My brother told me to watch Your Lie In April.
No heads up, no spoilers, just looked me dead in the face, told me it was an amazing anime, and to go watch it with a smirk on his face.
I don’t even know what flair this goes under.
I know the original ending is a masterpiece, but I can't stop thinking about a "What If" timeline where the surgery was successful or Kousei somehow found a way to save her. I’ve started a petition to show the creators there’s still a huge demand for an alternate ending OVA—a world where they actually get to play that final duet together.
If you’ve ever wanted to see Kaori and Kousei truly happy, please consider signing and sharing!
Dios acabo de terminar el EP 22 y no puedo parar de llorar. Hacia años que no lloraba así, me enamoré de esta serie.
Se que este no es un lugar adecuado para contar tus mierdas, pero quiero desahogarme con toda la montaña rusa de emociones que fue esta hermosa serie.
A los 12 años escuché por primera vez en mi vida un piano solo en mi colegio, era "Estrellita Donde Estas" . Desde ese mismo momento me enamoré perdidamente del piano. Lo amo con toda mi alma.
Ponele que un año después de rogarle a mis padres y yo mismo tener que buscar un teclado viejo de segunda mano, lo logré, conseguí que me inscribieran a regañadientes en una academia y estuve practicando desde entonces.
Recuerdo que ese tiempo sufría de una grave ansiedad social, pero, cada vez que me iba a tocar en mi academia sentí una paz y salía totalmente renovado, como una persona totalmente diferente. Me sentía muy feliz de estar ahí. Hasta que cumplo 15.
Tenia que dejarlo todo, tenia que seguir "la tradición familiar". Mi padrastro fue militar, hasta que por a o b motivo perdió su carrera, y desde que tengo memoria me ha inculcado día tras día todo lo bueno que tiene la milicia, nunca me interesó. Toda mi familia paso en algún momento de su vida una unidad militar, yo no podía ser la excepción. Así que me interne en un colegio militar.
Al principio no quise dejar todo por esa porquería, pero me dijeron que después de los 3 años de estadía ahí podría hacer lo que quiera, así que ingrese.
En el último día de mi academia, después de la clase de coro, teníamos que leer cartas de despida, y yo leí la mía. Era algo cursi, pero decía que me esperan que después de los 3 años volvería con la misión de ser un gran pianista, aún recuerdo el Beethoven chiquito que dibuje en una esquina.
Mi piano estaba exactamente como lo tenía kousei, lleno de polvo. Hasta decidí ver este anime.
Desde que empeze a ver los EP cada vez me dieron más ganas de volver a tocar el piano, y lo hice una tarde, toque y toque muy emocionado, me sorprendió que tenía el toque todavía.
Cuando termine de tocar, escuché la voz de mi padrastro decir "sigues tocando el piano" yo le contesté que me encantaría ser músico después del colegio militar, el solo me respondió con una risa burlona y un "con la partitura no se come".
Ya han pasado un tiempo desde eso. Nunca seré un pianista.
Por mis notas conseguí una beca completa para la academia militar, tendré que ir.
Es vivir una vida cómoda y relativamente estable.
O que me echen a la calle y vivir por monedas de buenos samaritanos o en un trabajo de mierda.
No tengo opción, en mi historia no existe una
Tsubaki, perdí todo contacto con mis amigos de la academia de música, ya que prácticamente no salgo del cuartel y cuando estoy en casa no tengo ganas de nada. La mayoría de mis amigos del colegio militar también irán a la academia militar. No existe un watari.
Nunca conocí a una kaori, mi mundo seguí en blanco y negro como de kousei, no hay final feliz.
Lo único que puedo hacer es tomar los fines de semana, y esperar a que todo pase.
Diría que persigan sus sueños, pero estaría diciendo una mentira. Ya no es abril.
Buenas noches, al que se tomó el tiempo de leer esto.
La música es libertad.
I think my drawing is bad...
(I've drawn her hand terribly again ...)
I've never watched YLIA personally, but all my friends have said it was really sad. My brother is 10 years old and I've recently seen him watching a lot of romance anime, but he's really been into YLIA. I just wanted to know if it would be too much/could he handle or understand the story?
I was mainly interested because when I was his age, I would never watch any romance, anime like Dragon Ball is the only thing that interested me.
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During my recent rewatch of Your Lie in April, I noticed a detail in Episode 16 that I completely missed the first time around. When we see Kaori in her hospital room, she is reading a book titled "Ichigo Doumei" (The Strawberry Alliance) by Masahiro Mita. I think it's one of those books Watari brought for her
Most people probably brushed it off as just a random background item, but it’s actually the direct inspiration for YLIA and serves as massive, tragic foreshadowing.
The Real-Life Connection:
Ichigo Doumei is a real Japanese novel from the 1980s. The plot is eerily similar to Kousei and Kaori’s story:
It follows a 15-year-old pianist who has lost his passion for music and his friend . They meets a terminally ill girl who is a huge fan of his playing.The story revolves around their emotional connection as she faces her inevitable death.
The "Double Suicide" Quote :
In the episode, Kaori jokingly asks Kousei, "Want to commit double suicide with me?" At first, it feels like her usual eccentric, dark humor. But she is actually quoting the heroine of the book. In Ichigo Doumei, the sick girl asks the pianist for a "double suicide" because she is terrified of dying alone and wants to be "bound" to him forever.
Naoshi Arakawa (the author of YLIA) mentioned that this book was a major influence on the series. Seeing Kaori hold this book in Episode 16 is the show's way of telling us exactly how this ends. She knows her fate, she’s reading a story about a girl who dies, and she’s testing Kousei’s heart with the same words from the book.
Every time I think I’m done over this show, I find another detail like this.
TL;DR: The book Kaori reads in the hospital is Ichigo Doumei, the real-life inspiration for YLIA, and her "double suicide" joke was a direct quote that foreshadowed her end.
I know the original ending is a masterpiece, but I can't stop thinking about a "What If" timeline where the surgery was successful or Kousei somehow found a way to save her. I’ve started a petition to show the creators there’s still a huge demand for an alternate ending OVA—a world where they actually get to play that final duet together.
If you’ve ever wanted to see Kaori and Kousei truly happy, please consider signing and sharing!
April is over at this point. I don't want to say much because I think I've expressed myself enough (even though I would have liked to talk more) about this work, which changed my way of seeing the world and my concept of life.
I want to be completely honest, and before watching this anime I had various "principles"—or, honestly, I don't know what to call them—for example, "if you have to live a short life, you might as well not be born or die immediately." But after watching this work, I stopped to think (even too long, considering I stayed home from school to reflect on my life and what I want after watching this work).
Since I was 11 or 12 (now I'm 16), life has completely lost meaning for me, following various events I won't explain. My plan from that moment on to move forward has been, "I'll at least make it to 18 and then end it all," because I also wanted to wrong my mother, who would have invested needlessly in my future. But after seeing this work and stopping to think about my life, I changed my way of thinking and rediscovered a desire to live, something I don't remember having since I was 11 years old.
I'm still in this state of reevaluating and completely changing my life, taking it seriously, because until now I've never taken anything seriously because I was sure that by the end of school I'd simply end it.
Thanks to this work, I'm rethinking my approach to dubbing, which always interested me as a child, but I always thought I'd be a failure for doing so. I'm also feeling more conflicted with myself because I'd lost the simple concept of thinking about the future seriously and not as a black screen.
That's why I don't want to say that this work "changes your life," but I do want to say that if you appreciate and understand it, it changes your way of seeing the world.
And in my personal experience, Your Lie in April will always be the best work ever created.
a good continuation and I'll see you next year with more yapping after a rewatch.
God I love these two so much, even if it was such a huge pain waiting for one of them to get the guts to confess. Which is kinda how it went in canon now that I think about it
Just wanted to thank everyone for contributing and posting about the series. Another April has come and Gone (11 since the anime ended), but we are still here growing and showing love to the series. May this community flourish and thrive for years to come. I’ll see many of you again Next April. TIL then see you later!
I just can't take the sadness anymore. I would rather make up a headcanon for myself. Even the author himself wanted to change the ending of the anime but it was too late as it was already in pre production. It's been 12 years since the anime aired, I think the studio can make a 3-4 episodes OVA with a different ending. They can pull a Clannad with different endings.
My friend’s favourite anime is this cause he plays the piano, so yea I decided to surprise him with a hand drawn card hope he likes it. For more art you can follow my twitter
Just wanted to post my fanart of an alternate ending in honor of the last day of April. Until next year yall!