Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

(Your lie in April)

By Naoshi Arakawa

Piano prodigy Kōsei Arima dominated various music competitions and has become famous among child musicians but also controversial. After his mother, who was also his coldhearted, abusive instructor who forced him to play the piano emotionlessly, died, he had a mental breakdown while performing at a piano recital at the age of eleven. As a result, he is no longer able to hear the sound of his piano even though his hearing is perfectly fine.

Two years later, he goes to the high school with his childhood friends, Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryōta Watari, until one day a strange girl appears in his life and changes everything. Kaori Miyazono, an extroverted violinist without remorse, who in her musical style reflects her personality, her way of feeling and her deep desire for the audience to remember her through music. Kaori helps him return to the music world and shows him that this should be free and unpredictable, expressing his feelings to the public, unlike the structured and rigid style to which Kousei was accustomed.