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- title: "koe no katachi"
- published: 2019-07-01
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- this post is a little difficult in knowing what and what not to say, especially
- as there are other people who play a major role in the story leading up to my
- watching of `koe no katachi` and i don't wish to accidentally reveal or make it
- easier to ascertain anyone's physical identity on here, be it my friends' or my
- own. that said, my identity is probably already a cakewalk to determine for
- **gafam** and any big and evil enough government (looking at you, **鬼お兄様**)
- like can be found in the **divided kingdom** and **corporate states of
- dystopia** to name a couple that i could easily think of more appropriate names
- for without any forethought. so, because i cannot realistically explain enough
- of the story to make this post an interesting, sickening, and emotionally
- gut-wrenching true tale of `"man's inhumanity to man"` and `anime being
- awesome` without betraying the **_right_ to privacy** we all have (trying to
- set a good example here for **鬼お兄様**), i guess i will just talk about the
- anime.
-
- ***just a heads up; i'm not great at knowing what might be considered spoiling
- since everyone has they're own opinions on this, so while i will try and avoid
- anything super specific i might end up spoiling as early as in my list of
- subject matters the film covers and i may end up talking about the symbolic
- ending of the film.***
-
- ## koe no katachi (the shape of voice / a silent voice)
-
- > the beginning
-
- i found myself a little lost at times, to be honest. no, not lost so much as
- confused. there were a few things that really stood out as being *off*,
- although some might have been due more to the language barrier than problems
- with the film itself (and yes, the irony is not lost on me). for any who don't
- know anything about the film, it's about a deaf transfer student and a boy and
- subject matters it covers include:
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- * bullying
- * language barriers
- * conforming to toxic group mentalities and behaviours
- * forgiveness
- * empathy
- * suicide
- * friendship
- * love and hate especially among people who are different
-
- anyway, the flow of time wasn't done super well in my opinion. and it's hard to
- remember these are elementary schoolers when their voices and mannerisms don't
- paint an image of what a sixth grade elementary school kid would sound like
- half of the time and their voices and appearances are almost identical to their
- five-years-later counterparts'. this is actually one of the biggest problems i
- had with this film (this is going from memory so i may not be remembering
- everything correctly; i wasn't taking notes as i watched or anything, so take
- everything i say with a grain of salt). the weird flow of time and sudden time
- jump(s) make me think maybe the manga was done better but had more time to it
- but i can't say for sure, having never read it.
-
- > i can't talk about the show in time segments after all, so i'm going to just do my rambling thing
-
- another thing that seemed really unnatural and sudden was how they dealt with
- the character growth, at least in the first half of the film. if the characters
- didn't look **almost identical to how they looked five years ago** i might have
- found this easier to rationalise in my head. the character motivations for some
- characters were not well defined or didn't make a lot of sense at times; at
- other times, they were extremely believable and even relatable to the point of
- being able to invoke specific emotions very effectively.
-
- > despite most of what i've said so far being rather critical…
-
- …i very much enjoyed most of the show. a lot of the bullying scenes made me
- uncomfortable and uneasy, but i can't imagine the intention of said scenes to
- be anything *but* to elicit aforementioned negative emotions, so that isn't a
- complaint. the second half of the show had much better character growth and
- made a lot more logical sense than the beginning, in a lot of ways making up
- for the problems i had with the first parts.
-
- > **this is why i shouldn't spend so much time writing the preambles to my posts**
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- namely, i feel like i don't know how to bring up my favourite parts of the show
- in a way that makes **any** sense **whatsoever** and so the best i can do is
- say the things the show dealt with (see bulleted list above) were overall done
- very well. things i planned on mentioning or talking about in more detail
- include the little sister with the camera, the families of the two main
- characters (especially the mothers), the ways in which this film is an
- emotional roller coaster (at which time i'd probably try and be clever and talk
- about the roller coaster in the film), the symbolic ending, suicide and why
- people do and don't do it, how the deaf girl sounded when she spoke (honestly
- wouldn't be surprised if i learned the voice actor for her was in fact deaf
- herself), and how many parallels i can find to my own life in this film.
- considering how long this is already, be glad i don't have the words or desire
- to go into any more detail.
-
- **in conclusion**, i apologise for how messy this post ended up being and how
- much of it was spend saying not much about anything. if i ever decide to review
- an anime, i'll make sure it doesn't end up looking like this blog post. and if
- you thought i was trying to review anime in this or any previous post, sorry
- but that has not been my intention at all. **i like to talk about anime. i
- don't know how to review it**, and i don't want to write anything that i don't
- have fun writing about.
-
- **またね~**
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