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JAPAN INVADES FRANCE!

Look out, Paris! Nodame and Shinichi have arrived in the City of Light to study music. Unfortunately, Nodame focused so much on passing her conservatory exam that she forgot to learn the language. How do you say “Duh!” in French? And one of Shinichi’s neighbors, a French otaku, seems to be filled with amour toward Nodame. No matter how hard Shinichi tries to concentrate on the upcoming conducting competition, the budding romance keeps getting in the way. He wants to feel his music more deeply–but are there other feelings he needs to face?

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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Tomoko Ninomiya

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НИНОМИЯ Томоко
二之宫知子
โทโมโกะ นิโนมิยะ (Thai Profile)

Tomoko NINOMIYA (Japanese name: 二宮 知子) is a Japanese manga artist. In 1989, she made her debut with London Doubt Boys. She is best known for her series Nodame Cantabile, which received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga. Nodame Cantabile has been adapted for television as both live-action drama series and 3 anime seasons.

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1,285 reviews82 followers
December 25, 2022
Empieza el segundo gran arco, la llegada a Francia. Lo adoro
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368 reviews5 followers
December 31, 2017
Nodame viaja a París junto a Chiaki, para comenzar a estudiar en el conservatorio (ella), y participar en un exigente concurso de dirección de orquesta (él).

Al llegar, Nodame tiene problemas especialmente con el idioma, mientras que Chiaki se siente como en casa, lo que causa resentimiento entre ambos. Además, conocen a otros estudiantes de piano, Frank (francés otaku), y Tania (rusa con un cuestionable sentido de la moda y el maquillaje), quienes serán sus compañeros de hospedaje.
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466 reviews64 followers
October 5, 2007
i watch, dorama version :

Nodame - Noda Megumi is a girl who like playing piano since she is a little girl, but weirdy she can't read a music score ?? She play it with Cantabile Style - when she hear another people playing piano, she can remembered it and played it. She is a little like stupid girl who cannot cook and really lazy to clean her apartement where she live.

One day when she meet with Chiaki-sama - the son of a famous pianist who have a dream becoming a famous conductor. But too bad his fear of flying make his dream must wait. she teaches Chiaki something that he has forgotten for a long time that is to enjoy the music we play / hear no matter when and where.

Originaly review by AnnChan ^^
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78 reviews8 followers
February 10, 2020
Una de las cosas más ricas, gracias a este manga, es que estoy empezando a escuchar música clásica y está genial 😎
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932 reviews81 followers
November 3, 2023
Shinichi probably should've been gay tbh. Anyway this was great. We're on a roll now
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2,661 reviews27 followers
March 6, 2013
This review is for the series as a (almost) whole, reviewing after reading books 1-10.

It took me quite some time to really get into this series. Books 2-4 were okay. They kept me entertained and curious enough to keep going, but I don't think it was really until book 5 that I really got invested in the series and Nodame and Shinichi.

I'm not a fan of classical music so some of the lingo and storylines went over my head, but I got the gist of most stuff. Shinichi finds himself stuck with Nodame no matter how mean he is to her. He tries to make her aware that he wants nothing to do with her, but when something goes wrong he is always there. When she leaves their apartment complex mysteriously for a long period of time he must know what happened and if she's okay. And Nodame loves him despite everything. Even though she's a little nutty and extremely childlike she does her best to take care of him, ultimately giving him the greatest gift she could give him and he doesn't even know it.

Unfortunately, the library only has the first 10 books so I'm on the hunt for books 11-16 which is proving to be harder than I thought. I did also find that Crackle has the anime series available to watch!
114 reviews
May 6, 2012
A new big episode in Nodame and Chiaki's lives, in Paris.

Thanks to the manga, I am looking for and listening the pieces the chatacters play and/or conduct. My favourites have been Haydn's Symphony "London", Ravel's Mirroirs and Pavane.
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726 reviews13 followers
July 12, 2015
We're in Paris! We get to meet Chiaki and Nodame's new flatmates, Chiaki enters a co ducting competition against Viera's student, Nodame goes to an anime convention, and Nodame learns French really fast from French-dub anime! A good introductory to the French arc!
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1,625 reviews31 followers
April 3, 2012
J'adore cette série ! ♥♥♥♥ :D

Relecture 2020 : toujours aussi bon !!
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