Nodame Cantabile 136

So we've finally reached the final chptr of Nodame! Although I got into the game late, it was still a lot of fun. I hope you enjoyed this series as much as I did.


page 1,2

panel) -red words- Nodame Cantabile has reached it's end. // -blue words- Now we're at the beginning of the grand finale.

page 3

b1) Megumi, have you finally gotten over your sickness?
b2) Oh yeah.
b3) It wasn't a very serious illness in the first place right?
b4) Yeah...that's right.
b5) I'm sorry.
b6) I'll be in your care again!
b7) I wont stray from the path again!

page 4

b1) But you know... // coming now doesn't do you any good.
panel) I have a public performance tomorrow in Scandinavia.
b2) Classes finished a long time ago.
b3) But I still want to study here.
b4) You mean I can't?
b5) Make up classes begin in September.
b6) Also, there's a request from the Bunoa family for you to do another concert.
b7) Will you accept?

page 5

b1) Yes!
b2) I'll go!!
panel1) I'll always go there!!
panel2) You'll be practicing throughout your entire vacation time! // Yessir!
panel3) Summer vacation.
b3) Look who we have here, // it's Shinichi-kun.

page 6

b1) You're leaving for work from here?
b2) I'm cleaning up! // There was a lot piled up after all.
b3) Yeah right.
b4) What are you guys doing out here?
panel) We're having lunch.
b5) So you guys didn't break up.
b6) That's good to hear.
panel2) ugh...
b7) I think I'll stop loving you.
box) Actually... // I think that counts as a break up.

page 7

b1) It's the off season for Marle right?
b2) Are you planning on going anywhere?
b3) We have a couple of local performances.
b4) Plus there a couple of other places asking for me.
panel) Oh Hans, welcome back.

page 8

panel1) Yeah, see you later Yipin.
b1) They're this year's new students.
panel2) Is this the first time you're seeing them?
b3) They play violin and piano.
box1) Mom is gathering weirdo's again...
b4) There are more... Interesting kids here again.
b5) They have their own idiosyncrasies...
panel3) Our new hope.
b6) But nothing compared to Yunlon or Nodame.
panel4) I can't deny that. // sniff...
b7) Yunlon...
box2) Last week Yunlon finally went home.
b8) You guys...
b9) you all better come to China!

page 9

b1) Once you've all become successful, I'll let you do a concert!
b2) You make it sound like you run the country...
b3) Who do you think you are?
b4) Thanks Yunlon.
b5) Tanya, when you return home next year, give a call.
b6) I'll give you a job teaching at our school.
b7) I'm not going home!!
panel1) Yeah, I wonder about that! // Shut up idiot!!
box1) Tanya did well on her tests and was promoted to the chamber music class.
panel2) You did really well in the competition!
box2) She also received some support from her mom, so she managed to stay in Paris.
box3) And Franck was...
b8) Me? // In the Fautin music festival?

page 10

b1) Yeah.
b2) I'd like for you to do a duo with me.
b3) Professor Michelle said that you're the best man for the job.
box1) Enrolled as a student of the conservatory, Rui is challenging a lot of different things.
b4) A duo with Rui!?
b5) I'll do it!
b6) Of course I'll do it!!
panel1) Thank you Rui!! // I should be the on thanking you.
box1) Because of all his chamber work and accompanying, Franck is high on all the professor's list.
box2) An otaku's latent strength small but powerful.
b7) He's going to be performing at the Fautin festival!?
panel2) That's a really big one!
b8) I envy him...
b9) What music festival will you be performing in?
b0) It's one I've never heard of...

page 11

panel1) France countryside.
b1) Welcome!!
b2) To Araga's harvest festival!!
sash) Miss Onion
ribbon) The 1st annual // Onion festival.
small box1) Sponsor.
panel1) Harvest festi... // pfft // It's not a music festival!?
small box2) Dress rehearsal over.
b3) Are you kidding me!?
panel2) Ahahaha! // How cute! // Onions taste like mommy...
b4) We come after the kids act?

page 12

b1) Why are we gonna play for onions?
panel1) I wouldn't mind if it were wine.
box) This orchestra wont ever change...
b2) You guys shouldn't be like that!!
b3) Everything from audience, to sponsors to requests...
b4) they've all been increasing!!
b5) However, our funds are still close to red!
b6) So whatever the job is, we should do it with a smile!
b7) Now let's show them how pro's do it! Yeah!!
panel2) This was your doing!? Theo you fool!! // Arrggh. // Do a better job at choosing where we work! // This can't be the best that was there!

page 14

b1) My dream is to make this orchestra like how it used to be. Where the audience would fall in love with every performance we had.
box1) The road to that goal is still long, but...
box2) We've taken a definite step towards that end.
b2) Daddy is the principal!?
b3) Was Kuroki cut?
panel) Lucky daddy.
box3) Kuroki is...
under panel) The man with the cell phone's daughter Caroline.

page 15

b1) Wow!
b2) Are we already in Germany?
b3) This is actually the first time I've come to Germany.
panel) Kyah, I want to go drink some beer!
b4) Is that so?
box) He took Tanya as his accompanist and is on his way to Muhlleim for an oboe competition.
b5) I'm going to be staying in the same hotel as you right?
b6) Is it a 5 star?
b7) uh, no...
b8) I'm going to be at the hotel the competition sponsors provide,
b9) but I got you a different hotel.
b0) We're going to be separate?

page 16

b1) Sigh... that's so boring.
panel1) More like that's mean of you.
b2) Hey, why are you blushing!?
b3) don't get the wrong idea!
b4) I just don't like being alone is all.
b5) I didn't mean it like that.
b6) You're here for a competition!
b7) That's right.
b8) I'm here for the competition!
b9) I need to concentrate on that!!
b0) We can read through the music when we can't play!!
b1) Y-yeah, that's right. // need to concentrate.
panel2) Here's the piano part.
b2) We don't have that much time.

page 17

b1) I wonder if we can practice this one some more when we reach or destination.
b2) Yeah.
b3) We only synchronized this one a little. // I still don't feel to good about it.
b4) Yeah me too.
b5) Especially from right here...

page 18

panel1) Music that was written a few hundred years ago,
panel2) is taking people who were born and raised in different countries. // Their sex and eye colors are different, // everything about them is different, but brings them together over a single note.
panel3) People who thought they could never agree on anything,
panel4) agree on how to do a single phrase.

page 19

panel) Captivates them.

page 20

b1) That's not only happening to you, Chiaki-senpai.
b2) That sort of thing is happening a lot around the world.
b3) If you think that there's a beach on the other side of the ocean, you'll start off for it.
panel) Things never change.

page 21

b1) I don't really get it...
b2) I'm the only one that can make you shine like your supposed to!!
panel1) Although right now I'm not at that level.
b3) I'll be a greater conductor than Chiaki ever could be! I swear it!
panel2) Oh no, // I have to go home.
b4) Oops,
b5) It's time for my home schooling.
b6) You get home schooled?
b7) Yeah.
b8) I don't go to a normal school, so I get taught what you would normally learn at school, at home.
b9) I never knew.

page 22

b1) It's always been like that?
panel1) Yeah.
b2) it's always been like that.
b3) See you later Nodame.
b4) When you've returned from San Marlo.
b5) Ryuka!
b6) Did you ever want to go to a normal school?
b7) Didn't you ever think of doing something other than music?
b8) My grandpa said...

page 23

b1) that my music talent is a God given gift,
b2) and that I should use it for other people around the world.
b3) And even if he didn't,
b4) I still love music.
panel) Later.

page 24

box) Chelsea Island
b1) I did it!!
b2) That stupid little girl finally started to accept jobs!
panel1) Nodame's cell phone.
b3) A concert?
b4) Yeah, once more with the London phil!
b5) The conductor will be different... // and it's next year.
b6) Good!
b7) that just shows...
b8) that I wasn't mistaken!

page 25

b1) And I'll always be Nodame-chan's first man!
b2) What part of your ears are failing now?
panel1) you dirty old man!
b3) I actually...
b4) didn't hear any of that.
b5) but as you get older, // you learn a different skill! (in my case anyway)
panel2) Who'd you call an old man?
b6) The maestro will,
b7) make it his goal to destroy the young ones!!
b8) His intentions are becoming more and more narrow...

paeg 26

box) But I'm so happy for you two.
b1) You finally understood each other,
b2) and have become one.

page 27

b1) Little guppy!
b2) It's almost time to start!
box) Master of the Bunoa house, Pierre Do Bunoa
panel) You're wearing that again? // Of course I am!! // And I could say the same about you!!

page 28

b1) Did you see it?
b2) The concert with Stresseman and Nodame?
b3) Of course I did!
b4) They played it tv not to long ago.
b5) I was really shocked to see it!
b6) I can't believe she bagged Stresseman...
b7) right out of the gate.
b8) But we're the one's who saw her first!
panel) Hohoho, yes we did!
under panel) The Lanbell wives.

page 29

b1) She really is a lucky kid.
b2) Yeah she is. // She hasn't even participated in any competitions either.
panel) Nodame.
b3) There are a lot of people here this year.
b4) That's because, // the people who heard from other's how good she is, people from all over came to hear her in person.

page 30

between panel1) Grandchildren.
between panel2) Bunoa jr.
between panel3) The 2 butlers.
panel) This year, I'm going to perform in the party.

page 31

b1) hello,
b2) my name is Nodame.

pag 32

b1) I'm going to have fun playing, so please try your best to listen.
box) You're starting with that again?
strip to the right says there's gonna be a side story december 12th