A Silent Voice

Shoya Ishida is a high school student haunted by his past, weighed down by a relentless guilt. In elementary school, he was the typical class bully, and his favorite target was Shoko Nishimiya, a deaf girl who had just transferred. Between vicious teasing, destroyed hearing aids, and a total lack of understanding, Shoya turned his classmate's life into a nightmare, until the situation escalated, forcing Shoko to transfer schools. From that moment, the tide turned: his own friends turned against him, turning him into the new outcast and giving him a taste of his own medicine. Years later, reduced to an emotional skeleton, isolated from the world and on the verge of ending his life, Shoya decides to make one last gesture before disappearing: find Shoko to apologize and try to repair the incredible harm he caused her. But mending the pieces of a shattered life is no walk in the park. Between a group of old, still-toxic friends, unresolved traumas, and the immense struggle of learning to truly communicate, this story grabs your stomach and squeezes it tightly, recounting without filters how painful it can be to forgive others, but above all, to forgive yourself.