A Silent Voice (Japanese: Koe no Katachi ) is a 2016 Japanese animated coming-of-age psychological drama film directed by Naoko Yamada and produced by Kyoto Animation
It won the Tokyo Anime Award Festival for Anime of the Year and the Japan Academy Prize for Excellent Animation. The 1080p release allows you to see the subtle rotoscoping used for the sign language—a level of realism that makes you forget you are watching animation.
The narrative is delicate. The dialogue is sparse. The emotion lives in the margins—the trembling of a hand, the reflection in a river, the "X" marks over faces that Shoya visualizes to represent his inability to see other people.
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