She was irrelevant to the overall theme. She is a part of the reality, they acknowledge this, but otherwise there is not a really valid point to show her.
It is always like that. There is someone you know about, you interact with, but your current reality is not actively, DRASTICALLY influenced by their existence.

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May 22, 2017 12:18 PM

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Daniel_Naumov said:
She was irrelevant to the overall theme. She is a part of the reality, they acknowledge this, but otherwise there is not a really valid point to show her.

Sure, but her kid runs around all the time and even the husband gets a tiny scene at the end. Why even bring her up if she's never there? Why make that character?

She's like Chekhov's Sister

May 23, 2017 6:46 AM

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That annoyed me quite a lot.

May 23, 2017 10:22 AM

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I assume its a KyoAni thing since they did the same with Hyouka.

May 23, 2017 1:22 PM

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In the manga she didn't appeared too, i think the mangaka is lazy As fuck. At least Kyoani gave her a hair. I loved the hommage to my country with Maria and her father. HUE RULEZ!

May 23, 2017 11:43 PM

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Lax_Caux said:
In the manga she didn't appeared too, i think the mangaka is lazy As fuck. At least Kyoani gave her a hair. I loved the hommage to my country with Maria and her father. HUE RULEZ!

Oh please, get over it. Its just a quirk that the author wanted for her character, like Ash's never-seen father. Who the hell cares, she is completely irrelevant to the story.

May 24, 2017 4:11 AM

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GeilRugner said:

Daniel_Naumov said:
She was irrelevant to the overall theme. She is a part of the reality, they acknowledge this, but otherwise there is not a really valid point to show her.

Sure, but her kid runs around all the time and even the husband gets a tiny scene at the end. Why even bring her up if she's never there? Why make that character?

She's like Chekhov's Sister

Because her child has some importance to the story. And maybe they didn't want to do the things like in all highschool anime where it is like parents don't even exists. They just want to acknowledge the fact that the child's parents are indeed there.

May 26, 2017 7:41 PM

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Because Pedro and Maria are all you need

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May 26, 2017 7:47 PM

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Her face was never shown in the source material so staying true to the source they kept her faceless.

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May 27, 2017 1:46 AM

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Because screen time of course

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May 28, 2017 11:53 AM

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Well this video more or less explains that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThR8_4c-hvU
Its because Ishida is blocking the world only seeing the faces of people that he cares about or has to pay attention to. It also can mean that his sister isn't an active part on the story of his live.

May 29, 2017 4:25 AM

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It's because whenever we get the siltiest chance of seeing her the shoya goes out or the show shouko that's why lol

May 29, 2017 5:07 AM

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she is busy getting banged by my boy pedro

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OrehYnihs said:
Well this video more or less explains that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThR8_4c-hvU
Its because Ishida is blocking the world only seeing the faces of people that he cares about or has to pay attention to. It also can mean that his sister isn't an active part on the story of his live.

while i do understand this, shouldn't they just have put an X over her face like the others?

May 29, 2017 6:18 AM

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I don't think it really matters all that much.

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violetwillreign said:

while i do understand this, shouldn't they just have put an X over her face like the others?

Why would his sister have an X over her face? She doesn't hate him. The X is just how he views how other people view him.

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she is busy getting banged by my boy pedro

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yea i was so confused

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Noko_ said:
Can anyone explain why Ishida's sister (or at least her face) is never shown in the movie?

KingTsuna22 said:
yea i was so confused

aratinga said:

GangsterCat said:
she is busy getting banged by my boy pedro

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Badalight said:

violetwillreign said:

while i do understand this, shouldn't they just have put an X over her face like the others?

Why would his sister have an X over her face? She doesn't hate him. The X is just how he views how other people view him.

Kittens-kun said:
I don't think it really matters all that much.

violetwillreign said:

while i do understand this, shouldn't they just have put an X over her face like the others?

Oni-Baku said:
Yeah noticed that as well. The only time she was showed, her daughter was covering her face. Dunno really

Daniel_Naumov said:
She was irrelevant to the overall theme. She is a part of the reality, they acknowledge this, but otherwise there is not a really valid point to show her.
It is always like that. There is someone you know about, you interact with, but your current reality is not actively, DRASTICALLY influenced by their existence.

GeilRugner said:

Daniel_Naumov said:
She was irrelevant to the overall theme. She is a part of the reality, they acknowledge this, but otherwise there is not a really valid point to show her.

Sure, but her kid runs around all the time and even the husband gets a tiny scene at the end. Why even bring her up if she's never there? Why make that character?

She's like Chekhov's Sister

Katsu-kun said:
That annoyed me quite a lot.

-Abyss_Walker- said:
I assume its a KyoAni thing since they did the same with Hyouka.

Lax_Caux said:
In the manga she didn't appeared too, i think the mangaka is lazy As fuck. At least Kyoani gave her a hair. I loved the hommage to my country with Maria and her father. HUE RULEZ!

MrNTR said:

Lax_Caux said:
In the manga she didn't appeared too, i think the mangaka is lazy As fuck. At least Kyoani gave her a hair. I loved the hommage to my country with Maria and her father. HUE RULEZ!

Oh please, get over it. Its just a quirk that the author wanted for her character, like Ash's never-seen father. Who the hell cares, she is completely irrelevant to the story.

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GeilRugner said:

Sure, but her kid runs around all the time and even the husband gets a tiny scene at the end. Why even bring her up if she's never there? Why make that character?

She's like Chekhov's Sister

Inuchiyo said:
Because Pedro and Maria are all you need

TheLastKing360 said:
Her face was never shown in the source material so staying true to the source they kept her faceless.

Renaultclio101 said:
Because screen time of course

Scarlett43 said:
It's because whenever we get the siltiest chance of seeing her the shoya goes out or the show shouko that's why lol

GangsterCat said:
she is busy getting banged by my boy pedro

the reason they didn't show her because she didn't have any impact in his life
and another reason is that because she likes to sleep on floor
She was lazy af

from the manga

Ishida's sister was seen from behind in the firework scene standing next to her mother and her daughter. When Ishida was in grade school, she was always seen sleeping in her room with a guy. Ishida told his friends she had brought about thirty men in their house. The last one was a Brazilian named Pedro, whom she later had Maria with.

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What if after everything he's done, he still can't look his sister in the eyes? It's pretty clear that there was a divide there - and sometimes when you do something awful and a sibling doesn't accept you or forgive you, you can't look them in the eye no matter how much you heal.

Jun 17, 2021 5:08 AM

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It wasn't necessary most likely. Mayb she wud hav been 2 or 3 scenes but that's really less so it was better not to show.

Jun 23, 2021 9:42 PM

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Actually there is a reason.
Both in the manga and the anime her face isn't shown.
She was always there in his life...but she never paid any attention to him. She was mostly ignorant of whatever happened in Ishida's life...it's like her presence never meant anything to Ishida's life. Hence by not showing her face the author wanted to show how irrelevant she is to Ishida's story.

Jun 29, 2021 7:16 PM

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thats another reason why i didn't realy like the anime was because of that annoying trope.

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