The Rich Port wrote:Britanania wrote:A Silent Voice is my favourite anime film, full stop. The manga is just as good as well.
It's one of my new favorites for sure. The editing was admittedly kinda weird though, I don't get why they needed to cut around like that, it didn't really serve a purpose beyond I guess reiterating certain points?
Either way, the story was indeed amazing. I remember somebody telling me they didn't like it because Shoko was a "perfect little cream puff". IMO, sure, but she was the only one in the movie, as opposed to quite a few other anime and Japanese media that treat high school as either a terrible place full of terrible people where the only heroes are the quirky protagonists. Plus, IMO it betrays the cynicism a lot of people have towards bullying all over the world. I've met plenty of people with very unhealthy attitudes toward it, both victim and bully.
Reminds me of that Japanese urban legend about "The Counting Girl"... Which yeah, you would think, if it were that easy, to avoid bad things happening to you, people would stop... But they don't. What stops it is people surrendering their pride to the better angels of their nature.
Everybody in A Silent Voice is an amazing character, with both flaws and good things... Except Ueno I guess but she's just a bitch so it's fine
Because it was based off a manga series that could've easily been adapted into a 24 episode series...