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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D1tchd1gger" data-source="post: 617092" data-attributes="member: 4379">I love this film. I'll be honest and say the first time I watched was on YouTube as someone had uploaded it, tut tut (I was actually looking for Your Name. which I had heard about from somewhere, but the cinema showing had past). This was just before I came back here, and the first thing I brought Blu-ray wise when I came back was this film from Zavvi. I think it's partly because it broke anime convention and went with divorce rather than death or work for the absence. It was the first time I'd seen it in anime, although this was before I watched seasonal stuff, but even now after watching 100s of shows I think it's only come up once or twice since, also the twist at the end was kind of refreshing as well.I think what makes it hit harder for me is that I to grew up in a single parent family, not that I ever blamed myself for it, I was older than Jun was, so understood it a bit more. My dad met someone at work and then left. Talking with my mum about it later on in life, she said that they had both fallen out of love, so I guess that was better than it being one sided, but it still left her caring for 2 kids.Right to some replies:I think it may have been to do with the shrine and the stories surrounding it. Jun obviously likes her stories, with the fairytale stuff at beginning and then wanting a Prince to come save her, so maybe stories she'd heard about the shrine got mixed in. If there's anything I don't understand in anime I just go with the "it must be a cultural thing".True, but at least unlike the mother in Higehiro she showed remorse at the end after hearing the words Jun couldn't say in the song "Watashi no Koe" duringThis slays me every time. Her getting to say what she's wanted to and her mothers reaction.He says it himself. He's a music teacher and is bored of doing recitals. One might question his choice of students to be on the committee, especially Jun given her apparent lack of communication skills (maybe he wanted to try and help her out), but his motivation for wanting to do a musical, whilst selfish, is definitely understandable.[USER=4160]@Neil.T[/USER] beat me to this one:And Natsuki even says later during the scene you mention in the next quote that she was glad he was playing piano again.That got to me too in the first watch, but where would stories be without coincidences and contrivances. It comes down to believability, and whilst this is possibly the least believable it isn't completely out of the question for Natsuki and/or Takumi to realise that their conversion may have affected Jun as they were working together for a month/month and a half (I'm pretty sure they had 6 weeks to work on it).Like I said above it was a bit of a surprise at first, but on a second watch the clues are there. Obviously starting from the moment Jun stood up for him in the restaurant.Not really. She was a chatterbox, but then she couldn't talk because of the curse she put on herself after what happened as a kid (and the longer it went on the more anxious she became leading to the stomachaches), then hearing Takumi sing and what he said about emotions expressed through singing she gave it a go (the only thing you could argue is why is she so good if she's never done it, but when you have a talented VA like Inori Minase you're not going to ask her to sing badly!), then she had her heart broken and it's not that she couldn't sing just at that moment didn't want to and she thought she had broken the rules of the curse/the curse itself so she started talking properly again.A Silent Voice (the film) wishes it was this good 😜 It's only because it's KyoAni and looks real nice that everyone raves about it (the equivalent of graphic whores in gaming). The story is good of course, but it's obvious bits are missing and reading the manga you see the whole picture (yes, I'm going be one those people), so the manga is better! Whereas AOTH is a film script and feels pretty tight even for a 2 hour film.As a lot of it was set at school there wasn't much to do with the background, but and the backgrounds helped immensely.Yeah, I think I had at 8 initially, but we both have it at 9 now!</blockquote>

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