The English translation of the manga was first published on July 7, 2012. It was written by Naoshi Arakawa and published by Kodansha. There are currently 11 volumes in the manga series.
The anime adaptation was released on October 9, 2014. It was directed by Kyōhei Ishiguro, written by Takao Yoshioka and the music was composed by Masaru Yokoyama.
Kousei Arima (有馬 公生)
Birthday: March 28
Kousei is a prodigy pianist and was the youngest pianist to win the Saki Competition but quit playing after the death of his mother resulted in his inability to hear the sounds of his own playing. Following the death of his mother, he lived two years without playing the piano and saw the world through monotone colors, but this changed after meeting Kaori Miyazono, a beautiful young musician who pushed Kousei to his limits in an attempt to get his fingers back onto the piano keys. s.
Kaori Miyazono (宮園 かをり)
Age: 14-15Birthday: July 4
Kaori Miyazono is one of the main protagonists of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. She is a violinist who helps Kousei Arima return to the piano world after his mother's death.
Kaori Miyazono is a free-spirited violinist whose playing style reflects on her personality. She is independent, unpredictable, and short-tempered. It is also touched upon that she is passive aggressive at times. Kaori likes to depend on herself and only herself and can be seen as more of a support for others.
While considered a really sloppy violin player from a technical standpoint, such as not following music score sheets the way they are written, Kaori is an amazing violinist. Noted by one of the judges at Towa Hall during the first competition of the series, her pure abilities far exceed the others in the competition. She wields a free spirited style of performance that emphasizes emotions and artistry over the pure mechanics of music, such playing to specific tempos and dynamics originally intended by the composer. Her style of music is what rekindles Kousei's passion for the piano and inspires him to redefine himself as a musician.
In addition, she has the ability to play the melodica and has had some experience playing the piano.
Tsubaki Sawabe (澤部 椿)
Birthday: May 19Tsubaki is Kousei's childhood friend. She has always gone to his performances and cheered him on. Tsubaki would often invite Kousei to play outside but due to his practice time with his mother, she usually ended in failure. Being with Kousei for a long time, Tsubaki gradually took on the role as an "older sister." Kousei was that "useless little brother she just had to take care of." Rather than the music type, Tsubaki was the athletic type. She was on the softball team in both middle school and high school along with her senpai from middle school where she enjoyed the sport a lot.
Ryouta Watari (渡 亮太)
Birthday: April 4Ryouta is Kousei and Tsubaki's childhood friend who is also the captain of the school's soccer team. He is extremely popular with girls, often adopting a frivolous attitude. However, he does once in a while come up with good insight.
Ryota is a bit of a play-boy. He seems to prefer girls who are "cute" seen as he comments in episode 1 that when he sees Kaori for the first time he stated that Tsubaki did a good job on finding a cute looking girl.
Nagi Aiza (相座 凪 / 藍里 凪)
Nagi is Kousei Arima's first apprentice and student. She is a first year
student, studying a music course in Kurumigaoka Junior High School. She
initially introduced herself as Hiroko Seto's fan, but her ulterior
motives were revealed later on. Nagi is stubborn and childish. She was introduced as a cunning character who despises Arima Kousei.
Nagi maintains a realistic look in life and repeatedly testifies her hate for cliché. Because of her unerring piano skills, she is slightly arrogant and claims herself as "Angel of Kurumi Junior High". Nagi also appears to have a distaste for anyone who refers to their superiors without the appropriate honorific, as shown when Miike did not refer to Kousei Arima as his Sensei or Senpai, instead addressing him directly as "Arima."
Nagi is often seen to have a brother-complex, seeming to be completely fixated on her brother Takeshi. This complex has driven her to follow in his footsteps in order to get him to notice her and to also stop her brother's own fixation on Kousei.
Takeshi Aiza (相座 武士)
Takeshi has a very honest and straightforward personality. He is very
upfront about his rivalry and hatred (at first) for Kousei Arima. This
hatred is later revealed to be an admiration of Takeshi, and how he
looked up to Kousei as a hero. Takeshi looks up to Kousei to the extent
of rebuking Kousei when he did not meet his expectations as a pianist. Takeshi is one of the best piano players of his generation, as mentioned for being invited to Europe for competitions and winning the majority of recent piano competitions in Japan.
It was shown that prior to the storyline, Takeshi and Emi Igawa are sitting together complaining about the "emotionless" Kousei after losing to him in a piano competition. The rest of the crowd points out that Takeshi and Emi are head and shoulders above the rest of the competition, which makes Kousei all the more invincible for beating the two. In the storyline, it is shown that Takeshi looked up to Kousei as a hero, and constantly practiced in order to surpass Kousei.
Emi Igawa (井川 絵見)
One of the best middle school pianist in the story, on par with Takeshi.
She is known to play to her emotions and can be thrown off of her game
with the slightest sense of discomfort. It was shown that prior to the storyline, Emi and Takeshi are sitting together complaining about the "emotionless" Kousei Arima after losing to him in a piano competition. The rest of the crowd points out that Takeshi and Emi are head and shoulders above the rest of the competition, which makes Kousei all the more invincible for beating the two. While Takeshi sees Kousei as a rival that pushes him to greater heights, Emi has a different motive. She was originally inspired by Kousei's passion and pure innocence during his first performance, she decided to learn piano under Yuriko Ochiai for the sake of expression. Over the course of the story, Emi seeks to oppose the "boring" playing style of the old Kousei in hopes to find the "true" Kousei once again.
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