Minor spoilers: I can understand people who liked Your Lie in April a lot, but I don't like it enough to give it such a high rating and not consider it the best anime ever, for a few reasons, I don't have a problem with touching movies or series, on the contrary I like them a lot, there were moments when it definitely evoked strong emotions in me and I shed a few tears, but mostly the series itself kept forcing depressing things on me, and the show had to constantly remind me of them, so sometimes I tended to ignore those parts, like for example the main character Kousei Arima who is still traumatized by his mother beating him up and having trouble hearing his music, there were times when I understood the main character's feelings and felt really sorry for him, but as time went on I felt that the show is trying to give the main character one quality and that is that he's a crybaby, which is definitely not his only quality in my opinion, the other thing is the comedy that consists of all the characters wanting to punch the main character, which I found terribly ridiculous, corny and unfunny, which confused me as to why the creator even tries to have a touching moment when he adds a moment where the main character has to get punched anyway, however, as time went on I didn't care anymore, I have to admit that the music was great when they gave the characters inner monologues, it disturbed me a bit during the music concerts where I wanted to listen to the music because as they say, music expresses emotions best, which they probably wanted to save for the finale which was the best, but even though it disturbed me during those passages I somehow got over it and found it interesting, what the character was thinking, but I didn't care about Takeshi's blond rival, it's true that when he was little he was inspired to play the piano because of the main character, but mostly I found him an annoying character who had internal monologues about how he wanted to beat the main character, yet Emi's rival wanted to beat the main character too, but she was definitely the more bearable and interesting character, however Hiroko the professional pianist, Nagi and Kaori were probably the best characters, I adored their chemistry with Kousei Arima and I would say those characters were the biggest draw for me of the whole series, if they weren't there I don't know if I would have even finished watching it as far as Tsubaki is concerned, although I understood her motivation where she is concerned, that she can't be with Kousei Arima aka her childhood friend, it kind of bothered me that instead of telling her thoughts directly to the main character she instead speaks vaguely and then wonders if his childhood friend doesn't understand, I understand that the creator was trying to point out that she probably can't be honest but I have to say it frustrated me a bit, as for the animation I have nothing to complain about, the movements when playing the musical instruments are great and the locations have great details, but that's the way it is with any anime. Characters 6/10 Story 6/10 Animation 9/10 Overall I rate it 7/10 
