Introduction
When Miu was young, she was fascinated by the piano and took up lessons.
When the show opens, Miu is in middle school. She is shy, a soft-spoken girl who doesn't have a lot of confidence in herself. Her friends would describe her as "sweet" and "quiet." At this point, Miu has been taking piano lessons for some time and while people have told her that she's gotten very good over the years, Miu herself feels she's not really good at anything—including the piano. Her teacher, Mr. Shirakawa, is often frustrated with her playing. Although she plays every note exactly correct, her heart just isn't in it...
Meanwhile, Miu's come of the age when she's noticing boys and this shy young lady has noticed the handsome Kazuya Takahashi—even if he hasn't noticed her.
This is Miu's story. The story of a young girl who is on a journey to discover the melody within her own heart and the courage to express it.
(Source: RightStuf)
Audience reviews
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Firechick12012
Who here has heard of this anime simply titled Piano? Yeah, I doubt you'll be able to get search results on Google by typing just that. You'd have better luck typing it with its full subtitle, Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart. It was one of those anime that I always knew about when I was younger, but never actively pursued. One year, my mother got me one of the DVDs for Christmas, but I wasn't interested and told her to return it. That's about as far as my experience with Piano went, because child me back then thought it would be boring as all hell. Though now that I'm a 33-year-old woman, my tastes have evolved quite a bit since then. I decided maybe now was a good time to watch Piano in its entirety and see if it was any good. Maybe in some attempt to prove child me wrong. I pre…
Read at the sourceDesolatePsyche
First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
I hoped for more Piano playing in some music genre Anime. I.E Nodame Cantabile or so. But instead we got the most slice-of-life Anime we can get. A daily life of a young girl who is lost at what she is doing. Whole whole story is basically about her of self-discovery, her good moments, bad moments and some hardships. Saying anything else would be a spoiler probably. Point here is that if you like simple slice-of-life, then you probably will enjoy it. But I can say certainly it wasn't anything special. I simply finished it because it was short and wanted to listen to some piano.
✦Art & Sound
Art was good enough, nothing special.
As for OST & Music I wanted give it hi…
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This is one of my favorite anime despite poor graphics part.
Because its real and warm in same time. I like its melancholic mood, i like family relationship, i like characters - complicated, strange but good peoples.
I can understand why its not popular - i skip it first time i seen poster. It look cheap and outdated but in same time i can tell what it have soul inside. I can compare it to old hand-made toy by which you pass in the store, but if you find it in the chest in the attic you can feel the love with which it was made. So just wait until you will be in mood to find this treasure.
Romantic parts not usual - if you like stuff with happy-pair you will disappointed. In same time parts about friendship and self-realization - the best.
So this show definitely not for entertainment, i…
Read at the sourceAhiruArima
I was kind of disappointed after watching this anime. I was expecting something else. I thought that it would be awesome. I only watched this anime because of it's name. I am a huge fan of anime and I love music. This is nothing compared to Nodame Cantabile. The problems that the protagonist is facing in Piano are not problems at all. She is not doing any thing at all. She is just playing the piano and crushing on some guy. She takes such little things as huge problems in life. Overall it's boring. I would never recommend this anime to anyone. There are better anime about music than this like Nodame Cantabile(both seasons) and La Corda D'Oro(season 1 and Blue Sky).
Read at the sourceHeta-rashi1
I'm not going to lie- I was a bit bored with this series. It was only 10 episodes and it took a different approach than most anime. Female protagonist, and it's basically a music anime. If anyone liked La Corda De Oro then you'll like this series. It also has some romantic parts but nothing too detailed or definite.
The Story itself was basic, and yet unique. It didn't have mystery or kick-butt action, but it toned down to simple things that most people in the audience could possibly relate to; with family, friends, relationships, and balancing out ones passion for something. There is some conflict with the main character and a few things around her, and you see a good development of her character.
The Artwork and Sound were both 8's for me. When you see the artwork, it's nothing to go…
Read at the sourceJustJuice
Piano -The Melody of a Young Girl’s Heart: Reviewed.
Original Run: 11/11/2002 – 01/13/2003
Genre: Drama, Romance.
Anime Director: Norihiko Sudo
Plot:
Music has many distinguished sounds, sounds of joy sounds of pain, but it also sheds a new light to a path so serene that it’s captivating. Miu Nomura (our heroin) has walked this path from a wee tot to her adolescent stage. She had incredible talents ever since she was young, and playing the piano was her specialty. She was blessed and her talents were at their peak when she shared what she loved doing best with an audience. As Miu reached her preteens, she began to struggle like all musicians do as they try to find their muse. The path she once walked was shrouded with darkness, and her talents had come to a screeching halt. To struggle is…
Read at the sourceBishounen_Hunter
Piano is the type of anime where nothing out of the ordinary happens and it has brought the meaning of “slice-of-life” to new heights. Because seriously, nothing happens....this is just the day to day living in the life of a young girl. But I actually liked this show, now if you read my Madlax review you might be a little surprised by what I just said since I basically condemned that show for being to slow and too boring. But the reasoning is very simple, Madlax is supposed to be an action series and Piano is simply not that type of show. I fully understood and expected Piano to be the type of anime that it was....a very mellow, easy-going show with subtle dramatic tensions. And that too is what you should expect if you choose this title to watch.
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the art and animation for this serie…
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I was drawn to watch this anime by the teasers promoting it as a "slice of life" story about a young girl. I normally like those kinds of shows, but Piano turned out to be too much "slice of life" and not much else.
The story is about a young girl who plays the piano and her quest to get better to the point of performing in a big concert. The problem is that there just isn't much going on to hold your interest. I don't need science fiction in every show I watch, but there has to be SOME kind of drama to hold my interest. There is a little, but NOT MUCH!!
I can only quote Gertrude Stein to summarize this show: "There is no there there".
Read at the sourcePrede
Well this show is quite boring most of the time, and it is listed as "romance", but it only hints at the romantic interests of some characters. If you begin this show thinking it will be a love story, full of drama, and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships, stop! It has very little drama(and it potrayed poorly), and even less romance. Now if your into the whole "slice of life" and reality anime series, then give this show a shot. It takes a different approach then most of those series (Air, To Heart, etc), instead of following a male lead, it follows a female. Most, if not all of this show is about Miu Nomura's relationships with her family, friends, and Piano teacher(and a bit about her playing the piano, although not as much as you'd expect from some anime named "Piano"!).
Oh, and the on…
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I’m usually into slice-of-life anime, but Piano was just too real. Usually, slice-of-life anime isn’t really close to life, because if that happened, it wouldn’t be that interesting. Everything that happened in Piano had a high probability of happening in real life, so I wasn’t really interested. I’m not saying it’s bad, but I don’t think it’ll ever be one of my favorites.
One thing I noticed about Piano is that the story focused more on the lives of Miu’s family and friends. It was only in the last 4 episodes that the focus shifted to Miu. I guess it was better that way, because Miu was kind of uninteresting. Her friend Yuki was more interesting. So was her piano teacher, Shirakawa-sensei. I also love the fact that most of her family…
Read at the sourceicerydragon
As with all series that I watch, I try to at least watch the first two episodes, unless I really~ (and I mean REALLY~~) hated the first episode or is having trouble finding the next ones, and with this series, I completed it surprisingly. Why surprisingly?
My first impression of this series that it seemed like a series that was about classical music, the piano to be more precise, which to my knowledge the only other anime series that dealt with classical music were La Corda D\'Oro and Nodame Cantabile.
As I started to watch this series, from what I noticed, the piano, much of the time played the backdrop of the series and mainly revolved more around Miyu and the ones around her. To be honest, I have no idea why I completed this series as it was really boring and seemed more like a docume…
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