Nodame Cantabile: Nodame to Chiaki no Umi Monogatari
Nodame and Chiaki Summer Tales, Nodame Cantabile Special, のだめカンタービレ「のだめと千秋の海物語」
In order to prepare for the Nina Lutz Music Festival in Nagano, world-renowned conductor Franz von Stresemann sends four of his top music students - Shinichi Chiaki, Megumi "Nodame" Noda, Ryuutarou Mine, and Masumi Okuyama - to study under other esteemed masters. During their journey to the festival, Chiaki becomes frustrated with his friends' behavior, but later wakes up from a nap to find that they have taken a detour to a beach in Niigata. While Mine soaks up the sun and Nodame and Masumi cool off in the water, Chiaki tries to conceal his fear of the sea by staying inside the beach club. When Nodame proposes renting an inflatable boat to row over to a nearby island, will Chiaki be able to keep his secret?
Ryuutarou Mine
ProtagonistA 4th-year student studying violin at the university has a father who owns a Chinese restaurant called "Uraken." Despite his own belief in the uniqueness of his playing style, others perceive it as ca...
Shinichi Chiaki
ProtagonistChiaki is twenty-one years old and a 3rd-year piano student at Momogaoka Music Academy at the start of the series. He is an accomplished pianist and violinist, but is also known to be a perfectionist ...
Masumi Okuyama
ProtagonistA 4th-year timpanist who is an okama with a male body but female mind has claustrophobia. He developed feelings for Chiaki, but since Nodame started spending time with her, he sees him as a rival and ...
Megumi Noda
ProtagonistAlso known as Nodame, which is a portmanteau of her family name and the first mora of her given name. Noda is, at the start of the series, a twenty-year-old free-spirited second-year music student. Sh...
Franz von Stresemann
Stresemann is an esteemed conductor who comes to Momogaoka Music Academy as a visiting instructor. Despite having a reputation for being perverted, demanding, and undignified, he quickly forms a close...
