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Nodame again and stuff
Tonight I saw the "Final" Nodame Cantabile movie. I could basically just review it in three words: "Go see it", but that might not really do it justice.
Seriously, I suppose I am partially benefitting from actually having seen the entire drama and the specials and the first movie all now; when I went into the first movie I had only seen like the first 3-4 episodes of the drama. But now that I guess I kind of "get" all of the characters and the general way things are portrayed, this movie was very funny when it wanted to be funny and very sad when it wanted to be sad, and as always the music was great. Only part I didn't get is why they bothered having the side plot with the crazy theremin girl living upstairs. If they wanted to add random side plots, give us more Kuroki and Tanya dammit :P
I feel kind of like the first movie was just a big setup for this one, really, and this one was where they were getting back to the roots of it all, with the relationship between Nodame and Chiaki, with a brief nod to a few other big characters as necessary. Although in some ways that was a problem because, to be fair, most of the amusement value in the series comes from the side characters, and most of the pain comes from the relationship between Nodame and Chiaki.
Sreissmann's "Germanese" speaking gets more and more painful the more I listen to it :P
Eh, I dunno. I enjoyed the movie. Though I feel like they were STILL setting up for some continuations. I hear the manga hasn't actually ended yet, anyway? I have to wonder how much more they can drag out the plot -- I am still vaguely of the school of "Nodame should just find a nice boy to go out with like Kuroki", although I still wonder how the Tanya plot actually ends too.
So the upshot is: it was good. I might even go see it again after Golden Week.
Actually, something I really enjoyed was just taking it all in. Thinking about how much I enjoy going to watch Japanese movies and how much I'm going to miss it someday. It actually is a pretty neat thing that I can go watch movies in another language with no subtitles and pretty much understand 95% of what people say. How cool is that?
Oh, and there's going to be another Odoru Daisosassen movie! Holy shit it's been like 9 years since the last one. I still remember watching the drama on the international channel with everyone back in Pittsburgh like 12 years ago :) Also saw a preview for Beck, which of course I have never read or anything, but I know it has Yukio Tanaka, and that is all that matters.
Whee.
Seriously, I suppose I am partially benefitting from actually having seen the entire drama and the specials and the first movie all now; when I went into the first movie I had only seen like the first 3-4 episodes of the drama. But now that I guess I kind of "get" all of the characters and the general way things are portrayed, this movie was very funny when it wanted to be funny and very sad when it wanted to be sad, and as always the music was great. Only part I didn't get is why they bothered having the side plot with the crazy theremin girl living upstairs. If they wanted to add random side plots, give us more Kuroki and Tanya dammit :P
I feel kind of like the first movie was just a big setup for this one, really, and this one was where they were getting back to the roots of it all, with the relationship between Nodame and Chiaki, with a brief nod to a few other big characters as necessary. Although in some ways that was a problem because, to be fair, most of the amusement value in the series comes from the side characters, and most of the pain comes from the relationship between Nodame and Chiaki.
Sreissmann's "Germanese" speaking gets more and more painful the more I listen to it :P
Eh, I dunno. I enjoyed the movie. Though I feel like they were STILL setting up for some continuations. I hear the manga hasn't actually ended yet, anyway? I have to wonder how much more they can drag out the plot -- I am still vaguely of the school of "Nodame should just find a nice boy to go out with like Kuroki", although I still wonder how the Tanya plot actually ends too.
So the upshot is: it was good. I might even go see it again after Golden Week.
Actually, something I really enjoyed was just taking it all in. Thinking about how much I enjoy going to watch Japanese movies and how much I'm going to miss it someday. It actually is a pretty neat thing that I can go watch movies in another language with no subtitles and pretty much understand 95% of what people say. How cool is that?
Oh, and there's going to be another Odoru Daisosassen movie! Holy shit it's been like 9 years since the last one. I still remember watching the drama on the international channel with everyone back in Pittsburgh like 12 years ago :) Also saw a preview for Beck, which of course I have never read or anything, but I know it has Yukio Tanaka, and that is all that matters.
Whee.
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PS: I saw this and thought you might think it was interesting:
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And the movie has Mukai Osamu and Mizushima Hiro! =)