![]() ![]() Where I think it lost a point or half a point is in the story seeming to drag for a few chapters around chapter 15 (I think). Manga enjoyment-wise I'd be more comfortable giving it a 8.5/10. Maybe higher, if I presume to say that I understood the author's intent. Now I've come back over 7 years later, it has a anime film adaptation that is critically acclaimed as one of the best films made in the industry, and I figure hey I should go back to this.Īs an art-piece I'd give it 9/10, I think. So I remember reading this waaay back but then stopped reading cos it was taken over by crunchyroll and I think I didn't realise that their manga was for free. Last updated on August 24th, 2021, 10:03am I was so pissed off that I felt the impulse to threw the book off my window, but doing that to my PC would be troublesome. Again the ending is shitty, the Japanese doesn't know how to end a romantic story in a satisfactory and fulfilling way. ![]() We are compelled to root for him, but he is ok being mediocre. His only accomplishment was to learn sign language. ![]() A little more romance could have saved the story albeit a victim falling in love to her bully is very unlikely, however this is fiction, no resemblance to actual facts or living people, but as I said before, the protagonist is very dull. The protagonist evolves from a complete asshole to a dumb pushover unable to put his shit together. I read or watch stories about bulling with angst and rage in my heart because I was a victim of bulling myself, however the bulling part of this manga doesn't go beyond the first volume, after that it drags on around some dumb film the annoying protagonist's friend is set on making to celebrate their friendship. Shoya could easily have chosen to have a career as something related to awareness and information of deaf people in education, or bullying, such as a Minister of Education (since he's so obsessed with making amends for what he did), instead of choosing to be a hairdresser just because.Īs for Shouko, I was dissapointed that we never got to see what she wanted to be until the very end (because of the reasons I mentioned before), and the author just threw it in our faces that she wanted to be a hairdresser with no clues along the way.Ĭonsequently, the story eneded up quite mediocrely for both of them, all because it prioritized the secondary characters. It's frustrating to see the other characters take the spot light and see their lives coming together, while the protagonists take a back seat on their own goddamn story. After all, why the heck did he learned sign language if they barely use it? This way Shouko could have talked about it with him, easing the pain that haunted him for so many years. That can't go unnoticed in her current behaviour), and maybe we could have learn more about her new school life as a high schooler, learn more about her personality, the other bullies of her past (thus, making Shoya not feel SO guilty about putting ALL the blame on himself).Īs for Shoya, we could have seen him express his inner thoughts and all the excesive guilt he feels. I would have LOVED to see more meaningfull interactions between Shoya and Shouko beacuse that was the whole idea, that they could start again as friends, and this could have opened new oportunities to explore Shouko's psique (I mean, she went through bullying all her elementary school life, technically. And the MC doesn't know anything either, and this is because the author decided to put the attention on the other characters and their irrelevant lives, thus making the two "protagonists" (Shoya & Shouko) less interesting and irrelevant to their own story. This way, we don't know anything about her, her likes, dislikes, aspirations, her deeper thoughts, how are things going in her current school (is she being bullied? Does she have friends? Does she feel alone?). We never get to hear what she truly feels, what is she like, what heppened to her before changing schools, and after graduating (middle school and high school). Nonetheless, something I didn't like about this story was the LACK of participation of Shouko, I mean, the story is called "A silent voice", so why we couldn't see more about HER version of the story? Everything we learn about her is through other character's perspectives: her sister, her mom, the MC. It was an interesting twist that the bully ended up as a victim, and seing how he tried to make amends for his mistakes, making a contrast with the other bullies who never got to learn their lesson (the protagonist's friends), or never felt remorse for what they did (Nao), or never assumed that they were part of the problem (Kawai, the teacher). As for the main character, I like him too. I like how it portrayed bullying in the first chapters and the different types of bullies (like the active and passive ones). ![]()
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