This was a difficult episode and I'm beginning to think that Zyl's method was more appropriate than my pig-headed obsession. In particular, I did not understand what the Chinese dude's intrusion was about at all.

The 3D continues to annoy me. Instruments in the original Nodame were ok, only hands were questionable. But when 3D Chiyaki directs in Paris, it's just creepy. They cannot make it work right for some reason.

POST SCRIPTUM: The concept of male tsundere just does not work. All it accomplishes is to present Chiyaki as a wife-beater in training. It was most explicit when he stuffed Nodame's mouth with a newspaper.