Nodame Cantabile 127

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Here's your Nodame fix! Its been a while right? Enjoy.


pages 1,2

panel) -black and white letters- Now, // its time to let the music play. // -red letters- Is this paradise? or is it hades? // Nodame enters the stage of fate!!
title) More pleasant music.

page 3

b1) Next is finally this 'Nodame'.
b2) She's unknown right.
b3) I wonder how she will perform.
b4) Japanese...
b5) I'm sure she's amazing.
b6) Because Stresseman changed the schedule specifically for this.

page 4

b1) I'm sure she's an absolute beauty
panel1) That again?
b2) Definitely.
box1) Even if its Stresseman, he wouldn't do something like this just on a whim.
box2) The same for Nodame...
box3) If she's here on this major stage,
panel2) Would you marry me.
box4) it means that she's stopped running away.
box5) But stilll...

page 5

b1) Getting Stresseman as her debut!?
b2) And one of Englands finest Orchestra's!?
panel) How the hell did she pull that off!?

page 7

b1) That's a kid right...
panel) What's with that look?
b2) Yes it is...

pages 10, 11

insert) Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 opus.11 in E minor.

page 12

box1) It begins with the orchestra setting a heavy atmoshpere,
box2) then...

page 13

box1) From the sad first theme,
box2) we get into the second: Cantabile.

page 14

box) Until its time for the pianist to play, they get to listen to this long majestic intro by the orchestra.
panel) You can almost feel what Chopin felt as he left his home to travel in the name of music.

page 17

panel) huh?

page 18

panel) She's behind tempo
box) Wha...

page 19

panel1) What a totally "unique" performance...
panel2) She's playing a totally different tempo that what we rehearsed!

page 20

panel1) This is totally different song now!
box1) But...
panel2) Its really good.
box2) She's playing the pianistic passages like its improv.
box3) but she's bringing out the emotion properly.

page 22

box1) Was that an:
box2) "since its you, you can make it look good" face?
panel1) That little brat!
box3) You have my maestro in the palm of your hand...
box4) What are you going to do now!?
panel2) With this "unique" Chopin?

page 23

box1) Even at a performance like this,
box2) Nodame will always be true to herself.
box3) She jumps and skips.
box4) But, // she's not as half-assed as she was before.

page 24

box) She's trying her best not to make the performance a failure.

page 25

box1) Also,
box2) the beauty of each note/

page 26

box1) Her excellence in music
box2) has pulled everybody into her pace.

page 27

panel) Movement 2

pages 28

panel1) "The beautiful moon-lit night"
panel2) "The fun memories"

page 30

panel1) Nodame-chan is your angel!
box) Although mom said that to me...
panel2) Isn't it that God kept me stuck in Japan // just so I could bring her to this stage?

page 32

box) So I was the angel?