Nodame Cantabile

Nodame Cantabile
Cover art of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Megumi Noda
のだめカンタービレ
(Nodame Kantābire)
Genre
Manga
Written byTomoko Ninomiya
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineKiss
DemographicJosei
Original run10 July 2001 – 25 August 2010
Volumes25 (List of volumes)
Manga parts
  1. Nodame Cantable (10 July 2001–10 October 2009; 23 volumes)
  2. Nodame Cantable: Encore Opera Chapter (10 December 2009–25 August 2010; 2 volumes)
Television drama
Directed byTakeuchi Hideki
Original networkFuji TV
Original run 16 October 2006 – 25 December 2006
Episodes11
Anime television series
Directed byKen'ichi Kasai
Written byTomoko Konparu
Music bySuguru Matsutani
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Original networkFuji TV (Noitamina)
English network
Original run 11 January 2007 – 26 June 2007
Episodes23 + 1 (List of episodes)
Television drama
Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe
Directed byTakeuchi Hideki
Original networkFuji TV
Original run 4 January 2008 – 5 January 2008
Episodes2
Anime television series
Nodame Cantabile: Paris-Hen
Directed byChiaki Kon
Written byYōji Enokido
Music bySuguru Matsutani
StudioJ.C.Staff
Original networkFuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run 9 October 2008 – 18 December 2008
Episodes11 + 1 (List of episodes)
Live-action film
Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō Zen-Pen
Released19 December 2009 (2009-12-19)
Live-action film
Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō Kou-Hen
Released17 April 2010 (2010-04-17)
Anime television series
Nodame Cantabile: Finale
Directed byChiaki Kon
Written byKazuki Nakashima
Music bySuguru Matsutani
StudioJ.C.Staff
Original networkFuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run 14 January 2010 – 25 March 2010
Episodes11 + 2 (List of episodes)

Nodame Cantabile (Japanese: のだめカンタービレ, Hepburn: Nodame Kantābire) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoko Ninomiya. It was serialized by Kodansha in the josei manga magazine Kiss from July 2001 to October 2009. A short series, Nodame Cantabile: Encore Opera Chapter, was serialized in the same magazine from December 2009 to August 2010. The overall chapters were collected in 25 tankōbon volumes. In 2016, a one-shot epilogue chapter was published in the same magazine. It was licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga. The series depicts the relationship between two aspiring classical musicians, Megumi "Nodame" Noda and Shinichi Chiaki, as university students and after graduation.

The series has been adapted as four different television series: as an award-winning Japanese live-action drama that aired in 2006 followed by a sequel television special that aired in January 2008, as an anime series spanning three seasons with the first broadcast in 2007, the second in 2008 and the third in 2010. Two live-action movie sequels to the Japanese television drama, with the same actors, were produced with release dates of 18 December 2009 and April 2010. In addition, several soundtrack albums of classical music have been released, as well as three video games. A South Korean drama live action adaptation aired on the KBS network in 2014.

By March 2023, the manga had over 39 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. It received the 28th Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga in 2004.

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