r/YourLieinApril

With the release of the latest episode of Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky last Monday, it is just nice that Your Lie in April is still included in the discussion. Just to give context, the latest episode of Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky is about how [Episode 7]>!Koharu had cancer and got amnesia due to chemo brain.!< With these developments, others can't help but compare with what happened to Kaori in the last few episodes of the series.

I'm just happy that even almost 12 years after the release of the series, Your Lie in April is still a go-to series when it comes to feels, and a lot of people were unable to forget the feeling of watching that series for the first time. The power of the story to convey emotional moments in just 22 episodes makes the series unforgettable, and it seems many still resonate (or maybe traumatized?) with the moments and the events of the series.

Just like Kaori, I hope that Your Lie in April is never forgotten.

It feels a bit weird by saying how I wanted it to end still involved Kaori dying, but essentially as I was watching, knowing she would die I always imagined that Kaori and Arima would get that one last duet but just as they finish she collapses dead. Now obviously that is basically what happened but the duet was all in his head.

Hello,I am the newest one to this community

This is my first ever anime (your lie in april )watching

And just have crossed 11th episode.Although I choose this anime randomly but I heard before that it will make you depressed.now I know the plot,what will happen in future,how can one dare to watch till the end? I am not a emotional person but this anime going to make me cry I am sure

Well,would like to have a part with a plot twist of her(kauwari) coming back in the Show.Perhaps not officially but at least fan made 😕

Please share how you dared to watch it till end 🙂.

I knew i knew kaori will be gone, i knew she'll go away i knew, but why did she have to be in love with him beforehand.

She never got to show the love she had

He never got to embrace the love he had

They both helped each other, one lived her life happily cause of him, 1 can live his life happily cause of her

Its bs , he could've grown alot even with her besides her, why did they end it this way

Just when kosei was starting to show his feelings, just when kaori started to believe in living.

Why, why.

The line "you wont forget me right?" , breaks me cause its connected to me in a personal way and now, a grown up cant handle a fictional story

How, how do you cope from this?

Sorry if im being cheesey or cliche.

I couldnt think of anything.

This story, its "unforgettable".

Arima enters a piano competition and has to play the piece "Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 5", aka the "Wrong Note" etude.

He spends a considerable amount of time worrying about how he should play the piece.

While the answer is simple: he could've played the same piece twice.

Because two wrongs make a right.

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This by far the most emotionally affecting anime I have seen. The first that has brought tears. The characters, the art, the music… just a brilliant example of what anime can mean.

Throughout, it helped me process a lot of feelings with my own life. Whether past relationships, aging parents, or even being a musician myself. I appreciated the way it slowly unfolded the major plot twist so I had time to think through it before it actually happened. And the final episode was just… gorgeous in every single way.

This anime is perfect. And now I feel a sense of emptiness and loneliness, combined with hope and strength, that will help me in the days and weeks to come.

!SPOILERS!
Idk why you’d be on this sub if you haven’t seen it, but just be warned, I’m gunna be spoiling stuff.

I didn’t cry when I watched it, I really wanted to, but I just didn’t.

I want to preface that I was told “you will cry when you watch this” and “it’s so good but it’s really depressing”, so I was set on a bad start already.

No, I didn’t know what exactly happened going into it, I was given no spoilers other than my sister and my friend saying it’s going to make me cry.

I thought it was really good, the animation was gorgeous, the story was very sweet and heartbreaking and conflicting like real life can be, the music really spoke to me, the characters were dynamic and I appreciated them touching on topics that most people may not want to, like abuse and trauma, and obviously death, but shows are more likely to touch on that subject. I really liked it though, I thought it was well worth watching, but it didn’t make me cry, and I cry over the smallest things, I cried at the end of the show Disjointed, I cry everytime I rewatch it too, I cry over just sweet words from a TikTok of someone being positive or kind, I cry when I’m happy, I cry when I’m sad, I cry when I’m angry, I cry when I’m embarrassed, I cry when I’m overwhelmed, all of it, I really wanted this show to make me cry, I went into it with that intention, knowing it would make me cry, and it just didn’t.

I say all of this to give context that I’m not just an unemotional person, I’m very emotional about everything, but for some reason it just didn’t hit me, and I think it’s partly because I was told it would be sad, plus it isn’t ever fully explained how she died, I can only assume she didn’t make it through surgery, which is really sad, and I don’t know why it didn’t hit me, maybe it wasn’t long enough to get attached to the characters for me? Maybe saying it’s sad was a spoiler and ruined it? I feel bad that I didn’t cry, because it was sad, and it was a really sweet heartwarming show.

I think maybe them hyping up how sad it was just prepared me too much, and so I wasn’t surprised by the ending, which is disappointing, because I really liked it, I just didn’t cry.

I know I’m not the only one, so I’d love to hear others take on it, and if they were spoiled beforehand and if that’s the common denominator.

I’d also love to hear from the people that did/do cry, were you spoiled on the ending? Or did you go in blind thinking it’s just a cute little anime about young musicians who fall in love, or what have you.

Overall, I really liked it, maybe I’ll rewatch it sometime down the line and see if maybe I’m just in the wrong place in my life for the show to hit me how it has hit others.

The night I finished Your Lie in April I was genuinely so sad, because I watched all of it in one single night (DO NOT RECOMMEND) and it just broke my heart to see that ending. But when I went to bed my dream didn’t feel like a dream… like I can remember everything that happened in there, it felt so vivid like I can remember every small detail about it. And what’s weird is that it was in the anime style. It felt like I was just watching another episode of it, one that didn’t exist.

But enough yapping about the lucid dreaming part. Let me tell you more about the dream I had.

>!It’s starts off with Kousei visiting Kaori’s grave and not leaving anything. He walked away and ran into Watari, Watari was energetic still trying to see the good about all of this. Watari walked with Kousei back home then he went on his way. Kousei went into his house and took off his shoes at the front and went upstairs to the piano room. He sat down and didn’t even open the lid… he thought of Kaori, the little moment in the hospital, her in physical therapy, and the completion. Ending that scene with her saying want to kill yourself with me? It froze him, he looked at the covered piano and then he hears a violin. Not from his head but from Tsubaki’s room. Kousei turned around and looked at her, swaying and playing the violin perfectly, not in Kaori’s style and not following the sheet she’s doing her own thing. Kousei sat there waiting and listening to her and when it finished she looked directly at him, before closing her blinds right after and hyperventaling on the ground. Kousei opens his window and says “I didn’t know you were learning how to play.” Tsubaki doesn’t respond but peaks through the blinds while blushing. Kousei looks at her and she opens the blinds and says “Y-yeah I’ve been wanting to try to play it since she…” She freezes. Kousei looks down then at her and says “Who’s your teacher? They must be really good.” Tsubaki blushes and says “No one… I’m just following some books and all…” Kousei looks surprised and says “Woah… y-you actually got that good just by yourself?” Tsubaki blushes and says “yeah… am I really that good?” Kousei blushes back and says “You are.” It does a time skip. Skipping 3 years bringing them to their last years in high school Tsubaki got into the school that was close to Kousei’s Music school. Kousei has been acing his classes and loves music even more and finally he’s out of that scary blue ocean he’s on the beach, playing for his mom, Kaori, Tsubaki, and even Watari. Kousei was playing in the piano room when Tsubaki chimes in with her Violin, them matching in perfect harmony. When they finish the song they blush and look at eachother. A couple of seconds later Tsubaki opens her window and so does Kousei, she gets on top of her desk. Kousei shouts “Wait, what are you doing?” She replies “I’m coming over dummy” Kousei replies “You could just walk over like a normal person.” Tsubaki replies “Yeah, but that’s boring I like this way instead.” She climbs over into his window while he’s screaming at her to not fall as she trips into the window falling into Kousei’s arms. Tsubaki’s voice over the slow-mo fall into his arms played memories of them together. She says “Kousei!< >!ever!< >!since I said that you started to act different towards me. Why? Can’t we just talk about it? It’s our final year here and you’re still acting like a complete dumbass. Just say you love me back dummy… it’s all over your face. As she falls into his arms making him fall back and hold her tightly. Kousei looks down at her while she rests her head on his stomach. Kousei silently says “Why did you do that?” Tsubaki cries a little not from the pain just from hiding her feelings. She says “why are you such an idiot…” Kousei sounds shocked “What? Me and idiot?! Says you! You just jumped through a window! Tsubaki holds him tighter, and says “You never answered me” Kousei is confused “About what?” She replies “When I offered you can love me instead.” She holds him tighter afraid he’ll disappear. Kousei blushes and says “I guess I would love that.” She freezes the sound of him saying that echoing. As she launches up and kisses him. Kousei freezes at the kiss as she pulls back. Kousei is blushing and is frozen solid. As Tsubaki hits him. Kousei freezes out of it and yells in pain and says “Ow… what was that for?” She replies “Say something!” *it pans back as Kousei kisses her and she kisses him back playing a beautiful duet of piano and Violin. As the outro plays.!<

Thanks if you read all of that it was just something I wanted to share…

I didn’t expect it to end like this. This was probably the saddest anime i have watched but also one of the best ones.

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.

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.

What happened man, like i knew she was gonna die; thats how the story went but like WHYYY

idk what to tag it as

wtf bro how can an anime leave me crying for an hour straight

Watched a lot of animes, movies, but never got emotional, but this man my heart it so heavy rn. The ending scene, ohhh man dont know what to say

...the funeral in the story. When we see Kousei with Kaori's parents well after his big performance, my reaction was, "...oh." Like I hoped against hope that the story would not kill their main female lead and that Kousei would rush from the concert hall to the hospital to find her clear into recovery.

But skipping over the service conveyed the message of, "I'm sorry but... we all knew it was coming..." Especially when we see Kousei envisioning Kaori dueting with him only for her spirit to leave him as if he know that right then and there... he lost her.

...

Please tell me there are angst fics about Kousei rushing to the hospital or his friends during his piece getting the call on Kaori not making it.