40 Fun Facts About Your Lie in April

Which nickname did Kōsei Arima earn in Your Lie in April for his mechanically exact piano playing?

Human Metronome reflected the score-perfect style drilled into him by Saki Arima, who punished every mistake he made at the keyboard.

Kaori's lie in Your Lie in April was pretending to have a crush on which soccer-playing schoolmate?

Ryōta Watari was her cover story: by asking to be set up with him, she could get close to Kōsei without hurting Tsubaki, who had feelings for Kōsei herself.

After a breakdown at a recital, what can Kōsei Arima no longer hear in Your Lie in April?

His own instrument fades out once he starts to concentrate on a piece, so he ends up striking the keys too hard. The rest of his hearing is unaffected.

Whose death, before the story of Your Lie in April begins, drives Kōsei Arima away from the piano?

His mother Saki, a former pianist, trained him harshly because she was terminally ill and wanted him able to earn a living from music once she was gone.

Which sport does Tsubaki Sawabe, Kōsei's next-door neighbor in Your Lie in April, play for her school team?

Softball brings one of her lowest moments: she loses focus running the bases, injures her foot before sliding into home plate, and her team loses a regional tournament game.

How does Kaori's confession of love finally reach Kōsei at the end of Your Lie in April?

In a letter her parents hand him at her funeral, Kaori explains that she first heard him perform when she was five and took up the violin hoping to share a stage with him.

While Kōsei plays in the competition finals in Your Lie in April, Kaori is undergoing what?

A risky surgery was her gamble to perform with Kōsei once more, a choice she made after hearing his school-festival duet. She dies during the operation while he is on stage.

Which band performed Hikaru Nara, the first opening theme of the anime Your Lie in April?

Goose House was chosen because the director wanted the series to appeal to people who did not normally watch anime.

Before he meets Kaori in Your Lie in April, Kōsei Arima sees the world around him in what way?

In monochrome is how the series shows his grief, and the first episode is titled Monotone/Colorful. Tsubaki insists the world turns colorful once a person falls for someone.

In a café in Your Lie in April, Kaori orders Kōsei to play which children's tune?

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star fills the café until Kōsei abruptly stops and leaves mid-performance. The tune returns in episode twelve, when the pair sing it at night on the way to Kaori's house.

Which manga artist created Your Lie in April after growing tired of drawing sports manga?

Naoshi Arakawa built the story on a one-shot comic he had once entered in a magazine contest, which featured two violinists performing together.

Which studio, a subsidiary of Aniplex, animated the Your Lie in April anime for Fuji TV?

A-1 Pictures made 22 episodes because the manga's publisher turned down a first offer of eleven, which would not have covered the whole story.

When Kōsei first sees Kaori in a park in Your Lie in April, what is she playing alongside three children?

A melodica, a small keyboard blown through a mouthpiece, lets her lead the group in a tune that draws pigeons. Only later does Kōsei learn she is a violinist.

Which French sweet does Kaori ask Kōsei to bring her while she is hospitalized in Your Lie in April?

Canelés are small rum-and-vanilla cakes from Bordeaux with a dark caramelized crust. Kaori phones Kōsei to demand them after he keeps finding excuses not to visit.

Kaori ignores the score in her first competition round in Your Lie in April, yet advances thanks to whom?

The audience nominated her for the second round after her free-wheeling performance wowed the hall, even though judging panels faulted her for straying from the score.

Which girl in Your Lie in April vowed to become a pianist after hearing Kōsei perform when she was five?

Emi Igawa decided on the piano that very day and now plays with raw emotion to reach him. She lost her drive when Kōsei vanished from the competition scene.

Which Japanese publisher ran the Your Lie in April manga in one of its monthly magazines from 2011 to 2015?

Kodansha also gave the series one of its annual manga awards in 2013, and its American arm began releasing the volumes in English in April 2015.

Watching Kaori run to her date in Your Lie in April, Kōsei casts himself in which role, the title of episode two?

Friend A is how he sees himself: a background character in somebody else's romance, watching what looks to him like a scene from a movie.

How does Kaori calm Kōsei's nerves in a hallway before their first duet in Your Lie in April?

She headbutts him and tells him not to worry, moments before they are called on stage. The pair had raced to the hall on bikes and only just made it in time.

Before a competition round late in Your Lie in April, which food does Kōsei share with two rival pianists?

An egg sandwich, shared on the day of the contest, puts Kōsei on good terms with the two pianists who had spent years chasing him.

When panic strikes Kōsei mid-duet in Your Lie in April, where does he imagine himself trapped?

At the bottom of an ocean is the recurring image for his panic: his accompaniment spins out of control and he stops, until Kaori tells him to start again.

After his comeback competition in Your Lie in April, Kōsei and Kaori walk at night into a field of what?

Fireflies lead Kaori to remark that the insect's light is also its life, which gives the episode its title, Light of Life. Kōsei then admits she inspired his performance.

After collapsing at a performance in Your Lie in April, Kaori explains away her hospital stay with which condition?

Anemia is the cover story she gives, saying she only needs routine testing. In truth her condition is far more serious than she lets her friends believe.

After urging Kōsei to enter a piano competition in Your Lie in April, Kaori leaps from a bridge into what?

A river is where she lands, and Kōsei jumps in after her. He had found her playing hopscotch on the bridge after school.

Which Fritz Kreisler piece, once Saki Arima's lullaby, does Kōsei perform alone at a gala in Your Lie in April?

Love's Sorrow was written for violin and piano, but Kaori never arrives, so Kōsei plays a solo transcription. During it he finally makes peace with his memories of Saki.

As snow begins to come down in Your Lie in April, Kōsei carries Kaori to which part of the hospital?

The rooftop is where she stands and mimes holding her violin one more time, before collapsing into his arms in tears.

Which actor, later the lead of Netflix's Alice in Borderland, played Kōsei in the live-action Your Lie in April film?

Kento Yamazaki had to learn the piano for the part and practiced for six months before filming began.

Which voice actor, later heard as Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer, voices Kōsei Arima in Your Lie in April?

Natsuki Hanae won the Best Rookie prize at the 9th Seiyu Awards in 2015, and he is also the voice of Ken Kaneki in Tokyo Ghoul.

Which Broadway composer of Jekyll & Hyde wrote the music for the Your Lie in April stage musical?

Frank Wildhorn had already turned Death Note into a musical. His Your Lie in April show was delayed by the pandemic, premiered in Tokyo in 2022 and reached London's West End in 2024.

Despite its romance plot, the Your Lie in April manga won a major 2013 manga award in which category?

Shōnen, the category for boys' comics, fit because the series ran in a monthly boys' magazine rather than a girls' romance title.

The creator of Your Lie in April drew on his experience of which martial art to depict competition tension?

Kendo gave him a model for the tension of a contest. He also interviewed a composer and a pianist, and asked his editor, who had violin experience, for help.

Your Lie in April first aired in Japan on which late-night Fuji TV programming block?

Noitamina is the word Animation written backwards. Fuji TV launched the block in 2005 to reach viewers beyond the young male demographic that anime usually targeted.

Which voice actress, also Erina Nakiri in Food Wars, plays Kaori Miyazono in the Your Lie in April anime?

Risa Taneda had landed her first main role only two years earlier, in From the New World, before her career took off.

Which voice actor, famous as Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan, plays rival pianist Takeshi Aiza in Your Lie in April?

Yūki Kaji's Takeshi turns down an invitation to an international competition, sure that Kōsei is about to return to the stage.

Which Chopin work does the Your Lie in April anime feature in a violin-and-piano arrangement by the show's composer?

Ballade No. 1 is heard in the last episode, where Masaru Yokoyama's arrangement lets a violin join the piano as Kōsei imagines Kaori performing beside him.

Frozen at the piano in the finals of Your Lie in April, Kōsei is steadied by which sound from Tsubaki?

A sneeze from the seats reminds him that people are there supporting him, and he begins to play. Moments earlier he had broken down, afraid of losing someone he cared about.

In the Your Lie in April OVA Moments, young Takeshi Aiza takes up the piano hoping to receive what?

A toy robot hero was the reward he wanted, until he heard Kōsei perform and decided the boy at the keyboard was the real one to look up to.

Kōsei and Nagi Aiza's four-hands duet at her school festival in Your Lie in April comes from which ballet?

Sleeping Beauty, by Tchaikovsky, supplies the waltz the pair perform at one keyboard. Kaori listens in over a phone call, and her passion for music reawakens.

Who composed Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, the showpiece Kaori and Kōsei perform together in Your Lie in April?

Saint-Saëns wrote it in 1863 for the Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate. He meant it as the finale of a violin concerto, but its success as a solo piece led him to publish it separately.

The Your Lie in April anime modeled its settings on real spots along the Seibu Line in which Tokyo ward?

Nerima officials and the Seibu Railway helped the director choose locations, after the manga's creator showed them scenes set around places such as Ōizumi-gakuen Station.