If there is any form of art that effortlessly makes people come together, music is often the answer that goes on top of our heads. This is exactly what the Chinese music and romance drama, Symphony’s Romance 蜗牛与黄鹂鸟, has in store for us.
Yet another remake based on Tomoko Ninomiya’s Japanese manga Nodame Cantabile, Symphony’s Romance will have a 40-episode run starring Jelly Lin Yun (Beautiful Reborn Flower) and Steven Zhang Xincheng (Skate Into Love) who will have us fall in love with their passion for music.
Everything was going well for Steven Zhang Xincheng’s Li Zhen Yan as a talented musician, having offers left and right from the most prestigious schools worldwide. It was a severe childhood trauma that gave a full stop to his music career as he continued to be haunted by his past. It was Jelly Lin Yun’s Fang Xiao Wo that turned Li Zhen Yan’s blank music composition sheet into a song again. She is not your typical heroine, having peculiar characteristics which could turn people off, but Zhen Yan is not one of them.
Thanks to Fang Xiao Wo, Li Zhen Yan found the right notes to make music again. Together, they will pursue their unwavering passion for music. Hopefully, there won’t be any haunting melodies to stop them anymore!
This is going to be the third live action adaptation of the original story with Korea’s Naeil’s Cantabile in 2014 after Japan’s Nodame Cantabile in 2006, not to mention an anime of the same name in 2007. I have never seen any version and music-themed dramas and films are not my type of genre.
Although this may be worth checking out for the leads’ chemistry and it’s cool to know that Zhang Xincheng is very musically inclined as the actor has a background in musical theater and really plays the piano in real life! This will certainly be a lot different from Skate into Love where he played an ice hockey jock. It seems the question is more whether Jelly Lin will fit the bill as the eccentric Nodame or whether the Chinese remake will take the liberty to have its own take on the character.
With such a straight-forward plot, I’m curious about the possible twists that they can make and worried that it might just drag after having to stretch this out for 40 episodes which seems the longest compared to the rest of the adaptations. I’m hoping that I will be wrong about this and that this will end up to be a sweet melody worth playing! It also stars Ning Hengyu, Fang Yuan, Liu Qian and Chen Jingyangay.
Release Date: June 21, 2020 primetime on Hunan TV, released online on Tencent, MGTV and iQIYI
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Anonymous
I can't wait to see this drama. I like Steven Zhang in "Skate Into Love".
hohliu
I enjoy Steven Zhang's works but his long hair in this drama is just awkward…. I hope Jelly Lin dont over act the character. Still looking forward to this drama.
Anonymous
I'll try it but the Korean version wasn't any good. Nodame cantabile is a tricky drama to remake. In particular the nodame character is hard to portray and easy to overact.
Unknown
One of my favorite J-doramas! Crossing my fingers that this will be better than the Korean remake. Nodame is the heart of this story, I hope the actress gives justice to the role.
Unknown
The girl's supposed to have short hair. It's part of Noda's charm!
Anonymous
Steven Zhang is a good actor….Lin Yun is very pretty, but I am not impressed by her acting. I guess, I can try the first episode. Pretty sure they will change some of the plots as all Chinese drama adaptations are always changed in plot by a lot.
ellie
Does anyone know who played Yan Yan in this drama?
Anonymous
Yan Yan is played by Ya Sen (亚森). His Weibo account is listed as: 森亚ROM