#PIANO SCENE YOUR LIE IN APRIL ANIME SERIES#
Consider even Arima and where the series might be headed. Ultimately, if we place our trust and identity in anything of this world, it will fail us. Arima is the same – he doesn’t know what he is, as has become wrapped up in places that are unhealthy. They become our idols, the places where we put our effort and longing – and that, like it or not, come to define us. We worship at the altar of money, success, pleasure, wealth, comfort, entertainment, pride. If we investigate closely enough, we’ll find that we, too, are slaves to something or to multiple things. He is slave to the score, slave to his mother, and slave to fear.Īrima’s condition isn’t too different from anyone else’s. Afraid to show his emotions to her as a child, he’s still afraid to be himself and break out of his shell. His fellow competitors whisper that he plays like a marionette, and Kaori says he is “slave to the score.” But Arima isn’t even to the point of realizing how he plays – he’s still stuck as his mother’s child. He belongs to someone else – or really, to multiple someone elses. Although Kaori gives her always wise words in the very anime-ish “you are you” fashion, Arima still feels he doesn’t know himself. In fact, Arima spends most of this episode thinking about who he is. After all, he still can’t hear the music, nor has he yet reached a point of transformation. If I have to take a guess at this point (and no spoilers please), I imagine that Arima will lose the competition – maybe badly.
Meanwhile, we learn more about Emi and especially Takeshi, two talented pianists who have longed to defeat Arima in competition. Arima prepares for the piano competition while continuing to battle his inner demons. After so many episodes of epiphanies and emotional closings, episode seven of Your Lie in April (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) is even keeled.