A Silent Voice (2012)

TV-14

 

Runtime: 2 hours and 10 minutes

 

Genre: Animation, Anime and Drama

 

Director: Naoko Yamada

 

Writer: Reiko Yoshida

 

Box Office: $30,819,442

Positives:

• Perfect animation

• Understanding the visual perspective

• Impressive storytelling about japanese sign language, friendship, mental health and accountability

• Very high stakes from scenes that are intriguing to the plot

• Unique dialogue

• Engagement sequences between character arcs and dynamics

• Emotional character development

• Depth representation in Ogaki and Gifu

Negatives:

• Characters including Miki Kawai and Naoka Ueno are the ones that I really don't understand when they are being too cruel to Shoya and Shoko, with these lies, misunderstandings, rumors and ideas gotten very mediocre, which actually made me so mad at it. They do remind the ones from God's Not Dead films where characters are irredeemable

• Very minor pacing issues

Overall Verdict:

Story/Genre 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (9)

Characters/Dialogue 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8.5)

Animation/Colors 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (10)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Background/Sets/Music/Songs 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Direction 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

48.5/50 9.3/10