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Jun 3, 2022 4:14 AM
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Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?
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Jun 3, 2022 4:24 AM
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who knows maybe she is a masochist.
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Jun 3, 2022 4:25 AM
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Tbh if you didn’t understand it whilst watching, I don’t know what explaining it will do.
Jun 3, 2022 4:33 AM
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maybe that's just the type of person she is...
Jun 3, 2022 4:48 AM
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Deku_kamado said:
who knows maybe she is a masochist.

lmao maybe she is 😂
Jun 3, 2022 4:51 AM
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Two words: Plot convenience. People overrate this so high because of "muh feelings" when actually the story is anything but realistic .

facts. it sucks even more cause it gets "real" a few times, but that's crapped on from everything else. Way to many contrived fiction moments and "plot holes" (shit that don't make sense). WHY DO YOU LIKE HIM HE MERCISSELY BULLIED YOU LIKE THAT! WHY? sheeeeet I'd understand a Lil if this man was some herculan Greek God but he looks like a lover. Also her whole character is just her disability lmao. Her sister cool tho and the friend guy with the tree hair, I rock with him.
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Jun 3, 2022 4:52 AM
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

She was incredibly kind and when they were older she forgave him because they were kids even if it was horrible. He even learned sign language because of her. He did eventually apologize. She realized this and was happy. She slowly fell in love with him throughout the movie because of his consideration, his new found kindness and the fact no one else has gone this far for her besides her family.
Jun 3, 2022 4:53 AM
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She forgave him so easily and fell in love with him since the author wanted it.
Jun 3, 2022 4:54 AM
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Ngl, the romance of this movie was undercooked & she forgives him way too quickly.

Still a great movie in my opinion.
" Kindness can sometimes lead you to trouble. "

Jun 3, 2022 4:58 AM
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SandyAxe78 said:
batcazsr said:
Two words: Plot convenience. People overrate this so high because of "muh feelings" when actually the story is anything but realistic .

facts. it sucks even more cause it gets "real" a few times, but that's crapped on from everything else. Way to many contrived fiction moments and "plot holes" (shit that don't make sense). WHY DO YOU LIKE HIM HE MERCISSELY BULLIED YOU LIKE THAT! WHY? sheeeeet I'd understand a Lil if this man was some herculan Greek God but he looks like a lover. Also her whole character is just her disability lmao. Her sister cool tho and the friend guy with the tree hair, I rock with him.
I don't care if you made me cry 3 times still mid af and saved by production (Kensuke Ushio♡)

Not many people value realism over sheer enjoyment value. That’s why the show is rated so highly, it’s widely considered an enjoyable and emotional watch
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

it's because she knows the pain, she understands that he is in pain and trying to make up for giving her pain. the way her character is makes her feel sympathetic towards everyone. she feel in love with the person he has become.
Jun 3, 2022 5:02 AM

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She had a crush on him since day one.
Also, she was insecure, anxious and had low self esteem. Those people tend to believe that they deserve the suffering they go through, so she did not held the grudge.
Also, there is a major time skip at the beginning and normal people tend to move on.
Dunno how you can consider this "unrealistic".
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RetroGressive said:
SandyAxe78 said:

facts. it sucks even more cause it gets "real" a few times, but that's crapped on from everything else. Way to many contrived fiction moments and "plot holes" (shit that don't make sense). WHY DO YOU LIKE HIM HE MERCISSELY BULLIED YOU LIKE THAT! WHY? sheeeeet I'd understand a Lil if this man was some herculan Greek God but he looks like a lover. Also her whole character is just her disability lmao. Her sister cool tho and the friend guy with the tree hair, I rock with him.
I don't care if you made me cry 3 times still mid af and saved by production (Kensuke Ushio♡)

Not many people value realism over sheer enjoyment value. That’s why the show is rated so highly, it’s widely considered an enjoyable and emotional watch


I already know that 100% bro. I take enjoyment value over realism myself. I just didn't really enjoy it, it left me rather dissatisfied lol.
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

people change
not everyone is problematic like you
forgiving people is better than her being alone all the time
Jun 3, 2022 5:26 AM
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Do people forgot that there is a time skip in the movie, people move on, so you just want to hold your grudge for years, she is not some edgy protagonist.
Jun 3, 2022 5:35 AM
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oh thats because the movie was MAD RUSHED like im not kidding, they left a fuck ton out of the manga, u really shud read the manga. they animated like 350 pages of the manga into probably 20 minutes, thats how rushed it was. the teacher in the starting of the movie has more of a role in the manga. many scenes are altered from the manga. there's a whole part about how nishimiya writes a letter to naoka who reads it sarcastically before beating nishimiya up behind the hospital there's also a flashback of shoko's mother who was in a situation of bullying worse than nishimiya's and how the mother got rejected for giving birth to a "defective" child. all of this is still just a part of what was skipped. bro like they animated FIVE BOOKS OF MANGA INTO 125 or like 130? minutes. all the feelings were rushed

"A Silent Voice: Anime vs Manga – All the Anime"
https://blog.alltheanime.com/a-silent-voice-anime-vs-manga/

i read the differences from this a like a good year ago when i finished the anime
Jun 3, 2022 5:36 AM
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He clearly shows how ashamed and sorry he is with everything he does. Showing a true intention of making a change in your life is way more important than saying sorry, that's something everyone learns when becoming an adult, which fits how old they are
Jun 3, 2022 5:50 AM
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1 - He was young when he did that, and she knows it.

2 - That was years ago.

3 - She could tell that he was trying hard to make up for it, and felt guilty.
Jun 3, 2022 5:55 AM
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In the manga acc to her inner monologue,she hated him during their reunion though she noticed the change in him which led to her forgiving him.
Jun 3, 2022 6:07 AM

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I always thought that it was because she felt socially misplaced, she felt like a burden in any position and easily attached to people who accepted her condition, Shouko did not have the self-esteem to face those who mistreated her as she personally felt guilty of being herself. That is why Sahara was so important to her and her relationship with Ushio developed like it did. I didn't feel like it was forced as more like a characteristic of her own personality, a character capable of holding and acting by grudges would behave differently, Shouko didn't face Ushio until the end



Jun 3, 2022 6:38 AM
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Im reading the replies and im sadly seeing that people are severely missunderstanding the characters
Jun 3, 2022 6:53 AM

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She likes violence,i guess.
Jun 3, 2022 6:57 AM
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simple it was yeeears later it's senseless to hold a grudge for that long especially since it's obvious he changed
Jun 3, 2022 7:48 AM
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That's just the type of person she is. Even when he was bullying her, she tried to be friends with him. And always took his defense when he was being bullied afterward. Shoko is the type of person that always puts the blame on her rather than others, thus she believed it was her fault she was being bullied rather than his, and if you didn't understand that while watching the movie, I think you missed a lot
Jun 3, 2022 8:40 AM
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

Cause she has a forgiving nature and she got to know that Ishida put a lot of work to change himself for the better.
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She forgave him easy maybe since she thought he was hot, and wanted to bang. Lol
On a more serious note, it is mainly since the author wanted to portray it this way since not forgiving him would hinder the message of the story. It would be a pretty dark message if changing yourself changed nothing.

Also, making a female into a waifu who loves the mc is far more marketable than just a friend who forgives the mc. That would be a bit of a anti-climax.
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

Author probably thought he needed to be forgiven and redeemed instantly to be 'relatable' and a good protagonist. It's just weak writing imo.
Jun 3, 2022 9:14 AM
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her ⭐️ p e r s o n a l i t y ⭐️
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The ridiculous replies in this thread shows the shallow way of thinking of MAL users(not the ones who are joking I'm taking about the serious comments)well it's not that surprising since they are known to be like that.

My doctor has always told me to smoke. He even explains himself: “Smoke, my friend. Otherwise someone else will smoke in your place.”

Jun 3, 2022 9:26 AM
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I read the manga a while ago but I’m pretty sure it’s the same. In my opinion she was very lonely, She didn’t have any friends- And when he came into her life ofc she ran away but without a ‘voice’ to really speak her mind she went along with it. I feel like she hung out with him because she was very lonely, all she had was her sisters and the people at her sign language thing who was pretty much all older people.

Plus remember she thinks everything is her fault so maybe that had to do it too. I don’t think she was in love with him but the fact of being loved and loving someone was something she desired, someone who wasn’t her family. That’s my opinion though. She could of easily mistaken her feelings, because again she never really had a good friendship or relationship outside of her family.

She seemed like the type of person to put all the blame on her, she thought it was all her fault though she was the victim- When he started bringing the other people from their elementary together, she didn’t feel as lonely and somewhat had the past on paused- I don’t think she ever really forgave anyone, since she never saw the others as the problem. Even after him being in the hospital she felt the desire to reconnect everything she ‘messed up’.. even went out of her way to try and befriend the girl who made her life hell. Honestly it’s just sad.
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Im reading the replies and im sadly seeing that people are severely missunderstanding the characters

really though, the movie doesn't do that much for it's characters. they're not exactly 'deep' enough to be misunderstood. MC is one step away from being a self-insert (that step being his backstory and his predictable response to said backstory) and the girl is somehow an even worse victim of poor character writing—ever the hurt puppy, ever the damsel in distress. why am i supposed to think this film has value if the characters feel so cardboard? i'd genuinely like to know how others get past this, because i just don't know how to empathize with a piece of white bread.

EDIT: i know i sound like a bit of an asshole above, but i'm only frustrated because i really wanted to enjoy this. i am the kind of person the darker themes of the show are meant to appeal to, and there were some moments that, had the characters been believable, would've been deeply emotional. but they weren't. i couldn't care because they felt so, so unrealistically one-dimensional. and it sucks.
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Because shes not some vengeful/hateful person like you people and has learned to move forward from her past to forgive him after hes shown some real remorse?

Did ya'll just purposely ignore everything leading up to when she decided to forgive him? Even misinterpreting her character? Shes not a self insert for you bullied folks that want vindication.
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Because shes a nice and strong person who has learned from her past and learned to forgive him after hes shown some real remorse?

Did ya'll just purposely ignore everything leading up to when she decided to forgive him? Even misinterpreting her character? Shes not a self insert for you bullied folks that want vindication. Stop stereotyping bully victims.

"stop stereotyping bully victims"
"she's not a self-insert for you bully victims to project on"

hmm i see
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3looming said:
dgaJsiagaf said:
Because shes a nice and strong person who has learned from her past and learned to forgive him after hes shown some real remorse?

Did ya'll just purposely ignore everything leading up to when she decided to forgive him? Even misinterpreting her character? Shes not a self insert for you bullied folks that want vindication. Stop stereotyping bully victims.

"stop stereotyping bully victims"
"she's not a self-insert for you bully victims to project on"

hmm i see

Read the actual post. You have eyes right?
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dgaJsiagaf said:
3looming said:

"stop stereotyping bully victims"
"she's not a self-insert for you bully victims to project on"

hmm i see

Read the actual post. You have eyes right?

it just seems pretty hypocritical when you're the only person here saying anything about bully victims in general, as a group XD
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3looming said:
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Read the actual post. You have eyes right?

it just seems pretty hypocritical when you're the only person here saying anything about bully victims in general, as a group XD

If thats the only you got from my post and people explaining the movie, then thats sad. Ill kindly delete that last part just to not trigger you. Feel free to wallow in your contempt of your misunderstanding of the movie.
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

Thats just the type of character she is, even through extreme bullying she was still trying to communicate, plus the whole bug thing (trying not to spoil it) they both had the same kind of plans as you find out at the end
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dgaJsiagaf said:
3looming said:

it just seems pretty hypocritical when you're the only person here saying anything about bully victims in general, as a group XD

If thats the only you got from my post and people explaining the movie, then thats sad. Ill kindly delete that last part just to not trigger you. Feel free to wallow in your contempt of your misunderstanding of the movie.

i haven't found anyone 'explaining' why i'm 'misunderstanding' the movie yet. i think they failed to deliver on writing complex, human-like characters and i haven't yet seen any reason to think otherwise.

hypocrisy is just kinda funny, that's all. sorry if you took it personally ^-^;;
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She always wanted to be his friend when he was still bullying her, that confused him and he bullied her more. But when he finally says he wants to be her friend she is eager to say yes. It’s just the person she is, and if you don’t like it that’s your choice, but whether you like it or not, this movie is a masterpiece.
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I am gonna chalk it up to a movie trying to adapt 12 episodes worth of content. this story wouldve been so much better if it was just a show instead of feeling rushed and all that
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She forgave him easy maybe since she thought he was hot, and wanted to bang. Lol
On a more serious note, it is mainly since the author wanted to portray it this way since not forgiving him would hinder the message of the story. It would be a pretty dark message if changing yourself changed nothing.

Also, making a female into a waifu who loves the mc is far more marketable than just a friend who forgives the mc. That would be a bit of a anti-climax.

and that is why there are many different levels of anime watchers, idiots who sees everything on surface and people who can see the underlying meaning. A shit anime will still be shit with low reviews but if an anime with high reviews across the board means you are not catching what others did.
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How much does a guy have to go make it up like damn come on
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Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

Don’t tell me you didn’t even pick one thing out of many. Let’s start, 1st when she saw him (teen) she ran away but he followed her and he gave her, her childhood notebook means he kept that for years then he tried to get to close to her by following her around then he learned sign language then he tried to make her forget about childhood memories by making new good memories. Then he accepted all trash more than he deserves. He didn’t even tried to defend himself. Then he tried to make her good friend with all those people who bullied her in childhood which mean he wanted all bad memories to fade from her mind. He took all the blame without any complain even though everyone else bullied her in one or another way and she saw that he genuinely regret about past and blame himself more than he deserves however everyone else try to be innocent and no one was ready to accept their mistakes. She saw all those efforts which make her fall and forgive him. She was kind person which was developed from her childhood coz she tried to make good frindship with her bullies. She also blamed herself (it was wrong but she didn’t want others to suffer means kind hearted) I can write more clues and signs but I have to go watch again u will get it
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Its hilarious to see the amount of BS being spout here by wanna-be elitists. Not only did he suffer the consequences of bullying, he did apologize, not through words(though I'm forgetting the exact dialogue) but through his actions which the guy above me has laid down. He learnt his lesson and worked hard to EARN an apology.

On Shouko's end, all these actions are more than enough to earn an apology if she had normal esteem but from what we have been shown, she seems to have low self-esteem which means that the bar for forgiveness is far lower for her.

Therefore, psychologically speaking, it makes sense that he would be forgiven.
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As someone who forgives people very easily I can relate to her .They were just children anyway people change conpletely as they age
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SandyAxe78 said:
RetroGressive said:

Not many people value realism over sheer enjoyment value. That’s why the show is rated so highly, it’s widely considered an enjoyable and emotional watch


I already know that 100% bro. I take enjoyment value over realism myself. I just didn't really enjoy it, it left me rather dissatisfied lol.


Of course, enjoyment factor is probably one of the most subjective aspects in how good a show is.
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Its hilarious to see the amount of BS being spout here by wanna-be elitists. Not only did he suffer the consequences of bullying, he did apologize, not through words(though I'm forgetting the exact dialogue) but through his action which the guy above me has laid down. He learnt his lesson and worked hard to EARN an apology.

On Shouko's end, all these actions are more than enough to earn an apology if she had normal esteem but from what we have been shown, she seems to have low self-esteem which means that the bar for forgiveness is far lower for her.

Therefore, psychologically speaking, it makes sense that he would be forgiven.

well said. i think they are either too shallow or young to understand.
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

I don’t think she just forgave him. She literally runs from him when she sees him again. But she realizes that he was also bullied and he is trying to be a better person and he is not that same kid anymore. By seeing him struggling to connect with people they start to connect because they have something in common. And he saved her life.
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kaiserwilhelm01 said:
Why did she forgive him so easily?He was a bully,a** and never apologize to him properly and why did she fall in love with him?It's so fast and meaningles.Did they adapt to manga is wrong?

She was incredibly kind and when they were older she forgave him because they were kids even if it was horrible. He even learned sign language because of her. He did eventually apologize. She realized this and was happy. She slowly fell in love with him throughout the movie because of his consideration, his new found kindness and the fact no one else has gone this far for her besides her family.

Exactly, I was gonna same thing as well
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It is such an overrated movie. Its very unrealistic
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