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Your Lie in April

★ 8.6 55K votes 2014–2015 1 season · 22 episodes Ended Fuji TV
Music sceneMusicians, bands and the industry behind them.This show: 10/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 10/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 10/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 9/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 9/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 9/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10
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Starring
Natsuki HanaeRisa TanedaAyane SakuraRyôta ÔsakaErika HarlacherBennett Abara
Starring
Natsuki HanaeRisa TanedaAyane SakuraRyôta ÔsakaErika HarlacherBennett Abara
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About

"A tearjerker that turns piano recitals into emotional warfare"

A teenage piano prodigy who abandoned music after his mother's death is pulled back to the keys by a free-spirited violinist who barrels into his life. What starts as a breezy school comedy about music competitions and awkward crushes slowly deepens into something far more emotional, exploring grief, guilt, and why people create art at all. The animation sells every performance as a genuine emotional climax, and the tonal swings from goofy slapstick to devastating quiet moments are the show's defining trait, for better or worse.

Watch it for

the musical performances, animated with such intensity they double as the show's emotional climaxes.

Maybe skip if

you find melodrama manipulative or dislike stories that telegraph tragedy early and often.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12014
8.747K228h 11m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Monotone/Colorful7.7
2K23 min
▶2Friend A8.1
2K22 min
▶3Inside Spring8.1
2K22 min
▶4Departure9.1
2K23 min
▶5Gray Skies7.9
2K23 min
▶6On the Way Home8.4
2K22 min
▶7The Shadows Whisper7.8
2K22 min
▶8Let It Ring8.6
2K22 min
▶9Resonance9.0
2K22 min
▶10The Scenery I Shared with You9.3
2K21 min
▶11Light of Life8.4
2K24 min
▶12Twinkle Little Star8.0
2K22 min
▶13Love's Sadness9.2
2K23 min
▶14Footprints8.6
2K23 min
▶15Liar8.2
2K22 min
▶16Two of a Kind8.2
2K22 min
▶17Twilight7.9
2K22 min
▶18Hearts Come Together8.8
2K22 min
▶19Goodbye Hero8.3
2K22 min
▶20Hand in Hand9.1
2K22 min
▶21Snow9.3
2K22 min
▶22Spring Breeze9.8
8K23 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Natsuki Hanae Kousei Arima
Risa Taneda Kaori Miyazono
Ayane Sakura Tsubaki Sawabe
Ryôta Ôsaka Ryouta Watari
Erika Harlacher Emi Igawa
Bennett Abara Toshiya Miike
Erik Scott Kimerer Takeshi Aiza
Julie Ann Taylor Nao Kashiwagi
Adin Rudd Additional Voices
Jennifer Alyx Additional Voices

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