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A Silent Voice 1

by Yoshitoki Oima

A childhood conflict with lasting consequences

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A childhood conflict with lasting consequences

Shoko’s arrival in Shoya’s elementary-school class exposes how a group’s bullying can isolate one child—and how blame and consequences reshape the bully’s own life. Six years later, their meeting brings the past into the present, framing the volume around accountability and the possibility of making amends. The premise also places deafness and the difficulty of listening at the center of a story about childhood cruelty and its effects over time.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in manga about bullying, accountability, and reconciliation.
  • Readers seeking a story that includes a deaf character and explores communication across difference.

Themes

Bullying and its consequencesAccountability and making amendsDeafness and communicationChildhood and social exclusion

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Book overview

LEARNING TO LISTEN
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?

Read the manga industry insiders voted their favorite of 2014!

"A very powerful story about being different and the consequences of childhood bullying... Read it." -Anime News Network
"The word heartwarming was made for manga like this." -Manga Bookshelf
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