Silent voice
I was one of those quiet kids who’s just likable enough to avoid the worst kind of attention. I was vaguely smart (I actually repped my school in an academic decathalon thing), I was a reader, I liked comics, I didn’t enjoy team sports (even though I was athletic enough), I never had a girlfriend, I had non-negligible acne. So maybe I only contributed to the systemic abuses of these two kids or maybe I was actually bullying-just not alpha bullying. He was also pretty much a jerk, but by then I could understand why, so I felt more complicit in his misery when he saw the cartoon in which I depicted him as ugly and obnoxious. And there was that one kid in high school who was definitely bullied (not by me!) and who I drew an unflattering comic of. He was kind of a jerk and he stole stuff from me and I did pee on his bike once. There was that one neighbourhood kid in elementary school who I could be quietly mean to while other kids took care of the actual bullying. He was also pretty much a jerk, but by then I could understand why, so I felt more c Sorry if this review is all over the place, but my mind is in vacations :P Finally, after this first volume, I'm eager to see how Yoshitoki Ooima will handle the - must needed - character development. 1 delivers a great message, and it contains unrealistic sides for sure, but in my opinion, while flawed, it was fundamentally honest. Note that I can't promise that A Silent Voice, Vol. We need to show them that yes, their young adorable kid can become a bully or stand doing nothing about it. We need to make people realize how easy it is to give in to the sirens calls for fitting in. ► In the end, I can't deny that I would recommend this book to every teenager in a heartbeat, because to me, we need to talk about ignorance, uncomprehending and how they can lead to bullying. We are models : how can we tell children to stop if we laugh? And for Pete sake, how the fuck can adults find it funny in the first place? There is nothing I despise more than adults joking about or dismissing this kind of things, and yes, it's way more frequent than we realize. Bullying starts with little details, such as nicknames, unrequited 'teasing', and we adults should never find it 'amusing'. Moreover, as a teacher, and more generally as a human being, I found myself wanting to slap the sorry excuse of a teacher in there.
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You'll despise every freaking character and the general meanness and oh, the hypocrisy.Maybe that's just me, but I thought that she showed way too-much kindness to appear really truthful. You'll want Shoko to react already, damn it.You'll probably hate Shoya, the main character, for most of the book.
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That's all you can tell us, Anna? Oh, you want to know more? Alright. NO, just cut the shit already : these kinds of statements are lazy, damaging, and incredibly insulting to those they refer to. You should know that I hate the saying "kids will be kids" as much as its best friend "boys will be boys". 1 was a real kick in the guts, and that it deals with the issue of bullying in a - though heartbreaking and maddening - realistic way. Yet what I can tell you is that A Silent Voice, Vol. ► If what you are looking for is an enlightened review which analyses this book from a knowledgeable point of view, you will might be disappointed. ✘ I cannot point if other stories deal with these issues in a different/better way. I liked it : here's the only thing I can say about it. ✘ I have no freaking clue if the art is better/worst than it is elsewhere. ✘ I definitely cannot compare it to other existing mangas. ► What you won't find in this review : This is the first manga I've ever read I know, I'm such a weirdo, therefore :
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► If what you are looking for is an enlightened review which analyses this book from a knowledgeable point ► What you won't find in this review : This is the first manga I've ever read I know, I'm such a weirdo, therefore : ✘ I definitely cannot compare it to other existing mangas.