This
is the first time the musical genre has been my first love: classical music. :3
STORY
- "Work hard and you'll achieve your dream!" It's a very cliche and
often-used storyline, right? Well, yes. Yes, it is, but that hardly means that
the subsequent series has to be old and tiresome. The
best stories take something that's been done a thousand times already and
somehow manage to tell it in a way that's better and more interesting. In a
genre dominated by high school drama, Nodame Cantabile steps it up and uses
college students, something I'd love to see happen more often. The storytelling
happens in a mostly slice-of-life format, but it doesn't shy away from
progressing significantly in time -- weeks pass, months pass, whole seasons and
school years pass, and it's great to be able to follow the characters for these
longer periods of time, especially since it emphasizes the fact that change and
progress take both hard work and time.