四月は君の嘘 (Your Lie in April) is an anime-adaption of the manga series written and illustrated by Arakawa Naoshi (新川 直司). It spans two cours, and weighs in at 22 episodes of 25 minutes each (total viewing time, just over 9 hours).
四月は君の嘘 centres on romance and drama with a hefty serving of classical music, wrapped up in some very nice animation, indeed. It is a very adult story about four teenagers and the people around them. By ‘adult’, I don’t mean that it contains sex, drugs, or violence, or indeed anything that might warrant censoring, but that the story conveys the thoughts and emotions of its characters frankly and without shame, in a fashion usually reserved for mature audiences.
Unlike many anime-adaptions of manga, this series forms a full and complete story with a definite conclusion.
