Koe no Katachi
Alt Names: | A Silent Voice 声之形 รักไร้เสียง 聲の形 聲之形 목소리의 형태 La forma de la voz Sesin Şekli The Shape of a Voice هيئة الصوت Wujud Sebuah Suara Форма Голоса |
Author: | Ooima Yoshitoki |
Artist: | Ooima Yoshitoki |
Genres: | Award Winning Drama Romance School Life Shounen |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Shouya Ishida, a boy always looking for ways to beat boredom, ends up looking for it in the wrong place. Weirded out by his new classmate, a deaf transfer student named Shouko Nishimiya, he deems her as the target of his ostracizing and bullying. Day after day, Shouya picks on Shouko, unaware of the effects of his thoughtless actions. He finally understands the pain he has inflicted on her when one day, his bullying culminates in her leaving the school, and his classmates begin to shun and harass him every chance they get instead. Determined to right his wrongs, five years later, Shouya, now a third year high school loner, meets Shouko again. Thus begins the story of a young man's path to redemption. |
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2149 Comments
Oh and Shouya developed nicely as a character and person. I thought an alternate ending where he didn't meet Nishimiya again and instead be more open with deaf people would not be bad.
I feel sorry for her bullying but shit happens eh?
I wish I can read more..
I want to know how they cope with each other in highschool..
REminds me of kingyou no sou though..
Perhaps it's because she's deaf? If she wasn't would people not be as angry? I mean come on... I hate bullying quite a bit regardless but if you're hating on this just cause she's deaf then frankly that sounds a tad shallow.
This One Shot is like a breath of fresh air. =.=
Oh, and Comadrin is right. The teacher was the real bad guy in all this.
when one's romantic companion is paired with an unwanted partner.
Though NTR usually does induce rage, by no means does it mean everything that makes you rage is NTR. There was no actual romance in this series, therefore there is no NTR in this series.
It wasn't until the late 80's and into the 90's that Deaf Education finally became more widely accepted, and even still it had hurdles to face. Many Japanese, including the 'hearing' people who were in charge of the Ministry of Education's Deaf education program felt that the Japanese language was a hallmark of being Japanese and that all Japanese should want to know it. Imagine learning another language, but never being able to hear it; the only way you know you pronounced something right was because you didn't get smacked.
Unlike the US who's deaf education has been around since the late 1800's and France who pioneered deaf education and culture, Japan is relatively new.in the field.
I had a deaf friend, from Japan, in college, who taught me ASL. From what we talked about he never experienced anything to this degree, but he was always embarrassed, even ashamed when he had to 'Speak' Japanese, because he knew he messed up and knew people made fun of him. As he got older and JSL became prominent and his mother sent him to a school for the deaf, his quality of life greatly increased.
PPls, SHUT THE FUCK UP! Thanks! This isin't NTR, do you know what that means? No? Go to google. You know. The thing you propably use almost every DAMN day.
This was a nice and heartfelt story, stop ruining it for the rest of us with NTR talk.
NTR isn't something that is simply rage inducing, I'm getting sick of people using it everywhere so incorrectly. There isn't even any romance in this oneshot much less anything resembling NTR.
I repeat, no NTR.
El bullying es un tema delicado, pero de todas maneras la autora lo ha tratado a la perfección, muy bonita historia, de como se da cuenta el acosador de lo que se siente al sufrir de bullying, cuando todos te ignoran, y te tratan mal, aprende lo que el hacía. Pero es difícil para este OneShot ser publicado semanalmente en esta revista, esperemos que pueda conseguirlo.
When I was in public school, this kind of teacher was all too common. They bonded with the bullies, and any student, male or female, who went to them was usually humiliated in front of the class and branded a crybaby. We often hear about "enablers" in alcohol and drug abuse, but schools have a history of adult enablers of bullying. I can remember, from elementary school, a boy on crutches being pushed down a flight of stairs, and a couple of teachers (who saw the whole thing) pretending that he tripped and fell. For heaven's sake: these are the adults that are supposed to be protecting and guiding these children.
I can see why profit-driven factions in a publishing business would want to steer clear of printing this manga. It is an uncomfortable story about people's total lack of empathy, and the hypocrisy and apathy that pervades many of our public institutions. So the upshot at most publishers is, "Hey, stupid editor! I don't care if it's the manga equivalent of King Lear. Mark it rejected and find some fluff about teenage martial artists or some made up love angst. Don't rock the boat!"
Diversity shall prosper and the weak shall be just that!
now this is how you make a good character cast with good story, not the standard shounen-action/seinen-ecchi-workhard bullshit we've been seeing every season.
That said, is it normal for deaf people to be put to a normal school?