Kousei Arima

Kousei Arima is the main protagonist from the Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso anime.

Kousei is the son of Saki and Takahiko Arima, who attended Sumiya Junior High School, and was the youngest winner of the Maihou Piano Competition.

Appearance
Kousei is a teenage boy with short, messy black hair and dark blue eyes. He is most commonly seen wearing his school uniform, but is also seen wearing casual clothes as well. He also has an average height.

Personality
As a child, Kousei was calm and obedient. When he is not hanging out with Ryota Watari and Tsubaki Sawabe, Kaori Miyazono he spends most of his day alone in his thoughts. This dense characteristic makes him oblivious to what is going on around him. For instance, he does not notice the rivalry and resentment his fellow piano competitors had for him nor Tsubaki's crush on him. He also stares at Kaori for long, thinking how great of a person she is, which she misinterprets as him having perverted thoughts of her.

Kousei admires Kaori because she is opposite; he wishes to become more free-spirited like her. The closer Kousei and Kaori get, the more his feelings for her deepen and the more he opens up to other people. She helps him build his confidence and convinces him to perform again.

Abilities
Kousei's ability was honed through the training by his mother which led to his achieving of technical perfection at a very young age.

Trivia

 * The name Kousei means "happiness", "light" (kou) and "world" or "star" (sei).
 * Kousei's surname Arima means "exist, suppose, be aware of, believe, feel" or "exist" (ari) and "chafe, rub, polish, grind, scrape", "true, reality", "grind, polish, scour, improve, brush (teeth)", "horse", "flax, linen, hemp" or "dance" (ma).
 * Kousei is voiced by Konrad Bösherz in the German dub, and Jordi Naro in the Spanish dub.


 * Kousei might have a condition called Amusia or some form of it (Amusia is a brain condition that causes the afflicted person to be unable to hear a music's pitch).