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
Coming back to this after two years, I can finally appreciate the ending. Like everyone else, I do wish there were more, but we should keep in mind that one of the hardest things to do in a story is knowing where to end it and I think the mangaka choose it pretty well. Now that I've had some time to step back from the initial feels I want to comment on the ending and the overall manga.
Some people seem upset about the 'romance tag'.
About Ishida and Shimada and Hirose:
The movie definitely didn't do the manga justice, but I do appreciate the medium since there is one main element that the manga does not have: sound.
About the Romance tag,
After finally watching the movie today, I must say the movie really felt like a movie, and even though it was over 2 hours long, it felt as if the movie was long but interesting. It's been a long time that a non-action/non-horror film managed not to bore me even if it was long. And although there were a lot of artsiness-scenes/-cuts inbetween, I didn't mind it that much.
The manga is a little superior,though, because you get to understand the characters feelings more (feels a little more unrealistic,though,
All in all, even if the story is open-ended (basically every story that doesn't end with the destruction of earth or mankind is open-ended,though), I'd give the manga full 5 stars and 4,5 for the movie adaptation.
What happened to some missing chapter?
Watched the movie. I have to say - the movie does this manga injustice. I admit the manga is a little confusing, but in terms of covering all the themes and ideas that it covers, the movie is a far inferior product.
Personally, the movie completely skipping the entire "let's make a movie together" bit was a pretty bad idea. It was the only reason why Ishida really got it all together when he returned to school, and the movie completely skips how each character had their own problems. While it got the main ideas across, I can't really feel for any of the side-chars in the movie, and more importantly, why they would have any reason to support Ishida after being bad-mouthed that badly (whereas in the manga, this was reasoned thanks to Shouko's efforts to keep the 'movie' ongoing, and it was when the 'movie' was critically panned that Ishida realizes that, for better or for worse, they were not going to let themselves be bullied by anyone anymore - if people don't get them, then they will just forge their own path.)
i read this at kissmanga in minibrowser a year ago, but shit now i can't read it anymore
Uh.. I read this coz I loved the movie but... holy shit the manga is a mess. The developments were chaotic and it didn't lead anywhere at all. I am having a hard time understanding people giving this a 5/5 when:
Damn, Kyoani.... you did well w/ the movie.
30 chapters in I distinctly notice something. Absent fathers.
*shrugs*
I think almost everyone already knows about their existence. It's a typical ripping site but at least they have a good reader (all manga is read manwha style / all pages per chapter on one page)
I have no idea why the manga got butchered here, but you can find the complete story (and with a decent quality) at KissManga.
God dammit. I didn't come to batoto at 7AM in the morning after an all-nighter only to be hindered by onion-cutting ninjas
Yeah, I didn't like this special chapter. The conflictual behavior of her mother was represented way better in the actual manga, and she felt more sympathetic.
while many of you guys hated the mother I for once understand her not because of the extra chapter but being a parent is hard especially when you have two daughters and one of them is deaf its just reality portrayed in these manga, but yeah that's just my opinion I'm not trying to contradict anyone though
Still doesn't excuse her behavior, sadly. Sure she may have felt that way once but as the years went on her negative image took on a life of its own.
Nice to know the reasoning behind her mother's strictness =) doesn't excuse but at least it wasn't random
I'm the only one that didn't like the special at all?
The mother was a shit the whole series, there's no reasoning behind his behavior at all. The way she treated Shouko was worthy of some medical atention, It was senseless.
Couldn't be worst this special, it only reminded how much I hated that fucking asshole mother through the series, from the beginning to the end, and on top of that, It also reminded me of how special was Shouko's grandmother.
Fuck this shit.
This was one of the most difficult mangas that i have read in my life, even so I am glad to see have read and that someone translated this extra chapter for us, I dont think I'm going to read this again do to the never ending rollercoster of hard fells but if you didnt read it I recommend it fervently, one of the best mangas i've read in my life and sincerelly I dont think that will be a manga that aboard a theme like this with the same prodigious story telling, props for the author and the scanlation teams.
It's raining in my bedroom
so much feel
Shouko's grandma was the best, definitely.
I feel... hungry, but not quite.
I thought this manga was done making me feel these things called emotions.