Your Lie in April - Episode 7 (Your Shadows Whisper)

Kousei is haunted by the cat who he imagines is his mother, I think? His mother's voice tells him not to worry about the competition, and then asks three questions; Who are you? Where are you? Are you ready to go on your journey?

Still at the Regionals scene, Watari loses the game and cries in the toilet alone. Kousei studies the piece daily, reading, practising, imagining. He asks himself whether he exists within the music.

When Kaori visits Kousei at the nurse's office, they walk home together. On the way, they stumble across the black cat. Seeing the cat, he numbed and started feeling unwell.

They rest at the park nearby and Kousei explains that he had a black cat called Chelsea when he was a kid. One day, Chelsea scratched Kousei's hand (and it was obvious that his mother treasured his hands as proven in the last episodes when Tsubaki was grateful Kousei injured his knee rather than his hands), and the next day, his mother took Chelsea away and abandoned her. Kousei says that the scars Chelsea left him reminded him of his mother. Now we understand the symbolization of the cat in the opening.

After listening to Kousei's story, Kaori then proceeds to list out her observations of him and convinces him that he isn't in his mother's shadow and the cliche Kousei is just Kousei stuff. She tells him to play with sincerity as words of encouragement and they then join hands, hands facing each other. Kousei held a mild blush, and in another scene, he faces the cat, his mother.

Your Lie in April - Episode 6 (On My Way Home)

This episode starts with a small scene from Kousei's and Tsubaki's childhood where Tsubaki carries Kousei who's crying from a skinned knee.

Next, in Kousei's house, Tsubaki enters the piano room and starts to care for his piano. She apologizes and when she opens the window, she sees Tsubaki. Of course, seeing Kaori in Kousei's clothes, Tsubaki rages.

In school, Kaori also forces Kousei to join the piano competition with the piece, 'Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No. 5'. After a while, all of them leave Kousei alone with the piano. At home, Tsubaki calmly listens to Kousei's piano playing.

Each and every day, Kaori asks him for Kousei's image of the piece, and slowly, her words sink in. Tsubaki and Kaori walk home, and Kaori says that Kousei is trying to turn his suffering to notes.

Your Lie in April - Episode 5 (Gray Skies)

During this childhood flashback, Kousei's revealed to have always been a shy kid who was afraid of his mother and trying to do new stuff. Tsubaki's always his motivator, I guess. The one always forcing him to act. This is proven when she carries Kousei on her shoulders as a child and jumps down the Doryo Bridge for fun.

Back to the present!

The trio came to visit Kaori at Totsuhara University Hospital, and after having a glimpse of the nurse washing her bare back, Tsubaki kickes Watari and Kousei.

She claims to be a little anemic, and that her father's too insistent on having her go through check-ups.

Kousei feels like it's his fault that they didn't manage to proceed to the next round. Before Kousei leaves, Kaori asks whether he's been playing piano and Kousei remembers when he tried to play a key at home and hears nothing. Instead of telling her that, he said that he hasn't been playing.

As Tsubaki and Kousei converse outside the hospital, Tsubaki convinces Kousei that playing the piano isn't all that he can offer.

The next day, Kousei rejects the idea of visiting Kaori at the hospital, after knowing that Watari has Kaori's e-mail. Watari also tells Kousei how pumped up he felt after watching Kousei's and Kaori's performance.

As Kousei ponders over Kaori's question: Will you be able to forget?, he runs home through the rain and goes to his piano room.

While he remembers the after-performance, Kaori has told him that the audience will never forget her and thanks Kousei for playing the accompaniment for her. She also cries out of happiness.

After a poor performance during baseball, Tsubaki's friend (Kashiwagi) walks her home and asks whether anything happened between her and Kousei.

The former caption of the baseball club, Saito, ends up walking her home, and on the way, she tries to convince herself that it was okay. However, before she could leave Saito, he confesses, but Tsubaki finds out that she doesn't have mutual feelings like before.