Inspiration

Arima's name comes from the beautiful anime Your Lie in April about a young pianist, Kousei Arima, who meets a violinist while dealing of the trouble of his mother's death. It's a heart-touching, sad, hopeful, and inspirational story that made me tear up every time I watched.

On the surface, I named my bot Arima because it's a music bot and Arima is from a music anime. However, there's a few more layers. First of all, I got the idea of this bot when creating a different music bot for another person. It had a similar concept, however it was based on guessing anime OPs/EDs. I though it was only fair if I used an anime character for my bot as well. Also, I'm a weeb, so I'm sure that plays into it.

I made this bot for the same reason Arima plays the piano: I want to make people smile. When brainstorming ideas, I envisioned a group of friends in a voice channel laughing at each others' attempts to sing along to the song playing and shout, "Oh, I know this one!"

If you've checked out Arima's github organization, you'd notice that the repository holding the documentation code is named "Tsubaki", and the repository holding the dashboard code (which might currently be private) is named "Kaori".

Both of these names are characters in Your Lie in April, and I put a great deal of thought behind which project to name what. I'll leave it up to you to watch the anime and try to figure out the hidden meanings :p