In Honor of YLIA

What's up, dead Amino. I doubt this is gonna reach anyone, as the app itself has slowly been decaying into irrelevance and this Amino specifically has been dead for forever.

Regardless, for those of you who don't know—

Today, March 20th, 2025 (in the EST timezone), marks 10 years since the last episode of Your Lie In April aired, titled "Spring Wind."

Assuming you're seeing this post, which indicates you, for any reason, have a hell of a lot of dedication to this one anime, we'll make the educated guess that you know what happens in the finale.

Today, ten years ago, or sometime in the last 10 years, we watched Arima Kousei perform, and give his last send-off to Kaori as she ascends into the afterlife.

With that preamble out of the way, though, this is more of a personal rant about my thoughts regarding this milestone of time ed.

A few years ago, in 2019, I ed this Amino as soon as I finished the anime. Because it brought me to tears, because I needed a place to express how I felt about the ending. Because I wanted to talk with someone about how pissed I was that we never got to see a truly romantic moment between anyone. Looking back, I was just a hopeless romantic—still am—that wanted more content, and Amino seemed like the right way to do so.

I ed the Amino in 2019, when I was in 6th grade. As of today, I'm just a month and a few days away from graduating my senior year of high school. Time flies, and that stings. And so it brings me back to the topic of YLIA.

Your Lie in April was my second-ever watched anime, right next to SAO because it was easily accessible. Before YLIA, I assumed all of anime was like the first one I watched; big action, big fights, strong characters. This anime made me bawl my eyes out when it broke those standards.

Of course, you can argue however you'd like that I'm glazing the anime and that I'm valuing it for more than its worth, but Your Lie in April brought me a sort of emotional satisfaction I wasn't getting from SAO. And I think it's what gravitated me towards anime even more, as I discovered anime like Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, and Death Parade, and all the weird depressing stuff that just seems like spectacle at first.

Furthermore, YLIA helped me with finding my musical identity. Now, I didn't exactly struggle with Arima's childhood as a prodigy, but I was studying piano at the time, and I didn't know if it was what I wanted to do. Fast forward to today, I've entirely moved away from piano to focus on classical vocal performance, which I plan to Minor in as an incoming college student.

This is a lot of yammering and yapping and blabbing. But the main point I want to say is this:

Thank you, Your Lie in April.

Thank you for using art to show me what it's like to perform, and to have friends, and to love, and to grieve. All of it.