After adding popular anime such as SPY x FAMILY, Boku no Hero Academia, Go-Toubun no Hanayome and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba to its catalog, Netflix seems determined to continue expanding its Japanese content offering as it has been reported that Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) will soon be coming to the platform.
The news was spread by X user “Portal Netflix BR”. However, a release date for Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso has not been revealed so far. In addition, it has also not been confirmed whether the series will include an English dub, so fans will have to wait for Netflix to share more details in the near future.
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso anime coming to Netflix
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, also known as Your Lie in April in the West, is a romantic comedy musical manga written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. The work began its serialization in Monthly Shonen Magazine of Kodansha publishing house since May 2011 and ended in February 2015.
The Kodansha publishing house has compiled the manga in 11 volumes in total and at the time it was reported that the work managed to surpass the incredible figure of 5 million copies in circulation. The good reception of Naoshi Arakawa’s manga by the public led the work to be adapted into an anime.
On October 10, 2014, the manga Your Lie in April premiered its anime adaptation, which consisted of a total of 22 episodes and an OVA. The animation studio A-1 Pictures was in charge of its production under the direction of Kyouhei Ishiguro. The series is legally available in Latin America on the Crunchyroll platform.
The anime Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso has the following description: Kousei Arima is a boy prodigy known as the “Human Metronome” for playing the piano with precision and perfection. Guided by a strict mother and rigorous training, Kousei masters every competition he enters, earning the admiration of his fellow musicians and the praise of the audience. When his mother dies suddenly, the ensuing trauma renders him unable to hear the sound of a piano, and he never returns to the stage thereafter.
Today, Kousei lives a quiet, unpretentious life as a high school student with his friends Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryouta Watari. As he struggles to overcome the death of his mother, he continues to cling to music. His monochromatic life is turned upside down the day he meets eccentric violinist Kaori Miyazono, who thrusts him back into the spotlight as her accompanist. Through a small lie, these two young musicians grow closer as Kaori tries to fill Kousei’s world with color.
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