How A Silent Voice Saved Me - The Perfect Anime Film

A Silent Voice is more than just my favourite anime film, it's my favourite film of all time. It presents the core messages of anxiety, depression and self-hatred and how you can learn to overcome it. A Silent Voice is a film that I've always wanted to talk about but never had the courage to because I was afraid of not giving the film the justice it deserves. However, today I finally take that step forward and talk about A Silent Voice and how much it means to me. I hope you enjoy.

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00:00 - What A Silent Voice Means To Me
03:22 - Bullying, Harassment & Ostracisation
07:06 - My Personal Experience With Bullying
10:23 - Miscommunication & Wanting To Understand
13:51 - Shoya Ishida's Loneliness, Anxiety & Depression
20:37 - Empathising With Nishimiya's Feelings of Self-Hatred
24:15 - A Profoundly Humanising & Empathetic Experience

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[KevinNyaa]

A Silent Voice is more than just my favourite film, it's a truly humanising & empathetic experience that I'll never forget. Today, I finally talk about how special it is to me!

This is the longest & most personal video I have ever made, so I would be grateful if you could share it around and subscribe! Who knew that I would be making +20 minute videos back to back! Hope you all enjoy and I'll see you all next time.

[TrueUnderDawgGaming]

Haven't watched the video yet, but I agree with the title

[seacrest]

This movie depicts bullying so perfectly. The way that everyone encouraged Shoya or didn't challenge him and then the way they all turned on him for it after he got in trouble. There was a similar scenario in Erased. Goes to show you how terrible people are. They always want someone to pick on.

[jackster]

The line “I thought that if I showed her what being dead was like she would stop saying she wanted to kill her self”(I might not have remembered it word for word) this line shows me how much yuzuru cared for her sister and how she develops by going back to school and only take pictures of living things to remind shouko of how beautiful life is, this movie never fails to make me tear up and think about how my actions effect others.

[Bananaman]

Rarely ever has a YouTube video made me cry, this channel, however is an exception

Edit: since this got a little more popular than I thought it would, I really recommend a channel called hiding in public as well as beyond Ghibli. They make absolutely incredible videos similar to this.

[huh]

The scene when the crosses fall of the characters' faces hit so close to home. After losing all my friends, being isolated and bullied by my classmates, outside off school friends and family at a young age I've lost all my confidence, developed social anxiety and fell into depression and had few suicidal attempts. I started seeing the world and people as something terrible and felt like everyone hates or only make fun of me all the time. But then some person decides to reach out to me and we became friends. After that, I started seeing everything in more and more bright colours. My social anxiety and never ending saddness started slowly fading away and at some point I saw how beautiful life can be and opened up to others. Things like nice smalltalks or choosing the outfit that you actually like (not the, ,safe one") or going out to the cinema with your friends were something I've never experienced before. In one moment everything changed, all my perception to life. And it was the moment when the crosses felt off.
Thank you for making this video, now I fully see how much progress I've made ❤

[ellieordonio]

i was suicidal last 2019 and this movie saved me. it's also the movie that got me so hooked into the anime world.

[RevvieStarlight]

The overall warmth the film gives off is so Melancholic and beautiful and no matter how many times I rewatch it the final scene in the movie will always kill me, without spoiling anything for others reading this that moment will just forever deeply resonate with me, It hits so close to home. Ishida is truly a beautiful written character, I really was just like Ishida and it makes me sad that I acted this way looking back, of course; Not as harshly but still, I hate my old self and wish I could undo alot of things from back then.

[Draw_guy]

You know its a perfect film, it shows how kids don't know what they can do and what after effects it can cause to other people, it shows how depression isn't just someone always being sad and droopy, but how someone actually sees the world and what he thinks everybody thinks about him

[curstinw]

I remember accidentally watching this movie at 2am randomly, not knowing anything about it (i usually always know what i’m about to get into when i watch something) and i was literally trying to quietly sob in my bed for hours after

[ENOS-GAMING]

When I first saw this movie I text my friend who later became my girlfriend that I feel like Shoya and that she was Shoko. She asked why and I told her that I felt bad for all the horrible things I did and said to her when we first started as friends. She told me she foegave me and not to beat myself up for what I did but I kept saying sorry over and over again. We later became boyfriend and girlfriend. We ended up braking up but to this day I still feel like Shoya and think of her as Shoko. I miss her a lot and still pray for her every day. I hope that she is doing well

[chie]

I can't say this film saved me as I've been saved 5 years prior to the film. But watching this as a mute and deaf (can still hear with helps, tho), I truly felt the impact on my very core as a human being.

I cried and hugged my chad aunt, one of the people who have been with me since my first breakdown, my first suicide attempt, and my first self-harm, who was also coincidentally accompanied me to watch the film.

After the film, I told her I'm sorry and thank you. I was a bloody mess in the cinema. People sniggered (in a way you did seeing a kid apologising in somewhat endearing manner), probably thinking that I was being too emotional there. The film made me realise how hard it was for the people around me to cope with my self-destructive thoughts back then

For the context, I also received bullying, except it was in my high-school years. The bullying was not quite the childish ignorant prank Shoya did in his primary school, the prank they did to me were made with full intent to destroy my psyche. It might have been caused in response to one particular rejection I gave to a senior who confessed to me one day. Since the day, I started to feel isolated in class. None of the girls even tried talk to me anymore, and it went even worse since. Imagine having your uniform stolen after your swimming lesson, and you have no idea how to get out of there without clothing. Yeah, that was not even the worst of it.

Before the film, I have only gratitude towards the people who have helped me through. But after the film, I don't think my gratitude would ever be enough to make up for everything I did. The film drove me to do my very best in life to pay back whatever debt I have to repay, and whatever mess I have to repair; especially to my aunt who dropped out of college to help me see therapist back and forth, to tend to me, and to be by my side all the time. (Off topic: She's more like a sister to than an aunt, she's only 6 years older than me. But she's my mother's younger sister. Soo...)

By the time I stopped crying, I realised that I have more than a dozen more people I'm grateful for: the people who made this film possible.

[CoolPizzza]

the moment he said "friendship defies logic or words" just broke me

[itsmegagamer]

Watching this video, i realized that my mental state is not doing well so ill try to work on it now. To anyone that sees this, dont worry ill be fine.

[miinn]

A Silent Voice is a god-tier movie. An emotional roller coaster in my opinion, sometimes I cried, sometimes I was happy, and sometimes I was mad. I am so glad I watched the whole thing without any spoilers. I really want to watch it with my brother. I really want a sequel to see how Shoko and/ or Shoya's life is. I want to see if they are married or have a kid or something like that. My favourite anime movie by far though.

[mestrixarts]

Back Then
I was deepressed and suicidal back then, I was already know my fate is closer those years ago.
until I watched this movie and realised a huge impact on my life like no other thing ever done it to me.
It makes me understand the life I have has value.
Each second I started discovering something new, each minute I started to get a thought.
Until I discover myself I wasn't deepressed at all, I was already standing on my own again.
With tears in my eyes, I can't forget how Much I cried that day.
I was so never thankful to anyone how much I am thankful to a movie.

[KilTor]

Yoshitoki Oima did a truly exceptional job with this manga. It's too bad not everything of the manga was adapted in the movie, but KyoAni really did a great job bringing forth what this manga is about. I didn't read the manga until I after watched this move. The movie really made a huge impact on me because I could relate. I was bullied just because I was myself. Elementary school was horrible, but middle school was even worse. An upperclassman put his arm neck around me during lunch. Half my class was present, but they didn't do anything. Neither did the school. I weren't given time to process it by my parents because they believed the best way was for me to go back to school. Another time the same year we were practicing some dances for the christmas ball and I was paired up with a girl who started to freak out just because she had to touch me. Ever since then my silf-image has gone further down in the hole. In high school I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome. It's a form of autism. When I dropped out of school rumors started to fly around. I really understand the way Nishimiya wants to make friends. I have tried too, but it never works out. I understand what it's like to be myself and being judged for it for no reason. I'm certain some people in the comment maybe hasn't been through much bad orr maybe they have been through even worse then me. This movie really is a masterpiece and it's a must watch.

If anyone just wanna talk, contact me on Discord: KilTor5#6295 and we can have a talk :)

[saelaee]

Shoya makes me so deeply sad because whenever i look at him i just see an honest, raw reflection of myself

[limReaper]

I saw the title and wanted to pause at 4 seconds in to say A Silent Voice also saved me. I was the bully in high school that got kicked out. I became best friends my last year with someone I use to bully. Honestly she's just so perfect and I was jealous. The movie made me realize I need to change❤️love you all

[Kizakoe]

I cried again just by watching the clips you used
I really love this film, it is great