Your Lie in April (四月は君の嘘)

Meow!

Maihou Newspaper Corporation 60th Anniversary Piano Competition.

Music Preparation Room

Sumitani Junior Highschool

Crushed it!

She got all of that one!

Look at it go!

*Crash*

Oh, crap.

You don't have to hit the snot out of it!

Go get the ball, Tsubaki!

Whoa!

So she struck yet again, huh?

Bye!

Bye!

Oh jeez! It's a corpse!

*Twitch*

*Grab*

I better make a run for it...

Ow...Ouch...

Oh, it's you, Kousei. Thank goodness it's not someone else!

Huh? Tsubaki? When did you get here?

Whaaat? The window's broken! All I can see is red!

You broke it again? We just got this window fixed, you know!

A slugger is only as good as the number of windows she's broken.

You're blasting them too hard! Ease up a little!

No way am I batting with any less than my A-swing!

It's my last summer in middle school, okay? I'm gonna win the Triple Crown!

Anyway, gotta get this cleaned up.

Listen to me!

Dustpan...dustpan...

So I'm gonna have to apologize again? And write up the damage report...

Come on, that's dangerous!

What if you sliced a finger?

Well, what if I did?

Next-door neighbors, childhood friends...

you seek each other out whenever, wherever... Right, you loving hubby and wife?

We are not hubby and wife!

Anyway, what are you doing with that cell phone?

Aren't you in the middle of practice, Soccer Team?

Don't come in here with your shoes on, Watari!

That stupid bald vice principal.

Telling us off for an hour over a little broken glass?

Well, at least it only lasted an hour, right?

I was stuck with her for that hour. Put yourself in my shoes!

In the first place, the school shouldn't be standing right in the ball's path. No way!

Am I right?

I don't mind. Since the girls cheer me on from the windows sometimes.

Yeah, right!

Man, I'm starving.

So now it's food over sex, huh?

I'm gonna stop by the convenience store. Coming?

I'll go with you.

Me, too!

I mean, how messed up is that?

Why should I have to get yelled at, too?

Whoa!

This ice cream is delish! I'm gonna stock up!

Not listening...

Damn, Kousei, talk about collateral damage.

Not only did you get yelled at, but you have to write two letters of apology?

Oh, it's no big deal. Piece of cake!

I've been babysitting her since birth, so it's second nature to me now.

Busting a suspension bridge during a field trip...

Dumping me off a 10-meter diving board...

Was that back in third grade?

I thought I was gonna die.

Shut up!

Even though I'm an only child, it's like having a high-maintenance big sister.

You really are a nice guy, huh, Kousei?

You're kidding, right?

But Kousei, you'd better not be too nice.

You know what they say... nice guys are doomed to finish last.

Hey! I got a text from Keiko-chan!

I have somewhere to be, guys!

How many does that make?

She's No. 3.

Who knows what they all see in him? He's like Mr. Shallow!

But Watari's a good guy, you know.

He's the enemy of all women!

What about you, Kousei?

Huh?

Isn't there anyone you have a crush on?

What?

Miwa said something the other day.

That when you're in love with somebody, everything looks colorful...

There's no one who'd ever fall in love with me.

Too dark!

There's no sparkle in your eyes! We're fourteen, you know!

They don't sparkle because they're dark brown, obviously.

There it is! Conventional wisdom! You get my drift, don't you?

They don't sparkle! You're an adolescent, so they should be all lit up!

Lit up!

Yeah.

Your eyes are lit up, Tsubaki.

In Tsubaki's eyes, I'll bet everything around her looks colorful.

Unlike me...

When's your father coming home?

Mmm...in a month, or maybe two...

So you don't know yet.

Well, since it changes depending on the client's needs.

True...

If anything happens, your family will help out.

And besides, I'm used to being on my own now.

All right, see you tomorrow!

Okay! See you!

Hey!

Hello? Hey, my bad! I was gonna ask him today, but I forgot!

Okay, I'll do it for sure tomorrow. Hey, no worries.

If I ask him to... Yes. For sure.

So don't worry, okay?

I'm home...

Mother.

Miwa said something the other day.

"The moment I met him,

my life changed.

Everything I saw, everything I heard...

Everything I felt...

All the scenery around me started to take on color."

But... To me...

To me it all looks like it's in monotone.

Just like music scores... Just like a keyboard...

The autumn I was eleven... I...

Could no longer play the piano.

Leaving yourself WIDE open!

*Clang*

Jeez, what a boring reaction.

What does youth mean to you, anyway?

We'll never have our fourteenth spring again, you know!

Sitting alone in the classroom after school...

What are you listening to?

Hey, don't yank on those!

Hey, is this The Millions' new song?

The one that's playing on that commercial now? Whoa!

Oh, back off...

Kousei, tomorrow's Saturday, so you're free, right?

Don't just jump to conclusions!

Oh, so you have plans, then?

See, this girl in my class asked me to introduce her to Watari.