I reach out my hands and gathered up...
the scattered music notes in the 88th scene.
I don't know how to put my feelings in words.
I put them in the music score as the days passed by.
When we come across...
at the third time, the feelings will ring out here.
Let me put it straight forwardly like a song.
I write all of them in a song.
This endless crescendo is so strong...
and reaching out to someone.
The melody is heading to the pianist on the stage.
It's the melody of everything about life.
It's the real face.
A whole new world...
has opened up before my eyes.
A new prelude repeats.
Violins! Watch your pitch!
Stay right on top of the chord change there!
Stop!
Are you guys happy with that at all?
You need to listen to those around you!
Violas only! Play that part again!
Rhythm's sloppy! Like this!
This rhythm!
You're off!
Again!
- What's wrong with Chiaki? - Again!
The "Devil Chiaki" has returned.
Violins! More expression! Stop!
That's not what I mean.
- Let me see that. - Huh?
Got it? Don't just play the notes.
You're not soloing, so listen to those around you!
Think about the meaning of each phrase, and express that!
Play as it is written!
He's saying exactly the opposite from S Orchestra days.
Play that one more time!
I don't believe this.
5 hours straight without a break.
More than that...
That's Chiaki?
He broke his baton.
Here I was trying to show him what I could do
and he comes back with, "You call that good?"
He was looking at me when he said it, too!
Was it me?
I mean, he looked at me like he knew everything I was doing.
And I mean... like why can he play the violin?
Yeah, that freaked me out.
I mean, he's real good on it, too!
This is scary. I feel cowed.
If Chiaki entered a violin competition, who knows?
Of course, he can't be better than Kiyora.
Japan's a big place, too, I guess.
Listening to the sound he made,
I think I now understand what he wants. Yup.
This is getting fun. I'm pumped.
You're pumped?
Well, we're peeing in our pants.
I mean, we couldn't do a thing right back there.
Well, if it sucks... it sucks.
It's not good enough to just be able to play it.
We're not keeping up with him at all.
Why are you all being so flippant about this?
My God, Kuroki... he's being a samurai again.
Yo Kimura! I've sold 10 tickets already.
It's Manabu Sakuma!
- Here's the take. - The writer of "Classical Dreams"!
What, already?
Chalk it up to my "missionary work," I guess.
A lot of my colleagues showed interest.
Advances sales are soaring, I hear?
It's all because of this full page ad here.
- Whaaat!? - Look at that!
What the? Oh my God, I'm so embarrassed!
Looks like an ad for a circus! Garish...
- The "Rising Star Orchestra"? - No way!
Who gave it that name?
"Rising Star," good name, eh?
My dad and I spent three days and nights thinking up that name.
Let's cherish it, okay?
Why are Mine and his dad coming up with the name?
Easy. Uraken paid for the ad.
"A gathering of Japan's top future talent"?
"Treat yourself to one dreamy night"
Who wrote this stuff?
It's a little over the top, I know.
But with so many of the Oshiuri Competiton's finalists...
in the orchestra, the response has been amazing.
I also had my dad hand out fliers at the competition.
Excellent. I think a lot of music lovers will come out.
Maybe we should get back to rehearsing.
Yeah, we're running out of time!
We've got to practice.
A few minutes to start time.
I've got my music, my baton and...
yeah, I think I'll have a cigarette first.
Shinichi. It's time.
What's wrong? Not ready yet?
Mr. Vieira!
What's going on!?
Hurry up, Shinichi. Or you'll be late.
You startled me.
- What's the matter? - A dream...
- You're pale. - That dream again.
I keep having these strange dreams.
I haven't gotten much sleep.
Strange dreams?
- Probably about airplanes. - Huh?
You know, right? About my airplane accident.
What is that? That darn hypnotist!
I bet he did something to me.
Hynoptism. But you didn't go under, right?
No. It seems I'm the guarded type.
But I've always wished I could go under.
If I can get over my fear of flying,
I'd be happy to throw open the door to my heart and mind.
Oh, yeah! That reminds me.
Have you ever done this kind of hypnotism?
I saw this once in an old movie.
You're getting sleepy... sleepy.
Forget it. That's called "fixed gaze induction."
It's been tried on me with a penlight.
Oh, you've done this before, huh?
But not with a watch, right?
You're getting sleepy. You're getting sleepy.
If that could work... I wouldn't have had to...
No way... Chiaki?
Oh no... Chiaki? Please wake up! Wake up!
...go to so much trouble. - Gyah!
You're getting sleepy.
Booyah!
Welcome to this week's special on hypnotism!
Mr. N here has a weight problem.
He can't help consuming excessive amounts of food and drink.
Can hypnotism cure his problem?
Would you look at that!? Mr. N fell under in an instant!
"Please don't try this at home."
Geeyah!
Even Mr. Vieira is appearing in those dreams now?
Do I want to go abroad that badly?
It's to the point where I'm annoyed at my own mental instability.
What am I so nervous about, anyway?
Not to worry. This orchestra will erase my doubts.
Welcome, welcome!
Get 1% off any item during the "Rising Star Fair"!
Get your "Rising Star Rice Cakes"!
What's the "Rising Star Fair"?
I'm not really sure.
But the owner of Uraken asked me to help out.
Well, tomorrow's the big day. Good luck, Concertmaster!
Or I should say, "my bright red ruby."
You named the orchestra after all, didn't you?
The first star is rising!
Mom's coming! Uncle, too? What, the whole family?
Don't put yourself out.
What? The Berlin String Quartet?
Why would they be coming?
They happen to be on tour in Japan.
A former member, Kai Dune, will be bringing them.
Kai Dune?
Kiyora's mentor.
Good luck, Shinichi.
In Japan or anywhere, good music is good music.
"We're all connected through music", right?
That's what your father used to say, right?
Mr. Vieira, mom.
They all went and bought tickets, huh?
Nodame, hold on!
Here. Tomorrow's ticket.
What? But I bought a ticket on my own. See?
That's the cheapest seat in the house.
This one's among the best seats.
Use this one. It's yours.
- "Girlfriend's seat"? - 'Course not!
Just come listen to my music.
Amateurs aren't supposed to try this at home.
I think Kikuchi is real cute!
I'm here to see Kiyora Miki. Now she's a "rising star".
She was this close to winning the Oshi Competition.
Too bad. She was amazing in the preliminaries.
I wonder if she'll be soloing today.
Oboe concerto!?
Why isn't it for the cello? What about Kikuchi?
Brahms No.1, huh?
This orchestra's got the winning horn player from the Oshi Comp.
The flutist went to my school.
By the way, who is this Shinichi Chiaki?
Beats me.
I saw this oboe player, Kuroki, at the competition.
Kind of a disappointment.
Why is he the soloist when there's Kikuchi and Miki?
Go easy on him, Mr. Ogawa. He's the soloist that Chiaki chose.
And it's the orchestra Chiaki's conducting. It'll be fine.
Yeah, well who's this Chiaki?
This is frustrating. Nobody knows who Chiaki is.
Even Sakuma hasn't seen Chiaki conduct.
True, he's never appeared in a competition before.
And his only public conducting was at his university's concert.
But that just makes it more exciting.
Because I saw him at that music festival.
Bra... bravo!
Okay...
It's time for some fun music.
"R. Schumann, Manfred Overture, Op.115"
What a powerful orchestra!
This is the strength of youth, huh?
No, it's more than that.
They have a resonance that is... simply sublime.
Okay for starters?
Well, of course!
- Go for it, "Kurokin". - "Kurokin"?
- Good luck! - Yasunori Kuroki, roll out!
- Shall we? - Yeah.
"Mozart: Oboe Conerto in C major K.314/285d"
Even after my utter defeat in the Oshi Comp,
neither Chiaki nor the rest of the orchestra
ever showed any sign of a loss of faith in me.
Therefore, I plan on responding to that faith.
This piece which I started playing in the throes of love...
thinking of Megumi...
now blooms inside me with immense beauty.
And that's how I want it to stay.
I wonder if you're listening to my oboe.
Sir?
There will now be a 15 minute intermission...
Man alive! This orchestra is amazing!
They're totally rad!
- Real high level! - Unreal!
- Could you believe that oboe? - I want him in our orchestra.
I love that concertmaster.
Your pupil, Kiyora Miki, is wonderful, Herr Dune!
It's because she's doing this orchestra
that she stumbled in the competition.
She stumbled because of that " sleep peaceful" pillow you gave her.
I'm trying to raise a soloist here, not a concertmaster!
What do you mean? You were a concertmaster yourself once.
I'll tell you, though, that oboe player.
I'd like to take him back with me to Europe.
Yes. He's quite a talent.
It's exactly as Hans said, though. It's that conductor.
Didn't I tell you?
I discovered him at the Nina Lutz Music Festival.
We haven't heard Brahms yet. Ask me after that.
Do you see that?
What are the Berlin String Quartet members doing here?
Who brought them?
I heard they were in Japan but...
I wonder if I can get an interview.
They're not the only ones here.
I see professional orchestra staff,
notable conductors, and critics.
To succeed in music, you need more than talent.
You need luck.
From its sleeping place on an island of gold,
that noble and scared treasure that is art...
smiles upon you.
Can you obtain that treasure, Shinichi Chiaki?
Don't make that face!
This dazzling voice...
will last forever.
The mark of summer...
carved on my shaking heart...
will last forever.
When our paths overlap,
I will close my eyes and feel you.
I will never forget you...
All the blue tears and stars...
in the sky.
Nowhere...
can they be disappeared.
A light shines suddenly.
This very light...
shines on my dream...
Somewhere...
I will never forget.