List of Nodame Cantabile Episodes - Season Three (Finale)

Chiaki's popularity as head of the Marlet Orchestra keeps increasing while Nodame gets depressed as she feels the distance between them growing and she decides to enter in a competition by herself, even without her teacher Auclair's approval.

Chiaki decides to move to another apartment much to Nodame's despair and Rui tries her best to convince Auclair to have lessons with her, but he seems to be more much more interested in teaching Nodame instead. After hearing Nodame's smooth playing, she also starts to doubt herself.

Thanks to Chiaki's encouragement, Rui decides to keep playing and a special concert featuring both is arranged. Stresseman is seriously depressed over the death of a friend of his and Chiaki, on the way to attend one of Nodame's recitals, has a surprising reunion with Sebastiano Vieira and decides to accompany him instead.(Rui joue,apres être rentré, un morceau de Mozart mais je ne sais pas lequel)

Tanya starts to feel jealousy when Kuroki is asked to take care of a young Japanese girl who is trying to enter the conservatoire. While trying to get closer to him, she starts to wonder about her own future as she is nearing graduation.

Tanya and Yu Long have poor performances at the competitions in which they took part, and thus will be forced to return to their respective countries after graduation. While trying to cheer Tanya up, Kuroki ends up making a surprising proposal. Meanwhile, Nodame hears a piece of music that draws her attention. She hopes to play it along Chiaki someday, unaware that it's the same piece that will be featured at Chiaki and Rui's concert.

Nodame finds that Chiaki has hidden from her the connection between the piece and his concert with Rui, and she can't hide from him her dissatisfaction for not telling her sooner. After looking at how many difficult pieces Nodame is studying with her teacher, Chiaki cancels an important trip to Italy just to lend her a hand.

Chiaki helps Rui for their concerto. When Nodame found out, she feels betrayed, and uses that feeling to help her master a piece.

After Chiaki and Rui's concerto, Nodame and Chiaki spend the night together and she proposes to him in the following morning, just to be rejected by him. However, Chiaki starts to wonder about how serious she was at that time, and Stresseman pays a visit to her.

Nodame has been absent from school and Chiaki starts looking desperately for her, just to find that she was rehearsing for a concerto with Stresseman in London.

Back in Paris, Nodame spends her days quietly playing for children while her friends wonder if she will ever resume her studies or her career. Determined to put Nodame back on track, Chiaki asks her to play with him-- the same piece they played together when they first met. This episode also tells us what has happened to some of the characters they met in Paris.