Your Lie in April

is a Japanese manga series. It was created by Naoshi Arakawa. It was released from 2011 until 2015. Your Lie in April is about a pianist and a violinist that perform together, changing each other's life.

Your Lie in April
Logo for Your Lie in April in Japanese
四月は君の嘘 (<span title=" transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso)
Manga
Written by	Naoshi Arakawa
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Kodansha Comics
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	6 April 2011 – 6 February 2015
Volumes	11
Anime television series
Directed by	Kyōhei Ishiguro
Written by	Takao Yoshioka
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	A-1 Pictures
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Aniplex of America UK Anime Limited
Original network	Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run	9 October 2014 – 19 March 2015
Episodes	22
Light novel
Your Lie in April - A Six Person Etude
Written by	Yui Tokiumi
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Vertical
Published	17 November 2014
Volumes	1
Manga
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso: Coda
Written by	Naoshi Arakawa
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	25 February 2015 – 28 October 2015
Volumes	1
Original video animation
Moments
Directed by	Kazuya Iwata
Written by	Takao Yoshioka
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	A-1 Pictures
Released	15 May 2015
Runtime	23 minutes

An anime television series was released in 2014 and 2015 and a live-action movie was released in 2016.

Plot

Kōsei Arima is a piano prodigy. He won many music competitions when he was young and became famous because of this. His mother was a cruel piano teacher. She died and Kōsei had a mental breakdown while playing the piano. Because of this, he can't hear the sound of his piano even though his hearing is fine.

After two years, Kōsei has not played the piano and he sees the world in monochrome. He keeps living his life with his friends Tsubaki and Watari. He meets Kaori Miyazono, a fourteen-year-old violinist that plays very freely. Kaori helps Kōsei play music again. Kōsei knows that he loves her, but she already likes Watari. Kaori forces Kōsei to do a performance with her,but she suddenly collapses after the performance and was sent to the hospital. She tells Kōsei that she is anemic but this is a lie. She had collapsed many times before when she was younger.

When Kaori comes back from the hospital, she invites Kōsei to play at a Gala with her. Kaori doesn't show up on the day of the Gala. As her health gets worse, she begins to give up on life and wants to kill herself. Kousei helps her keep going by playing a duet with Nagi Aiza, the sister of a fellow rival of his. After this, Kaori chooses to have a dangerous surgery that will kill her if it fails, just so that she can play with him one more time.

Kaori dies because of the surgery. Kōsei gets a letter from Kaori that is given to him by her parents at her funeral. The letter says that she was in love with Kōsei the whole time, and she lied that she liked Watari. She did this to get closer to him while not hurting Tsubaki's (who also has a crush on Kōsei) feelings.

Characters

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese); Max Mittelman (English) & Piano performance by: Tomoki Sakata

Kōsei is a child prodigy in playing the piano. He was called the "Human Metronome" because of this. a product of his mother's overly strict methods of teaching. The way he played the piano helped him win many competitions in Japan. When his mother died, he could not hear the music he played on the piano. He stopped playing the piano after that. Two years later, he began playing the piano again because Kaori forced him to become her accompanist.

Voiced by: Risa Taneda (Japanese); Erica Lindbeck (English) & Violin performance by: Yūna Shinohara

Kaori is Tsubaki's classmate. She plays the violin. The judges for music competitions don't like her playing (because she does not play what is written on the sheet music) but the audience likes her playing. Kaori met Kōsei when she first met up with Watari. She helps Kōsei play the piano again. At the end of the anime, it is shown that she liked Kōsei, not Watari.

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese); Erica Mendez (English)

Tsubaki is Kōsei's friend and neighbour. She plays many sports. She keeps trying to make Kōsei play the piano again. She falls in love with Kōsei at the end of the anime.

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (Japanese); Kyle McCarley (English)

Ryōta is Kōsei's and Tsubaki's friend. He is very popular with girls. Kaori was his girlfriend, which made Kōsei jealous. Kōsei later tells him about his feelings for Kaori, and he gives him advice.

Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese); Erik Scott Kimerer (English)

Takeshi is a pianist that is the same age as Kōsei. He always wanted to be better than Kōsei at playing the piano. Kōsei was Takeshi's hero.

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese); Erika Harlacher (English)

Emi is a pianist that is the same age as Kōsei. She began playing the piano after hearing Kōsei play the piano. She also enters the same competitions as Kōsei.

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese); Stephanie Sheh (English)

Nagi is Takeshi's little sister. She asked to be taught by Hiroko but became Kōsei's student. She falls in love with Kōsei.

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese); Wendee Lee (English)

Saki was Kōsei's mother. She was very strict. After she found out that she was sick, she began teaching him as much as she could so that he could play in Europe.

Voiced by: Mie Sonozaki (Japanese); Carrie Keranen (English)

Hiroko is a famous pianist. She found out that Kōsei could play the piano so well. When Kōsei began playing the piano again, she became his teacher.

Production

The series was originally a Japanese manga. The first volume was released on 16 September 2011 in Japan. The last volume was released on 15 May 2015 in Japan. The manga was released in North America on 21 April 2015. Another manga came out called Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. It was included with the anime Blu-ray.

A-1 Pictures released the anime television series for Your Lie in April starting on 10 October 2014. It ended on 20 March 2015. The music for the anime was made by Masaru Yokoyama.

A movie for Your Lie in April was released on 10 September 2016.

Your Lie In April Media

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  The Ōizumi-gakuen Station, one of the locations used as inspiration for the series

Other websites

• Your Lie in April at Kodansha
• Official website for the anime
• Official website for the movie (in Japanese)
• Your Lie in April (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia