Kousei is a child prodigy pianist—he holds the record as the youngest ever to win the prestigious Saki Competition. But his career hit a wall after his mother died. The grief triggered something neurological: he lost the ability to hear the sounds he was playing. For two years, he basically withdrew from music entirely, and during that time everything felt colorless and hollow to him.
His life shifts when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a gifted young musician with an unusual amount of charisma. She becomes obsessed with pulling him back to the piano, pushing him harder than anyone else has. Through her, Kousei starts to reconnect with both music and color—literally and figuratively—though the journey is complicated by his lingering trauma and her own secrets.
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