this also has been a favorite for a few years now, and i’m still following the manga. i even used beck’s version of “i’ve got a feeling” as part of the soundtrack of our wedding slide show.

about the music, it’s great. koyuki’s singing is about his vocal chops, not songwriting. engrish is all about the lyrics. that said, i’m one of those fans who LOVE engrish. i can’t make it up even if i tried, so i just enjoy it (ever since i saw my classmates in primary school use japanese stationery with the oddest captions).

i did not enjoy nodame cantabile, but not because it was a bad anime. it’s because the live action dorama is just so much more AWESOME! i promise you that you are missing so much if you don’t watch the dorama of nodame cantabile.

my gripe about the anime is that it is indeed too difficult to animate a whole orchestra, and using stills to “animate” a performance just wrecks it for me.

either way, i’m a fan of both.

I disagree with the music: I thought it was excellent, very realistic, and completely fitting to what the band, BECK, represented. It might have been hard to see why Koyuki was suppose to be a great singer, but it was more of what he was able to represent. It was the same with Ryuusuke. They became musicians because it was what they were meant to do, and they could see things other people couldn’t.

But yea, awesome that you’ve finally watched it :D. I don’t think this series gets the attention it deserves most of the time.