
They come after the content of an episode, so they aren’t used to introduce us to things about the anime, but rather reinforce things we’ve learned. Luckily for Your Lie in April, both OPs are great.ĮDs are just as important, however. By watching an OP, we can become familiar with both the tone of the series and the characters who will be featured in it. The OP of an anime is really what sets the stage even before we get to the actual content of the series.

While you may not think these are important because they’re not actually part of the story, you’d be wrong. This is specifically referring to the opening and ending animations and songs that play each episode. Two important pieces of an anime are the OP and ED (opening and ending). Good characters can carry an anime, and bad characters can drag one down, but we still need to take a look at the other pieces that make up the whole. However, as some of you may know, my favorite part of most anime are the characters, so much of what makes this series so good will be found in the “Characters” section. With that claim in mind, I’ll be using most of this review to explain why exactly that is. Without first checking my database of other anime I’ve seen, I’m going to go ahead and claim that Your Lie in April is the best anime of 2014 (upon further inspection I may find this to be false).


However, despite what it looks like on the surface, this anime is not about music itself, but rather about the characters who are developed through it. Your Lie in April is a 2014 drama anime about music, specifically how lifelong bonds can be formed through the playing of and listening to music.
