![]() ![]() Nice!īut long before Kousei saw the girl with the cat I knew Kousei was going to have a rough time this week. There’s an interesting symmetry that further supports why Emi’s story occupied the cold open: Emi was a little girl in the crowd who got extremely inspired by Kousei in the past. Kousei spots a little girl in the crowd and gets extremely rattled in the present. Shame on you anyway we’re not even halfway through the series it’s way to early for Kousei to be getting over anything. His slow walk to the stage is full of triumph, as Kousei’s heart and soul and musical will all seem to have been jump-started by the other performances.īut those of you who thought this would be the day Kousei shook off all of his past trauma regarding the piano thanks to both his friends and admirers…well, you were probably disappointed, but tough noogies. Takeshi and Emi may be disappointed in the relatively ‘simple’ Chopin piece Kousei will play (chosen at random by Kaori) but even they’re smacking their lips at the opportunity to see him play again for the first time in years. Meanwhile… damn, Kaori takes a lot of drugs! Did you put that scene in there to remind us she’s a very sick girl who’s going to die just when Kousei loves and needs her the most? Is the titular “lie” ultimately the lie that everything will turn out just fine? You’re a cruel show, Uso.Ĭruel, perhaps, but also the king of building tension and anticipation to the point our stomachs hurt right along with Tsubaki. Still, her mission was accomplished Kousei did hear her, and he was moved to the very core. I do like how Emi storms off the stage, grabs Kousei by the scruff, and is on the cusp of saying… something important to him, but almost seems to chicken out and runs off to change, disappointing Takeshi. The modern arrangement of the Chopin matches her past self’s bright-eyed outlook nicely. That being said, the extra attention paid to Emi, and in particular her childhood, provide a baseline with which to compare the very, erm… different childhood Kousei experienced. Let’s dig right in, shall we? First of all, I was not expecting the cold open return to the middle of Emi’s performance, and some of it was simply elaborating upon things that were already made clear last week.
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