The twentieth comic: #798 Nodame Cantabile
It's been a little while, hasn't it? Nodame Cantabile has been a bit tricky to get through. The Japanese romance mangas can be fun, but slow to get through due to serialization and how it needs to be drawn out to cover all the volumes.
The other side of the coin then, the musical side, doesn't connect with me that much either. I'm not a great musical person, not knowing much about it, and while I enjoy listening, I'm not a performer, have never played an instrument, and can't connect with that life. Sure, I know education, but the practice required, and the way you have to be into music, isn't quite the same thing.
When it moves away from the school, and the characters become more important, the manga becomes more interesting to read. While well done - the way it portrays music in how it looks, through expressions, panels and style is very noteworthy - the story and what it explores doesn't feel as interesting to me. Worth having tried, but that's where it leaves me.