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Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) is a music manga series by Naoshi Arakawa. It has an anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures.

Shigatsu image, characters left to right: Watari, Arima, Kaori, Tsubaki

Your Lie in April (四月は君の嘘 Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) is a music manga series by Naoshi Arakawa, with an anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures.

The story follows a piano child prodigy named Kōsei Arima, famous among his fellow child musicians for playing piano notes with utmost perfection on competitions. However, his mother died of an illness two years ago and this has caused a mental breakdown for Arima. This traumatic experience led to him being unable to hear the sound of his piano playing anymore.

Today, he still views the world in monotone and seems content with his life without music together with his friends, Tsubaki and Watari. This rhythm is disrupted when she meets Miyazono Kaori, a pretty girl of his age and a free spirited violinist. Together with Kaori and his friends, Arima is again plunged into the colorful world of music he left two years ago.

The manga and anime focuses on Arima's is internal struggle, as he tries once more to view the world in vibrant colors and adapt a playing style entirely opposite to his original structured playing. These four teenagers tackle the world of music, friendship and love as they grow closer to each other through their adventures.

The Manga began serialization in Monthly Shōnen Magazine in May 2011. A-1 Pictures began airing their Anime adaptation of the Manga Series in October 2014 with Crunchyroll streaming the series in English Subtitles

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What exactly was the "lie" in April?

The title of the series is Your Lie in April (Japanese: Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso). What was the lie? What was the reason for the lie?
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What kind of illness was Kaori Miyazono suffering from?

Does anyone know what kind of illness Kaori Miyazono was suffering from? According to the series' wiki, it is speculated that it was bone marrow failure, due to the change in her skin pigmentation and the need for an operation.
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What does "Elohim, Essaim... Elohim, Essaim I implore you" mean?

In episode 4 of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April), Kaori says a prayer "Elohim, Essaim... Elohim, Essaim I implore you" before the performance. What does it mean?
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What is the name of the background music that plays before Kaori and Kousei's performance?

In Episode 4, right before their performance, Kaori headbutts Kousei, and then some BGM starts playing. In the next episode, episode 5, as Kousei is running home in the rain, the same song plays again, and continues into the flashback. What is the…
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Why are there omissions and discrepancies in Kaori's Kreutzer performance?

In ep. 2, the entrants to the competition are shown playing extracts from the first movement of Beethoven's sonata no. 9 (often referred to as the Kreutzer). This is most likely the only movement played, given the portrayal of Kaori's performance…
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Did Kaori know that Arima loved her?

Did Kaori know that Arima loved her? From the letter she gave to Arima, she confessed everything and even gave that photograph, but at the same time, she told him to throw it away if he wanted to. This according to me suggests that she didn't know…
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Why couldn't Kousei hear himself play?

In the beginning, there were several times when Kousei was playing the piano, and he suddenly felt that he was at the bottom of the ocean and couldn't hear what he was playing. Why did that happen, and was he able to hear himself play at the end?
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Where can I purchase anime soundtracks for download?

As much as I would like to buy the CDs for some of my favourite soundtracks, I don't have a CD drive on my laptop and also I would be ripping the music off the cd anyway. Are there any legal sites where I can download soundtracks for shows I like,…
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What music was Kousei playing in the first episode?

Right after the OP on the first episode, 11 year-old Kousei is shown playing the piano. What music is he playing? Is this an existing music, or was it something made for the series?
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Are Watari and Kaori a couple by the time she is hospitalized after missing the gala violin concert?

One of the reasons Kousei uses to rationalize never making a move on Kaori (and the real reason being his indecisiveness, in my opition) is that she is Watari's girl/romantic interest. Watari and Kaori are never shown as a couple, or even having…
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Are manga artists really pressured by the editors not to put dangerous or illegal scenes in their works?

In the Monthly Girls' Nozaki Kun (both in the episode 1 of the anime and chapter 1 of the manga), Nozaki tells Sakura that the bicycle scene cannot have tandem riding because it is against the vehicle law and he can't display that in his manga. But…
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What does the lie have got to do with April?

What does the lie in Your Lie in April have to do with April?
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Why wasn't Kaori Miyazono famous?

From the show's earlier episodes, it's easily evident that Kaori was a great violinist. Even one of the judges was shocked and wondered like "where had she been all this time and why isn't she famous?" Why wasn't Kaori famous or known as a notable…
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Is it shown in the Manga the moment when Watari becomes aware of "the lie"?

Watari is a big part of the romantic rectangle in the story, but he is also pivotal to "the lie". In the anime it is only hinted that he is aware of the lie, for example when he in a light, teasing tone asks Kousei if he is going to steal "his"…
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What is "The Miracle" that 10,000 fans of KimiUso voted for?

According to the wikia, fans had a chance to vote on if they wanted a miracle to occur. This was during the run of the series. What is this miracle? Information in Japanese can be found on the second link but it is not easily Google Translateable.
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