school life

1 Litre of Tears

15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya (Sawajiri Erika) was an ordinary girl, until lately when she has been falling down often and walks strangely. She is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness called spinocerebellar degeneration, where the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the person cannot walk, speak, write, or eat, but does not affect the mind. How will she and her family cope with this disease?

Nodame Cantabile

Megumi Noda (Ueno Juri), a lazy slob, but an extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, prefers to listen by ear instead of reading notes. Shinichi Chiaki (Tamaki Hiroshi), a perfectionist and full of arrogance, is talented in piano and violin and has a secret ambition to become a conductor. These two unlikely pair meet by accident and their relationship grows more ways than one.