The manga series, including a drama, two live-action movies and the three anime television series and is brought about through the spin-off Nodame Cantabile Encore opera hen continued.
The manga is about the history of the unusual pianist Megumi Noda ( Nodame ) and the ascending conductor Shinichi Chiaki. In his childhood, Shinichi Chiaki traveled with his father, a world-famous pianist, and his mother throughout Europe and learned to know and love classical music. The conductor Sebastiano Viera often took care of him and became his role model. At twenty-one years he studied at the Academy of Music Momogaoka.
