History Manga / YourLieInApril

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Disappointed by young Kousei's performance during a competition, Saki brutally beats him over the head with her cane. Multiple times. In front of ''everybody''. In the live action film, however, this is reduced to a single slap on the face.

* BridalCarry: Kousei holding Kaori like this in a brief scene from the first opening.

** Live action Kaori and Koharu are brunettes rather than blondes.

** Tsubaki is shown to have bluish hair on the cover of volume 3 of the manga, while the anime gives her brown hair. Also, Kousei says his eyes are brown early in chapter 1 (and in the first episode of the anime), but all of the covers and the anime depict his eyes as blue.
** Live action Kaori is a brunette rather than blonde.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Just from the backstory alone, Kousei loses a parent, then develops a condition where he can't hear his own piano playing. Nobody even thinks to suggest that he see a therapist of any variety. (Possibly justified in that seeing a psychologist is widely regarded as a tabu in Japan.)

* TheEndingChangesEverything: In the final episode [[spoiler: Kaori's goodbye letter reveals that she was inspired to become a musician by Kousei during his child prodigy days, that she had wanted to play music with him ever since she was a little girl, and that she lied about liking Watari in order to get close to Kousei]].

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kaori's parents show Kousei old pictures of Kaori, including the ones of her naked as a baby, to her great embarrassment.

--->'''Kousei''': A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery looks different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. ''What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably called love.''

* CherryBlossoms: Since the series starts in April, there are plenty of cherry blossoms. They serve as a symbol of Kaori and her relationship with Kousei, as they first meet in a rain of cherry blossoms. [[spoiler:In the finale their symbolism is bittersweet, since just like the short blooming of cherry blossoms, Kaori's life was over too soon.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After [[spoiler:Kaori's]] death, her still-living parents are last seen onscreen passing Kousei a letter from her.

* BettyAndVeronica: Reliable childhood friend Tsubaki and the wild and cheerful musician Kaori play these roles for Kousei respectively.
** Also seems to apply to Kousei, Kaori, and Watari, with Kousei as the reserved and [[InsecureLoveInterest insecure]] Betty to Watari's [[TheCasanova Casanova]] Veronica. [[spoiler:However, it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] at the end of the series, when the titular lie turns out to be Kaori claiming she liked Watari, when she's been in love with Kousei since she was five.]]

** Also seems to apply to Kousei, Kaori, and Watari, with Kousei as the reserved and [[InsecureLoveInterest insecure]] Betty to Watari's [[TheCasanova Casanova]] Veronica. [[spoiler:However, it's [[SubvertedTroped subverted]] at the end of the series, when the titular lie turns out to be Kaori claiming she liked Watari, when she's been in love with Kousei since she was five.]]

* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Because they're also ChildhoodFriends, Tsubaki's feelings to Kousei eventually become this, but she always assumed it's just a LikeBrotherAndSister-type relationship until he meets Kaori and Tsuabaki starts to get jealous.

Kousei, now in middle school, spends his days living in a monochrome world, having spent two years without playing piano but managing to live every day thanks to his friends, his cheerful neighbour [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Tsubaki]] and his best friend [[TheCasanova Watari]].

That is, until Tsubaki introduces him to Kaori Miyazono, a mysterious and beautiful classmate who plays the violin in a way he's never heard before, and that introduces colours into his world again.

* ComingOfAgeStory: With help from Kaori Kousei manages to overcome the traumas of his childhood, he stops feeling like his mother's puppet, he manages to accept that he's a pianist and learns some valuable life lessons.

* FirstNameBasis: Tsubaki ''Sawabe'' is very rarely referred to by her last name.

* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Because they're also ChildhoodFriends, Tsubaki's feelings to Kousei eventually become this, but she always assumed it's just a LikeBrotherAndSister-type relationship until he meets Kaori and Tsuabki starts to get jealous.

** Played straight with Kaori towards Kousei. As he explains, she's the one who introduces colours back into his life. [[spoiler: Then it's played for drama.]]
** It's revealed that [[spoiler: this was invoked by Kaori because it turns out, just like Takeshi, Nagi, and Emi, Kaori was also moved by Kousei's music and it brought colours into her world, prompting her to immediately swap to violin because she wanted to be able to play a duet with him.]]

* LikeParentLikeSpouse:
** In Chapter 32 / Episode 16, Kousei begins to realize that Kaori and his mother are quite similar; they're both obsessed with music, they're constantly pushing him into becoming a better pianist and are prone to drastic mood swings. [[spoiler: They also both suffer from unnamed but fatal diseases.]]
** This is lampshaded in Episode 16 when [[spoiler: Kousei, Watari and Tsubaki visit Kaori in the hospital and Kaori yells at him for not practicing for the upcoming competition in such a way that in Kousei's eyes, the room begins to glitch and Kaori turns into his mother.]]

* SchoolOfNoStudying: No character is ever shown studying at any point in the series.

* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Kousei retrieves Kaori's letter from her parents in front of her cemetery under the raining snow.]]

*** While Kousei is standing in front of some train tracks thinking about [[spoiler:Kaori's posthumous words]], Tsubaki shows him and kicks him in the shin again.

--->"I'm sorry. As someone who dropped you, I don't deserved to be a violinist. I'm sorry, ''please bear with me for just a little longer''."

** In episode 22, after Kashiwagi gives Tsubaki some sage advice, Tsubaki asks how she knows so much. The answer? Yaoi books.

*** Kaori's parent's attitude toward Kousei. [[spoiler: Despite Kousei just meeting them for the first time, they already have a very good opinion of him because Kousei is the only reason Kaori is still motivated to live her short life.]]