Watched a few eps of Your Lie in April since I'm on a piano kick and, I wanted to like it but pretty sure I don't. Too much manic pixie dream girl and modern anime-isms.
Got to ep6 and manic pixie dream girl character says something like "Wow I knew swimming would be fun!" Which immediately set off some
alarms.
So I skipped ahead to the end yup, they pull a whole "Bridge to Terabithia" thing and it's supposed to make the show seem deep (cause true art is sad, not happy) but it just doesn't really work...
The main girl's deal is she never says she loves the MC until after she dies... only telling him in letter form. #cucked
This biggest suspension breaker is when it's revealed she's loved him since both of them were 5 years old, and she saw him at a recital... however she never made contact with him during her childhood, and instead concocts this grand scheme when she's a teenager to """"""casually"""""" run into him.
The eponymous "lie" is that manic pixie girl "like liked" MC's best friend, not him, just so she could be MC-adjacent.
Like... what...
And then you throw this girl's overabundant personality (frequently coming off as pushy and bratty, you know, in between scenes where she's a virtuoso-level 14-year old violinist) and it just does not make sense. I can understand why someone portrayed like, say, Hinata, has issues getting close to her love interest throughout childhood. But this girl? There could just as easily been a scene when they were five where she's like "I decided, you're marrying me when we're grown ups!!" She's far more like Chichi than Hinata.
The MC also frequently annoyed me in similar but worse way that Haru on Free! does. But my complaints of him just amount to the type of melodrama and self-seriousness plaguing almost any modern anime. Dude is 14 but acts talks and acts like a 35-year old. C'mon.