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Summary:
Chiaki is shocked to learn from Stresemann that the S-Orchestra is going to be making their debut in the regularly scheduled performance next month. Although Stresemann has confidence in his hand-picked group, Chiaki does not, and it turns out that Chiaki is going to be the substitute conductor. Soon after Stresemann leaves, a girl named Sakura carrying a large double bass stumbles in late because she walked the way there since she didn’t have train fare. When they begin playing, Sakura gets stared at by Chiaki and feels like she can’t keep up with everyone else. Afterwards, she tries to ask her peers for some help, but they look down on her because she doesn’t practice seriously as a result of her having a part-time job. Chiaki meanwhile gets inundated by students looking for help, and they somehow obtain his cell phone number, so they keep calling him even on his way home. When he arrives at his apartment, he finds both Nodame and Sakura waiting to be fed.
Sakura gorges herself on the pasta he ends up cooking, and then explains her family’s dire financial situation that forces her to work so that she can pay for school – that’s why she doesn’t have time to practice her instrument. Hearing this, Chiaki suggests that she quit school because there’s no point if she doesn’t practice. His harsh words send Sakura running out of the apartment crying, and she doesn’t come to school the next day. Blaming Chiaki for it, Nodame claims that he doesn’t know enough about being poor. With this in mind, Chiaki goes with Nodame to find Sakura’s home. Surprisingly, it’s a large house, and the family appears relatively wealthy. Nevertheless, Sakura’s father has a gaunt figure and serves them only water. He admits that his business hasn’t been doing well, but then shows the pair his hidden violin collection from famous makers like Stradivarius and Tomaso Eberle. Seeing that Sakura’s father can’t actually play violin and is just keeping them around, Chiaki gets angry and makes Sakura’s father realize that Sakura and her education should be more important than this collection. Several days, Sakura tells Chiaki that her father sold the violins, including an apparently cursed one.
At rehearsal, Chiaki is please with how the bass is turning out, but he’s still worried that he doesn’t have enough time, especially with Stresemann still gone. He gets a shock when he sees Mine and the entire violin section suddenly raise their instruments at one point in the practice performance. Chiaki yells at them, and then goes to find Stresemann that night. He locates the maestro in a club surrounded by girls, but Stresemann gets angry when Chiaki attracts all the attention. Stresemann returns to the S-Orchestra the next day, but it’s only to announce that he’s leaving them permanently in Chiaki’s hands so that he personally can attend to the A-Orchestra. With Stresemann gone, the members of S-Orchestra start to disband, but enough of them want to play with Chiaki that everyone decides to stay. Chiaki at first feels that he can’t compete with Stresemann’s A-Orchestra, but he eventually decides that this is his chance. Unfortunately, he finds the entire orchestra in special t-shirts the next day and proceeds to yell at all of them after Mine’s rock orchestra suggestion. This doesn’t make anyone happy, and the pressure of only one week left before the real performance remains with Chiaki.
Preview:
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Wow, they’re really blazing through the manga. They managed to get through all of Sakura’s story in 2/3 of the episode, and the episode as a whole covered half of volume three. In doing so, they skipped many of what I feel are the more important parts, such as when Sakura makes her father realize how much contrabass means to her. Since Sakura’s story would have easily fit into a single episode, I’m left wondering why they’re rushing if they have so many more episodes to work with. Perhaps they really are going to attempt to get through all the manga that’s out there currently – 17 volumes to date.
nodame 😀 words are useless 🙂
H/C style not so bad isn it ?
omg. 🙂 i play violin, and ive never seen it being played that way. straight up that is. 😛 thats a funny image
What’s with the scary looking chef in the preview? Perhaps something to do with Nodame’s/Sakura’s voracious apetite?
That’s Mine’s father.
i know this is off topic but did any 1 see te new naruto ?
what?! You can’t call yourself a stringed instrument player unless you’ve rocked out like that.
I’ve tried playing violin in a number of unorthodox positions, probably including that one… it’s actually not that hard to make a decent sound in that position.
But if you want to really focus on making the “best” sound – it’s best not to fool around.
DEATH NOTE:
The new naruto grown up animation was amazing!!
even kai and sasuke appears at the begining of the special!!!
in long distant parts of the manga!( my brother reads the manga and spoilers apeears from everywhere for me………ahhhhhhh…. T_T )!!! even the orochimaru fight and the new jitsu usused in two new cool akatsuki characters(coldblooded ones) was spoiled….. 😛
well it has not the bleach story….BUT…..it has grown up in my conception…..AND….that´s what matters!!! 😀 I recommend!!! +1000 in animation
” KONOHA no SHI-PU!! ” must be the secret phrase on the special I´d guess….!!!
IF YOU LIKE BLOG IT OMNI……ANIMATION +1000 ( BETTER THAN BLEACH UNFORTUNATLY!! )
I don´t get it pierro studio sometimes…they must have many diferent animation teams…..because the animation from some animes….sometimes goes up and down….and by the same studio!!?? Bleach and Naruto are done by the same studio….but bleach deserved a better animation on the fights…I guess it´s because naruto animators COPY the ” MTV ” animations styles!!!! 😀 T_T
…wow…
…from Nodame Cantabile to Naruto…
…that is quite a jump in subject matter…
…let me try and wrap my head around that one…
…hmm…can’t seem to do it…eh…*strains really hard*…
…*tears a muscle*…oww…impossible…
…MEDIC!!!
I can seriously say that naruto may actually have better animation then bleach.
Does anyone know where I can get manga tranlations of Nodame Cantabile?
This was one of the best episodes so far for me. Mamiko Noto ftw!
Noto Kawaii Noto!!!! Not a bad week because I just got caught up on Negima, and the second episode of Maria sama ga Miteru OVA came out recently. The scene with both Nodame and Sakura at the door begging for food was classic.
cursed violin and whole lemons… wow