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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
That Ueno-- girl is still as bad as she was 5 years ago shallow and careless but I LOVEEE this manga!!!
Her confession was so cute! I'm sad he didn't understand her tho... But it was still a cute scene regardless of that!
J'ai un peu moins aimé ce tome, à cause de certains clichés, mais ça reste un très bon tome!
That Ueno-- girl is still as bad as she was 5 years ago shallow and careless but I LOVEEE this manga!!!
Shoya is trying to redeem himself for being a bully in the past. His victim was Shoko, a deaf girl who joined his grade six class and then left due to all the bullying she was experiencing. Six years later she returns, inadvertently saving him from committing suicide because he wants to make amends to everyone before he goes. Making amends to Shoko means he will live out the rest of his life, trying to make it up to her because that is what he believes he must do to achieve his goal.
The theme of bullying and the resulting trauma to its victims continues in this volume. Tomohiro continues to be a good friend, defending Shoya from others in the class once he comes off of suspension (for a blog post he didn’t make). He gets a blast of bullying himself from Shoko’s sister/brother (no one in the friend group truly knows) who likes to call him poo head. He takes that in relatively good humour though, only yelling at her a little. However, when a past school friend from Shoko and Shoya’s elementary days has a go at him, it’s hurtful and shakes him, even as he tries to protect himself from it. He also refuses to tell Shoya what’s bothering him as a lot of people do when bullied.
Shoya attempts to continue making amends by finding a girl who used to go to elementary with him, for Shoko who wants to apologize for making her harder because she was bullied for being friendly to her. Miyoko is her name. Miyoko left school before Shoko left because of the bullying she had to endure. Miyoko apologizes to Shoko for bailing out on her when the going got tough when they were kids, much to Shoko’s surprise. Miyoko feels guilty for getting herself out of a bad situation and leaving her friend behind without an explanation.
We meet another of Shoko’s old tormentors, a girl named Naoko. Naoko liked Shoya all through elementary and followed his lead when it came to tormenting Shoko. Now that she’s seen Shoya she’s set on getting him to like her, but she’s still a bully. Making fun of Shoko, who they bump into on the street, she’s not convinced that Shoya has changed his ways and keeps trying to goad him into making fun of Shoko with her. Shoya refuses, telling her he never wants see her again. Later he realizes that telling her off the way he did was something his old self would have done and apologizes. Naoko refuses to become friends with Shoko however, keeping to her bullying ways.
Personally I would have put this girl in her place at that age and never talk to her again. What an unpleasant girl...
In Conclusion
This book shows Shoya continuing to try and better himself as a person. He tries to reconnect old ties Shoko had with people from her past. He even tries to make a new friend for her with another one of her old bullies, but fails because the girl is still a bully.
The theme of bullying and the resulting trauma to its victims continues in this volume. Tomohiro continues to be a good friend, defending Shoya from others in the class once he comes off of suspension (for a blog post he didn’t make). He gets a blast of bullying himself from Shoko’s sister/brother (no one in the friend group truly knows) who likes to call him poo head. He takes that in relatively good humour though, only yelling at her a little. However, when a past school friend from Shoko and Shoya’s elementary days has a go at him, it’s hurtful and shakes him, even as he tries to protect himself from it. He also refuses to tell Shoya what’s bothering him as a lot of people do when bullied.
Shoya attempts to continue making amends by finding a girl who used to go to elementary with him, for Shoko who wants to apologize for making her harder because she was bullied for being friendly to her. Miyoko is her name. Miyoko left school before Shoko left because of the bullying she had to endure. Miyoko apologizes to Shoko for bailing out on her when the going got tough when they were kids, much to Shoko’s surprise. Miyoko feels guilty for getting herself out of a bad situation and leaving her friend behind without an explanation.
We meet another of Shoko’s old tormentors, a girl named Naoko. Naoko liked Shoya all through elementary and followed his lead when it came to tormenting Shoko. Now that she’s seen Shoya she’s set on getting him to like her, but she’s still a bully. Making fun of Shoko, who they bump into on the street, she’s not convinced that Shoya has changed his ways and keeps trying to goad him into making fun of Shoko with her. Shoya refuses, telling her he never wants see her again. Later he realizes that telling her off the way he did was something his old self would have done and apologizes. Naoko refuses to become friends with Shoko however, keeping to her bullying ways.
Personally I would have put this girl in her place at that age and never talk to her again. What an unpleasant girl...
In Conclusion
This book shows Shoya continuing to try and better himself as a person. He tries to reconnect old ties Shoko had with people from her past. He even tries to make a new friend for her with another one of her old bullies, but fails because the girl is still a bully.
I don’t like Naoka....
This volume was a little weird. Shoya thinks he needs to “return” the time and happiness he stole from Shoko during 6th grade. There was some reconnections and open communication about the past and still seeing Shoya especially growing and moving past his self-loathing. Naoka was his friend but when he was ostracized she and he lost contact until a chance encounter has them re-entering each other’s sphere. I have mixed feelings on how he demands that she apologize to Shoko before he’ll accept an apology from her because it feels so much like he’s trying to make atonement at the cost of Shoko’s choice?? I’m also not sure how I feel about her saying she loves Shoya, but the miscommunication/language barrier is going to come back I’m sure.
This volume was a little weird. Shoya thinks he needs to “return” the time and happiness he stole from Shoko during 6th grade. There was some reconnections and open communication about the past and still seeing Shoya especially growing and moving past his self-loathing. Naoka was his friend but when he was ostracized she and he lost contact until a chance encounter has them re-entering each other’s sphere. I have mixed feelings on how he demands that she apologize to Shoko before he’ll accept an apology from her because it feels so much like he’s trying to make atonement at the cost of Shoko’s choice?? I’m also not sure how I feel about her saying she loves Shoya, but the miscommunication/language barrier is going to come back I’m sure.
another good installment
loving the character development
loving the character development
While I still feel, as a complete outsider, that this manga should not really be said to be about deafness (yet anyway), the story does continue to develop the themes of childhood bullying. Not accepting easy answers, a few snags are thrown in Shoya's plans to redeem himself. Shoko's character does get a chance to develop a little bit as well, but whatever the plot is doing does feel a bit touch and go. The end is pretty sweet.