Your Lie In April - Tumblr Posts
I decided to rewatch Your Lie in April for the first time in 2 years to see how my opinions and life experiences change my view of the show. And um... I don't think my reactions are what the show was going for.
On the bright side, I now have my first OT3.
Story time! So a while ago, I was watching Your Lie In April and I got to the end. Naturally, since it’s sad, I started to cry. My mom saw me and scoffed.
“They’re drawings,” she told me.
“They’re drawings with feelings!” I argued back.
That is my description of anime. Drawings with feelings. Best. Description. Ever.
April 2nd, 2021
1:42 P.M.
I just got a fortune cookie without a fortune inside. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I feel so betrayed. I thought Fridays were supposed to be a good thing...
Gif Request Meme
↳ Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso + Favorite Character, asked by anonymous - Arima Kousei
one gifset per episode ↳shigatsu wa kimi no uso 「 四月は君の嘘 」 ► the scenery i shared with you ( 10/22 )
“ There’s the smell of chalk. A window with unsightly cracks. The sound of distant sports teams. The shadows of cherry blossom petals. The faint breathing of someone asleep … the scenery’s changing … ” ( i’m going to play for you )
Rb this and tag what year you were born in + what was the first anime you watched
every day I wake up and I have 1000 different form of media that I could cry about
The thing that I hate the most about this new weave of anime fans is that they’ve generalized anime like other people do with other types of media.
For example, now people only watch “S tier seinen” because they’re the best, they’re peak fiction, the only thing worth watching.
You can bet your ass that they limit their watching/reading to berserk, vagabond, vinland saga, oyasumi pun pun, monster, etc.
Now, there is nothing wrong with liking seinen, I love seinen. It’s just that “weebs” discard every other genre of anime because for them dark seinens are superior.
Otakus weren’t like that. The thing I liked about our fandom, was that there was no shame in enjoying other genre of anime.
Film bros would hate to watch romcoms, romance movies; for them there is a certain embarrassment around watching “girl movies”. But otakus? They didn’t care about that. Your lie in April? Good. Ano Hana? Good. Clannad? They’d call you and say that was the best and saddest thing they’ve ever watched.
The whole “the big three aren’t that good, these seinen should be called that”. Completely disregard the impact that those shonen had on the manga/anime of the time. Not to talk about the complete obsession over proving that your favorite shonen is better than another. I swear to you IT WASN’T LIKE THIS BEFORE. Yeah there may have been some rivalry between like one piece fans and naruto fans, but it was never this toxic.
The complete abandonment of “slice of life” anime because for them the episodes feel like filler, expecting shonen to act like seinen and getting mad when notorious shonen trope is used, and the absolute lack of patience when it comes to slightly slow pacing. I could go on and on, and I just wish that things could go back to the way they were before. We were all fucking bullied for liking cartoons at “our big age” and the fandom made us feel not alone.
There was no “You like demon slayer? MID. it’s just the animation that carries the story. My hero academia? BORING, it follows the same shonen tropes that all the other shonen have, just read aot at this point.”
I’m not claiming there should be the death of personal opinions, quite the opposite in fact. Lately it seems that everybody’s taste is the same. if you ask 5 people their top 5 anime, 3 of those anime will be the same for these 5 people.
We used to share our different interests, now it’s like everyone is locked in the same echo chamber.
Go watch your slice of life anime! Talk about that shōjo! Watch that weird horror with only 4 episodes and 1 OVA! Recommend the super predictable shonen that makes you laugh! Drop that seinen that you’re not enjoying even if everyone says it’s peak fiction! Read that sport manga with impossible moves to replicate in real life!
BRING DIVERSE GENRE OF ANIME AND MANGA BACK
Top 10 roles of Natsuki Hanae: INPO
10. Reinhard - Rune Factory 5
9. Alm - Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
8. Yuna D. Kaito - Cardcaptor Sakura
7. Kosei Arima - Your Lie in April
6. Jaco - Dragon Ball Super
5. Gakuto Sogetsu - Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens
4. Sieg - Nasuverse
3. Inaho Kaizuka - Aldnoah.Zero
2. Taichi Yagami - Digimon Adventure tri.
1. Masamune Makabe - Masamune-kun’s Revenge
New to anitumblr!!!!! Follow me if you like any of the anime in the tags <3 I’ll follow back!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN MATPAT IS CO-PRODUCING THE NEW YLIA LIVE ADAPTATION
➜ ┊: kento yamazaki in live action roles ᵎ ✰
Watching Your lie in April
Time for some early morning heartbreak! Yay...
If this is love, I do not want it. Take it away. Why does it hurt so much?
“Because it was real.” -Thranduil to Tauriel
★ 【鬽】「 四月は君の嘘 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky
Its april again 😞😞😭
UwU
everyone is gonna kill me cuz of this crossover again
Spring will be here soon.
Spring, the season I met you, is coming.
A spring without you...
...is coming.
I made some comments on these that apparently didn't send, but I agree, I think that some more artistic geniuses should be appreciated. I think part of it comes down to as you mentioned, art being subjective. But I also do think there are some great examples in fiction of artistic geniuses.
My go-to character for this is probably Kousei Arima from Your Lie In April. He's a genius pianist who after his mother's death loses the ability to hear the music he plays and struggles to deal with his trauma with piano's and the idea of performing as a whole. It's a beautiful story about grief, loss, personal identity, reinvention, trauma, and depression as this teenaged boy tries to explore himself and learn who he is, what he is, and learn to perform once more, despite his challenges with his music he is still very much regarded as a genius or at the very least gifted kid by multible characters and his genius and skill is a central theme as he explores that along side the grief and healing.
You mentioned you like Hiro Hamada, and while Kousei Arima is a vastly different character (I'd say much more meek and polite than Hiro) Kousei has the similarity of grief and personal identity as well as healing in his character arch, but there's enough differences that they do feel distinctive as characters. I enjoy both characters a lot and heavily relate to them.
Though I will note while Kousei is a pianist and by nature artistic, he does have a little bit more of an analytical nature while analyzing the pieces he plays and listens to, he's still definitely more artistic and poetic (he has multiple inner monologues that feel very poetic and artistic to me). I think Kousei is an interesting take on an artist as he is still artistic and a genius, he also has an analytical attitude towards a lot of things (which I think is really cool! as an artist, poet, and writer as well as someone who's done robotics for multiple years at their school and is going to start school at a specialized STEM school come fall, it's very, very frustrating to me when people separate the arts from STEM and thing creativity and analytic types are mutually exclusive, since in many ways some of the most scientific people I've met are also some of the most artistic.)
I've already yapped a lot, but essentially, try looking at the musical prodigy characters and some other artistic characters, they might be coded as geniuses but not perceived a lot as them (especially in anime and manga! I've seen a decent amount of artist characters that are very much coded with gifted kid/genius energy to them). I think Your Lie In April is a good example of this, I'd recommend the manga heavily (the anime is mostly faithful buttt it does miss out on some of the emotional heart and isn't as clear with Kousei's crush which is a central theme, but the anime is great with how accurate it is to real people playing instruments due to the fact they had real people play the pieces and traced over their fingers to understand how to animate the quick precise movements!)
If you do decide to read/watch Your Lie In April, please be warned the story is VERY heavy, and has themes of abuse, neglect, depression, grief, and self-identity, as well as illness, and ends in a tragedy. The story is a bit frustrating with the romances inside of it, but it's purposeful as the tragedy comes from the interpersonal relationships and the character's minds, if you're not a fan of love triangles it may not be for you, but said love triangles are in service of the story, not against it!
(Also side note: though the left and right brain phrase is good at communicating your thoughts in this, I would like to bring up the fact that the left and right brain concepts have been debunked as pseudoscience/inaccurate to how the brain really works, both sides of the brain are active most of the time unless there is major brain damage, there isn't a dominant side as both work together to get almost every task done.
Sources:
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/left-brain-vs-right-brain
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/right-brainleft-brain-right-2017082512222
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321037#studies
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201712/left-brain-right-brain-study-debunks-decades-old-neuromyth )
(BTW, if you do see this, feel free to DM me! I love talking about geniuses/gifted kids in media as I'm someone who grew up being labeled as such and identify with a lot of characters called said labels. And if you do decide to watch/read Your Lie In April, tell me about it! I'd love to hear your thoughts :D)
-Feral/Raine
I wish we had more right-brained kid geniuses in media. All geniuses in media are geniuses in a math or science or just left-brained way, ESPECIALLY the kid geniuses. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the math whizz trope, Hiro Hamada is one of my favorite characters of all time!, I just would like someone to be “The greatest potter” or “the best poet” and like secretly be twelve or something. It would be fun haha! Maybe ppl don’t really do that because art is subjective where maths just aren’t yk? Still, fun concept tho!
Some old art
So, I realized, I don't think I ever posted finished art on this account, I might've posted this on another older account, not sure, but I felt like posting some art since I've been down lately.
I made this back in like, December, January, some time around that, it took me a long time since I get putting down my art and shit and I haven't been feeling great this last year or so, and tbh, my obsessions and interests are the only thing keeping my head above water rn. But I really liked this piece, I was trying to recreate a manga panel from Your Lie In April whilst trying to add a background, the background was completely unplanned and mostly just there to cover up the fact I had made his hand too big, but I like how it turned out, at the time I didn't do much gouache work and the background was completely in gouache, so I consider it a win. Here's the panel I tried to recreate:
