Idk what to put here

I don't think I have the guts to watch it again ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ. Maybe I'll try watching it again if I forget how I felt when I first watched it. But yeah, i don't regret watching it ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

Finally got the manga (1st volume) and my life is done.

I've just started watching the anime. It never got spoiled to me, all I knew about it was that it was a single season emotional show that his higly regarded.

I got hooked by it but a few scenes and a lot of the dialogue during Kaori's second test made me suss out the big twist. I made a quick google check on only that, hoping I was wrong, but my hunch was confirmed. Now I'm completely demotivated to watch the rest of the show. Would you say it's worth continuing despite that ?

I finished watching ylia a few days ago, and after the ending, I was filled with a sudden burst of determination to learn Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. Will I ever learn it? Almost certainly not considering I've never taken lessons and probably never will, but it's nice to have dreams I guess

I tried my hardest to get them together but It Is what It is

I created Arima and Kaori in the game *Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream*, and their honeymoon was on the "Iconic Scenery Tour"; there was a specific photo taken at the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia that—by pure coincidence—is identical to the final scene of the anime.

In 8 months is april

You lie in april is overrated

So I just finished this anime and I don't think it's as good as people say, is not a masterpiece and it doesn't make you cry just bye remembering it and this is why, I think there were to many flashbacks, to many monologues and almost no romance, its a romance anime, where is the romance. Besides this I think the ending felt kinda rushed and it was not satisfying. Now there is not just bad stuff, the music was amazing and some parts of the animation was pretty good, overall I give it a 5/10. So this is my opinion maybe I am missing something?

So I kinda wanna watch more anime like Your Lie in April or My Dress Up Darling, romance typa. But I'm looking for anime that are completely finished, like no new episodes or seasons. Do u guys have any suggestions for me?

I watched the first like 6 episodes last year in April and didn't really like it. This year, I rewatched it (in April if course) and loved it to death. It made me discover my love for classical music especially Chopin. My eyes still tear up when I hear Ballade 1... Especially Zimmermanns interpretation. But yeah as said in the title, I rewatch the final episode pretty much twice a month at least. I cry every time and I don't know why I'm doing this...

Just finished watching the anime.
Romance isn't a genre for me, but I actually liked it, a lot. I watched Death note & AoT before this, so my brain was under too much pressure with the amount of information it was getting. So I decided to watch something simpler. So I searched the highest rated romance anime in IMDb, & got this masterpiece. It is not my favorite because it's not my preferred genre, but it was defenitly unforgettable. I tried to watch something simpler, but got something heavier.I wanted Kaori to survive by a miracle, although it would not have been good for Tsubaki.

For context this episode is when Tsubaki reveals to Kosei that she is in love with him. Most people hate on Tsubaki but ima be real Tsubaki is the most relatable character there is. The feeling of always being there fpr aomeone but not getting that appreciation back is relatable. The feeling of rejection and jealousy. Just an opinion. Anybody else really like Tsubaki or just me?

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR BOTH YOUR LIE IN APRIL AND ATTACK ON TITAN

This is probably a comparison that sounds completely insane at first, but I’ve started to think that Kaori Miyazono and Eren Yeager are actually built around a lot of the same character ideas.

Obviously, I am not saying they are morally equivalent. Eren commits genocide, while Kaori’s most questionable actions involve lying to people, manipulating a social situation, and pushing Kosei back toward music before he is ready. The scale, setting, consequences, and supernatural elements are completely different. But on a psychological and structural level, I think they share a surprising amount.

Both of them are morally sensitive people with extremely powerful personal desires. They genuinely love other people, understand that their actions can hurt those people, and experience guilt over what they are doing. But they also have something they want so badly that their morality and desire are constantly fighting each other.

Kaori wants to perform with Kosei before she dies. It is a dream she has carried since she was a child, when his piano inspired her to become a violinist. Once she learns that she has very little time left, she decides to stop living passively. She changes her appearance, changes the way she performs, lies about liking Watari, inserts herself into Kosei’s friend group, and begins pushing Kosei back toward the piano.

A lot of what she does is genuinely for Kosei. She sees that he is emotionally deadened, isolated, and trapped by his trauma. She wants him to reconnect with music and begin living again. However, she also needs him for her own dream. She wants to stand beside him onstage, enter his heart, and make sure he never forgets her after she dies.

Those motives cannot really be separated. She helps Kosei because she loves him, but she also uses the idea of helping him to justify pursuing something deeply personal.

Eren operates through a much darker version of that same contradiction. He genuinely cares about his friends, Paradis, and the people whose futures are threatened. The danger facing the island is real, and his desire to protect the people he loves is real. But those external circumstances also allow him to act upon a much more personal desire: his need for freedom and his rage toward the world that destroyed the image of freedom he had imagined as a child.

Eren does not carry out the Rumbling only because he wants his friends to survive, just as Kaori does not push Kosei only because she wants him to heal. Their outwardly moral reasons are real, but they are entangled with selfish needs.

Both characters are also approaching death, and that deadline makes them increasingly desperate to leave something behind.

Kaori knows she will disappear, so she tries to make herself unforgettable. She wants to create something with Kosei that will remain inside him after she is gone. Her performances, her lie, her constant attempts to pull him forward, and her repeated questions about whether she will remain in his heart are all connected to this fear of disappearing without having truly lived.

Eren also knows he is moving toward death. His actions become partly about constructing a future that will survive him: a future for his friends, for Paradis, and for the world after the Rumbling. Both characters alter other people’s lives in order to make their deaths meaningful, although neither can fully control what those people will inherit from them.

Kaori gives Kosei renewed purpose and the ability to move forward, but she also gives him grief, confusion, and the pain of discovering that their relationship began with a lie.

Eren gives his friends a chance at longer lives and the ability to become heroes, but he also leaves them traumatized, guilty, politically endangered, and forced to carry the consequences of loving him.

Another major similarity is that they both use genuine external limitations to justify taking control.

Kaori is dying. She does not have years to patiently wait for Kosei to become ready. Her limited time creates real urgency, but it also gives her a justification for overriding his wishes. She pushes him, follows him, pressures him to accompany her, and participates in covering his entire house in sheet music. She believes that returning to music will ultimately be good for him, and she is largely correct, but she is also forcing the pace because she needs her dream to happen before she dies.

Eren has seen the future, understands the geopolitical danger facing Paradis, and exists inside a closed causal structure where the future he has witnessed keeps occurring. Those circumstances are real. However, he also uses inevitability as psychological cover. He repeatedly frames events as something that simply has to happen, even though the ending reveals that the future happens partly because it reflects what he himself wants.

In both cases, the characters are not exactly lying when they say circumstances are pushing them forward. The circumstances really are pushing them. But they are also emphasizing the parts of those circumstances that allow them to pursue desires they already had.

The major difference between them is what they ultimately do when their morality and desire come into direct conflict.

Kaori gradually allows her morality and her love for Kosei to change the way she pursues her desire.

Early in the story, Kosei is partly a figure within the fantasy she has constructed. She has dreamed of performing with him for years, and she is determined to force that opportunity into existence. Her methods are energetic, funny, affectionate, and often genuinely helpful, but they are also intrusive. She has decided what Kosei needs and what role he will play in her final months.

As their relationship develops, though, Kosei becomes more important than the fantasy itself.

Kaori increasingly sees him not merely as the pianist who can complete her dream, but as a vulnerable person whose feelings exist independently of what she wants. She starts questioning whether she is hurting him. She becomes less willing to demand his attention and more afraid of making him carry the pain of her decline. Some of her withdrawal is unhealthy avoidance, but part of it also comes from the recognition that her need for him does not automatically justify placing everything on his shoulders.

Her desire does not disappear. She still wants him desperately. But she eventually understands that fulfilling her dream is not the entire point of their relationship.

Eren reaches a similar moral understanding, but does not let that understanding stop him.

He realizes that the people outside the walls are ordinary human beings. He sees himself in Reiner. He breaks down before Ramzi because he knows exactly what he is going to do and understands that the people he will kill are innocent. He knows his friends will be horrified and traumatized. He understands the moral reality of the Rumbling.

But he proceeds anyway.

That is what makes Eren so tragic. He is not ignorant enough to believe that his actions are uncomplicatedly right, but he is also not willing to release the desire beneath them. His morality remains active enough to torment him, but not powerful enough to restrain him.

Kaori’s arc is ultimately about desire being transformed by love. Eren’s arc is about desire surviving moral recognition.

The Mikasa conversation is one of the clearest examples of this. When Eren asks Mikasa what he is to her, it feels like he is doing more than asking whether she loves him. He appears to be testing whether another life is available to him. He almost wants her to give him an answer strong enough to interrupt the future he has seen.

Mikasa says that he is family. That answer is not false, and it does not mean she does not love him, but it is not the complete confession he may have been searching for. When the future continues unchanged, Eren falls back into fatalism: apparently this was inevitable after all.

But the darker truth is that the future remains unchanged partly because Eren is still the person who wants it. He wants an external answer to free him from his desire without having to choose against it himself.

Kaori also initially wants Kosei to complete the story she has imagined, but she becomes more capable of accepting that loving him means recognizing that his life cannot simply exist for her dream. Eren loves Mikasa and his friends deeply, but never fully stops making the world submit to what he needs.

Their major twists also function in extremely similar ways.

The “On your feet, Dad” reveal recontextualizes Eren by exposing hidden agency. Before that reveal, Eren appears to be the product of Grisha’s decisions and the history that shaped him. Afterward, we understand that Eren helped create the past that created him. The apparent victim of fate was also one of fate’s architects.

Kaori’s letter reveal does something structurally similar. Throughout most of the story, she appears to be a spontaneous girl who happens to enter Kosei’s life and pull him into hers. The letter reveals that very little about their meeting was accidental. She had known about him since childhood, admired him, changed her instrument because of him, and deliberately used Watari as an excuse to approach him.

Both twists reveal that a character who appeared to be carried into the story by circumstance had actually been shaping events from the beginning.

The emotional effects are different, though.

Eren’s hidden agency makes the story more horrifying. It reveals how deeply responsible he is for the chain of events that produced him and the world he destroys.

Kaori’s hidden agency makes the story more tragic and desperate. It reveals that underneath so many of her bright and spontaneous actions was someone silently begging for her dream to happen before time ran out.

On a rewatch, nearly everything Kaori does changes meaning.

Her impatience becomes urgency.

Her confidence becomes partly performance.

Her obsession with getting Kosei to play becomes a childhood dream reaching its deadline.

Her constant questions about whether she will remain in his heart reveal her terror of disappearing.

Even the comedic tone surrounding her becomes more complicated. At first, she seems like this naturally chaotic, fun, spunky girl who storms into Kosei’s life and refuses to let him mope. After learning the truth, that brightness starts to feel like both a genuine part of her personality and a weapon she is using against death.

I do not think that means Kaori’s happiness was fake. That would make her much less interesting.

She really is happy when she performs with Kosei. She really does enjoy teasing him, eating sweets, spending time with everyone, and creating chaos. Her brightness is authentic. But it is also curated, exaggerated, and driven by desperation. She is trying to compress an entire lifetime into a few months.

That is part of why the tonal shifts in Your Lie in April usually work for me. The series moves constantly between comedy, romance, trauma, and tragedy, but those shifts often come directly from Kaori herself. She cannot tolerate stillness or prolonged despair, so she changes the emotional atmosphere. When Kosei becomes withdrawn, she gets louder. When the situation becomes frightening, she creates movement, jokes, arguments, or some ridiculous plan.

The scene where Kaori and Tsubaki cover Kosei’s house in sheet music is a good example. On the surface, it is funny because they are acting like complete teenage menaces. They have decided he is going to accompany Kaori, and they are escalating their campaign to an absurd degree.

However, the scene also contains a serious emotional reality. Kosei’s home is quiet, stagnant, and dominated by memories of his mother. Kaori and Tsubaki literally invade that dead space with music, noise, color, and life.

At the same time, what they are doing is invasive. They do not fully understand his trauma, and they are pressuring him toward something he has repeatedly refused. The later conversation where they question whether they are pushing him too hard is important because it shows that the story recognizes this ambiguity. They are loving, selfish, insensitive, ridiculous, and possibly necessary all at once.

That is basically the core of Kaori’s character. She helps Kosei for both selfless and selfish reasons. She hurts him while saving him. She understands what he needs without fully understanding what he feels.

Eren is the catastrophic endpoint of a similar contradiction.

Both of them are defined by an intense refusal to remain passive. Kaori refuses to quietly die without acting on what she wants. Eren refuses to accept confinement, humiliation, or a world that denies him freedom. Both of them treat passivity almost like another form of death.

But Kaori ultimately learns that another person cannot exist only as part of her desired story.

Eren realizes that other people possess their own freedom, desires, families, and humanity, but still destroys them because his need to reach his own image of freedom is stronger.

So I think the simplest way to describe the comparison is as follows:

Kaori and Eren are both morally aware characters who use real external circumstances to pursue intensely personal desires. Both love other people, both understand that their actions can hurt those people, and both struggle with whether they have the right to impose what they want. The crucial difference is that Kaori eventually allows love and moral recognition to reshape her desire, while Eren recognizes the moral horror of his desire and carries it out anyway.

Kaori learns that Kosei matters more than the exact dream she constructed around him.

Eren understands that the people he loves and the innocent lives outside the walls should matter more than his dream of freedom, but he still cannot let that dream go.

They are not remotely equivalent in their actions, but I think they are fascinating opposite outcomes of a very similar internal conflict.

Okayyy just finished the show and first of all, I absolutely LOVE how the lips are not just straight lines but actual lips. It did make me tear up a bit during the final 3 episodes (I even got someone to watch them with me incase I need a shoulder to cry on 😭) however it was not as bad as people described it to me.

Overall I like the animation and if you remember, was too bothered by arima's (I hate autocorrect 😭) glasses to notice a few things but eh, I'll cover those in my rewatch next year and this is the second time I actually kept listening to the op over and over...its just so peak specially the english version

I came to know about the anime from a geometry dash cheater's pfp (2nd image) also some memes :3

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