Appassionato was opened on January 30th 2007, as the only Chiaki Shinichi -- from the manga and anime Nodame Cantabile -- fanlisting approved by TAFL. Later, it was also approved by the TFL network for the character's j-drama version.

The manga skin layout was made with images I scanned myself from the Nodame Cantabile Character Book. The drama skin, however, was done with scans and captures taken from Memento. Both were edited using Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and coded with Notepad. Musical notes from here.

The fanlisting's name, appassionato, is a musical term which is likely to be encountered in printed scores. It means passionately in Italian. I wanted to use a musical term for the title and I thought this one suited Chiaki rather well.