Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
super_toad_fan
It’s super boring, not gonna lie.
The story is nothing special at all, and I don’t see why people like this anime so much.
I think there are way better stories about disabled people and how they live their lives.
Also, I don’t like that the story focuses more on the bully than on the girl herself — it’s more about the guy who chose to be an asshole than about the girl, who couldn’t do anything about it in the first place.
Of course, the movie is super pretty, and of course, some people see these topics differently then me, but I personally don’t think it’s that deep, and I don’t care about the characters at all.
(I watched the movie with friends or alone, I think 3–4 times, and every time I just hoped it would be over, because it’s so boring.)
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Objectively a stunning and beautifully well animated film with a premise that sounds interesting. However, falls flat with the express focus on making the abled-bodied comfortable with Shoko being a mary-sue that forgives her bully in the end (not stating that she has to be cruel to her bullies or that redemption isn't good, it just comes across as being flat and disinteresting with how little Shoko is fleshed out beyond her traumatic incidents) and has no further personality than being a shy, sweet, loveable but sad damsel in distress. I find this extremely distressing given the topic matter, and my own experiences with being bullied as a deaf child - Note: I am not profoundly deaf like Shoko is, but I do wear a hearing aid and use sign language to communicate. Regardless, my own experien…
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[Story] 0 - The feelings of a sadistic boy for a masochist girl.
[Art] 7- Characters true to their manga designs, high quality animation.
[Sound] 7 - Creative use of sound/music. Nothing too special and memorable besides theme song.
[Character] 0-The two main characters are sadist and masochist. Side characters with bad personalities like the main characters. The only good people in the anime are their mothers.
[Enjoyment] 0 - I wanted to smash the monitor for the first 30 minutes. I could barely stop myself. Actually, since it is a popular romantic anime, I thought maybe I would like it if I continued it. I also watched the sequel because I felt more sympathy for people with disabilities. Someone who hates bullying should never watch it like me
[Overall] 2 - Even though I hated watching t…
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(Spoiler warning)
Deafness or Deaf-Mute is a serious disability. Another very important topics is Discrimination and bullying. These things definitely deserves more attention, even in education as well. The movie presents these topics and the major theme of the story builds up on these subjects.
However, this movie fails to present any pont or specified any statement whatsoever. I assemble a few crucial mistake to support my claims and to establish the fact that this movie is dangerous. I try to be short and straight as I going through them one by one.
Before we start, I would like to note things I don't like;
- Fake things
- Overdramatizing.
- Hoax-forced drama.
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- A deaf girl in a non-disability school. ( It may have been the closest school for her family ) Although, the teac…
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Everyone in the world is distinctive, each person having both positive and negative aspects about them, and every society is known for their own distinctive features. There are those who disagree with this view as nothing more than a blind and false generalization, and there are those who completely agree with it. Both ways of thinking, in my opinion, are unnecessarily exaggerated. The best solution for this is a balance, as we cannot hide one society’s trait, nor can we realistically say that a whole society belongs to a certain feature. For example, Japanese people are considered to be people who love a clean environment, so, does that mean that every single Japanese acts in this manner? Certainly not, but most of them do act upon this certain trait. The characteristics of a society are…
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A Silent Voice is a beautiful looking filmーlike most of Kyoto Animation’s productions. The artistic direction was on point, but that aspect of this creation doesn’t make up for the poorly constructed story. The story is about a bully making amends for beating and antagonizing a deaf girl as a child.
• That would be all fine and good, if the movie showed the recovery of the girl who got unjustly picked on and the bully helping her trust again, or something like that, but this film is all about THE BULLY making amends, so that he doesn’t feel like killing himself. The deaf girl’s personality is not explored whatsoeverーshe’s just the apologetic, cute, love interest.
• Yes, you heard me correctly. Love interest. The first time the characters meet after the time skip, the deaf girl (with go…
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Overview:
A Silent Voice is a VERY popular anime and I can see its appeal. This is an anime that is beautifully animated by the much beloved Studio Kyoto. It has a soundtrack featuring The Who! It promised to actually address the issue of bullying far better than previous anime and give it the serious look it deserves. It promised to be a beautiful redemption tale and love story all in one. This anime SHOULD have been amazing. Sadly, I was really not a fan of this film and was badly disappointed to say the least. I'm not trolling. I'm not being contrarian for the lulz. I'm quite serious and I'll explain why.
Warning! There will be some spoilers!
Bullying and its portrayal in anime:
Before discussing the technical things like art and music, I really need to cover this topic. Bullying i…
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I don't like this movie. If you do, that's great! I'm only writing this to warn people who, like me, might find this movie to be a waste of their time, and not to say anything negative about the fans of this movie.
Story - 1
I think the story, premise wise, is alright. A boy who used to be a bully tries to become friends with his old victim. However, in execution, I think this anime fails spectacularly.
The pacing, for one thing, is extremely weird. I'm fairly sure this movie was supposed to cover several months, but I never really got a clear sense of what happened when. All the scenes seemed to kind of blend together, with no sense of how much time had passed in between scenes.
I didn't feel like the characters really got anywhere, or even did much of anything. And yeah, it's a drama, b…
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Koe no Katachi is dangerous because it is exploitative. I'm not going to pretend to know anything about deaf people. I don't. This movie certainly does not allow any greater understanding into the mind of deaf people is the point I want to iterate. It uses a serious problem as a plot device constantly and reduces Nishimiya to one-dimension. She is the textbook definition of a mary-sue as well as a damsel in distress. This is clearly troublesome when trying to explain deafness to an able-bodied audience.
Nishimiya's entire character is her illness. She is paper thin with her sole character trait being she likes to feed fish. She is so inhuman it is gross. Moe being used in this way is offensive. Including deafness or any other handicap into anime is an exciting idea, and I laud the attemp…
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I didn't like A Silent Voice as much as I would have liked to. The storyline had so much potential but failed to step out of boundaries. Expressing issues like suicide, mental illnesses, and bullying is a challenge through a movie, but no matter what the mediocre plot remained. I am surprised that it is rated so highly, and I think it's because of the main storyline that everyone loves it so much, but here's why I rated it so low.
While there were signs of character development, there was so much skipping around. Instead of getting the viewer to understand what it really feels like for someone to develop anxiety, a decent amount of crying and small animated symbols filled the blank spaces instead. I thought that this movie would somehow prove that it was more than a typical storyline with…
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This is gonna be in Spanish and in English. I'll add the translation below, explaining why I put the "low" rating.
The adaptation, from the point of view of someone who had already read the manga (even before any movie announcement existed), was mediocre. The character development was null, except for Shoya and Shoko (also Yuzuru and Ueno, more or less). Mashiba had no importance, the same as almost everyone else. In the manga we got to know why Mashiba was so nice and kind (and also saw him punch the face of our main character when he knew it was him who caused Shoko's pain in her childhood).
Koe no Katachi manga made me feel tensed and even cry. The tankobon in which we had Shoya unconscious was brutal.
Now, taking my overall opinion away, I'm gonna explain each and every aspect of my…
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How am I after watching this movie? Angry. This movie was fucking good and it's such a pity that it came out when Kimi no Na wa did, because it deserves so much more recognition. Honestly, I believe it outshines it tenfold but this is a review not a comparison so let me give you my points:
- Great soundtrack/art/animation/the works. solid base. if you like kyoani why are you waiting
- EXPERIMENTAL. The perspectives and aesthetics shown throughout the movie are insane. Like if you think of one of those 'aesthetic tumblr posts' the entire movie is literally in that vibe.
- The noise level. not the music. the noise level- majestic. since koe no katachi is about living life as a deaf person most of the soundtrack is ambient noise, cute jingles or piano notes. It's quiet. But as soon as the…
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Read All First! / SPOILERS*: (Im sorry if you don't agree, but this is my Review)
Koe no Katachi(Manga) had an amazing story line, filled with great character progression, and a lot of story and insight.
However I strongly believe that the movie did not do the Manga justice and left viewers with a lot of plot holes and questions (from the reaction after the movie). It should not have of been a movie, as there was too much story and character progression to be fit into a 2 hour movie (I really enjoyed understanding why Nishimiya Shoukos mother is why she acts the way she was from the manga)
The movie cut out a lot of scenes which made it hard to understand why people were doing things (making the film together (which was not in the film) was put to one text message and then forgotten - an…
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Like any other slice-of-life anime, the plot is relatively simple, however there is an outstanding attention to the development of the characters.
As usual for Naoko Yamada, most of the scenes and dialogue from the manga are present, however she adds so much more to the anime, making it a truly emotional experience.
The story is very mature, not in the sense that it is dark and gritty, but more in the sense that the characters are fully realised, presented in a realistic manner.
A Silent Voice forgoes anime archetypes by maintaining internal-consistency in all of its characters, making all of their actions relatable, or at least understandable.
It is difficult to describe why the audio-visuals work so well using just words.
I found the film to be a powerful, transformative experience…
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[This review contains NO spoilers]
This is a story about the importance of listening and the effects of not doing so. It something we can all understand and learn from.
Social anxiety, Suicide, self loath/pity, forgiveness/acceptance, attachment, the desire/difficulty to be connect and most of all the complexity of human communication and emotions - all covered in this Movie as you delve into a journey to unravel a facade to find emotions we all contain and hide from others to void the difficulty of conveying them. We follow a character who closes his mind and refuses not to listen to create his own cynical narrative and in it we learn voice (koe) - or communication - has many shapes and forms (Katachi) and that it's shallow to think it's all monotonous.
When I heard Kyoto - with their l…
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I was lucky enough to catch the very first screening of Koe no Katachi in Singapore's cinemas on March 9, 2017. This is also my first review, so please bear with me if my review layout is not great.
Please also note that my review of this will be Anime-only, as I have not yet read the manga. I do plan on reading the manga to get the full experience though.
Story: 9/10
- The story starts off with a young girl named Nishimiya Shouko, who walks in to a classroom and introduced herself in pieces of paper she wrote before coming in, then "I am deaf." was written. Ishida Shouya and a few of his friends bullied her as her time in school goes by to the point where she had to be transferred out because they have been damaging her hearing aids -which is very expensive- and the teachers were suspic…
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MAY CONTAIN SLIGHT SPOILERS!
Watched it two days ago at TOHO Cinema in Tokyo.
I remember that I was reading manga, but at that time it wasn't coming out frequently and scanlating wasn't going good either, that's why I read about 9 chapters, so I barely remember any events expect the beginning of the story and main characters. But I was waiting for anime adaptation since that time. Even though kinda hoped for series, not just a movie.
I must say that I was a little worried about it airing at the same time with Kimi no Na wa, but it still seems alright, box office going good, even though it is three times less than Kimi no Na wa (but don't compare original movie made by Makoto Shinkai with manga adaptation, even from KyoAni).
But for the first half an hour (or maybe more) I was sitting q…
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Non-spoiler review
Story - 7
Art - 10
Sound - 10
Character - 7
Enjoyment - 10
Overall - 8
[I watched Koe no Katachi at United Cinema, Fukuoka, Japan on Sep 22nd, 2016](hope somebody will liscence it and get it abroad) Short version; Kyoto Animation again brings great animation on to the table; The glittering eyes, cutesy-moe seifuku characters, great background, and much more. It is one of the finest animation quality out there, and if romance genre is your cup of tea, you will probably like the movie. Even if you don't like romance, it is not a disappointing film.
Ok, I'll start off by saying that I did not read the manga before hand so I will try my best to not assume what the original content did(I will definitely read it).
That being said, I have to mention that frankly, I was wor…
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Note: I watched it at the Toho Cinema Complex in Ario Nishiarai (*I had thought I could have been the only person on this review list who had really watched it at a cinema in Japan after reading a particularly harsh review, but I was wrong).
A quick overview: Koe no Katachi is a very well done film, although not without shortcomings, and which has dealt with (a) complex issue(s), and which leaves the viewer with questions but no easy conclusions. It is a powerful enough film to remember and ponder over, and people may draw different lessons, or perhaps none.
Pros: The sound and vision (KnK is top-notch Japanimation. I dare say that in some aspects, it is better than a Ghibli film). The ambient piano background music really matches with parts of the film, and the use of marimbas and even…
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[Story] 7 - Plot holes and cut sub-plots, excluded from the original script/manga.
[Art] 10 - Characters true to their manga designs, high quality animation.
[Sound] 7 - Creative use of sound/music. Nothing too special and memorable besides theme song.
[Character] 7 - Side characters had their story severely cut. Leaving some with empty character.
[Enjoyment] 10 - Tears, sadness, anger, happiness and laughs, the whole package.
[Overall] 8 - Definitely would watch again.
For those wondering how and where I watched this film, I watched in Japan. At Keisei Rosa10 in Chiba on September 17th.
Having read the manga 4 times over and crying every time, I went into the theater not expecting much tears as I have pretty much dried up my emotional experience with this manga.
However, much to my sur…
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