Please!
Idiot husband!
Pay more attention to me!
Or I'm gonna step out on you!
Hiro did you have another fight with your husband?
This is no fight. This is war!
If I apologize we're done for good.
Idiot husband!
Pay more attention to me! Or I'm gonna step out on you!
Kousei.
You...
How can you play the piano?
Why wouldn't I be able to play the piano?
Saki!
Let's turn Kousei into a pianist!
Kousei's...
a genius!
I'm heading out now.
By yourself?
Yes.
Are you serious?
Yes.
What are you going to play?
Without a violi—
I'm not changing the song.
It's not music or anything at all!
See I'm pissed.
So I'm going to prove it.
Just how great a musician Kaori Miyazono is.
And besides...
this is a supreme directive from the shrew.
These galas are all about standing out.
Wait this is a violin concert right?
Is that accompanist going to play on his own?
This is all your fault.
Because you put me back on the stage.
Always. You always move me.
Look at me!
I'm going to prove it.
That I'm incredible.
That Kaori Miyazono who's named me to be her accompanist...
is even more incredible!
Once again unprecedented!
Arima again?!
This isn't the accompaniment.
This is...
Kreisler...
"Love's Sorrow"...
Rachmaninoff's Piano Arrangement.
The song that Saki loved.
So you've been facing it alone all this time.
But...
is this the "Love's Sorrow" that you've always known?
Just watch.
Just watch. Just watch.
I'm incredible.
Kaori Miyazono is...
even more incredible!
Gala Concert
Unbelievable!
So powerful!
What a disappointment.
He's only venting his anger.
He's confusing crudeness with ferocity.
This grates on my ears.
Huh?
Was I pounding the keys that hard?
My whole body is taut.
This won't do at all.
This piece isn't...
This isn't how you play it right?
Not the song that I always listened to.
The song that was my lullaby.
This song...
Even though I can't hear the notes as usual
I can hear the sound inside me.
I think it means that you're not bound by sounds.
Wasn't there ever a moment
when you sensed the notes suffused with your desires and emotions?
Losing the ability to hear the notes...
I'm sure that that's a gift.
Kousei.
Play it more gently.
Like you're caressing a baby's head.
Play it like you're embracing him.
Mom.
This song... If it were her
would she have played it like this?
His playing style just changed...
He's doing it again.
The sound is changing.
Kousei...
It's Saki.
Saki is there...
Saki!
Even for you that's going too far!
Hitting him hard enough to draw blood - that's way too harsh!
You call yourself a mother?
Kousei was doing his best just to make you happy!
Of course I know that!
Saki!
I do know that. But...
I'm running out of time.
Saki...
Help me.
Please help me.
Somebody help me.
The notes.
The piano.
My hearing is...
I can't hear the notes! Somebody please help me...
Mom...
Kousei...
I'm the one who drove you into this corner.
It's all because I told her to turn you into a pianist.
I'm sorry...
If music only brings Kousei pain and suffering...
I'm sorry...
Then I have no business being by his side.
I'm sorry... I'm sorry...
Kousei Arima Sumiya Junior High School
But...
Kousei has returned.
What made you turn to the piano?
I want to see that sight again with my own eyes.
That's what made me think...
That I'd like become a really weird pianist!
After losing Saki
Kousei met someone who means the world to him.
If Kousei believes in that then as a pianist
how can I not believe in the power of music?
Saki. Be sure to watch this.
That son of ours
is about to bid you a last farewell.
Oh...
I can't help thinking about her after all.
This song has my mother's scent.
Who are you going to play it for?
Will it reach her?
I hope it reaches her.
After I'm gone...
what's going to become of Kousei?
Will he be able to earn a living?
Can he make music his livelihood?
All I can do right now is make him play accurately faithful to the score.
As long as he has the skills he just might be able to support himself someday.
What a terrible mother...
There's nothing I can leave that boy...
Will he brush his teeth every morning?
He falls asleep anywhere so what if he catches a cold?
He isn't good at sports so what if he gets seriously injured?
I wish I could've stayed with him longer...
Will my treasure ever find happiness?
I knew all along.
The ghost of my mom was a shadow of my own creation.
An excuse for me to run away.
My own weakness.
Mom isn't there anywhere.
Mom...
is inside me.
Yes that's right. The piano...
is meant to be played like you're embracing it right?
Hey hey Mom?
There's both "Love's Joy" and "Love's Sorrow"
so why do you always play "Love's Sorrow"?
I play it so...
you'll get used to sorrow.
We're all connected.
Just like the notes are intermittently connected
it's shared by us all.
Through music...
With the people you know
with the people you don't know
with all the people in the world.
You come too!
Just like with her I'm connected to Mom too.
I'm moving forward because I believe that.
So... So...
Goodbye.
My knees are shaking. Guess I'm exhausted?
Kousei!
Hey look at you hot stuff!
If my husband hears that his daughter threw herself into a man's arms
he'll be devastated.
So did you get to see Saki?
My mom...
She's always been by my side.
Yes.
The way I touch the keys the way I move my fingers my habit of squeezing the pedals
my tastes the order that I eat...
Mom's in every little gesture of mine.
We're... Mom and I are connected.
Hiroko... Do you think it reached my mom?
The way I played my very best... Do you think it reached Mom?
You dummy. You two really are connected aren't you?
Of course it reached her!
Because of music I was given the chance to meet others.
I was moved by those encounters. There are people that I got to meet.
I got to discover emotion.
These are all...
memories that my mother who taught me how to play the piano left me.
Mom I'm happy.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
That was so exquisite...
I'm ready to just go home now!
Oh the next performance huh?
I don't want to hear anything right now.
I never thought I'd be so scared to go onstage.
Miike...
Now this is a tough act to follow...
I want to run away...
Mom...
Would I have played my heart out like he did?
Would I have played with as much sincerity as he did?
I want to see if I can sacrifice body and soul like that.
I want to see if I can give it all I can.
Just watch me.
Right now all I want to do is hear my mom's voice.
Is his playing softer than usual? I see...
So your heart's been pierced too?
And you're both going to raise the bar eh?
That was awesome.
Isn't violin music lovely?
Ms. Ochiai?
I'm glad that I'm a musician.
To obliterate a powerful enemy... Now that's the ultimate pleasure...
A bona fide extreme sadist?
Oh! Kousei!
And the foxy lady!
Hey!
Kousei...!
Huh?
Huh? This is so weird... I can't find the words to say...
Freaky...
Was it okay for you to just leave?
Well why not? I was just a throw-in for the throw-in. And besides...
I've got to find that throw-in who blew me off and rip her a new one.
- He's mad? - He's mad.
All right ready to head home? I'm exhausted from all this.
I want some juice!
Hey your mom could go for some too.
Tsubaki?
You've got nothing to say to me after all my hard work?
Huh? Um... You look all grown up.
What's up with that? I was hoping you'd praise me.
Huh?
What the heck? So weird...
If I don't hold them in I might shed tears.
Tears?
Tears of relief because I was able to talk to Kousei normally?
Or because I was able to talk to him normally are they...
tears of disappointment?
31st - Gala Concert
If you were there at the concert you could've said something to me.
You're as spiteful as ever aren't you?
Ms. Ochiai.
To think that Arima was being mentored by you. That was unexpected.
After all ever since Saki Arima passed away you never went near that house.
That boy has changed too.
He's become quite an intriguing musician.
Yes. Instilling something into his music
leaving something in those who hear it.
That kid has taken his first steps forward as an artist.
But...
The loss of Saki Arima
was tragic for Kousei and for me
but was it really necessary for Kousei Arima the musician?
There's an ever-present sorrow hanging over Arima's music.
The death of his beloved mother triggered something in him.
Totsuhara University Hospital
Then it's a demon's path that he must walk.
Kaori Miyazono
His growth is spurred by sorrow...
If Kousei is to walk that path
Episode 13 Love's Sorrow
he might have to lose someone to move forward.
Episode 14 Footsteps