Shinichi Chiaki

Nodame Cantabile
Cover art from volume 1 of the manga Nodame Cantabile
のだめカンタービレ (Nodame Kantābire)
Genre	Slice of life, Romantic comedy, Drama
Manga
Written by	Tomoko Ninomiya
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Del Rey Manga (former) Kodansha Comics USA (digital, current)
Demographic	Josei
Magazine	Kiss
Original run	10 July 2001 – 10 October 2009
Volumes	23 (List of volumes)
Television drama
Directed by	Takeuchi Hideki
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	16 October 2006 – 25 December 2006
Episodes	11
Anime television series
Directed by	Ken'ichi Kasai
Written by	Tomoko Konparu
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	Fuji TV (Noitamina), Animax
English network	SEA Animax Asia
Original run	11 January 2007 – 26 June 2007
Episodes	23 + 1 (List of episodes)
Television drama
Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe
Directed by	Takeuchi Hideki
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	4 January 2008 – 5 January 2008
Episodes	2
Anime television series
Nodame Cantabile: Paris-Hen
Directed by	Chiaki Kon
Written by	Yōji Enokido
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run	9 October 2008 – 18 December 2008
Episodes	11 + 1 (List of episodes)
Manga
Nodame Cantabile - Opera Hen
Written by	Tomoko Ninomiya
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Josei
Magazine	Kiss
Original run	10 December 2009 – 10 September 2010
Volumes	2
Live-action film
Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō Zen-Pen
Released	19 December 2009 (2009-12-19)
Live-action film
Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō Kou-Hen
Released	17 April 2010 (2010-04-17)
Anime television series
Nodame Cantabile: Finale
Directed by	Chiaki Kon
Written by	Kazuki Nakashima
Studio	J.C.Staff
Original network	Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run	14 January 2010 – 25 March 2010
Episodes	11 + 2 (List of episodes)

Nodame Cantabile (Japanese: のだめカンタービレ, Hepburn: Nodame Kantābire) is a manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. It was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the magazine Kiss from July 2001 to October 2009 and collected in 23 tankōbon volumes. A two-volume sequel, called Nodame Cantabile: Opera Chapter, which began serialization in the December 2009 issue of Kiss, was released in 2010. It is licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga. The series depicts the relationship between two aspiring classical musicians, Megumi "Nodame" Noda and Shinichi Chiaki, as university students and after graduation. It received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga.

The series has been adapted as four different television series: as an award-winning Japanese live-action drama that aired in 2006 followed by a sequel television special that aired in January 2008, as an anime series spanning three seasons with the first broadcast in 2007, the second in 2008 and the third in 2010. Two live-action movie sequels to the Japanese television drama, with the same actors, were produced with release dates of 18 December 2009 and April 2010. In addition, several soundtrack albums of classical music have been released, as well as three video games. A South Korean drama live action adaptation aired on the KBS network in 2014.

In 2016 a final installment was published in the April edition of Kiss.

Shinichi Chiaki, an , multilingual perfectionist, is the top student at Momogaoka College of Music and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy (namely Prague), but is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. In contrast, Megumi Noda, or "Nodame", is a piano student at Momogaoka, notorious for messiness and eccentric behavior. Despite being very talented, Nodame prefers to play by ear rather than according to the musical score; thus, she is regarded as sloppy and playful.