The original work was serialized in Monthly Shonen MAGAJIN from May 2011 to March 2015. The 11 volumes of the single volume have sold more than 4 million copies, and it has won the 37th Kodansha Manga Award. In 2014, the manga was adapted into a TV animation, telling the story of a talented piano boy, Kousei Arima, who cannot play the piano due to the death of his mother, and meets the willful and unrestrained violinist Kaori Miyazono. Memories of the piano and his mother emerge, and at the same time, the secret of Kaori Miyazono changes the lives of the two youth.