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+title: "koe no katachi"
+published: 2019-07-01
+---
+
+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:
+
+* 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**
+
+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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