Kaori Miyazono

"*Selflessness, courage, and bravery!*"
This character, Kaori Miyazono, in the Unity Force series is considered to be in the Pure Good scale, based on his/her actions throughout the story.

This character, Kaori Miyazono, was born in 2000, and was resurrected in the year of 2021 after he/she died in 2015. His/her age after resurrecting in 2021 is 16 years old in 2022.

## Personal Info

### Age

14-15 (since her death in 2015 and resurrection in 2021)15-16 (currently in 2022)
22 (chronologically in 2022)

## Relations

### Family

Unnamed grandparents
Yoshiyuki Miyazono (father)
Ryouko Miyazono (mother)

## Details

### Occupation

Hero
Student
Violinist

### Type of Hero

Affable Hero

**Kaori Miyazono** (宮園 かをり *Miyazono Kaori*) is the main female protagonist of *Your Lie in April*. She was the only daughter of Ryouko Miyazono and Yoshiyuki Miyazono who was a free-spirited, gifted violinist whose playing style reflected on her wonderful personality.

She attended Sumiya Junior High School as a third-year-student where she was in the same class as Tsubaki Sawabe. She first met Kousei Arima when she asked Tsubaki to set her up with Ryota Watari. As their friendship grew, she eventually began helping Kousei return to the piano world after his mother's death.

In the Unity Force series, Kaori is a Class 1 student in the Unity Force Academy.

## Appearance

Kaori Miyazono's height is average for a 14-year-old and has a slender figure. She has blonde wavy hair that reaches down her waist and beautiful pale indigo eyes. She is always seen to carry her violin whenever she went with her lovely pink suitcase.

As a little girl, she wore a pink dress and her hair was at chin-length.
During her early years in Junior High School, she wore a pair of black glasses with thick rims and tied her hair in two low pigtails.

### Unity Force

Kaori is often seen in her white dress. Her hair is no longer waist-length, as she cuts it up to her shoulder.

## Personality

Kaori is a free-spirited violinist whose playing style reflects on her personality. She is independent, unpredictable, and short-tempered. It is also touched upon that she is passive aggressive at times. Kaori likes to depend on herself and only herself, but is very outgoing and can be seen as more of a support for others.

While considered a really sloppy violin player from a technical standpoint, such as not following music score sheets the way they are written, Kaori is an amazing violinist. Noted by one of the judges at Towa Hall during the first competition of the series, her pure abilities far exceed the others in the competition. She wields a free spirited style of performance that emphasizes emotions and artistry over the pure mechanics of music, such playing to specific tempos and dynamics originally intended by the composer. Her style of music is what rekindles Kousei's passion for the piano and inspires him to redefine himself as a musician.

She loves sweets and toys, so much so that when she was temporarily set free from the hospital, her first thing to do was immediately drag Kousei with her to a store filled with sweets and toys.

Despite being very quick to anger, Kaori is a very kind and empathetic person, this is shown throughout her interactions with Kousei as she would often understand how he felt over his abusive mother and how he was afraid to play the piano, her words helped Kousei get through these dark times, her compassion helped him be free from his depression. Her kindness is also shown whenever she is with children, as seen when played hopscotch with them and before that she begs Kousei to play piano with other kids in order to make them happy and finally, when she was at the mall with Kousei, she saw a lost kid and held the child's hand until the her mother came to find the her and was happy to see them reunite. Overall, despite her anger and somewhat abusive behaviour towards Kousei, she is a sweet-natured young girl who encourages Kousei which helped him get over his piano fear.

## Abilities

### In General

While considered a great violinist from a theoretical perspective, she often eschews details of the score and its historical and traditional interpretations. One of the judges at Towa Hall, during the first competition of the series, noted that her abilities far exceed the others in the competition. She wields a free-spirited style of performance that emphasizes emotion and artistry over strict interpretation of the score and the composer's intent. Her music inspires Kousei to regain his passion for the piano and redefine himself as a musician.

### Unity Force

Kaori has the power of premonition, where she can predict the events that would transpire later on, as exemplified she predicted that Chito and Yuuri would later know about her past.

## Trivia

* Aside from being a violinist, Kaori has the ability to play the melodica and she has had some experience playing the piano.
* Kaori had a rather sweet tooth as she loved sweet foods.
* In "*A single petal that drifted into my life*" (Kousei Arima's quote), the petal is a metaphor for Kaori, who appeared out of nowhere and disappeared due to how fragile she was.
* It is unknown what illness Kaori suffered from, but fans of the series have hypothesized that she suffered from Bone Marrow Failure, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Friedreich's Ataxia. Although, Friedreich's Ataxia is the most likely disease as the symptoms line up with symptoms that we see in the series.