History Anime / TheAnthemOfTheHeart

* AnAesop: Words can hurt people, so choose yours carefully, but it's also important to let people know where you stand.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jun can be interpreted as having some sort of anxiety disorder, given how she actively avoids most social interaction, talking to people results in bad stomachaches, and her intense fear of doing so stems from [[spoiler: fear that her words will cause harm or judgement from other people]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Yes, Jun's father. Blame your daughter for exposing your affair. That surely won't traumatize her in any way whatsoever!

* DramaticIrony: Features ''heavily'' in the opening minutes of the movie: it's clear to the viewer from the beginning that the "fairytale castle" Jun is enamoured with is actually a LoveHotel, and while she's too young and innocent to actually understand what it means that her father was visiting said "castle" with a mysterious woman, [[YourCheatingHeart it's all too obvious what's actually going on here.]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive As Jun proceeds to happily tell her mother all about her father and "his princess,"]] she's oblivious to her reaction- but the audience is not.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Jun sees her father at a love hotel with another woman, and she tells her mother about it, resulting in her parents' divorce. But according to Jun's father, the divorce is ''Jun's'' fault for being a "chatterbox", even though he was the one [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]] in the first place. Unfortunately, Jun was too young at the time to realize he was full of it.

* LoveHotels: One that's styled like a medieval castle. The young Jun [[MrImagination thinks it's literally a castle]] and [[DramaticIrony doesn't understand why her mother gets upset]] when she talks about seeing [[YourCheatingHeart her father leaving the place with some other woman]]. It's later explicitly identified as a love hotel by some other characters, though by that point the place has been shut down for the sake of symbolism.

* YourCheatingHeart: The plot starts because Jun caught her father cheating on her mother.

* StunnedSilence: The whole class after Jun [[SuddenlyVoiced suddenly starts singing]].

* BlandNameProduct: A [=WcDonald=] diner is shown.

* CementShoes: Mentioned by the magical egg as a possible punishement for Jun if she ever talked again.

* HateSink: Jun's father only has a few minutes of screentime, but since his only on-screen actions are to cheat on his wife and then blame his elementary-aged daughter for their subsequent divorce, he's not very popular among viewers of the movie.

* GameBreakingInjury: Daiki suffered one in the backstory -- the team failed to make it to Nationals because he busted out his elbow. He's very bitter about this.

* HiddenDepths: In-universe, everyone's shocked at Takumi's musical talent after he'd previously not shown any inclination towards it.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Jun sees her father at a love hotel with another woman, and she tells her mother about it, resulting in her parents' divorce. But according to Jun's father, the divorce is ''Jun's'' fault for being a "chatterbox", even though he was the one cheating on his wife in the first place. Unfortunately, Jun was too young at the time to realize he was full of it.

* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: A variation. Jun eventually comes to realize that [[spoiler: there was no magic egg and she just made it up so she could have something to blame for her parents' divorce]].

* LoopholeAbuse: The egg's curse only said she wasn't allowed to speak--it never said anything about singing. [[spoiler:Subverted. When Jun hears that Takumi doesn't love her back, the depression-metaphor egg-man returns to tell her [[MovingTheGoalposts she was actually forbidden from communicating at all, especially about anything close to her heart.]]]]

* MagicalRealism: Follows the rules of reality, except for the strange magical egg that curses Jun. [[spoiler:In the end it turns out she just imagined him... [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane probably]]. He (it?) does bear some resemblance to an in-story mythology.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Jun and Takumi. Both have issues stemming from their parents' divorce (which they both think they caused in some way) and are dealing with the fallout of poor communication. This is why they eventually bond over the course of the film.

* YourCheatingHeart: The plot starts because Jun caught her father cheating on her mother.

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Takumi's [[ThoseTwoGuys nerdy friends]] use a singing software called "Mint" to reconstruct the song Jun spontaneously sang in class. (The software used is the real-life {{Music/Vocaloid}} competitor [=CeVIO=]'s Satou Sasara, who shares Jun's voice actress Inori Minase, and was naturally [[ProductPlacement capitalized quite heavily in advertising]].

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Takumi's [[ThoseTwoGuys nerdy friends]] use something like a {{Music/Vocaloid}} to reconstruct the song Jun spontaneously sang in class.

* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler: Jun confesses to Takumi, knowing full well that he still carries a torch for Natsuki. Takumi and Natsuki reconcile in the end]].

* InsaneTrollLogic: Jun sees her father at a love hotel with another woman, and she tells her mother about it, resulting in her parents' divorce. But according to Jun's father, the divorce is ''Jun's'' fault for being a "chatterbox", even though he was the one cheating on his wife in the first place.

After a magical egg convinces young Jun Naruse that her chatterbox tendencies caused her parents' divorce, it curses her so that she can't talk. Fast forward to high school, where Jun, now nearly incapable of speaking, is chosen to be part of the committee for their class's Community Outreach. Joining her on the committee are Takumi Sakagami, an introverted, apathetic boy with hidden musical talent, Natsuki Nito, their school's put-together cheer captain, and Daiki Tasaki, the hot-blooded former ace of their baseball team recovering from an injury. The film follows the relationships between these four characters as their high school class races to put on a musical.

* CheerfulChild: Young Jun was an energetic MsImagination. High school Jun, [[ShrinkingViolet not so much]].
* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler: Jun confesses to Takumi, knowing full well that he still carries a torch for Nito. Takumi and Nito reconcile in the end]].

->"What’s inside the egg? All kinds of feelings locked inside. Then, unable to keep them locked in, it explodes. And the world that’s created then – it is more beautiful than I ever thought."

* ElectiveMute: Jun, who can't speak because of the psychological trauma of her parents' divorce. Trying to do so results in bad stomachaches.

* RaisedByGrandparents: Takumi is living with his grandparents after his parents got divorced, his mother left, and his father is extremely busy with work.

->"What’s inside the egg? All kinds of feelings locked inside. Then, unable to keep them locked in, it explodes. And the world that’s created then – it is more beautiful than I ever thought."

** Takumi is melancholic. He's introverted, avoids talking about his feelings, and is seemingly apathetic, but is emotional, decisive, and sensitive.

''The Anthem of the Heart'', is a 2015 anime film produced by A-1 Pictures. Its original Japanese title is ''Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda''. It shares a production staff with ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay''.

After a magical egg convinces young Jun Naruse that her chatterbox tendencies caused her parents' divorce, it curses her so that she can't talk. Fast forward to high school, where Jun, now with anxiety that hinders her ability to speak, is chosen to be part of the committee for their class's Community Outreach. Joining her on the committee are Takumi Sakagami, an introverted, apathetic boy with hidden musical talent, Natsuki Nito, their school's put-together cheer captain, and Daiki Tasaki, the hot-blooded former ace of their baseball team recovering from an injury. The film follows the relationships between these four characters as their high school class races to put on a musical.

* ElectiveMute: Jun, who can't speak because of the psychological trauma of her parents' divorce.

** Jun is phlegmatic. She's self-deprecating and passive to the point of having debilitating social anxiety, but is compassionate and kind.

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Young Jun saw the world in fairytale terms, casting her father as a king and the love hotel as a castle.

* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: A variation. Jun eventually comes to realize that [[spoiler: there was no magic egg and she just made it up so she could have something to blame for her parents' divorce]].

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The reason [[spoiler: both Jun and Natsuki are in love with Takumi, because of his kindness and consideration]].

After a magical egg convinces young Jun Naruse that her chatterbox tendencies caused her parents' divorce, it curses her so that she can't talk. Fast forward to high school, where Jun, now with anxiety that hinders her ability to speak, is chosen to be part of the committee for their class's Community Outreach. Joining her on the committee are Takumi Sakagami, an introverted, apathetic boy with hidden musical talent, Nito Natsuki, their school's put-together cheer captain, and Daiki Tasaki, the hot-blooded former ace of their baseball team recovering from an injury. The film follows the relationships between these four characters as their high school class races to put on a musical.

** Nito is sanguine. She's the friendly, hardworking cheer captain of the team. She's accommodating, but can give in to peer pressure.

** Takumi is melancholic. He's introverted and seemingly apathetic, but is emotional, decisive, and sensitive.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Nito reaches this decision when she concludes that [[spoiler: Takumi is in love with Jun, deciding to cheer both of them on. She's wrong, and Takumi is actually hung up on her, but the trope still counts]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the central themes of the film. Although it's seen most clearly in Jun's CharacterDevelopment against her muteness, it's seen in the other characters too. The baseball team is underperforming because nobody is dealing with the tension that's arisen between the injured Daiki and the new ace, and [[spoiler: Nito and Takumi's relationship ground to a stop because they didn't talk about the problems they underwent in middle school]].

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The reason [[spoiler: both Jun and Nito are in love with Takumi, because of his kindness and consideration]].