a rock and roll violinist, a flamboyant timpanist, a gifted concertmistress, and an impoverished contrabassist. Nodame Cantabile was a thoroughly enjoyable read which I highly recommend. Chiaki’s orderly, orthodox approach to life and music collides spectacularly with the brilliant mess that is Nodame – and the result may bring each of them the pieces they’re missing. Nodame, an awkward misfit, is also a surprisingly exceptional pianist. After he breaks with his professor and his girlfriend on the same night, he gets drunk and wakes up in the squalid apartment of his next-door neighbor Noda Megumi. Brilliant in piano and violin, Chiaki Shinichi aspires to be a conductor, but his career will be limited as long as his fear of travel traps him in Japan.
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