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Your Lie In April E18 Hearts Come Together (Patreon)

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2023-02-10 00:00:03
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Settsu

I can confirm it is JOEL!

Darren Banks

Essay incoming! Sorry in advance! Love the emotion this show brings out in you. It’s key to remember that the show depicts high-strung, competitive kids. Their way of congratulating and recognizing each other is by trying to one up them with new found inspiration to pull something out of them they didn’t believe they had. I think Takeshi’s and Kaori’s mental and emotional states are very well illustrated. Takeshi was broken and lost after seeing his hero fall from grace in his eyes. In an earlier episode, we see him questioning why he was torturing himself for the recognition of someone that he no longer felt he understood. He was confused when he finally got that recognition only for Kousei not be the same pianist he recognized. His sister was internally pleading for him to find inspiration to push through and grow as pianist. So she set off to accomplish it herself. After watching her brother lose his inspiration, she started this journey as way to get payback against Kousei for her brother. But as she developed under Kousei, she saw much of herself in him. That he was also playing for someone. So while she wanted Takeshi to see how he inspired her as her hero, what she also wanted was for him to acknowledge the new Kousei, as he is still someone he can draw inspiration from even if he’s not his hero robot. She accomplished that. We see his inspired kid self flash before he darts off screen. He’s frustrated that he missed an opportunity to be there for his sister, but also moved and ready to overcome his challenges. So he may not have acknowledged her the way we believe she deserved, but she accomplished her goal. A congratulations means nothing in hindsight if he didn’t actually get the kick in the ass she was giving him within her performance. Kaori on the other hand, I feel you all were pretty close but without the music knowledge much of their banter can get lost in translation. The deal with her was the song of choice being a song of awakening, which is antithetical to her morbid situation. She’s also partially upset with Kousei because that waltz has a violin arrangement. Hence why Kousei wanted to perform with Nagi. As he stated. It was his way of punching Kaori. He knows she’s given up and he won’t accept it: her dying and him losing her. She didn’t let him give up chasing his dreams. He’s returning the favor. The girl who could barely walk was so moved by his metaphorical punch, got up out of her early grave of a hospital bed and dreamed of playing the violin piece of that waltz. Mission accomplished. She’s not giving up, even though she knows it's inevitable. He wasn’t doing it for a compliment, but as a signal that he wants round two. It also works as an apology for struggling to perform. He can redeem himself with her by giving a performance that isn’t a fight between their mental states like the first accompaniment. This also falls in line metaphorically with him wanting to be her equal. A waltz is shared between equals while the first performance was only meant to be an piano accompaniment that Kousei unknowingly turned into a pseudo waltz. He owes her a redo. The joke about her not being a princess was in reference to the light novel Kaoris been reading, which coincidentally happens to be about a dying princess and pianist boy and is 100% an actual novel! This is also where the "Do you want to commit double suicide with me?" line comes from. The song the boy plays in the novel is Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess." The waltz Kousei just played with Nagi is from The Sleeping Beauty. Happy ending. No dead princess. He's essentially telling her he's refusing to play her eulogy after basically playing her a "Wake up! We're doing this! You don't get to give up!" song. Which is a fucking brilliant detail. He wasn't bringing her to reality. He was forcing her to leave it one last time. Which is frustrating for her, as he's the only one who knows she's accepted her fate. While it's easy get lost in the competitive banter between all the musicians, what’s clear and beautiful between all of them is despite their fixation on leaving the most memorable moment, NONE of them want that moment at the expense of another. The main people they want to inspire are each other. And they all do a damn good job of it. In this performance Kousei used Nagi to reach Kaori, but at the same time, goaded Nagi into reevaluating how to effectively communicate her emotions in her play to Takeshi... It's truly impeccable writing. As a former musician who gave up those dreams a long time ago, all of these episodes bring me to tears every single time.

intothevoidanime
>>101589943

Thank you for this man! Love the insight and clarification on things! This show can hit wayyyy too close to home as well! I used to be in a band constantly and as of the last few years I've stepped back for no real reason and I regret not taking advantage of time I had with others. It's never too late to turn that former musician, back into current musician!!