-A big fans of romance!
- Fond in music.
- looking for story that can make you feel emotional and cry.
- searching for beautiful art and outstanding music.
Not recommended for those who is:
-not enjoy with the drama
-looking for a lot of comedy moment
-no love to romance and emotional moment
"I met the girl under the full-bloomed cherry blossoms, and my fate has begun to change."
Every anime that can have a high score in MAL is no doubt an anime that worth your time. Being ranked top 100 in MAL is really hard since there is so many masterpiece anime out there, storming every “10” mark in MAL scoring system. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) is definitely a great anime that worth watching at least twice. Do you believe in music can change your life? Oh yeah, definitely yes! This is the core thesis at Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, a series in which shows that music can change and inspires those performer as well as the audience. A beautiful combination of emotional resonance, well-craft art and brilliant sound track, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso successfully demonstrate music’s transformative power within the young soul of teenager as they start to grow up and explore the unknown land of romance and relationship.
One can say this is a masterpiece although many hater consider this anime as a abuse usage of melodrama. In my honest opinions, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso is a fantastic anime with some flaw. The story is summarized pretty well in MAL so I am not going to rewrite again. The show's beauty is ornate, to the point where you could easily accuse it of being overwrought or melodramatic. I personally like the trauma that Arima Kousei is facing. He cannot hear his own note during his performance and this literally let Arima Kousei’s career as pianist fall from the peak. The show visually portrays his attempts to make music as the act of sinking into a deep blue ocean, haunted by his mother's voice. This anime does show Arima Kousei’s journey of going through this hardship and I can link it to my life. I am an archer, yet I suffer from “target panic” which is a mental disease that stop me from releasing my arrow WHEN there is a target board in front of me. The similiar feeling struck my heart when Arima Kousei is performing and suddenly cannot hear his own note. Well, I can see so many similiarity in this character so I will say that I had attached to the feeling that he has. Struggle and hardship are a commonality in everyone's cycle of life; nobody is able to avoid difficulties. The solution is making an attempt to past through it. What is shown is meaningful: that it's prudent for people to pitch in. It doesn't matter if you are a young guy struggling with music or a young girl battling an illness; what the beginning demonstrates is that what matters most is being there for the person in need.
One of the greatest moment in Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso is when they are performing in various competitions. I am surprised that they actually can convey message though music. Characters use their songs to express themselves and their thoughts on each other, to prove their worth or connect with the people they love. The show's constant refrain of “reach them!” reveals how all of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 's heroes want their songs to change others as songs once changed them. This anime did a good job on showing how music can making a dramatic change not only in your life but in other’s life too. There is always emotional climatic during the performance. Well I do not have any knowledge about classic music, there is always explanation to it and it is really helpful. Fans of classical music will find plenty to love here as a good variety of famous pieces are played including the work of Chopin, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, but everyone else will find plenty to like as well.
I personally like Tsubaki. She is so interesting to me. Yeah, she is a typical teenager which had a “secret” crush on her childhood friend while everyone except both of them realizes it. Tsubaki offen beat down her childhood friend in comedy moment and does show the close relationship between them. I am very pleased by Tsubaki’s inner monologue whenever she is trying to express her feeling. This is the age where we actually step into the romance’s land and most of us did struggle with love. Yeah, I like Tsubaki’s style of struggle of romance. I think it does enhance the overall story and make me continue watching Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso until the very end. She is very real to me and I offen give a half-smile whenever she start to whispering.
The visual effect throughout the anime is so well-designed that I have no clue how on earth that the producer and their team can ever made it. The animation is astounding, you have no choice but to admit the beauty of the art even you are a hater. The facial detail is nice and you can always see the “blank” in Arima Kousei’s glasses because the director do not wish that little glasses block the attractive eye. The 4 main character and the side character like Nagi is no doubt, an highlight of the whole show. The character design had been given heavy detail and everyone should appreciate it.
In a nutshell, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso is a successful anime which absolutely beautiful in sight and sound and strikes at the heart of performance's appeal. It story line does not impressed me but it does let me link with my own life. The ending is bizarre and surprising to me, and yet it is reasonable. The show did convey a clear message to all the audience throughout the show: you have to move forward no matter how bad is your life and past. You just got to live with it.
"Do you think you'll be able to forget?"
Nope.
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