Nodame Cantabile 130

This is for NCIS use only.

This would've been done yesterday, but a thunderstorm passed by and knocked the power out for like 3 seconds, and off went my cpu, and poof went 20 pages that I didin't want to do over right then... anyway, here it is.


page 1,2

panel) To the land of permanence... // Why have you wandered here? Oh child loved by god.
title) Music that sounds more pleasant.

page 3

box) Cairo, Egypt
panel) The 4th movement.
b1) Bartender,
b2) The usual!

page 4

b1) This is your first time here right?
panel1) You should ask for another.
b2) Seriously, what's a girl doing in a place like this all alone.
b3) Where did you come from?
b4) Where are you parents?
b5) I'm not a baby!
panel2) Why do the people of this country all treat me like a kid?
b6) Hahaha, fine, fine.
b7) Beer!
panel3) Here's your beer. // Why are you speaking in french?
b8) You're a tourist right?
b9) Are you japanese!?
b10) Are you on this trip alone?

page 5

b1) I carelessly got of the bus on my trip...
b2) So you're on a trip...
panel1) You carelessly got off in Egypt?
b3) Okay then, what's your final destination?
panel2) Somewhere in Africa? Or is it China?
b4) Final destination...
b5) It was supposed to be where he is...

page 6

b1) Excuse me?
b2) But I went there with someone else...
b3) huh? You already went?
b4) Then are you on your way home?

page 7

box) London.
b1) We've arrived sir.
b2) Will you be staying the night.
b3) Yes. // Please take care of those.
panel) As you wish.

page 8

b1) Where do you think you're going!? // And by yourself no less.
b2) I'm going to buy some cigarettes.
b3) You quit smoking!
b4) Then I'm going to Starbucks.
b5) I already have Oliver looking for Nodame.
b6) So get to Belgium and get ready for your next concert.
b7) But Nodame-chan may be in Paris.
b8) I'm worried about her.

page 9

b1) I'm going to Paris.
panel) Oliver!
b2) Franz
b3) Long time no see.
b4) Since that time we performed together.
b5) So abotu 20 years now.

page 10

b1) Charles Auclair.
b2) You used to be younger than me...
b3) I'm STILL younger than you.
b4) You got brutally old...
b5) I see you're still the same as always!
b6) Why are you here today?
b7) Don't tell me, you came to see me?
panel) Huuh!? // Oh yeah, there is one here. // A pretty big one held in London.
b8) I'm one of the judges for a competition.
b9) Ahh, // a competition.

page 11

b1) Anyway,
b2) you did something really crazy with my student the other day.
b3) Oh, no, no, that was nothing special...
panel) So you did know about it.
b4) There's no need to thank me.
b5) Who the hell would thank you!?
b6) Give me a break! // Do you have any idea what you did?
b7) Only a little bit more, and she would've become a true pianist.

page 12

b1) A "true" pianist?
b2) The resolve to make a living as a pianist.
b3) regardless of what happens.
b4) Although she likes music,
b5) she hates this world of competition.
-or: she hates the business side of this world.

page 13

b1) And to top things off, she's made it this far having the small goal of performing with her boyfriend.
b2) Even so, little by little...
b3) She was starting to learn // true joy and pleasure through the many different composers and the pieces they wrote.
b4) Exactly!
b5) I noticed too...

page 14

b1) I first saw Nodame-chan in Japan. // When I saw just how much she improved lately,
b2) I started to think 'he's amazing' when I found out you are her teacher.
b3) So I thought all that was left was to get her on stage... // You know, like the wonderful love of a parent.
panel) Who are you looking at?
b4) And just what is wonderful!?
b5) But the performance was a big success, and she had a good debut...
b6) But Megumi is gone now, right?
b7) What does a devil like you know about parental love? // Isn't it about time you stopped being so childish and grow up!?

page 15

b1) Its true, lately he's...
b2) No, // you really are a devil.
b3) Always running amuck by yourself without regard for those around you.
b4) Seriously... you threw a huge monkey wrench into my plans...
panel) sigh... // I need to go check in.
b5) Chuck.
b6) What should I do now?

page 16

b1) You don't need to do anything.
b2) This is her last chance.
b3) She needs to decide for herself.
b4) I'll simply wait for her answer.
panel) Which of you is the older man?

page 17

box) Milan, Italy
b1) Hello!?
b2) Shinichi-kun, its Nodame
b3) I love you.

page 1 8

b1) What are you trying to pull Elize?
panel) It pisses me off that you kind of sound like her. // Elize?
b2) Why do you have her phone?
b3) Nodame hasn't gone to you right?
b4) huh?
b5) No, // she hasn't come here.
b6) Really.
b7) I thought so.
b8) This is serious, where on earth did she go?
b9) It doesn't look like she's in Paris either.
b10) huh!?

page 19

b1) Did something happen to her!?
b2) She's disappeared,
b3) after saying "I can't play anymore".
b4) Wha!?
panel) She can't play!?
b5) Well given who we're talking about, its not like its life threatening, so I'll change my search parameters.
b6) If that's the case, I should go look as...
b7) Oh, thats fine, you don't have to.
b8) Better yet, don't.
b9) I'll get to the real reason I called you.
b10) I have some work for you.
b11) A Brazillian orchestra?
b12) They're asking for a young stimulating Japanese.

page 20

b1) Brazil!?
panel) Braz...?
b2) I'll keep it a secret that you're with Vierra right now.
b3) Once the opening night is over, please move on to San Paulo.
b4) That's fine, but I want to know about Nodame...
b5) I know, I'll tell you about it. // But work comes first.
b6) Because its not like you can do anything to help the situation.
b7) Wha!?
b8) Aren't you being avoided by her?
b9) From what I hear, you went to see her but was turned down,
b10) after her concert.

page 21

b1) Well, that's how things are.
b2) So take good care of yourself.
box) Nodame...
b3) Chiaki, what's wrong?
b4) What was that about Brazil?
b5) Who's Elize?
panel) what do you mean you can't play?

page 22

box) Cairo
b1) The total is 100EGP.
b2) Here's the key to your locker.
panel) 1 night was only 1,700yen (roughly $16.50) // ehe! // I'm so happy.
next to panel) Her second night at Youth Hostel.
b3) Looks like we're rooming.
b4) My name is Mifa.
b5) Hi, how are you.
b6) I'm going to go buy some food from outside, would you like to come with me?
panel2) Sure.

page 23

b1) Pyramids are truly amazing!
b2) Yeah.
b3) Which of the Giza pyramids did you like best?
b4) The sphinx from behind.
panel) Ahaha, you mean that butt.
b5) I'm going to see the pyramids at Saqqara tomorrow, what about you?
next to panel) Speaking in english
b6) I don't...
b7) have anything planned... but I'm pretty interested in Sneferu's grave that I saw in a movie once.
b8) You're going to Dahur, that's nice.
panel1) The red pyramids.
b9) Maybe I should go there too.
b10) Sneferu really existed too right.
panel2) Yeah, he was king Khufu's father, right. // gyabo
b11, 12) Ah!

page 24

b1) You're Nodame right!?
b2) ex...
b3) Excuse me?
b4) I saw it on a streaming video site!
b5) Your concerto with maestro Stesseman!
b6) I was totally awed!
b7) I never thought I'd meet you in Egypt?
b8) What? Is she famous?
b9) She's the talk of the town, so to speak. -small print- on the internet though
b10) Are you going to be performing in Egypt?
b11) No...
b12) I'm just on a trip here...

page 25

b1) I still can't believe this.
b2) I've totally become your fan!
b3) I'm also a fan of Stresseman, so I've heard a ton of other people perform,
b4) but nothing ever moved me like your concerto!
b5) That Chopin!
b6) When I heard the 2nd movement, I started to choke up, and tears started to... // ah.
b7) Just thinking about it got the tears flowing again.
b8) I'm sorry about that.
b9) I wonder what would've happened if I heard it live!! -bubble letters- Hahaha
b10) Anyway, you're uniques style of playing, // at first it threw me off,
b11) but it was like I got thrown into the time machine and was back in the 19th century, // Also, also..

page 26

b1) That was surprising.
b2) I would never have guessed that you're a famous pianist.
b3) I... I'm not famous.
b4) But you have fans all the way out here.
b5) That's cool.
b6) You can touch a person's emotions like that.

page 27

b1) It looks like I've been affected too.
panel) I want to hear it too! Although I don't know much about classical music.
b2) That's true...
b3) I // did it properly.
b4) I faced the music head on.

page 28

b1) So I don't need to any more right?
box) God...

page 29

b1) Okay, we're done.
b2) We'll run through it once more after the break.
b3) Shinichi!
b4) Go to Dino...

page 30

b1) Wha...
b2) He's not there.
b3) If you're looking for Chiaki, he's in the balcony.
b4) He wanted to hear the music.
b5) Its not like he can be of any use.
b6) He's just getting in the way.
b7) Isn't it about time we kicked him out?
b8) There's no life in him.
b9) Now, now.
b10) Its the first time Shinichi, who was always music first, everything else later, // has hit a bump in the road.

page 31

b1) Also, this problem has to do with a woman.
b2) You're having a lot of fun with this, aren't you maestro.
b3) Not as much as you are.
b4) Well, it looks like he's still entangled with this Elize girl in Brazil even though he's out here in Italy.
panel) fufufu nicely done Chiaki.
b5) But I can't just go and ask him about that now.
b6) He's practically dead.
b7) Maestro, go ask him about it please.
b8) Say something like, "I'm the maestro of love".
b9) Like I could say something like that!
b10) Hmph, and you call yourself an Italian.
b11) Then how about you go with the over used, "think of me as your father",
b12) and ask about what's bothering him.

page 32

b1) No,
b2) there's no need for him to think of anyone as a father.
panel) Yo.
b3) I was close by,
b4) lets go get some food.