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