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

TV-SHOW DISCUSSION: 

Faith & Fandom Podcast & Website 

Hector Miray from 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)