<style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> OP: "Allegro Cantabile" by SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH - It's great... fine... I like the animation and all but somehow, just somehow, the music is only fine with me. <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> Summary: Lesson 1 Shinichi Chiaki, due to anger, made did a mistake while playing a piano on purpose although he is good at playing it. Kouzou Etou, his teacher, slaps him, and they start to make a fight. He was so disappointed at it, hoping that he would be a good student, and getting a bad impression. He left him and got rejected from his class. While walking down the hallway, he hears someone play Beethoven's Piano Sonata Pathetique. Thinking that it was all random, he admire it as well. In a bar, Saiko Tagaya talks with Shinichi, telling him to apologize an ask for his forgiveness, and about Shinichi quiting music. While walking to Megumi Noda's apartment, she meets up with Shinichi sleeping outside the door drunk. Upon waking up the next day, Shinichi notices that he was in Megumi's apartment that is extermely dirty. He leaves the apartment immediately as he notices his apartment is right beside hers. In school, he takes a drink reminscing what happened yesterday. Out of the blue, Nodame (Megumi Noda) gives him back his belt claiming that it was left in her apartment although he denies that it is his. While looking at the bulletin board for his new instructor, Hajime Tanioka, he takes a peek in Hajime's teaching with Nodame. Shinichi overhears two guys talking about Hajime having an alias, delinquent expert as he thinks that he is a delinquent. Back to his apartment, he wonders about quiting music but out of a blue, he smells trash from Noda's room. Reluctantly, he cleans her place after smelling the trash. Few hours later, he's done arranging and throwing the trashes and everything else. While washing the last thing to clean, the dishes, he overhears Megumi play the piano with the song "Pathetique". He was impress although there was a mistake, they ended up teaching each other. Later, in school, Shinichi's new teacher, Hajime Tanioka, thought of having the two of them play a piece for two pianos. Even though Shinichi was against the idea, he had to do it after being convince that he is the best piano player in the academy and everything else. After settling it, they play the Mozart Sonata in D Major for two pianos, a fast tempo piece with 8-minute duration. With Shinichi's leadership abilities, he teaches Megumi in a few days. As it was the day for them to perform, Shinichi remembers the moments when he was willing to be a conductor talking to Sebastiano Viera. Playing the piano was something great for him. After finishing the play, Hajime's real purpose for them to play is said that it was a lesson for Shinichi to overcome the "wall". Their day ended with Megumi idiotically telling that it's her first time experiencing "falling in love". <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> ED: "Konna ni Chikaku de..." by CRYSTAL KAY - I found it better than the OP, and the lyrics were really great... impressive! It kinds of give a good "lovely" feeling. <style type="text/css">.nobrtable br { display: none }</style> Preview: Lesson 2 Impression: Frankly, I found the first episode great although the introduction wasn't much since it's a bit more on the "understand-it" part (because it's really logical). I kind of watched animes that contain romantic comedies as their genres but I didn't expect that something like this would be brought up in this anime: their crappy personalities. Really, it's just so crappy that it's funny... So, Shinichi Chiaki is short-tempered and all who really does sound like a sore loser, and Megumi "Nodame" Noda doesn't have good hygiene at all but I do found her ears special. It was great how they point out those evil personalities of both of them even though I still think it was too much. Shinichi's personality when he was a kid was kind of great and pretty much has the determination to succeed. I kind of like those kids who have set those minds to what occupation they will take in their later future. Pretty much, it gives me the feeling of expecting a lot from this series.
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