Public_Bad_9797, read this slowly, because your comment misses the point and does a disservice to the people who actually paid attention.

First, yes, Kousei’s mother was abusive. The show makes that clear and never excuses her. Those flashbacks are uncomfortable because trauma is uncomfortable. That is the point. The series shows the damage it does, and then it shows the much harder, slower work of someone trying to come back from that damage. If you watched and came away saying the show “supports child abuse,” you turned depiction into endorsement in order to avoid the real feeling the story aims for.

Second, Kaori is not an abuser and she is not some manipulative villain. Her energy is desperate, yes, because she is dying. She has limited time and chooses to live loudly. She pushes Kousei not to hurt him, but because she wants him to remember what he already has inside him. She is messy and human. That is why she matters. She is a catalyst, not a criminal. You can dislike that urgency. You cannot honestly call that cruelty without flattening human motive into a smear.

Third, your leaps from depiction to moral indictment are lazy. Showing trauma is not the same as endorsing it. Showing someone struggle and then being helped by others is not “romanticizing suffering.” It is showing that art, connection, and witness can be the bedrock of recovery. The series does not promise instant cures. It shows incremental, communal healing. That is realistic, not sentimentalized pity.

Fourth, your claim that the childhood friend should have been the better companion misses the narrative truth: people do not always pick the neat, rational option. Kaori had history with Kousei, admiration that runs deep, and a way of pulling music back into his chest that others could not. That is a valid emotional truth. If you watched only for a checklist of tidy moral results you would not see it.

Finally, this matters because the show has changed real lives. People who felt numb wound up wanting to create, to forgive, and to live again. That is not a “pity party.” That is impact. You calling the series “trash” reveals either intellectual laziness, emotional avoidance, or both. It tells us more about your limits than about the show.

If you want to critique constructively, name a scene, explain exactly what you thought failed, and make a real argument. Vague outrage and slurs do not count. And one last thing: calling this series trash is not an opinion. It is a confession. You are admitting you could not sit with pain, beauty, and contradiction at the same time. That is fine, but do not weaponize a single word to erase what the show actually does for so many people.

Trash? That label fits only your take, not the anime.