Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

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Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

Genre	Drama, Romance
TV anime
Directed by	Norihiko Sudo
Studio	Marine Entertainment
Network	Kids Station
Original run	11 November 2002 – 13 January 2003
No. of episodes	10

Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart (Piano TV) is an anime series, which aired from November 11th, 2002 to January 13th, 2003, and ran for 10 episodes. Three volumes were released on DVD by The Right Stuf International in the United States as well as a complete collection in one collectors edition package. Centering around Miu Nomura the story follows her as she struggles to rediscover the joy in music and playing piano she once knew as a child.

1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Episode titles
4 Music Themes
5 Trivia
6 Resources
7 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Miu Nomura always played the piano and found it to be one the greatest joys in her life. Even when she was a little girl the music she played on her piano made her heart soar, a feeling she desired to share with anyone who would listen, as she eagerly shared her talent on with the piano to those around her. As time passed though she became an introverted teenager far too shy to express her feelings and even unable to do it through her music anymore. It has gotten so bad that her playing has suffered greatly and her piano teacher, has grown impatient with Miu's continual failure to live up to the expectations he knows she is capable of reaching if she could just try a little harder.

Miu's crush on an upperclassman named Takashi doesn't help and only adds to her emotional state. Even her best friend, Yuuki who notices Miu's crush cannot help because she too has a crush, on a third year track star named Takizawa. What is remarkable though, is this crush of Miu's might in fact be helping her playing, and might make it possible for her to once again find the joy in music she knew as a child, the joy that allowed her to play such beautiful emotional music that captured the hearts of all those that listened.

It is Miu's teacher's hope that a little pressure on her to compose her own piece and play it at the spring recital, will do just that, but problems with Takashi, and problems in her own life seem to continue to hinder Miu's growth, despite the spark she has once again shown in her musical playing since developing her crush on Takashi. [Incomplete]

[edit] Characters

Miu Nomura - Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Rebecca Soler (English)
Shirakawa - Voiced by: Mitsuru Miyamoto (Japanese), Marc Diraison (English)
Kazuya Takahashi - Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Michael Sinterniklaas (English)
Seiji Nomura - Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese), Sean Schemmel (English)
Hitomi Nomura - Voiced by: Yuko Sasaki (Japanese), Veronica Taylor (English)
Akiko Nomura - Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Vibe Jones (English)
Yuuki Matsubara - Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Zoe Martin (English)
Nagasawa - Voiced by: Atsushi Kisaichi (Japanese), Brian T. Schneider (English)
Takizawa - Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Drew Aaron (English)
Ms. Yuunagi - Voiced by: Misa Watanabe (Japanese), Eva Christensen (English)

[edit] Episode titles

#	English title	Italian Title (from original Japanese version)
1	~with feeling~	~con sentimento~
2	~with tenderness~	~con tenerezza~
3	~with spirit and energy~	~con spirito~
4	~with activity~	~con allegrezza~
5	~with a wavering heart~	~con passione~
6	~with life~	~con brio~
7	~with heart, extravagantly~	~con bravura~
8	~with a chill, as though sinking~	~con melancolia~
9	~with love~	~con amore~
10	~with compassion~	~con grazia~

[edit] Music Themes

Opening Theme

"...to you" by Ayako Kawasumi

Ending Theme

"Kokoro no Oto" by Yoko Ueno

[edit] Trivia

Ayako Kawasumi, voice actress for Miu Nomura, started playing piano since early childhood, just like her character. She composed and played the opening theme (piano only / no lyric), "...to you." [1]