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Dec 4, 2014 1:51 PM

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I want to see a gif of Kousei saying he wish his mother to die, that woman is crazy.
Eh
Dec 4, 2014 1:54 PM

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Emi is an anime with the piano.

Looks like Kosei is having a mom flashback, but it's good he played again. If you got a mom like that maybe she be better off death anyways.
Dec 4, 2014 2:07 PM

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Ohhhh, Shigatsu, you troll... Letting us believe last episode that we would see Kosei performance, instead we got a background episode xD

Well, that was a bit anti-climatic, but a good episode nonetheless. That parralel between Kaori medication and the mother medication made me unconfortable... She seemed also really weak, holding on that chair during the prestation she wishes for. Fuck, I almost want to spoil myself to know if she die by the end, goddamnit!! I won't be able to take it if that the case :/
Seeing a young child full of life slowly degenerate in the prime time of her life... That's too much for my weak heart.

That mother... I don't think I need to say anything else.
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Dec 4, 2014 2:09 PM
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Oh my God. NOT. AGAIN. Can't we have the entire performance of Arima ?
I can't wait anymore for the next week episode...
There's so many flashback (maybe too much) !
Dec 4, 2014 2:14 PM

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Wow....that scene where he gets beaten with the cane and he tells his mother he wished she was dead, that was intense. This is an amazing show so far, got your slice of life, got your music, got your psychological elements in there. All we are missing is some romance, and I can expect that in the future episodes.


Yup.
That was incredibly powerful scene..I was close to letting out a tear.
And when he said "I wish you were dead" I can just imagine the shock to the mother from hearing that from her own son..I had to grip my chest :C
Even more so when she died after wards.

Goddamn this episode is 100/10!

*edit*
I don't know why people are complaining about flash backs.
But those are necessary for Kanek- Arima as a character.
>.>
I can't even...

Dec 4, 2014 2:32 PM
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That scene with the cane was hard to watch even though I've already read this.
Dec 4, 2014 2:35 PM

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Emi-chan was super cute when she was young, same way with Kousei

Those medications... Kaori foreshadowing something here...

But man, Kousei's mother, it kind of reminded me a bit of my childhood when my mom used to be kind of like that so I can sympathise with him. But it wasn't to that level and I said these bad things to my mother. But I can feel Kousei's anger and frustration, so he finally blew. That is why he is so guilty. I was wondering why he would feel so guilty so many years after if he didn't do anything he should've felt guilty of. But now i know.

But the Kousei struggling with playing part is getting a little bit repetitive and hopefully we can move out of this stage quickly and get him over his mother's death. I wanna see more interaction between him and Kaori and the other two.

5/5 this great episode. Love the whole thing~
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Dec 4, 2014 2:39 PM
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How many episodes till Kousei's balls are back in place ? It's kinda anti-climatic seeing gutless main hero ... sucks to be him.
Dec 4, 2014 2:41 PM

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I loved this episode, so many good scenes.

Anyone notice the little reference from Tokyo Ghoul when Emi said he is about to Unravel towards Kousei performance.

Kousei shares the same Japanese voice with Kaneki


No no just me.........
Dec 4, 2014 2:47 PM

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AbbieT3D2Y said:
I loved this episode, so many good scenes.

Anyone notice the little reference from Tokyo Ghoul when Emi said he is about to Unravel towards Kousei performance.

Kousei shares the same Japanese voice with Kaneki


No no just me.........


My first thought was just that.
Kousei's mother is acting like Rize lol

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How many episodes till Kousei's balls are back in place ? It's kinda anti-climatic seeing gutless main hero ... sucks to be him.


Go back to Shounen if you want to see a "Hero" with "Guts".
Psychological traumas aren't something easy to overcome lol.

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Good episode.

I must admit I wanted to watch the whole Kousei performance in this ep, so the flashbacks surprised me a bit. However, I don't think it's a bad choice, because people need to understand that Kousei suffer from severe trauma.
I guess the flashbacks helped me to understand better Kousei's fear of music, and while I still think Shigatsu is shonen asf, I feel that Kousei is definitely a more coherent character than an "over the top" one. Or someone has to convince me that it isn't.
Of course, it's maybe dramatically staged, it's very romanticized, there is a lot of use of "figurative language", and it may even be "overwrought" (as I've seen in other threads), but I find it enjoyable (like many other people it seems), so I don't see the problem. Objectively speaking, you can't assume it's a flaw because it's not your cup of tea.

An other death flag on Kaori.
Honestly, I, at the moment, don't get the need to put a death flag on her in almost every episodes. Nevertheless, it can turn out to be a build up for a good surprise, so I'll wait before making baseless assumptions.

Emi is such a tsun.
She really seems disappointed so far by Kousei's (boring perhaps) performance. And I think she has the right to think that way because no, you're not a good pianist only by being a 'human metronome'.
I don't want to be mean, but idk if Kousei's mom is a bad written character or something, but she was truly a shitty teacher. Did she listened to some of the best classical performers ? I don't know any professional pianist without musical personality, it's inconceivable.

And LOL, she taught her son to only play by the score, to be faithful to the composer, like if there was only one way to play "right"... Ok, it's cool, but did she even read or analyzed a score before ? Because her point of view is just so manichean.
A performer always have to choose between many musical choices, because a score always implies a lot of "right" choices. Heck, this is music, not mathematics.
It actually reminds me a quote by Guillaume Connesson (a quite famous french contemporary composer) : "The composer is not necessarily an absolute reference of his work. [...] (talking about the performer and the composer) There is clearly a creativity in both sides, and the composer's creativity is in the score. As a result, I think one of the most important thing about music is not to be respectful, it's, above all, to love."

So yeah, I don't understand Kousei's mother. She just seem to be inconsistent as hell, as far as I'm concerned.
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It's inconceivable!!
Finally it is Kousei's turn, but his demons are coming back again to haunt him. Hopefully he can put it in the past and flip the situation around. But worried about Kao's medication though.
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Dec 4, 2014 2:50 PM

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Intense episode.

Got the feels for Kousei. He had it hard with his mother. I not even gonna be mad at Kousei for saying he wished she was dead. He had poured his soul out in that performance because he knew she would be watching. He just wanted to make her. Just to get hit with the cane and be told he not shit. He just snapped. I'm pretty sure most people can understand. And to have those be the last words you say to someone. You just know Kousei regrets every saying that. Damn this was a great character build episode for Kiusei.

6/5.
Dec 4, 2014 2:54 PM

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Good episode.

I must admit I wanted to watch the whole Kousei performance in this ep, so the flashbacks surprised me a bit. However, I don't think it's a bad choice, because people need to understand that Kousei suffer from severe trauma.
I guess the flashbacks helped me to understand better Kousei's fear of music, and while I still think Shigatsu is shonen asf, I feel that Kousei is definitely a more coherent character than an "over the top" one. Or someone has to convince me that it isn't.
Of course, it's maybe dramatically staged, it's very romanticized, there is a lot of use of "figurative language", and it may even be "overwrought" (as I've seen in other threads), but I find it enjoyable (like many other people it seems), so I don't see the problem. Objectively speaking, you can't assume it's a flaw because it's not your cup of tea.

An other death flag on Kaori.
Honestly, I, at the moment, don't get the need to put a death flag on her in almost every episodes. Nevertheless, it can turn out to be a build up for a good surprise, so I'll wait before making baseless assumptions.

Emi is such a tsun.
She really seems disappointed so far by Kousei's (boring perhaps) performance. And I think she has the right to think that way because no, you're not a good pianist only by being a 'human metronome'.
I don't want to be mean, but idk if Kousei's mom is a bad written character or something, but she was truly a shitty teacher. Did she listened to some of the best classical performers ? I don't know any professional pianist without musical personality, it's inconceivable.

And LOL, she taught her son to only play by the score, to be faithful to the composer, like if there was only one way to play "right"... Ok, it's cool, but did she even read or analyzed a score before ? Because her point of view is just so manichean.
A performer always have to choose between many musical choices, because a score always implies a lot of "right" choices, this is music, not mathematics.
It reminds me a quote by Guillaume Connesson (a quite famous french contemporary composer and orchestrator straight out of the classical school) : "The composer is not necessarily an absolute reference of his work. [...] (talking about the performer and the composer) There is clearly a creativity in both sides, and the composer's creativity is in the score. As a result, I think one of the most important thing about music is not to be respectful, it's, above all, to love."

So yeah, I don't understand Kousei's mother. She just seem to be inconsistent as hell, as far as I'm concerned.


Yup its not a bad choice..
My thoughts about the mother as well even though I don't know shit about music.
I think as to why Kousei's mother being inconsistent is because of herself and blinded by her dream of passing it down to Arima when she's near death or something.
She set up an Impossible goal for Arima inside her head.
Because at one point it was explicitly implied that the mother was kind and she drastically changed when she got hospitalized,etc.

I think Arima would solve this trauma by a letter his mother left for him revealing all her feelings and how much she regretted doing that to arima.

Anyway I hope that's the case for the future episodes.
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Wow, I'm surprised that I literally got mad while also crying like Kousei when his mom beat him up. I mean WTF?? He performed well and did it just to make you happy!!! why the flying fark would you do that?? I literally felt his pain at that moment.

I thought Kousei is finally going to play this episode but I got my hopes to high and was a bit disappointed. But hey, I got stress release from the momentary rage(can I call it that?) so that's a plus(?)

Overall, great episode nonetheless and I really hope the real performance starts next episode
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Dec 4, 2014 3:21 PM

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So Kaori has the same sickness has Arima's mother? Guessing by all that medication that they showed on both shots.

Loved both performances.
Dec 4, 2014 3:24 PM

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lol all this buildup, but only to see the mere beginning of Kousei's performance. At least unleashing his rage made up for it, Also lol at Emi just panting in his face haha

4/5 hopefully true hype starts next ep

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Yup its not a bad choice..
My thoughts about the mother as well even though I don't know shit about music.
I think as to why Kousei's mother being inconsistent is because of herself and blinded by her dream of passing it down to Arima when she's near death or something.
She set up an Impossible goal for Arima inside her head.
Because at one point it was explicitly implied that the mother was kind and she drastically changed when she got hospitalized,etc.

I think Arima would solve this trauma by a letter his mother left for him revealing all her feelings and how much she regretted doing that to arima.

Anyway I hope that's the case for the future episodes.

Yeah, I agree. She had psychological problem, and it can explain her attitude, maybe.
But I still think her view about classical music is just weird, and I don't say this because of her attitude towards her son, but because of the reality.
To think that there is only two ways to play classical music (playing by the score=right, because "the composer wrote it" (lulz), and playing "with emotions"=wrong, >implying it's only good for "ignorant listeners") is manichean. Even "playing by the score" doesn't mean a thing. Yeah, it's classical, not pop, not jazz, of course you play by the score. But in fact, playing by the score in classical implies that there is a lot of ways to fully understand the score, the music. And be aware of that is just knowledge. If she wanted to become a musician, she would know that.

Basically she taught Kousei to be a cyborg. Damn, how her son would be able to understand the composers choices if, as a performer, Kousei is just an empty shell ?
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Really was looking forward to Kousei's performance for the last several weeks. Little disappointed that it's the same thing like usual where he messes up. The flashbacks were good too.

BTW anyone know the name of the Piano OST right before Kouseis performance? I've been trying to find it, but no luck.
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that was an amazing episode. I definitely had tears in my eyes, but I think some of you are really underestimating the trauma that comes from physical abuse.

When arima started bleeding, it reminded me back when my younger brother was in grade 5. Because he couldn't understand how to do his homework, my dad hit him so hard on the head with a plastic chopstick that it broke and flew across the room and hit the wall. Needless to say, he was bleeding too. I'm 18 now, but I still cry about it sometimes. Arima is NOT gutless; I don't know about you, but the fact that he's willing to overcome his psychological trauma to play piano again for Kaori is pretty damn courageous to me.

Don't play off physical abuse like it's nothing. It runs much deeper than you think.
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that was an amazing episode. I definitely had tears in my eyes, but I think some of you are really underestimating the trauma that comes from physical abuse.

When arima started bleeding, it reminded me back when my younger brother was in grade 5. Because he couldn't understand how to do his homework, my dad hit him so hard on the head with a plastic chopstick that it broke and flew across the room and hit the wall. Needless to say, he was bleeding too. I'm 18 now, but I still cry about it sometimes. Arima is NOT gutless; I don't know about you, but the fact that he's willing to overcome his psychological trauma to play piano again for Kaori is pretty damn courageous to me.

Don't play off physical abuse like it's nothing. It runs much deeper than you think.

Fully agree.
I think the reason why some of people here are underastimating Kousei's trauma is not because of such a thing like "physical abuse is nothing", but because they're not empathize enough with Kousei. They're probably see him as "just an other anime character from an other average anime".
As a result, perhaps they are disappointed because they wanted to see a 'manly' piano performance, more than Kousei and his -severe- trauma. For some of them, Kousei "has to" become a "main hero" with "guts" more than just being "Kousei".
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Emi is so adorable as a kid.

More about the past of Arima and his mother. Arima's mom treating his son so cruel because he messed up with his parts.
Dec 4, 2014 4:09 PM

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Okay.... that... was intense....

I'm a manga reader, and tbh, I've been waiting to see this part getting animated. But boy, seeing it in animation is waaaaay more intense than simply reading it.

Poor Kousei. All he wanted (dreamed) is just to make her mom happy, and he got beaten up like that. It's painful, you know. IMO, it's actually "human" for him to shout to her mom like that. Well, call me a demon, but Kousei was a young boy that time. His mother kinda "destroyed" his dream (to make her happy) in such a cruel way, so of course, it would broke a young boy's feeling to million pieces. His dream to make his mother happy was rejected cruelly by his own mother.

Not to mention in the end, he needed to carry the burden of his own words (as he called it "punishment"). He needed to carry the burden, while his dream was "destroyed"! Tsk, now that I'm re-writing the content of the episode, my heart suddenly can't take it and I think I'm gonna drown myself in feels ;_;

Can't say I like this episode, but this episode kinda touch me in a good way. Well, I can't say I like this episode is because I just can't hold up seeing such a pure young boy like that got his feeling broken... ;_;

4.5/5 for the "touch". I'm awaiting next episodes, seeing we just tip the "true story" of this show.


NB: I thought the way this story truly portrays "physical and psychological abuse" in this episode is amazing.
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-Skyleo- said:
And I think she has the right to think that way because no, you're not a good pianist only by being a 'human metronome'.
I don't want to be mean, but idk if Kousei's mom is a bad written character or something, but she was truly a shitty teacher. Did she listened to some of the best classical performers ? I don't know any professional pianist without musical personality, it's inconceivable.

And LOL, she taught her son to only play by the score, to be faithful to the composer, like if there was only one way to play "right"... Ok, it's cool, but did she even read or analyzed a score before ? Because her point of view is just so manichean.
A performer always have to choose between many musical choices, because a score always implies a lot of "right" choices. Heck, this is music, not mathematics.
It actually reminds me a quote by Guillaume Connesson (a quite famous french contemporary composer) : "The composer is not necessarily an absolute reference of his work. [...] (talking about the performer and the composer) There is clearly a creativity in both sides, and the composer's creativity is in the score. As a result, I think one of the most important thing about music is not to be respectful, it's, above all, to love."

So yeah, I don't understand Kousei's mother. She just seem to be inconsistent as hell, as far as I'm concerned.


I think it's in the (east) Asian mentality that you must absolutely master the technical before anything else. Look at the current generation of pianists, pretty much all of them are technical pianists. Because piano competitions have certain criteria of judging, they have to have flawless techniques in order to win and get their names out to famous teachers and so on.

Kousei can focus on emotions and whatnot after he becomes famous, I guess is what his mother was thinking.
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Where are his mom's eyes? O.O
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This show is so predictable, cliche and boring. Sigh.
Dec 4, 2014 4:31 PM
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This slow pace is getting annoying now

9 episodes in, and lets be honest, not a lot has happened...
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Death flag's been raised and waved. I hope Kaoru doesn't break my heart.
Emi is cute, I like her for Kousei (if Kaoru does break my heart).
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qetou said:
This show is so predictable, cliche and boring. Sigh.


Uhh, then don't watch maybe?? It's that simple.
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I think it's in the (east) Asian mentality that you must absolutely master the technical before anything else. Look at the current generation of pianists, pretty much all of them are technical pianists. Because piano competitions have certain criteria of judging, they have to have flawless techniques in order to win and get their names out to famous teachers and so on.

Kousei can focus on emotions and whatnot after he becomes famous, I guess is what his mother was thinking.

Maybe, yes, thanks for sharing your opinions on this topic.
But still, I think I don't understand. You become a "technical panist", you win a lot of piano competitions (implying you play several famous composers music), and only after all that, you learn to understand a score ? To put emotions in your playing ? Is it not too late ?
If it's just technics, why they don't just play technical stuff like Hanon exercices ?
Because, playing a lot of scores in competition just for the technics sound like a nonsense for me, it's like playing a lot of notes, without playing music... What is the point ?

And idk if it's because I come from a European coutry, but I don't understand why you have to master musical technics even before learning to love music itself.

Because what I think is that from love comes passion. From passion comes motivation. From motivation comes hard work. From hard work comes mastery. From mastery comes experiences. And from experiences comes maturity.
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This was a good episode tbh, maybe it felt like that because of the amazing episode we had last week.

I love them flashbacks tho, justs give them more OOMPH to the characters, but seriousky ut needs to be controlled, its not necessary to tell us twice the same things, its better to tell us new things.

Plus they have more than 10 episodes left, and i just hopr kousei's conflict doesn''t drag out too long.

Look at welcome to the NHK tbh, from the beginning to the end there was little development actually happenig to him, he's still struggling with his life, but damn the characterization was done so well throughout the series
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Some good discussion going on in here. As a manga reader I will say most of everyone's questions about the mom will be answered, she will get some backstory. It's not a redemption, but I think most people will make peace with her along with the MC.

That scene of Kousei getting beaten was intense and I knew it was coming, yikes.
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You become a "technical panist", you win a lot of piano competitions (implying you play several famous composers music), and only after all that, you learn to understand a score ? To put emotions in your playing ? Is it not too late ?
And idk if it's because I come from a European coutry, but I don't understand why you have to master musical technics even before learning to love music itself.

Because what I think is that from love comes passion. From passion comes motivation. From motivation comes hard work. From hard work comes mastery. From mastery comes experiences. And from experiences comes maturity.


You know, it could be nothing but a misunderstanding from everybody, like thinking Kousei was only learning piano to win competitions. I started to think more about that now that his mother died a little after Arima telling her off (she is still a mother, even after all that strictness and violence), but then I remember that everything related to story and plot is crap so that everything might have a literal meaning and what we're seeing is literally the image of the post-war hardworking asian trying to show the world they can be elite.
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qetou said:
This show is so predictable, cliche and boring. Sigh.


Shit taste confirmed.
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Death flag's been raised and waved. I hope Kaoru doesn't break my heart.
Emi is cute, I like her for Kousei (if Kaoru does break my heart).

Read the title of the anime translated in english , you shouldnt get much hopes on the romance part . It is more like a story about a guy that has too many problems for a girl to take him as a boyfriend but instead she helps him getting past those difficulties and by the time those are solved they are too comfortable with each other to make any move , basically they will be friendzoning each other . The story is more about his problem solving , the romance part is just the bait. "Your lie in April" gave away itself . Still , since I dont know the ending and sometimes I wish to know it , I said what I had to say : the romance is the bait , the main dish is Arima getting passed his trauma.
Thats how the things look to me.
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But anyway I wasn't pleased when they decided to destroy the winter wind with their strange as hell remix that made Emi's (further) backstory look like a joke. That Emi scene in this episode was way more powerful in the manga.
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You know, it could be nothing but a misunderstanding from everybody, like thinking Kousei was only learning piano to win competitions. I started to think more about that now that his mother died a little after Arima telling her off (she is still a mother, even after all that strictness and violence), but then I remember that everything related to story and plot is crap so that everything might have a literal meaning and what we're seeing is literally the image of the post-war hardworking asian trying to show the world they can be elite.

Yeah, I hope it's something like that, because otherwise, I would not understand why the author decided to portray such a 'typical vilain' character without any nuance, while all the other characters are likeable to me.
Unlike you, I don't think the story or the plot is crap, so I have pretty big expectations regarding Kousei's mother background or about her reasons to act like this.

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Some good discussion going on in here. As a manga reader I will say most of everyone's questions about the mom will be answered, she will get some backstory. It's not a redemption, but I think most people will make peace with her along with the MC.

I hope too. :)
At the moment, the mom makes me think of Miss Minchin from Princess Sarah, lol, and I must say I don't really like it.

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But anyway I wasn't pleased when they decided to destroy the winter wind with their strange as hell remix that made Emi's (further) backstory look like a joke.

Same here, I was like 'wtf !?'... That was really strange.
And when I say strange, I mean something like super ultra great delicious wonderful bad.
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Emi had a great performance.
Kousei was doing pretty good at the start but cannot hear the notes again near the end.
This is not going to be good.
His mother was a monster.
All he wanted was to make her happy.
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It was a good episode, though the slow pace is beginning to irk me. Still, looks like Emi will be the winner this year.

I knew Arima would plunge into the sea of nothingness as he was playing. Damn that mom, seriously. Nothing justifies hitting your kid with a cane and even drawing blood, even more so because he misplayed some notes. Looks like Arima's scars won't be healed so easily.

Kaoru and her pills... i'd actually rather not think about that, i'd probably rage if she died.

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I am more worried about Kaori than Kosei's mother. I have a bad feeling on this one ._.

qetou said:
This show is so predictable, cliche and boring. Sigh.

I respect your opinion tho. Just wondering how you manage to watch till ep 9.
Dec 4, 2014 6:53 PM

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Holy shit. Beaten until bruised daily, beaten until his glasses broke, and even beaten until he bled. With the amount of physical abuse Kousei got as a kid, it's no wonder he's traumatized and haunted by his mother's ghost. Although he had every right to say his true feelings to his mother in the end, I can see why his last words to her combined with the abuse led to Kousei blaming himself whenever he's stuck in a rut.

Since in the middle he started to mess up again after his mental condition kicks in, there's no question that he's going to lose the competition. But I at least hope he regains his composure in the end and completes the piece with his hearing back.

And what was with Kaori's mountain of pills? I really hope she's not ill, since she did collapse during her first performance in the start of the series.
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I'm so glad my parents weren't that strict (at least not on his mom's level...) and that I could quit piano early on. >_>

I really liked this episode. The flashbacks hit me hard. Poor Kousei. For people who want to hear the full performance without random talking and flashbacks in the middle, I recommend you download the Shigatsu performance CD and just listen to it there. It's the same audio as the anime but without the extra magic.

The death flags are starting to get into my face. I don't think having her die like how his mother died would do justice for this show. I mean, I'll be saddened by it and then he'll be back to square one.

Also, damn...Why can't they release a double episode (like Kiseijuu)? Next Thursday will be a long wait.

y123y said:
For some reason, this anime is a Shounen. But it has been confused for a Shoujo/Josei by many

It's just you. -_- Although I have seen people thinking it's a shoujo based off artstyle alone.

PrinceTY said:
But anyway I wasn't pleased when they decided to destroy the winter wind with their strange as hell remix that made Emi's (further) backstory look like a joke. That Emi scene in this episode was way more powerful in the manga.

Yeah, that was weird. Adding random instruments and percussion into the mix. :S I mean, it didn't sound that bad but still..

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I fully agree with your thoughts, but that's just how East Asian parents are to their kids (obviously not all of them, but a majority and I can say this because I'm Chinese lol)
The parents don't understand music. They just want their kid to learn techniques and skills as soon as possible and succeed. They don't understand stuff like "expression" or "feeling" in the music. They rush their kids to learn piano (and violin or whatnot) at a really early age so they can professionally get into in the future.
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This was a great episode, so much backstory and emotion from Kousei. Why the lower 5/5's for this episode?
Dec 4, 2014 7:01 PM

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Wow..tough episode. His mother got more creepy with every episode..the wicked faces/smiles and no eyes..messed up!
Dec 4, 2014 7:03 PM

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Well dang that kid went through hell during his mother's piano training. It was basically child abuse to him that is why he is so traumatized.

Great episode!!!
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-Skyleo- said:
Unlike you, I don't think the story or the plot is crap, so I have pretty big expectations regarding Kousei's mother background or about her reasons to act like this.


I have no idea how the manga is like, but for me this show is a huge letdown. Some parts I actually enjoy but I'm indifferent for the most part. I really liked how Kousei started playing the Étude though, the piano was smooth.

PrinceTY said:
But anyway I wasn't pleased when they decided to destroy the winter wind with their strange as hell remix that made Emi's (further) backstory look like a joke.


Yes, it was extremely lame.
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