Nodame Cantabile Grand Finale!

Hello guys! So, we've finally come to the end of the line. I received the raws while at office yesterday morning and I felt so frustrated that I can't read it on the spot. After I read it, I'm so not in the mood to write the summary because I feel sad. It was so rushed. None of the things I was expecting to happen, happened. Ninomiya-sensei just wanted to wrap the whole thing up.

Okay, onto the summary.

Nodame Cantabile Chapter 136: Last Lesson

(Don't they look so good together? Kyaah!)

Nodame went to meet Auclair-sensei at the Paris Conservatory of Music. Auclair-sensei asked her if she has bounced back already from her illness. Nodame said yes and told him that she wanted to study again. However, it was bad timing because the classes already ended and Auclair-sensei got a performance the next day. He told Nodame to take the make-up classes and he also told her that the Bunoa family from Saint Malo Castle wanted her to perform again this summer. Nodame accepted the request and will be practicing hard throughout vacation.

On the other hand, Chiaki was cleaning up Nodame's apartment and was carrying two big bags of garbage. He met two new students who'll be occupying in the apartment of Chiaki's mother. He said that his mother is once again gathering weird students.

Yunlong has finally went back to China and was telling Tanya that he'll give her a teaching position in their school. Tanya did well in her exams and is now entering competition. Frank, on the other hand, is going to have a concert with Rui in a music festival. Chiaki and Nodame were talking about it and Chiaki felt envious of him. Nodame asked him in what music festival will he be performing however, it turned out that it wasn't a music festival. It is a harvest festival.

Chiaki was definitely dumbfounded. He didn't understand how it turned out this way. Why does he need to perform music for onions? But still, they did a good performance.

Kuroki and Tanya are on a train on their way to Germany. Kuroki asked Tanya to be his accompanist in the oboe competition. Tanya thought they would be staying in the same hotel. Kuroki said that he got a different one for her. Tanya was a bit against it and Kuroki blushed. Realizing that he mistook her words, she backtracked and said that it was lonely to be alone. The two started to read the notes together.

A music that was written over a hundred years ago has the power to bring together people who were so different, from their gender to their eye color, to the country from which they were born in, together.

People who thought they can never agree on anything, blend in harmony over a single note.

Apparently, the above phrase was being said by Chiaki to Nodame. They were in... a beach? (It looks like an ocean but they were sitting in some grassy land not on the sand, so maybe they're not near the beach actually but somewhere elevated. Chiaki's afraid of the ocean right?) Nodame told him that, that kind of thing doesn't only happen to him. It is happening to people all over the world.

Ryuka was also there with them and he said that someday he will be greater conductor than Chiaki. Also, it appears that he was being homeschooled.

Elise and Stresemann were in an amusement park and she told him that she got Nodame to perform for the London Philharmonic again. Stresemann was happy about it but said that he'll always be Nodame's first guy. (Perverted meaning. LOL) He was also happy that Nodame and Chiaki are finally together as one.

In Saint Malo, everyone is talking about Nodame's concert with Stresemann before. A lot of people came to see her perform this time. They were saying that she's very lucky because she has never even won in a competition before.

On the other hand, Nodame was in Mozart's costume again.


Nodame: Bonjour! Je m'appelle NODAME. I'm gonna have fun playing so please try your best to listen to it.

Chiaki: Here we go again...

THE END.

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Thoughts:

Sigh.

Sorry.

Can I honestly say that I was a bit disappointed?

Like I said, Ninomiya-sensei just wanted to wrap the whole thing up. She did her best to include everyone (in Paris) in the finale. We get to see the path the other characters are heading onto now.

Nodame's back on track. She's going to study again and on the same time perform too.
Chiaki is still on his way to become a great conductor.
Kuroki and Tanya are together and they're moving towards music together.
Yunlong is back with his family and maybe he'll succeed in China.
Frank is finally getting some attention. His concert with Rui is going to be a huge thing.
Stresemann, though very close to being deaf now, has lived a full life. So, he's now having fun.

But still, it wasn't quite enough. If she wanted to do that, I would've wanted to see the members of the S Orchestra and the R*S Orchestra. What happened to them?

My rambling will just be short because in my opinion, this chapter is not yet the finale. There would be a bangaihen (extra chapter) on December 12. Maybe we'll see the other characters from Japan there.

Also, this chapter is all about the characters FACING MUSIC HEAD ON AND JOURNEY THROUGH MUSIC. I'm holding out hope that on the extra story, we'll see what has become of the romance between Chiaki and Nodame.

After all, we're all NodamexChiaki's shippers aren't we?

See you guys next month. I'll still be back to do the summary for the extra story.

Leave your comments and opinions of the so-called Grand Finale.