I think this is my favorite anime this season(it's currently on the 9th episode).

It resembles Honey and Clover in a lot of ways, like soft lighting(washed-out colors), background settings(college), the comedy style, and spinning objects in the ending sequence, maybe even the music. The character design is actually a little like Sumomomo Momomo, where you get a guy who's intelligent/attractive/serious, then you get a heroine who is madly in love with the guy, who's not too intelligent. The character art style is actually not of my taste, but the comedy is great, you gotta love how Nodame says "GABU!" everytime.

The story is about a piano student from a music school who wants to become a conductor, and with a little romance mixed in the process. The guy also suffers from aviatophobia, which happens to be his biggest obstacle in becoming a successful musician.

One thing to note is that, the voice actress(Ayako Kawasumi) of Noda Megumi, the heroine, is the voice actress of Atoli from .hack//G.U., who also did the voice of Saber from Fate/Stay Night. Can you believe that Saber and Atoli were done by the same voice actress? That's quite a shocker for me...

The song is the ending theme. Not of typical Crystal Kay style, but I really enjoyed it.