Name: A Silent Voice
Rating: 4.375912408759124 (137 reviews)
ISBN: 9781632360564

Yoshitoki Oima

In elementary school, Shoya bullies the deaf Shoko mercilessly. When she transfers to another school to escape his torment, Shoya finds himself bullied by the students he once considered his friends. Years later, he learns sign language to apologize to Shoko for his behavior, and so begins a relationship that will change his and Shoko's lives forever.

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I watched the movie this book inspired first. I watched it when I was 15 or 16, which was an all-time low for my mental health. To this day, being 20 years old and loving life, it is one of my absolute favorite movies of all time. But even on the first of seven issues in this series, I can tell it's going to far surpass the movie. This first novel opens so much more brutal and in-depth following both the hazing of Shoko, and eventually Shoya, and the main plot already benefits so much from the extra details. This series is going to wreck me, and I welcome the wreck with open arms.

Jared Bowers

Zahra

I wanted to find out what hype is all about and to read the manga before watching the movie. I totally didn't expect to get hit by a truckload of FEELS. It was an emotional roller coaster ride from the very beginning. I was hooked and my eyes were glued to the pages all the way to the end.

Denaiir

A quite interesting story, as usual I'm baffled by the violence experienced by Japanese students with bullying. The only problem I had was that the second part of the colume is basically the 1st art retold from a different perspective and it was way too similar to the 1st part for me to remain interested. 
I think volume 2 will be way better if it doesn't use the same process to tell the story.

Gavin

Cute, simplistic. It’s an important theme, waking up to the vulnerability of others, but not a very good treatment.

Izza

2.5 stars | Excuse the rant, but YIKES. So this is a story about bullying: Shoya is a ~daredevil who bullies people because he's bored and Shoka is the poor girl being bullied because she's deaf... I mean, I enjoyed the story, but the characters are ALL horrible! Shoya is so rude to his mother (he calls her an old hag and she basically thinks its funny), he's being awful to Shoka who can't really defend herself (but fear not cause karma is a bitch? no.) and nobody ever calls him out on it until it's fucking too late and things have gone too far. The teacher is just as hopeless. I kid you not, when another teacher suggests they all learn sign language he basically goes: "meh, why should we, it's not going to help"!!! The entire class is mean/annoyed with Shoya because she's "slowing everybody down". And Shoya's mother tells Shoko he has a "vulgar face, just like his mother". WHAT IS GOING ON PEOPLE?

irina 

SPEAKING WITH ACTIONS It's been five years since Shoya Ishida bullied Shoko Nishimiya so badly she left their elementary school, because of one simple difference between them: Shoya can hear, and Shoko can't. In the intervening time, Shoya's life has changed completely. Shunned by his friends, Shoya's longed for the chance to make up for his cruelty. When it finally comes, will he find the voice to tell Shoko he's changed? And will Shoko listen?

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Ley Stanton

Reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format.

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Not the ending I would have liked but it was still so adorable. It felt nice to finally have a sweet volume with less heartbreaking content. Shoko and Shoya have changed so much, they have finally found their friendship and determined where they want to go with their lives, as much as anyone can really know when they are teenagers. I wish there was one more volume to show more of their lives but that's just because I'm greedy, I love the relationship between Shoko and Shoya. It took so long and so much work for them to get there. Truly a beautiful series overall.

wow, I knew I should have picked up more than the first volume when I got this. absolutely amazing.

June

This series is one of my favourites and there aren't enough words to put all my thoughts into a review. But if you haven't read this manga (or watched the anime) then go do that, and be filled with too many feelings at once

Courtney ✿ @librarycutie

it’s the end and i’m so sad about it. i want more! i wanted a relationship to form but i’m also a bit happy with how it went. it was almost a bittersweet ending, and this series was just so quick and entertaining all the way, honestly had me hooked. the story of a bully trying to right his wrongs and the journey of facing the people he knew with a troubled last between them and facing new friends and new journeys and accomplishing what he couldn’t have imagined. honestly i loved it.

also can we talk about how odd shoya’s sister is and her brazilian boyfriend?? she’s only in the series twice, i found it very odd, like i think if you removed them and their other daughter then it wouldn’t have been so confusing.

Years ago, Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired classmate, Shoko Nishimiya. When she transfers schools, Shoya finds he has gone from bully to bullied, and is left completely alone. Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes and to face the classmates who turned on him. He learns sign language to apologise to Shoko for his behaviour, and so begins a relationship that will change his and Shoko's lives forever.

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the message of bullying in this series and the journey of overcoming it whether you were recovering or giving is both interesting and shocking. i kept wondering if this is what it’s like for some people, and if they really had to work though so many conflicting emotions to overcome it.

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okay wow, so that ending really had me shocked and i didn’t see it coming but also i kind of had a feeling, you know? i’m glad it went the way it did, though. this series is just soooo emotional and deep and dark when it comes to revealing emotions and feelings and secrets and hard hitting when it comes to bullying.

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the thing i love about this series is that it discusses very important topics and deals with friendships and just overall building a relationship with someone. i love the sister relationship between yuzuru and shoko, they’re just so cute. the only problem i have is when it becomes a little confusing, like some characters are brought in and they’re just there for show or sometimes the dialogue is confusing, but overall it’s very enjoyable and i’m obsessed with the story!!

Cooper Sivara

Fantastic characters, and it gives them time to fail, learn, and grow. Very excited to continue reading this series!

Samirah Arif

I loved the movie and so far the manga is almost the same! I'm not really a fan of some of Shoto's behavior, and how quickly the fandom forgave him. That being said, the foreshadowing in the beginning was really funny, and I'm interested to see where the movie differs. I know this review is all over the place but it's a really amazing story.

Yoshitoki Ooima

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Sara Bow

Der zweite Band hat mir wirklich sehr gut gefallen, konnte mich aber leider nicht umhauen - daher nur drei Sterne. Ich werde die Reihe auf jeden Fall weiterlesen. Finde die Message der Reihe wirklich großartig!

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Der Anfang bzw der Aufbau des Mangas war etwas konfus für mich - konnte mich aber relativ schnell daran gewöhnen. Mir scheint es, als wäre der erste Band nur die Einführung. Ich bin einfach mal gespannt, was der zweite Teil zu bieten hat =)

Tayler Park

Stephanie Haynes

Rabia Sitabi

Read the manga and then watch the movie. 
A gorgeous story that handles Disability, Bullying, Trauma, and Mental Health. It is done well and I ended up getting emotional.  Some trigger warnings, please check online before reading.

ARE YOU AFRAID OF HER? Shoya's decided to do everything he can to make up for how terribly he treated Shoko, his former classmate who can't hear. But more than the challenge of learning to communicate, it means facing a past he thought he'd left behind forever. Now a reunion with old friends will transform Shoya, and his relationship with Shoko.

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