Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
Your Lie in April

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This Anime and Manga is a touching story that makes many people cry. The beautiful drawings are made by the talented Shinkawa Sensei.

The story uses the word "Kimi," meaning "you" a lot. This word is special in Japanese and shows a deep bond between the characters, Kaori and Kosei. Reading in Japanese will give you the real feeling of this word.

Shinkawa Sensei's smart writing makes this story amazing. Reading it may even inspire you to learn Japanese.

This Manga also teaches us to live life with passion, shown through characters like Kaori and the young piano players. This masterpiece is worth reading, so please check it ... out!

I've watched this in English, Japanese, and now read it.
This story still rides on top of almost every single other story I know. It could hit harder because I'm a musician and thus constantly am relating to Kosei and Kaori, but as a musician, the ups and downs they go through, along with Takashi, Emi, Miike, and Nagi are some of the most honest writing of musicians I've read. I was always a little anxious to read it after watching it because, as is obvious, music is an auditory experience. Trying to express the thoughts, emotions, etc. on paper is not an easy thing to ... do. Yet, Naoshi Arakawa does it in a way that translates beautifully.
The art style is wonderful, allowing for the seriousness in tone and style that comes to the matured art form that is a stage performance, and then shifting to the more lighthearted style that comes in middle school. The laughter, the anger, the joy, every little spike in emotion that we all experience as young teens and pre-teens.
The story, as I previously mentioned, tears me to pieces. While there's the ever present question that people have still been trying to figure out for as long as I can remember about what Kaori is dealing with, to me, that doesn't matter in the end. The story wouldn't change if it was a real or made up thing because what matters is the characters and how they change and grow throughout the story. How they deal with love, loss, and facing their futures.
There's very little I would change to this story. Maybe that is because I'm a musician, because I'm a romantic, because I've walked in their shoes in more cases than the average person. But whatever it may be, this story is still a masterpiece to me after watching, rewatching, and now reading.

Don't waste your time on this. I started this and at first, I enjoyed it but at around episode 14 it took a nosedive. They don't explain how Kaori ended up in the hospital besides saying she fell. How though, how did she fall did she fall because she had some sort of disease, or did she just trip. And the ending, oh the fucking ending. The ending was so fucking depressing but it was horrible. What should've happened is kousei was at the hospital while Kaori is having the surgery and she wakes up and starts dying but in their final moments together they ... should've confessed their love for each other. Not some dumbass she appears in his mind they play together and then gets fucking smited. And the dumbass letter she wrote to him. It was so mediocre i wanted to vomit, don't get me wrong the shit made me cry. And lets take a minute to look at kousei. Hes a fucking idiot that cant take hints at all. How in the world did he not realize Tsubaki liked him. And how he's always just fucking standing there and not doing anything made me wanna reach through my monitor and beat the living shit out of him. And at the end instead of going to the hospital to stay with kaori he still goes to the fucking contest. Imo i kinda think he could've been written way better. Overall I think that you really shouldn't waste your time on this and watch something else.