A Short Story Anime For The Wibu And Otaku
KOE NO KATACHI
A Silent Voice is a 2016 Japanese animated teen drama film produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Naoko Yamada and written by Reiko Yoshida, featuring character designs by Futoshi Nishiya and music by Kensuke Ushio.
This is the story 😉
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Shoya Ishida acts as he pleases and runs to the edge of the bridge intending to commit suicide.
At the last minute, his common sense resurfaced.
He then heard the sound of fireworks and recalled his days in elementary school and the events that had brought him to this point in his life.
At the time, Shoya was an indifferent child, viewing his friends as a way to dispel his boredom.
The entry of a new student named Shoko Nishimiya into her class attracts her interest, when Shoko tells her classmate that she is deaf.
Despite his disability, he tries his best to live a normal life and establish relationships with his classmates.
However, the other students and teachers believe that his presence upsets the social balance, and Shoya begins to.
When the issue of bullying reaches the principal's ear, Shoya is appointed as the culprit.
He stated that some of his friends also harassed Shoko, but they just kept quiet and turned away from him rejecting the fact that they were involved.
Immediately, his classmates begin to oppress him, similar to the treatment he gave to Shoko.
Shoya blames Shoko and the two of them get into a fight after he sees Shoko doing something to his desk.
Shoko is then transferred to another school, and she eventually finds out that Shoko deleted the hate messages her classmates left on her desk.
Shoya sees himself, realizing his new status as a tormented outcast.
After being thrown into the pool by his classmates, he finds Shoko's notebook.
Now a high school student, Shoya remains a social outcast, and begins to grow up accepting his past as punishment.
Full of guilt and anxiety, he marked the faces of those around him with an X mark, unable to look them in the eye.
However, Tomohiro Nagatsuka, another loner student, befriends him to the point where Tomohiro considers him his "best friend.
Shoya visits the sign language center to return Shoko's underwater notebook in hopes that she can make amends.
The two began to meet frequently on a bridge, and used bread to feed the koi fish.
Yuzuru Shoko's younger sister, strongly doubts Shoya's intentions.
One day, Shoya jumps into the river after Shoko does the same thing to retrieve his notebook which falls this action is forbidden, and Yuzuru uploads a photo of Shoya online.
As Yuzuru leaves in the rainy middle of the night, Shoya follows her and tells her that he is truly sorry for her treatment of Shoko.
Shoko gives a gift to Shoya and confesses her feelings to him, but as he tries to talk instead of using hand gestures, Shoya does not understand her.
Fearing that this misunderstanding upsets Shoko, Shoya invites her to go to the playground with him and a group of his classmates.
There, Naoka Ueno finally voiced her dislike for Shoko.
In the classroom, desperate to remain innocent of Shoko's oppression, Miki Kawai exposes Shoya's past to the students who are still unaware of the event, and on the other hand trying to hands off his own involvement.
This group of companions undergo a heated confrontation about their respective levels of responsibility and end with the words of Shoya, who heartlessly calls out their role while oppressing Shoko.
To encourage Shoko after her grandmother's death, Shoya takes her to the countryside, where he begins to understand how Shoko blames herself for everything that has happened to him.
Desperate to convince and change his mindset, Shoya seeks to meet with Yuzuru and Shoko on a regular basis.
During the fireworks festival, Shoko returns home on the grounds of completing some schoolwork.
Shoya follows when Yuzuru asks him to pick up his camera left behind.
When he arrives, he finds Shoko has been standing on the balcony, on the verge of his attempt to plop down to her death.
 Shoya manages to grab her and pulls her back, but she slips and falls right in the river, leaving her in a coma.
One night, Shoko dreams of receiving a farewell visit from Shoya.
Scared, he ran to the bridge where they usually fed koi and collapsed in a cry.
Shoya, awakened from his coma in a state of panic, runs limp to the bridge and finds Shoko there, cowering in despair.
He formally apologizes to her for her previous treatment, and for so many things he did that may have caused Shoko to hate herself.
Shoya asks Shoko to stop blaming herself, and also admits that when she once considered giving up and ending her own life, she decides not to.
Shoya then asks Shoko to help him survive.
When Shoya goes to a school festival with Shoko, he learns how much his friends from elementary school still care for him, and they all reconcile.
Afterwards, Shkya asks her friends to go to the school festival together.
During the festival, Shlya finally overcomes his past mistakes and is finally able to see the faces of others, as he cries and realizes that he has at least found redemption and forgiveness for his past.
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Very good story, you guys must like 😉