A Silent Voice Review

Some people are assholes.  That's a fact that can't be denied.  Do assholes ever get what they deserve?  They do in the manga A Silent Voice.  Let's continue.


Shoya Ishida is the aforementioned asshole.  At the start of the manga, he's a bored kid who will do anything for excitement, including jumping off bridges into rivers.  This boredom leads him down the path to become a bully.  Enter Shoko Nishimiya.

Shoko is a deaf girl who just wants a normal school life.  What she gets instead is bullied by everyone in her classroom.  Even the teacher talks down about her, though not to her face.  Naturally, Shoya wants to get in on the action.  And does he ever.

Shoya goes out of his way to make Shoko's life a living hell.  He yells in her ears, throws her notebook in a pond, and rips out her hearing aids, among other things.  Crap hits the fan when the principal comes storming in angry, wondering who's responsible for this abuse.  In a vicious bout with karma, Shoya gets thrown under the bus by his classmates and the teacher, as everyone points to him as Shoko's one and only bully.

 Suddenly, he becomes the one who gets bullied.  His "friends" give him an ass-whuppin' and even throw him off a third-floor balcony, among other things.  Each incident makes him hate Shoko more and more until he and Shoko get into a fight (an actual fistfight), which results in her transfering to another school.

The manga really gets started when he gets to high school, where he is an antisocial outcast.  From there, it turns into a story redemption, friendship, and love.  The manga introduces new characters, reintroduces old characters, and follows Shoya as he tries to make up for ruining Shoko's life in elementary school.

In the end, A Silent Voice is about an asshole trying to redeem himself to a girl he did dirty.  There's plenty of zany characters and laughs.  It certainly was more than I was expecting.  Check it out.

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