The main character Shoya Ishida is riddled with regret from his past. When he was younger he bullied a deaf girl named Nishimiya. She struggled to get along with everyone from school as the whole class soon started bullying her. They all hated her and Shoya blames himself. After the bullying went too far Nishimiya transfers schools and the whole class turns against Shoya and throws him under the bus. The school soon punished Shoya for bullying her, even though they all weren't innocent themselves. He lost all his friends and everyone's trust. Soon he was bullied just like he bullied Nishimiya. When he entered high school he attempted to kill himself but something stopped him. He met Nishimiya again, a faithful encounter that changed his life completely. It is a story about how to love and appreciate life.
The story is filled with Shoya overcoming his self doubt, learning to make friends, to let himself love others and himself, to trust others, and to have fun. I relate deeply to Shoya, even though he was a quite a rowdy kid I can relate to how he was. He was bullied and so was I but not to the degree of physical abuse. I was shunned by others and still am, it's hard to make friends and knowing Shoya does too makes me really relate to him. He has trust issues and immense guilt, so do I.
Nishimiya is a sweet, wholehearted person, always has been and probably always will be. Even in elementary school when she was being bullied really roughly she smiled to others. She always tried her best to fit in and I can relate to this as well. I tried my best when I moved schools in third grade but I was ignored or called names. Nishimiya always helped others as much as she could, even though it was hard to communicate with everyone. When she finally got hearing aids all the kids started teasing her for wearing them and Shoya would throw them in the pond. I feel how much she suffered up to her transfer. Her teacher even shunned her, he wanted her to stop raising her hand and participating because it'd slow down the rest of the class. After the faithful meeting with Shoya five years later she starts to change, instead of having to pretend to be happy she can really smile sincerely after meeting Shoya.
After the first few chapters though things really pick up, drama happens, people who Shoya never wanted to see again show up, things begin to change... What will he do? If you're really interested you can download the manga for free on almost any manga website such as MangaReader, MangaGo, and MangaFox. If you're also interested in the anime, it's a movie currently in theaters in Japan. It'll be licensed in America sometime in a few months. For now let's enjoy the trailer for the movie :)
I'm actually slightly disappointed because some scenes in the trailer happen differently in the manga... How many people have read a book and the movie tells it differently?? It's like, you have the whole script in the book, why change things? The scene they changed was actually important for character development. I could go on and on about manga v. anime comparisons. This is why I prefer manga to anime. Whether they changed a few things or not I'm still extremely excited for this movie!! So hyped!!
After some digging around I found a few reviews on Japanese sights on what they said about the movie after leaving the theater. I am truly in aw about some of them and my heart is already sore from reading most of the manga. In some moments I'm ready but in other's I don't know what to expect. Here are a few reviews I could find that were translated somewhat properly:
Please excuse the sites grammatical errors in its translations
"High school students, as in this much delicately draw a contrary to wavering self-consciousness hateful, Sonouede hope and "its all love you want the" movie wonder there are other. Naoko Yamada of supervision, affection enough of such defenseless is too rare, I think the very existence is that it is impressive. And, "voice" of aiko. That voice is the the one and spokesman to give shape to the supervision of love, it was a wonderful thing that would be up to the afterglow of the end credits in the message." ~ from somebody on http://koenokatachi-movie.com/
""The definition of a friend," that I have been thinking much,
I felt that was found a little watching this movie.
After leaving the theater, you get used to surely obediently to the people around." ~ from somebody on http://koenokatachi-movie.com/
"We were allowed to watch with the same eyes of a high school student, but was able to very sympathetic to the delicate feelings to friends and around.
Or try to escape or become cowardly, surely high school students who think the same thing is not it often Kana me.
That's why, become painful chest and watching the work, but the tears did not stop. But, the tears feel in really warm things, you mind going now to clean was very Kokochiyoka'.
I want a lot of spread for those of the same generation! I want you to watch! It was a very nice work, such as think." From somebody on http://koenokatachi-movie.com/
From just reading the reviews do you want to watch this movie? I hope I have sparked your interest. If you're really into it why not read the manga, it only has 64 chapters. Psst, it's probably better than the anime. I bet both the anime and the manga are beautiful and worth your time. I know it's worth my time, it has already changed me. As this post is coming to its end, it's my time to go and binge read the rest of it!
Arigatou Gozaimasu for reading, I hope you have an outstanding day~!!!
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