What's in an OP? - The Truth Behind Your Lie in April

A way too deep analysis of anime openings. This week, the best show of 2014 reveals its deepest secrets right as the credits roll.

What's in an OP? has now moved to Sundays, where it will stay for the foreseeable future. Still plan on releasing these every other week, but Sunday seems like a better day for it. As always, feedback is appreciated - I want to make these videos as good as humanly possible.

Songs Used: Hikaru Nara standard and instrumental versions by Goose House

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) anime produced by A-1 Pictures based on a manga of the same name written by Naoshi Arakawa and published by Kodansha.

Series licensed by Aniplex of America for distribution. Also available for streaming on Crunchyroll.

[wickz-deadbeats]

The message of this was
"You see that bird?"
"Yeah"
"She is dead"

[cyantoday]

I swear Kaori is smart af she planned all of that just to meet Kousei

[zarcul]

Most anime girls: confess at the end of the anime

Kaori: confesses after she dies

[animeislife]

"A Spring Without You Is Coming"

[Jaregasp]

Every video with your lie in april:

Dear Arima Kousei,

[killerslowpoke]

"And here again she has her eyes closed, because she's tired. Orrr dead!" I didn't know it was possible to laugh and sob uncontrollably at the same time.

[destinylink]

Please don't tell me I'm the only one who still cries when I think about this show.

[gaupau]

Two aspects of this show that made it as tragic as it was is the powerlessness and unfairness. Even though Kousai loved Kaori so much, he couldn't do anything to save her. Not him, her friends, her parents or the surgeons. She didn't want to die. She was scared of being left alone. She was so young with unbound potential. Her future was taken away from her and its incredibly unfair and heartbreaking. For someone as young as 14, being on a gradual decline to death is so mentally taxing and depressing. No young teen should have to worry about not being able to experience everything life has to offer. She never had a first kiss, never was told that she was loved by a significant other. She never got to confess her love to Kousai in person. She never got to experience adulthood...i could go on.

She was just too joyous, pure and she gave it her all to help Kousai out of his despair. Even when he'd lost all hope in himself, Kaori was there for him. She never gave up on him. She couldn't have given up on him. It's not in her nature to give up on others, even when they can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. And as soon as Kousai was turning a new leaf and is feeling the spirit of living, thats when his first true love is slowly being taken away from him. And there is nothing he can do about it. Life is cruel.

I know this story is fiction and i make it sound like this actually happened, but the thing is is that this is a very real scenario. Poor young kids who have aspirations and dreams, get their lives tragically cut short without anything that can be done about it. The grief that they go through, the parents, friends etc. Truly, life is cruel.

It's all these things that really made me break down in tears. And i'll tell you, they weren't joyous tears. I seriously cannot watch shows like this ever again. My despair and sorrow is insurmountable after this concluded.

All i can say is thank you Kaori for being the angel Kousai needed. You gave him a life full of happiness and resolve. Truly, gone too soon.

[uwu-chips]

I feel like I'm back in my English class again, but with anime.

[ryanthundersword]

When you realize that if Kaori ended up living we would be happy and move on and forget it but now that she is dead, we will never forget it cause it hurts so much.

Kaori- “promise me, you won’t forget!”

[elijahlb]

It is April. Time to rewatch, cry for a few days, then set a reminder for next April.

[dannihollingsworth]

Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
You: Let me remind you AGAIN—Kaori is DEAD

[lile]

I will never see this OP the same again. :(

[brid]

I cried for 4 hour straight after finishing this anime. I’ve never been so emotionally attached to an anime character before. I cry every time I start thinking of it..

[Kudarat]

I did not cry watching this anime even once.




My lie in April 2020.

[kreisigal]

I thought the lie meant "we are going to perform once more together" but then she would die but it was the obvious instead, love.

[tylerblackshire]

So basically this anime was perfection

[introvert]

Angel Beats made me cry,
Violet Evergarden had me weep,
You Lie In April freakin brought me to my knees

[sdajess]

when she kept saying things like she wouldn’t be there forever example “kousei you know I won’t always be here for you” gave it away but I still cried like a baby when she died

[ddrey]

5:45 subtitles, got me dead 😂

“Because you know she’s dead [we get it you monster]”