More than anything, it teaches you that you can always get through life no matter how hard it can be. It tells viewers that it is never too late to learn to understand the people around you. A Silent Voice tells the phenomenal story of a boy named Shoya who finds a reason to live after expanding his world due to befriending a deaf girl he used to bully in middle school. Small hints like these are often sprinkled throughout the film.Ī Silent Voice is more than a film. Anime adaptations of manga are able to breathe life into a static presentation, but manga also has advantages over anime adaptations. There are so many shots throughout the film that separate characters from each other, conveying their disconnect from one another. The film also enjoys foreshadowing later events in the film. The film is a very long one, adapting 7 volumes of manga, but they do it extremely well, cutting out the right things. It is these moments in the film that I think many can relate to. There is a scene where a character asks Shoya if they are really friends with Shoko. However, if you are one who seeks to watch anime as an escape from reality, it might kill your mood entirely.Ī Silent Voice asks a very important question: Are you allowed to ask for forgiveness from someone you had bullied in the past? Should one even be allowed to ask? Shoya asking for forgiveness could be seen as him trying to clear his own conscience. A Silent Voice is based on Yoshitoki Oimas manga of the same name, and the plot centers on a deaf girl, Shoko Nishimiya. Depending on your personal history and your experiences with anxiety and depression, A Silent Voice may make you relive those feelings alongside its characters. It is a film so good at what it does that the horrible things it makes you feel over the course of its story is not something one might want to experience again. Not because it has a horrible film or narrative, but quite the opposite. What I mean by that is, it is one of those films that everyone owes themselves a watch of at least once, but only that.

Not only that, but the film also stars an amazing narrative that you might not actively want to experience again. This storyline falls into a very small niche of films in which it becomes difficult to recommend to others, because no words will do it justice.

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