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Format
TV
Episodes
22
Episode Duration
22 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Fall 2014
Aired
2014-10-10 to 2015-03-20
Source
Manga
Rating
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Genres
Drama
Music
Romance
School
Shounen
Love Polygon
Studios
A-1 Pictures
Producers
Aniplex
Dentsu
Kodansha
Fuji TV
Lawson HMV Entertainment
Kyoraku Industrial Holdings
Kansai Telecasting
Licensors
Aniplex of America
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (四月は君の嘘)
Kousei Arima is a child prodigy known as the "Human Metronome" for playing the piano with precision and perfection. Guided by a strict mother and rigorous training, Kousei dominates every competition he enters, earning the admiration of his musical peers and praise from audiences. When his mother suddenly passes away, the subsequent trauma makes him unable to hear the sound of a piano, and he never takes the stage thereafter. Nowadays, Kousei lives a quiet and unassuming life as a junior high school student alongside his friends Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryouta Watari. While struggling to get over his mother's death, he continues to cling to music. His monochrome life turns upside down the day he encounters the eccentric violinist Kaori Miyazono, who thrusts him back into the spotlight as her accompanist. Through a little lie, these two young musicians grow closer together as Kaori tries to fill Kousei's world with color. [Written by MAL Rewrite]