Author recently published a visual retrospective on the Nodame Cantabile anime (2007 Winter). Actually, he’s posted quite a bit on Nodame in the past month, but I ask… where’s the live action?
The reason I bring it up is extremely indirect; having spotted the recently aired HanaKimi Special, I remembered that I had yet to watch the Nodame specials (all 220+ minutes worth). So I ventured into the mix this week, and interestingly enough, I find the live-action at an advantage.
Based on the commercials I’ve seen, my current AMPINGS (with bias, duh):
Previews were a little abstract, but we know where this is going. Play point, the new Celestial Being.
Only wondering if the “recent” drama special will be mixing substance. Nodame’s VA does really good anyhow.
This wasn’t going to be in here, but I managed to come across a real preview, with voices and art. Yes, I want it NAO~! The light novel does a very nice job, and I hope this series comes off a little different than other tsundere-trademarked shows (Zero, Shana, etc); there is no magic and fantasy!
The designs and production appear solid. In terms of assurance, I think I can rely on it *saran wraps his words for a later date*
Very stylish, hot, fun. Is this really my second Autumn gear-up post? Do I even have time for all these series?
Okay, biggest question. While a tale of memories centered around Chihiro, who had memory issues, is this one centered around a deaf girl? Are we aiming for new moe modes, or what?
This was the series that bumped me to write this post. I cannot ascertain what genre this may dominate, but it surely looks like 1) slice-of-life 2) mahou 3) shoujo 4) not mahou-shoujo.
Oh My God, what studio is this?
Notice: Yozakura Quartet were not included, because I didn’t see any decent CM on them. So what’s that 9 series? Also, previous Autumn dabbling was here.
Impz and co, did their Autumn seasonal preview already. A few weeks ago, I wishlisted some of these on melative. While the season is still weeks away, I’m pretty set in my choices.
There’s a lot of promise in the pool, and with so many shows airing, my Autumn 08 season could be growing. As usual, episodic reflections will be on melative.
Note to self: Need a nice javascript/WP integration to the melative API so that these titles aren’t so bland (this is really easy, but I’m working on other things)
I posted about Nodame Cantabile at the beginning of the year; it was my Winter 2007 pick. Nodame Cantabile was an extremely solid series in nearly every aspect, and I was very glad to have experienced such a series this year.
Alright, so first Nodame Cantabile has an entertaining story. I thank Garten for bloggin the live-action because otherwise I would have never snatched them off the torrent feeds. Also, S-Projects did well on the subs, especially for the limited helpers; I’m not actually sure where the translator is from, but I believe s/he knows more Japanese than English (good thing). Now we come to the anime… and a semi-deep forward analysis (hopefully no spoilers). More…
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