Megumi Noda

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This character, Megumi Noda, is 41 years old in 2022, based on his/hers birthday, which is 1981.

## Personal Info

### Age

20 (2001)
22 (2003)
23 (2004)
35 (2016)
40 (2021)

## Relations

### Family

Kisaburo Noda (grandfather)
Shizuyo Noda (grandmother)
Tatsuo Noda (father)
Yoko Noda (mother)
Masayuki Chiaki (father-in-law)
Seiko Chiaki (mother-in-law)
Yoshitaka Noda (brother)
Akari's father (uncle; Unity Force Canon)
Akari's aunt (first cousin, once removed; Unity Force Canon)
Chie Sugimoto (aunt)
Shinako Sugimoto (first cousin)
Kazusa Sugimoto (first cousin)
Kuri Sugimoto (first cousin)
Yasuko Sugimoto (first cousin)
Akari Shinohara (first cousin; Unity Force Canon)
Shinichi Chiaki (husband since 2003)
Unnamed daughter

### Friends/Allies

Shinichi Chiaki
Franz von Stresemann (deceased since 2016)
Mitsuka Kaguya

## Details

### Occupation

Pianist (currently)
Student (formerly)

### Type of Character

TBA

**Megumi Chiaki** (née **Noda**), also known as **Nodame**, is the main protagonist from the *Nodame Cantabile* anime and manga.

A free-spirited second-year music student. She is depicted as a complete slob: her cooking and cleaning skills are atrocious to the point of having mushrooms growing on her clothes and poisoning anyone who dares to eat her food (yet she's never been poisoned). However, she is an incredibly talented pianist who primarily plays by ear, in a cantabile style. She is in love with Chiaki and she follows him around constantly, claiming to be his "wife", and leans on him to help her get through sticky situations.

Megumi will set to appear in a Unity Force Series story.

## Appearance

Megumi has a short brown hair and brown eyes with normal height. At first impression, Megumi can be considered cute by people such as Kuroki and Frank.

### Unity Force

In the Unity Force series, Megumi's hair is considerably much longer during the 14-year-timeskip from 2002 to 2016 from a flashback, reaching from her waist. Its length remained the same all the way to the present time.

## Personality

Megumi is depicted as a complete slob: her cooking and cleaning skills are atrocious to the point of having mushrooms growing on her clothes and poisoning anyone who dares to eat her food (yet she's never been poisoned). However, she is an incredibly talented pianist who primarily plays by ear, in a cantabile style.

In love with Chiaki, she follows him around constantly, claiming to be his "wife," and leans on him to help her get through sticky situations. She sometimes compulsively needs to play the piano, neglecting everything in order to do it. As well as that, she seems to enjoy childish manga and movies. She is constantly hungry, and is fed dinners by Chiaki; she also steals many lunches from her fellow friend, Maki. Nodame has a tendency to speak cryptically (sometimes she doesn't even understand herself), often refers to herself in the third person, and uses nonsense words like *mukya* and *gyabo*.

Nodame is initially very dependent on Chiaki in terms of ambition - she has little intention of becoming a professional pianist, despite her remarkable talent, and wants to become a kindergarten teacher, though many feel she is too reckless and lacks the appropriate sensibility to be responsible with teaching children.

Her piano style is considered to be completely haphazard, diverting from original intent at both dynamics, rhythms and even themes. Realizing that her current attitude towards music will eventually drive her apart from Chiaki, Nodame gradually develops the necessary drive to pursue music for her own sake. Her attitude towards music is largely due to an incident in the past where she was hurt by a teacher who demanded her to play music "as it's written". Despite this, several people have commented on how captivating her piano is, and how she is able to draw rich, expressive notes from the piano.

Eventually, she goes with Chiaki to France for further education in music. Due to her carefree attitude towards music previously, she struggles to keep up with the rest of the class in terms of in-depth knowledge and techniques, but manages to overcome the trials laid before her and begins to "truly" appreciate music. Near the end of the series, she performed with Stresemann on stage (he was attempting to pull her out of an emotional slump), and was an instant world-wide hit.

### Unity Force

Megumi's childish personality has considerably disspated for the past several years since marrying Shinichi, albeit she can be still childish, but seldom does so. She is shown to be more refined and mature.

It is then revealed that she does not take personal loss easily, as evidenced of Stresemann's death in 2016, with R☆S Orchestra's former members joining in, as well as others including Frank Latoine, Rui Son, Sebastian Vieira, Elise, and Tatiana Vishneva. She goes so far with her playing Chopin's Nocturne in his funeral in Germany. She once claimed that her performance with Stresemann's, despite his oddball personality, made a considerable change an impact in her life.

## Trivia

* In the Unity Force series, Megumi is the cousin of Akari Shinohara and the rest of the Sugimoto siblings (Aoi Hana), with the former being a case of Stephen Strange and Wong's reality warping.
* In the Unity Force series, Megumi has been living in France with Shinichi Chiaki and their daughter for the past 16 years, and has been a highly respected pianist.