Naeildo kantabille

While staying in Korea for four months, I decided to dip my toe into K-Drama, and this 2014 series came up in our search results. As our high-school age daughter is a violinist, this was a natural series for us to try. Our American family has loved it. Moving and uplifting story lines, the right number of goofy and absurd moments, great classical music, a tolerable level of contrived situations to keep us in suspense from episode to episode, and characters we really grew to love. I wish it went longer than sixteen episodes! I don't yet know whether this series is typical or atypical for K-Drama, but if the miniseries are all this good, we're going to have a lot of fun watching them.

How can you write a TV series focused on music while not knowing a thing about music and orchestras? How can you direct a TV series focused on music while not researching it in order to give an accurate result on the screen? And as an actor, you also have to make your own research, to play a musician accurately!!! First, pianists don't move their shoulders, when they play. It looks so fake when I see large shoulders movements on screen! Second, cellists do not hold their bow with their hands upside down! How uncomfortable it might be! Third, when a conductor leads, he does not just wave a stick in the air, as he pleases! There are specific shapes to draw, so that musicians know in which beat they are in the measure. Four, in one episode, some students try to trick Cha Yoo-jin by exchanging their parts: oboe will play the clarinet's melody and clarinet will play the oboe's melody. As if it was hard to distinguish the two! As if Cha Yoo-jin was such a genius to discover the trick... I mean, oboe and clarinet do not sound the same at all! It is really easy to sort them apart. If you don't know music and if you never played in an orchestra, you might get fooled, but anyone who really played in an orchestra knows this series is totally botched.

First of all, HOW DARE YOU to those who commented negative things here. It's so easy for you guys to be perfectionists, but have you even considered how hard must it be to keep a straight face and act very well as a pro even tho it's through a silly way since it's been adapted from an ANIME???!!! Heck it's even so obvious whenever the professional pianist is doing all the playing and then they'll show Nae Il's face. LOL

Kudos to the team and the cast, loved all of them and this mini-series should be more known. Hope more series should be like this, filled with positive vibes and not too focused on the couple/s (kisses, cheating, 3rd parties etc.). Too unrealistic I know, but we're in a time where GOOD vibes are highly appreciated than those scheming antagonists in most dramas.

Love love for classic and modern music! Nodame Cantabile is one of my fave animes and I really appreciate that the actors did an awesome job. Most adaptations suck but this one didn't :)

With joo won, bogum ang kyung pyo but the female lead is so into her chatacter that it becomes annoyingly unbearable. Music are not good either plus the ahjussi that kept on calling her "baby" sounded like a pervert.

I just now discovered this gem in 2022. I loved the quirky performances. I used to play the piano but haven't in a long while, so the piano and orchestra pieces were such a wonderful gift. I was totally smitten.