Name: Very good, but ranked too high imho
Item: Your lie in April
Rating: 85
Author: fedeb

Very good, but ranked too high imho · Waifora

Not a spoiler: I found it very good, despite probably having too much expectations. It didn't make me cry like other anime (ok at the end a bit), but it is a good watch indeed, even must watch if you're an artit whatsoever, it says something about art and not only personal relationships.

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I think that Arima's reactions are a bit exaggerated sometimes. Also no way a kid like this hasn't gone through some theraphy, and his father being completely absent without a plausible reason, not seen even once to characterize him, for me is a bit of a plot hole. Ok reviews must be longer, so let's break it down further.

Tsubaki: best character. It has a very great personal evolution, its relationship with kousei is one of the best written in anime, a very well described personality

Kousei: second best charachter. Ok you're tormented, but beside the cliché (eheh) of the tormented artist, there's nothing beyond the (obvious from the start) conversion to the sentimental pianist opposed to the human metronome. Still second best because however that is avery good part of the show.

Emi: third best one. She doesn't feel a sense of competition in her approach to music, but truly wants to do her best (only if Arima also plays, it seems...). It's sad that she has so little space in the show.

Kaori: ok, why only fourth? I truly didn't see any development in this character whatsoever, it's very good at the beginning, playing with children, schoking everyone at the concert, it seems that she wants to shake the ambient of classical music, that is in reality too much concerned in how precisely things are done rather than how good thay are interpreted sometimes. Yes, I could have placed her higher in my ranking, but I didn't feel very much so. Tsubaki is the real hero here. She can't move Kousei from his state of depression, of course, but this are only children, aren't there psychologists in Japan? She's still a good character however, well, being one of the main characters...

Spetial mention: I was joking, Nagi is the best character. Is a little loli a cliché? I don't think so.

I feel like I've been too harsh, so let's highlight what's very good of this show. The little moments of quotidianity between Tsubaki and Arima, or Kaori. That's the really cool things. The all theme of memories is great. The lemonade in winter, canelé, the starry sky (the three different skies, very well played authors), etc. All this is what really kept the show together. Oh, and very good classical music. I didn't dig too much into who played what, but it really makes you feel exactly how the shows describes it, here "wrong" when Arima can't play, there in Emi style, there again in Takeshi's fierce approach. I musts admit, as I like classical music, that I was a bit skeptical about this point before watching, but everything went fine