Nodame Cantabile 3-6

Just caught the latest installments on Animax. The (creditless) English dub was actually pretty decent; I particularly enjoyed Streseman's faux German accent. But Chiaki didn't sound half as irritated enough and Nodame's 'gyabou!' and 'mukyaa!' were all cut so it's definitely the Japanese audio track for me.

It seems to me that, despite the fact that Nodame is the title character, the series is really about Chiaki and how his encounters are changing him. Nodame has the biggest impact and is the catalyst for meeting Mine, Masumi-chan and Streseman but I'm fascinated by how Chiaki is stumbling upon opportunities, gaining new experiences and, most of all, learning to work with other people and to see them as people rather than just musical technicians who must march in goose step to his batoning diktats, with the Noto Mamiko chara being a positive case in point.

Chiaki seems to have had a major relapse at the end of Ep 6 (missed chance to show him snatching the crown from the Pope and putting it on his own head) and I'm really looking forward to the next set of four episodes next week to see how S Orchestra will do while trying to resist, with all my might, the temptation to read Garten's posts (where I've also stolen the above screencaps from).

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1. Nodame Cantabile 7-10
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3. Nodame Cantabile 19-22