Koe no Katachi review

Faisa_Dragon1
Apr 16, 2021
I really enjoy witnessing the fans of Kimi no Na wa and Koe no Katachi arguing which one is the better. The comparison is pointless in regard, since they were adapted from different sources, but it is interesting to observe how they keep the purposeless argument continuing. But let back to the main reason why I was here.

A Silent Voice.

The title is easily confusing reader of its concept. They thought this was a series talking about a girl with disability in hearing. But no man, it isn't. If you weren't the insider in this matter, you couldn't speak in behalf of those unlucky, because it was just like forcing one's personal beliefs onto others. And as Hachiman Hikigaya realised what his expectations onto Yukino Yukinoshita were, those beliefs would end up being a sham, you know. So the story of Shouko Nishimiya was not the content, and she would only play an important role at best.

Normal people do have silent voices. And in the protagonist's point of view, those unhearable sounds reveal themselves. He was a bully. Yeah, now we are getting in to the genuine core of this manga. He had bullied the poor unlucky girl. But when they met again, the situation just made a 180-degree turn. He was also a victim of bullying. According to that, I could say that silent voice was his. A soundless speech of the culprit who did the bullying. A silence from the one who eventually became a bullied. Unspeakable words about how he felt, and obviously he couldn't voice them, because it was what he deserved. Still the regret of his childish actions left him speechless. The author has prepared a a splendid stage for the show and that's why he deserves my credit. The outcome was so easy to predict, but he has done well taking me all the way.

Honestly, there is only one difference between the manga and its adaption, and it is how that silence was shown. In manga, it's just in some frames with thoughts or nothing, which was easily to overlook. However, the anime has done well voicing it non-communicatively. There could be monologue, words spoken, but they couldn't reach others, as the main character didn't transmit it verbally. But the viewers couldn't turn a blind eye on them, because they are meaningful details and irreplacable binders of the story. In this point only, I believe the movie has surpassed its creator, and the sound effect has never been more impactful than that.

As I said, outsiders shouldn't speak their mind of the matter, so I can't judge the development in term of personality among the characrers good or bad, but at least it convinced me.

The art was great, as the author used a childish style of design. Reading it is just like watching the main character reminisce, about his childhood and the scars existing there.

This was just a splash in my mind, as I sud-denly thought of it. And The Sounds of Silence there were beautifully ringing to my open ears, telling me what voices never share. This is not my favourite, but well done, Yoshitoki Ooima.
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Koe no Katachi
Koe no Katachi
Автор Ooima, Yoshitoki
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