The Necklace of Memories - Recommendations

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2009

Yukihisa Matsuda is the conceited conductor of the Rising Star Orchestra, who has come to Paris to show off his "superior skills". However, despite his best laid plans and supreme self confidence, Yukihisa is in for a night from hell. After being unceremoniously dumped in front of Chiaki, the young lethario drags his unwilling rival out to a restaurant with the false premise of teaching him the way to be successful in an orchestra. Following an embarrassing meeting with Nodame, Yukihisa finds himself back on the street alone thinking that surely his evening can’t possibly get any worse...

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1979

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1980

Eight-year-old Remi lives in a quiet village with his mother. His father, Jerome Barbarin, lives in Paris and provides the family with money to stay afloat; but soon they receive word that Jerome has been in a terrible accident and cannot support them further. After struggling through a tough winter, Remi and his mother are soon elated to see that their father has returned home - but he is not the man that he used to be. Cold and distant, Jerome soon secretly sells Remi to a traveling entertainer; and thus Remi's hardships begin. Moving from place to place, Remi experiences tragedy on a large scale. Friends come, go, and die; newfound families are torn apart; and otherwise Remi is abused, abandoned, and mistreated. Can Remi ever find his place in the world?

• Web (1 ep)
• 2011

Yune finds herself entranced with a bohemian girl named Anne who sings Japanese songs. With significant interest, Alice invites her over to perform at one of her parties including Yune in the performance.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2011

• TV (52 eps)
• 2007

Fantine and her daughter Cosette left Paris looking for a new start, but finding a job as a single mother proves impossible in 19th century France. Taking up the offer of an innkeeper couple, Fantine leaves Cosette in the care of the Thenardiers while she moves on to find work. Once Fantine is gone, however, the Thenardiers show their true colors, working Cosette mercilessly while pocketing the money Fantine sends for her support. Years pass and Cosette and Fantine dream of the time when they will be together again, but it seems the years only bring more hardships to both. What will become of little Cosette?

• Web (1 ep)
• 2015

About the Pervert..... are people who know the true shape of their desires. They have carefully traced those contours… like a blind man using both hands to measure the shape… In the early time of 20th era in Paris. Colette act in brothel without escape with coworker. She had spent every day for satisfy the desires of the many customers. For her, life is stuffy. She feels only hope that by the time of tryst with lovely Leon. But Colette don't get feeling surely that he really loves her…… Women living strong in the closed paradise. and [Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen] reveal desire of yourselves. Love and desire are crossed, Welcome to the beautiful and mysterious castle.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2011

In the 19th century, a Japanese girl named Yune arrives in Paris to work at the Enseignes du Roy. There she meets Claude Claudel, a blacksmith who makes street signs. Caught in a new cultural experience, both Yune and Claude learn from each other while they try to keep the shop open despite the declining customers. Once a popular marketplace, many nearby businesses are closing as they are engulfed by the waves of change. Experience culture shock at its cutest in Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth.

• TV (11 eps)
• 2008

Chiaki and Nodame have both made it to Paris in pursuit of their futures as musicians. Chiaki begins his training as a world-class conductor and, in typical fashion, is quite successful; yet on the other hand, Nodame struggles as she starts to seriously learn about music for the first time. However, even though the two have worked tirelessly to meet the demands of their newfound musical lives, their relationship continues to progress slowly and frustratingly. Can Nodame and Chiaki balance both their new careers, and each other?

• TV (11 eps)
• 2010

Chiaki and Nodame are still in Paris, ready to take their music-making to the next level. Nodame especially begins to display an unprecedented motivation for the piano, but she learns that with newfound progress comes newfound obstacles. Continuing to taste both frustration and triumph, she slowly realizes that the road to pianistic stardom seems more arduous and distant now than ever before. Everything is rising to a feverish pitch -- will her maturing relationship with Chiaki help or hurt her?