Your Lie in April: w/ Faith & Fandom in the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Episode

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Hector Miray fro:m Faith & Fandom joins Melvin to discuss one of the highest rated anime of the modern age: Your Lie in April! The two discuss it’s exploration of music-as-metaphor, depictions of trauma, and, of course, all of the melodrama!

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 47-minutes discussing the current atmosphere around the MCU, especially with 2023 being a less-than-stellar year for Disney/Marvel, and 2024 only offering one film, Deadpool & Wolverine, and why fans may be losing some of their longstanding interest. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• Hector shares about how he started Faith & Fandom as far back as the early 2010s, his development on several geek-themed devotionals, the time he almost quit (and why he didn’t), and so much more!
• Your Lie in April features several classical songs played in various ways, as well as brief, strong lines of poetic dialogue. Hector was a big fan of these details.
• Melvin shares his list of “Things I Liked” and “Things I Disliked” that he wrote during  his watch.
• Hector shares about a new term he learned: the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. 
• Melvin explains his notes in the Dislikes category titled, “Kaori. Entirely.”.
• Discussing the depiction of “reaching” someone with their art.
• For Melvin, Kousei is the “audience” stand-in – a troubled prodigy who looks down on themself – and Kaori is the idealized girlfriend of that audience – or, as stated before, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. 

Recommendations:

• Delicious in Dungeon (2024) (Anime)
• Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (Translation: Our Happy Hours) (2008) (Manga)
• Say “I Love You.” (2012) (Anime)

Your Lie in April is Rated TV-PG. It features Natsuki Hanae, Risa Taneda, Ayane Sakura, Ryouta Oosaka, Saori Hayami, Mie Sonozaki, Ai Kayano, Yuuki Kaji, and Shizuka Kashiwagi. Created by Naoshi Arakawa. Your Lie in April is available here.

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