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Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

20024.51 Season10 EpisodesEndedTV-Y7

Overview

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.

Created by Hiroyuki Soeda
Produced by Shukichi Kanda, Tomoko Takayama, Toshiaki Okuno
NetworksKids Station

Top Cast

Ayako Kawasumi

Ayako Kawasumi

Miu Nomura (voice)

Tomoko Kawakami

Tomoko Kawakami

Yuuki Matsubara (voice)

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Mr. Shirikawa (voice)

Themes & Keywords

piano lessonsromanceslice of lifecoming of agemiddle schoolshoujopianoanime

About Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart

Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart is a animation, drama series that first aired in 2002 exploring themes of piano lessons, romance, slice of life, coming of age, middle school, shoujo. Created by Hiroyuki Soeda, it stars Ayako Kawasumi, Tomoko Kawakami, Mitsuru Miyamoto. 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.

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