Anime HATERS Watch *A Silent Voice* | Reaction/Review

You know what's even more ridiculous? This movie lost to Boss Baby at the Oscars.

"The story is not a love story, it is about a boy that finally learns to love himself again" heard it from a YouTube comment long ago and I agree with that.

I love when they’re all joking around and then shit get serious and they all lock in

As a teacher I can't blame Ishida for what he did, I worked with kids long enough to know most kids are very very stupid in their decision making, they do the most stupid things without considering the consequences for a second. What I can do is blame that awful teacher who was fully aware of what was happening and didn't do anything to stop it..

The mom calling him out on wanting to kill himself never fails to hit me. What a painful thing that must be for a parent to address.

The reason why Ishida misunderstood, "I like you" is because "The moon" and "I like you" sound similar in Japanese. I like you = Suki The moon = Tsuki It's pretty apparent for Ishida to misinterpret as he would never imagine that kind words to hear from Shoko after the guilt he's been living with.

during that scene where he's telling people the truth, in a harsh way, one of the guys from CinemaTherapy describes it so well: "he's owning all of his mistakes, but he's also done owning the other's mistakes". A Silent Voice is such a beautiful movie

The little sister took pictures of dead things to make her not want to die. I cried when I realized 😅

Shoko's mom never learned sign language to communicate with her daughter, she relied on her youngest daughter to translate for her. I highkey always found that so sad, to not want to learn a way to communicate with your own child.

For me kawai was the worst person ever... Naoko was a bad person but she didn't hide it , she was the bully but kawai always joins them though she didn't bully shoko directly , she never stood against them and always played the victim.... In the end Naoko learnt sign language and tried to change herself for good unlike kawai who always wears double face

What I love about this story is that it isn't just a redemption arch for a guy who was once a bully only for all his allies to suddenly turn on him once it suited them, but it's also a cautionary tale to adults about kids. Children are not born to hate, but they aren't born to love either. They are neutral, and because of that, their reaction to change can be as horrible as it can be amazing while they're learning how to handle the world. Ishida wasn't a bad kid, he was a child who reacted badly to meeting somebody not like him, and because everybody around him either ignored his bad behaviour or encouraged it, he never learned to stop until it was too late and he was suddenly the one being bullied. You'll notice that all his friends somewhat learned their lesson, to varying levels, but all without truly experiencing it, and that changed how they developed. One girl became a people pleaser, another guy just began distancing himself from people like Ishida who had clearly been labelled "what not to do", etc etc. They learned by him being the sacrifice and he learned by experiencing being the sacrifice. Then there's the girl who didn't learn anything until near the very end. I'd say her arch was a little too behind the scenes for somebody who stayed so hateable for so long but, despite that, this movie is a surprisingly interesting look into how kids who bullied others can end up growing up.

There’s nothing better than 5 guys sitting together on a coach watching anime😂😂

The character development these guys show as they’re watching, though. They went from “Ishida is the scum of the earth and doesn’t deserve forgiveness or anything” to happy tears at the ending

How tf y'all managed to not cry during this movie is incredible. I'm bawling man

The slow movement of the guys from being completely laid back on the couch to that hunched over full focus just shows how bomb ass amazing this movie is 😂❤❤

I love how accurate A Silent Voice is and the perspectives. One that isn’t popularly talked about or widely known is that it’s super common for parents to not learn sign language when their child is born deaf (which is crazy to me) and Shokos mom is one of them. And the fact that they showed Shokos ear bleeding when her hearing aid is taken out too fast is accurate, not exaggerated (I have a pair of my own) if you take it out the wrong way and too fast there’s a piece that will cut you.

One of the things I've noticed not a lot of people pick up on with this movie, is that in the beginning, when they were kids, Shouya originally began bullying Shouko because he saw how much her just being there was inconveniencing everyone in the class, and he thought she was oblivious to it, or didn't care about it. So he started acting out on everyone else's frustrations. When he did, the others began to egg him on in subtle ways, so he thought everyone was on his side about it. He's trying to make Shouko see how she's troubling the people around her. That's why at the playground he tells her to try harder, or everyone will get tired of her. He didn't understand how hard she was already trying, and her being oblivious to their frustrations made her seem selfish in his eyes. From his perspective, his actions were justified. It isn't until her mother gets involved that he begins to realize he probably shouldn't have done it. And then all of his "friends" throw him under the bus, his mom suffers for his actions, and Shouko moves away. Only then does it really sink in with him that he went about it all the wrong way. But you can't change the past. After that, he gets gradually pushed away and shunned for being a bully, even though he wasn't the only one. They use him as a scape goat so they don't have to face up to their own involvement, and he's branded as a bad person from then on. He loses all his friends, and develops isolating social anxiety, to the point that he begins to believe it would just be better if he stopped existing. From the other side, Shouko can only see herself as a burden. To her classmates, to her mother, she knows that everywhere she goes, people have to make concessions for her, they have to go out of their way for her. And when she thinks that she's destroyed the happiness of her classmates, she decides that she shouldn't have ever been born. Shouko has a mother who refuses to learn to communicate with her, and she can't ever seem to make friends but doesn't understand why. She grows up self isolating so she can burden as few people as possible. Her sister and grandmother are the only people in her life that even try to understand her and connect with her, and even they struggle to get through. By the time Shouko and Shouya reunite she's ready to give up as well, and that ends up getting worse when she witnesses the group fall apart, and assumes it's her fault again. This story isn't about redemption, it's about learning to understand. To understand each other, yourself, and the ripple effects your actions cause in the people around you. It's a story about two people who lived in isolation for so long, they forgot that they aren't alone. And that's why it's so beautiful.

At 36:05, From calling 'Nishimiya' to shouting "Shoko", Ishida expressed all his feelings in just a moment.

That last scene means so much for me. I still have trouble looking at people's faces and hearing the life around me. I wish I can someday experience all those cross signs falling off people's faces

Just a group of dudes getting emotional without crying Love it