u/Global-Marzipan-4096

The main thing Kousei liked about Kaori was her willingness to break the norm by making songs her own while playing, as well as her free personality and willingness to to whatever she put her mind to, both of these character traits are brought along by her determination to live the little bit of time she had left to the fullest. Had she not been sick, she would’ve remained that glasses wearing girl who admired Kousei from afar.

I started watching with no idea of the internets opinions if the show and how sad/depressing/ profound it was, and expected it to be just another rom-com (which I’ve been binging recently)

Managed to put together that Kaori >!was going to die!< at the very start of ep 13 from searching up if she loved kousei back and the first thing that popped up was >!A reddit post with “koari’s last letter”!< so i speed ran the entire anime

>!The thing that hurt the most was knowing that Kousei never managed to confess to Koari and that she might have died thinking her love was unrequited, another thing was FUCKING Tsubaki making moves on a dying girls man!<

Then i think how skilled the author must have been to make me feel sad or hopeful or depressed about fictional story and how it allows such deep empathy/sympathy for the characters in the story and how compelling the story was to make me actually care about the characters emotions and wellbeing.

Final thing; when kaori calls kousei; friend A it always sounded to me like she was saying friende or comprende, which threw me off because why was she seemingly speaking spanish/ using spanish words.

I have watched and finished 9 different anime in 18 days, all of which were 24, 20 minute episodes or more, also any suggestions to what I should watch next?

What i’ve watched:
Horimiya
Komi can’t communicate
My dress up darling
The fragrant flower blooms with beauty
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood
Overlord 4 seasons+movie
Mashle: muscles and magic
Mushoku Tensei
Dungeon meshi: delicious in dungeon

Finished the anime (s1 and s2) recently and was sad to see there was no more story content and only alternate mediums, though i liked how it ended and think that the story couldn’t really progress any further