And in fact, it does, in that they use music from a Ghibli movie. That moment could have been taken out of a movie. While I enjoyed that performance scene in the first episode, it’s handily eclipsed by the boy-meets-girl moment, where Kousei comes across Kaori for the first time. Perhaps the urgency of the third movement reflects Kousei’s unbridled desire to live up to his mother’s dream before she passes on? Or maybe its use is mundane because it simply looks cool and shows off Kousei’s virtuosic abilities? We may never know the true answer, but I’m nevertheless grateful that one of the lesser-known sections of the “Moonlight” Sonata got its chance to shine rather than the overplayed and overrated first movement. And for that matter, I’d also like to know if there’s a reason why they don’t play the first movement since its tone is more appropriate given Kousei’s mother’s circumstances. That leaves the third movement, which enthralls me with its fierceness, complete with the flurry of fits and spurts (and lots of arpeggios!), as it drives relentlessly on towards that grim, foreboding end.Īside from the fact that the “Moonlight” Sonata is a standard part of many a budding pianist’s repertoire, I wonder if any other factors might have contributed to its usage in Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso.
The second movement is short and pleasant, but not overly memorable. Between the three sections, I’m least fond of the first movement because it wallows a bit too much in its despair. The first movement comes across as a dreary funeral march, trudging along in hopelessness while the second movement provides a calming, mellow reprieve that leads into the ferocious third movement. Now, the “Moonlight” Sonata is a curious nickname for this piece because there isn’t anything about it that is suggestive of the calmness and serenity of a little night music. You’ll hardly find a pianist who hasn’t encountered the piece at some point in their studies. Most of us know it better as the “Moonlight Sonata,” but whether by name or by number, it’s a staple of pianists everywhere. The anime kicked the classical music aspect into gear with Kousei on the piano, playing… not the first movement, or the second movement, but the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso immediately caught my attention with the first scene after the opening theme. It’s worth my while to stick with this series, especially if I can use this soapbox to comment about classical music itself and maybe even give a bit of insight on why the music was used like it was. But with this Fall season, we have Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, which has sufficiently impressed me with that very approach, imparting a level of enthusiasm that I haven’t felt since watching Nodame.Ĭlassical music to make a match in heaven? While the two main characters, Kousei Arima and Kaori Miyazono, aren’t even close to being a mature, compelling couple (they’re middle school students after all), the classical music backdrop is enough to get me to stay. If you're sensitive like me it will even make you tear up.even the secondary characters are interisting and well developed.Prologue: After Nodame Cantabile, you’d have to forgive me for believing no other anime would attempt using classical music as the backbone for a romantic comedy. The anime avoids the clichés that naturally come with a love story, there's something like a love triangle there too, or should i say, a love square? The sound track is perfect, the performances of the musicians breathtaking and with some suspense because you never know how it will go. The main character has a deep personal and sad story beneath it, the girl he meets is nothing like the typical girl either. but as the characters were presented i realized it was nothing like that.
At first i thought that the anime was going to be good but inevitably full of clichés: a guy who plays the piano, a girl with who he falls in love. I started watching it because i was bored and liked the style of the cover. Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is an anime to what nobody stays indifferent.