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Piano (TV)

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©Animate Film / Pioneer LDC / Kid's Station


Alternative title:
Casi 15 años: Melodía juvenil (Spanish)
Piano - The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart
鋼琴物語 (Chinese (Taiwan))
피아노 (Korean)
Themes: music, piano
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Miu Nomura is a 14-year-old 8th-grader who has been playing piano since early childhood. She grows up gradually while her friendship, kinship, and love affairs evolve around her, but those relationships inevitably affect her piano performance.
User Ratings: 344 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 15 votes (sub:10, dub:5)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:8, dub:7, raw:1)
 Very good: 50 votes (sub:35, dub:12, ?:1, others:2
1 German subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 108 votes (sub:76, dub:30, ?:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 52 votes (sub:41, dub:10, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 43 votes (sub:32, dub:10, others:1
1 Swedish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 21 votes (sub:14, dub:5, raw:1, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 21 votes (sub:15, dub:5, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Bad: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 Awful: 7 votes (sub:3, dub:2, raw:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (dub:2, sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 690 users, rank: #1692 (of 9777)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.236 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.0317, rank: #6723 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 6.192 (Decent+), rank: #6804 (of 9919) (seen all: 6.41 / seen some: 5.74 / won't finish: 3.99)
Bayesian estimate: 6.239 (Decent+), rank: #6114 (of 7496)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 10
Episode titles: We have 10
Vintage: 2002-11-11 to 2003-01-13
Release dates: We have 5
Chronology:
(2002-10-05) Two-Episode "Sneak Peak" Before Official Broadcast
Opening Theme:
"...to you" by Ayako Kawasumi
Ending Theme:
"Kokoro no Oto" by Yoko Ueno
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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DVD (Region 1)
    Piano - Secret Love (DVD 1) 2005-06-28 (from $15.99)
    Piano - Secret Love (DVD 1) 2008-07-01
    Piano - Confessions (DVD 2) 2005-08-30 (from $10.49)
    Piano - Confessions (DVD 2) 2008-07-01 (from $23.04)
    Piano - Heartstrings (DVD 3) 2005-10-25 (from $19.87)
    Piano - Heartstrings (DVD 3) 2008-07-01 (from $27.03)
    Piano - The Complete Collection (DVD 1-3) 2006-07-11 (from $99.95)
    Piano - Bundle Collection (DVD 1-3) 2010-02-02 (from $96.39)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Norihiko Sudo
Script:
Mami Watanabe (7 episodes
eps 1-4, 6, 8, 10
)

Ryunosuke Kingetsu (eps 5, 7, 9)
Storyboard:
Hiroaki Shimura (eps 2, 4, 9)
Norihiko Sudo (6 episodes
eps 1-7 odd, 8, 10
)

Satoshi Nakagawa (ep 6)
Episode Director:
Hiroaki Shimura (eps 2, 4, 9)
Nobutaka Chikahashi (ep 6)
Norihiko Sudo (6 episodes
eps 1-7 odd, 8, 10
)

Character Design: Kousuke Fujishima
Art Director: Junichi Higashi
Chief Animation Director: Yūji Ikeda
Animation Director:
Kazuhiro Koyama (eps 2, 4)
Kinomi Sakuragi (ep 8)
Takahiro Miura (eps 3, 5)
Toshiya Furuike (ep 7)
Yūji Ikeda (eps 1, 10)
Yuji Ushijima (eps 6, 9)
Animation Character Design: Yūji Ikeda
Sound Director: Jun Watanabe
Director of Photography: Mitsunobu Yoshida
Assistant Animation Director: Yuji Ushijima (ep 4)
Assistant producer: Junnosuke Suzuki
Color design: Yumiko Katayama
Editing: Junichi Itou
Editing Assistant: Naoki Watanabe (Jay Film)
In-Between Check: Fumiaki Usui (ep 8)
Production manager: Noriaki Iguchi
Recording Adjustment:
Jun Inomoto
Kazutoshi Yamamoto
Yasunori Ebina (Beeline)
Sound Effects: Yasuyuki Konno (Swara Pro)
Sound Production Manager: Hiroki Urakari
Theme Song Arrangement:
Hiroyuki Kouzu (OP)
Yōko Ueno (ED)
Theme Song Composition:
Ayako Kawasumi (OP)
Yōko Ueno (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Midori Ueda (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Ayako Kawasumi (OP)
Yōko Ueno (ED)
Ayako Kawasumi as Miu Nomura

Akio Ōtsuka as Seiji Nomura
Jun Fukuyama as Kazuya Takahashi
Michiko Neya as Akiko Nomura
Mitsuru Miyamoto as Shirakawa-sensei
Sōichirō Hoshi as Takizawa
Tomoko Kawakami as Yuki Matsubara
Yūko Sasaki as Hitomi Nomura

Atsushi Kisaichi as Nagasawa
Kazusa Murai as Shinohara
Kyōko Hikami as Saito-san
Mami Kosuge as Miss Yuri
Masumi Asano as Taeko Nishijima
Mie Odagi as Teacher
Misa Watanabe as Yuunagi-sensei
Rino as Mother
Satoshi Katōgi as Kamiya
Japanese companies
Animation Production: OLM (Team IGUCHI)
Backgrounds:
Sparrow
Studio Easter
Broadcaster: Kids Station
Digital Composite: T. Nishimura
Editing: Jay Film
Key Animation:
Dongwoo Animation (ep 2)
E-cho (ep 4)
JEM (ep 4)
Max Movie (ep 4)
Studio Mark (eps 3, 5, 8)
TASK (eps 4, 6, 9)
Production Assistance:
IMAGIN (eps 3, 5, 8)
Studio Kuma (eps 2, 4, 6, 9)
Sunshine Corporation (ep 7)
Recording Studio: Sanpunzaka Studio
Sound Effects: Swara Pro
Sound Production: HALF H·P STUDIO
Video Editing: Imagica
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Michael Sinterniklaas
Executive producer: Shawne Kleckner
Producer: Kris Kleckner

Assistant producer:
David Olsen
Judy DeFrieze
Packaging Design: Greg Hillsman
Script Adaptation: Stephanie Sheh
Subtitle Timing: David Olsen
Voice Direction: Michael Sinterniklaas
Rebecca Soler as Miu Nomura

Marc Diraison as Shirakawa
Michael Sinterniklaas as Kazuya Takahashi
Sean Schemmel as Seiji Nomura
Veronica Taylor as Hitomi Nomura
Vibe Jones as Akiko Nomura
Zoe Martin as Yuuki Matsubara

Brian T. Schneider as Nagazawa
Drew Aaron as Takizawa
Eva Christensen as Ms. Yuunagi
Kether Donohue as Shinohara
English companies
ADR Production: NYAV Post
Internet Streaming:
The Anime Network
YouTube
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Joaquín Gómez (Spain dub)
Translation: Yasuko Tojo (Spain dub)
Executive producer: José Luis Puertas

Screen Inserts: Joaquín Gómez (Spain dub)
Carmen Ambrós as Miu Nomura (Spain dub)

Carles Lladó as Shirakawa (Spain dub)
Carmen Calvell as Yuuki Matsubara (Spain dub)
Esperança Domènech as Hitomi Nomura (Spain dub)
Germán José as Kazuya Takahashi (Spain dub)
Oriol de Balle as Seiji Nomura (Spain dub)
Rosa Moyano as Akiko Nomura (Spain dub)

Francesc Rocamora as Nagasawa (Spain dub)
Gloria Garcia as
Ms. Yuunagi (Spain dub)
Saito (Spain dub)
Jordi Pineda as Takizawa (Spain dub)
María Rosa Gil as
Shinohara (Spain dub)
Yuri (Spain dub)

Germán José (Spain dub)
Gloria Garcia (Spain dub)
Joaquín Gómez (Spain dub)
Jordi Pineda (Spain dub)
María Rosa Gil (Spain dub)
Rosa Moyano (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Jonu Media (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Seimar RLM (Spain dub)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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