Shoya could easily have chosen to have a career as something related to awareness and information of deaf people in education, or bullying, such as a Minister of Education (since he's so obsessed with making amends for what he did), instead of choosing to be a hairdresser just because.Īs for Shouko, I was dissapointed that we never got to see what she wanted to be until the very end (because of the reasons I mentioned before), and the author just threw it in our faces that she wanted to be a hairdresser with no clues along the way.Ĭonsequently, the story eneded up quite mediocrely for both of them, all because it prioritized the secondary characters. It's frustrating to see the other characters take the spot light and see their lives coming together, while the protagonists take a back seat on their own goddamn story. After all, why the heck did he learned sign language if they barely use it? This way Shouko could have talked about it with him, easing the pain that haunted him for so many years. That can't go unnoticed in her current behaviour), and maybe we could have learn more about her new school life as a high schooler, learn more about her personality, the other bullies of her past (thus, making Shoya not feel SO guilty about putting ALL the blame on himself).Īs for Shoya, we could have seen him express his inner thoughts and all the excesive guilt he feels. I would have LOVED to see more meaningfull interactions between Shoya and Shouko beacuse that was the whole idea, that they could start again as friends, and this could have opened new oportunities to explore Shouko's psique (I mean, she went through bullying all her elementary school life, technically. And the MC doesn't know anything either, and this is because the author decided to put the attention on the other characters and their irrelevant lives, thus making the two "protagonists" (Shoya & Shouko) less interesting and irrelevant to their own story. This way, we don't know anything about her, her likes, dislikes, aspirations, her deeper thoughts, how are things going in her current school (is she being bullied? Does she have friends? Does she feel alone?).
We never get to hear what she truly feels, what is she like, what heppened to her before changing schools, and after graduating (middle school and high school). Nonetheless, something I didn't like about this story was the LACK of participation of Shouko, I mean, the story is called "A silent voice", so why we couldn't see more about HER version of the story? Everything we learn about her is through other character's perspectives: her sister, her mom, the MC. It was an interesting twist that the bully ended up as a victim, and seing how he tried to make amends for his mistakes, making a contrast with the other bullies who never got to learn their lesson (the protagonist's friends), or never felt remorse for what they did (Nao), or never assumed that they were part of the problem (Kawai, the teacher). As for the main character, I like him too.
I like how it portrayed bullying in the first chapters and the different types of bullies (like the active and passive ones). There are a lot of complex emotions and surplus drama, very frustrating at times, and some choices are not based in reality, they are just there as plot devices, like his It is supposedly when they are 20 years old though, so I guess they kept in touch. Shoya never says it, even internally, if he likes her or not, not to mention love her, he's just very protective of her, but that could be just guilt for bullying her 5 years earlier.Īnd they decide to go to universities in different cities, so chances for their romance to bloom is very slim, and them holding hands (not even in a romantic way) is the only hint they give, which is really frustrating.
(Not to mention that she tries to kill herself later on, after watching the fireworks, which seemed like a good event, but it is a complex-thoughts-and-feelings kinda manga) Shoko confesses her love very early on, but Shoya misunderstands her because she can't pronounce it properly and then she never confesses again, even when given the opportunity to hold hands causally she goes for his sleeve instead, they only hold hands in the very last frame, which is far from clear if their romance is going anywhere or not.
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