WARNING - Opinions & brutal honesty below.
First, the negative shit...
Honestly if the music and art had not been so beautifully, I would give the series a 6/10. Well, even that only if was in a generous mood.
My main problem with the series was the characters. After watching the first episode, there were two characters I gave half a shit about, the two being Kaori and Kousei . That didn't change throughout the whole series. (I did almost care about Kousei's mother. Almost.)
All characters in the series aside from the main two were bland as fuck. My favourite side character was Kousei's cat. That adorable motherfucker was better than all the other side characters combined.
The story was very meh. Considering the story development, the show felt more like an arc than an actual series. There were many emotional moments involved, but the core story was rather bland.
Moving on from the negative shit....
The art style fit the series very well.
The pacing was handled very well.
And the music was just straight up beautiful.
Kousei wasn't just the generic happy-go-lucky MC that so many anime have, but a silent, traumatized character that actually got development throughout the series.
And I definitely commend the author for actually killing a main character. Not a lot of people have the guts to do that.
Overall Shigatsu was a very good drama, but more than that an excellent gateway to the world of tragedy.
8/10
