Yoshitoki Oima illustrated an array of many characters throughout his seven-part manga series, which presented a big challenge to Naoko and her screenwriter Reiko Yoshida. Also detrimental is Shoko's association with Shoko's foe, Naoka Ueno (Yuki Kaneko). It doesn't help Shoko's cause that he's befriended by Tomohiro (Kensho Ono), a corpulent and loud guy who interferes in Shoko and Yuzuru sibling affairs as well as Shoko's business. But Shoko reminds him that's he going to have to work harder in order to demonstrate full repentance and earn her forgiveness.

When he finally gets to see her, Shoya displays kindness by bringing her bread that he's bought and holding his umbrella over Shoko during a rainstorm. Shoya tries to redeem himself by visiting her after school but Shoko's tomboyish sister Yuzuru (Aoi Yuki) either tells him she's not available or doesn't want to see him. Naoko flashes forward over five years when Shoko has changed schools. Shoya sinks into a depression and nearly takes his own life. While Shoya's friends more or less condone his antics, they eventually ostracize him from the group.

Shoya then throws Shoko's expensive hearing aids away and tosses her notebook (so crucial to communicating with others who aren't proficient in JSL) into the pond. So he begins teasing her even though she tries to be nice to him. Shoya finds Shoko's personality peculiar and the fact that she can't hear strange to him. At an elementary school in the small city of Ōgaki, Shoko Nishimiya (voiced by Saori Hayami), a deaf girl, doesn't have trouble making new friends but the popular Ishida Shoya (voiced first by Miyu Irino, and later Mayu Matsuoka), stands in her way as the class bully. In adapting Yoshitoki Oima's seven-volume manga, Koe No Katachi ( The Shape of the Voice), her multi-storied A Silent Voice tackles the themes of bullying, sympathy, forgiveness, and compassion with startling beauty. Stephen Larson, July 18, 2020ĭirector Naoko Yamada is one of the rising stars at Kyoto Animation, with Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) as well as the K-On! and Tamako Market series and movie adaptations to her credit.

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