A great example is Clannad: both Fuuko and Nagisa are confined to bed for long stretches of time, prevented from attaining what they want by something out of their control, yet they remain composed. Too often, a character’s illness is a plot device that is used to catalyze the emotions or behaviors of those around her, while she essentially sits there smiling and bearing it, perhaps nobly hoping that her last wish will be granted. She’s helpless in the face of it, and, as we see, it’s infuriating. Far from the elegant fainting and hospital visits filled with reassurances that represent how Kaori’s illness looks to everyone else, this scene is an honest glimpse into how it feels to her: agonizing, frustrating, outrageously unfair. The moment that struck me and continues to stay with me in Your Lie in April is at the end of episode 15. We don’t often see anime that tackle what it’s like to be chronically or terminally ill f or the person who is actually ill, though. The ill girl is hardly a rare trope in anime-in fact, I’d put it up there with “hit by a car” and “that exact same cicada noise” in terms of things likely to crop up in any randomly selected series. One thing that Your Lie in April handles remarkably compared to other anime is the concept of dealing with illness.
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