A SILENT VOICE is an emotional rollercoaster 🥺 *Movie Commentary/Reaction*

[@nicsandnacs]

Hey guys! What anime (Non-Studio Ghibli) should I do next? Anything that will emotionally destroy me 😥

[@ConClasher3]

‘I want to eat your pancreas’ is quite highly rated and isn’t ghibli but I’d also look into Grave of the Fireflies, Princess kaguya, spirited away and Princess mononoke (ghibli film) since they are classics and are probs some of the best anime films out there

[@SzymonWajner]

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Wolf Children, To the Forest of Firefly Lights, Colorful... And probably some other beautiful tear-jerkers.

[@x3mslayer]

Clannad, Angel Beats, Ef a tale of Memories/Melodies.

[@evelflower]

Hotarobi no mori please 🙏❤️

[@samsmithfilms1661]

Still need to watch a silent voice myself😂 would recommend Suzume (same director as your name), Blue Giant & Goodbye, Don Glees!

[@skettelho]

To me the X mark is his anxiety he developed based on what he had done and how he was treated thus it not only being his past friends that has X's. Can't look at people in the eyes when talking to them is a form of self abuse but also trauma they've experienced. He can't trust people or he's afraid to even connect. Him beating himself up for what he'd done resonated with me so much. I think this is one of the best non Ghibli movie anime ever.

[@blazinglava]

This is my "need to cry" movie. Whenever I just want to feel those emotions I come back to this movie! so glad you got to finally watch it

[@gsintampalam]

I thought it just me that has a list of movies for "I need to cry"

[@TerraZetzz]

Risking your own life to save another persons life is the most noble thing a human can do.

[@croeishere9757]

I love how they made this movie in the bully’s pov and his realization leading to guilt. Amazing reaction btw❤️

[@FightingTorque411]

I second the calls for "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" - alongside Your Name and this as the (non-Ghibli) holy trinity of ugly-cry anime dramas. As an added bit of trivia, unlike the others, Pancreas started as a novel, before becoming a manga and then the movie. The author had been out having a drink with a friend and talking about creative processes, and he made the point that absolutely anything - an object, a word, a setting - can be infused with different emotions given the right context around it. His friend replied "Yeah? Well, I bet you can't take a phrase like 'Let me eat your pancreas' and make someone cry with that." Challenge. Accepted.

[@carloslaredo8840]

Have you ever seen 5cm per second? That's another one to cry

[@kolapsg7748]

maquia is also really great

[@KaeMcSpadden]

I highly recommend Perfect Blue! It is a very influential film by Satoshi Kon, whose works inspired big filmmakers like Daren Arronofsky, Christopher Nolan, and Guillermo Del Toro. This movie also opened the door to movies that are cut and edited in a way where it is hard to tell what is real and what’s not. And it showed that animation can work in the thriller/horror genre.

[@lalalarose8197]

Perfect Blue is a masterpiece

[@KaeMcSpadden]

@@lalalarose8197 it is! I wrote about it for my film editing class in college, and got an A on in!

[@Latchkei1]

I second this request! Truly ahead of it's time!

[@KaeMcSpadden]

@@Latchkei1 it was amazing. And the plot twist was incredible.

[@KaeMcSpadden]

@@lalalarose8197 it is, but it is one of those movies you need to watch twice to have things make more sense. Like what is real and what’s not, and the plot twist makes more sense.

[@KaeMcSpadden]

Fun fact: for the English dub, the actress voicing Shoko actually is deaf in real life.

[@Krzmf2882]

same with the japanese va

[@aizawaaiminn]

​@@Krzmf2882no the JP va was yor's voice actress from spy x family

[@FightingTorque411]

Her name is Lexi Cowden, and yes - the Japanese voice actor is not deaf, don't know about any other dubs

[@KaeMcSpadden]

@@Krzmf2882 not the Japanese version

[@deconjai4610]

Dubs trash

[@escapadesend6133]

wolf children is worth a watch

[@EmiJP10]

Josee, The Tiger And The Fish, another jewel to watch.

[@grayj2125]

THE EIGHTH SENSE MENTION LOL. i cried so hard watching that like oh my god, it was so unbelievably real.

[@careyv]

Everything you said about this movie. So many conflicting emotions. But man, that ending I was a literal sobbing mess. Every time I watch it. That he could feel such happiness and thankfulness to cry like that. Love this movie so much.

[@kutlynYT]

My absolute favorite movie 🥹 It sticks with me even now, even after multiple watches. Even watching others react to it, I would know the exact scene and STILL bawl my eyes out. This movie truly holds my heart. So I'm surprisingly happy to see you react to this!

[@LudvikM]

I'm truly in awe. You're very perceptive and were able to make connections that didn't even cross my mind on the n-th watching of this gem of a movie. I really love the way your mind works. Also, your edit radically different from everyone else's. Thank you for this.

[@lordtains]

Something that most people seem to be confused by: at the bridge in the end, they were having a shared dream, and Shoya was telling her that he was dying. She started crying at the bridge because she knew he had just died. But then he heard her cry through the koi fish (Koi karps have a connection to the spirit world in Japanese folklore) and woke up because of it. If she hadn't cried at the bridge, he would have died. He knew she was at the bridge because he saw/heard her cry through the fish. That's why he woke up and went to the bridge.

[@robcoz98]

If you haven't seen it already, I'd love to see your reaction or hear your thoughts on Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. It's about 11 20+ min episodes long with a film finale/sequel. I'm a relatively newcomer to anime but this one absolutely wrecked me when I randomly binged it a month or two back, especially the last few episodes

[@Jennilynne]

I love Anohana!

[@Kushimi]

I love your content so much and the fact that you even react to anime now is literally the best thing in the world!😄

[@GlennLaycock]

Wow you are amazing - I had to read the manga and re-watch it to grasp it all. At the beginning when he went to see her - he wanted to really do the sign off - convince himself that she would or had recovered and "she would be fine too" with him saying "sorry" but the conversation cued him to ask her to be "a friend" instead which was not intended and made him changed his intend. At the end, it was a dream she had - when she realized he was just like her and intending to kill himself when he came to see her originally.

[@jonnyboy4999]

‘I want to eat your pancreas’ is definitely up there when it comes to depressing anime films

[@GlennLaycock]

Emotion - I was so emotionally drained by the end - exhausted I was not sure what I felt - I just knew it was very good and I had to make sense of it better. The "point" was them both going forward as a partnership in life. The manga - I learned to read it backward, gets much easier after a few chapters - but it had a lot more detail and oh made good sense. The scene - I've been there - when she has injured herself and is dreaming about being a happy little girl being tucked into bed, with the world speaking like she hears but understanding it perfectly fine - but she awakes to how horrible her life as an adult is compared to that. The end song is excellent too - you could do a video on it except copyright might be tricky - almost entirely non-repeating lyrics - certainly a much higher ratio than most. I think it was designed to kind of cheer people up on "the future" for them.

[@八幡太郎-p5z]

先日、初めてこの映画を観ましたが、泣いてしまいました。良い作品でした

[@Alex-dk6sw]

I loved the fact that she had the tissue’s box close enough

[@lluca1960]

Maybe I think that because I watched the full movie, but also most of the time people who have watched the movie want to see other people's reaction 😅 This was a very rushed reaction and there were a lot of parts cut out that are so important to the movie. You couldn't really feel all the emotions because how short some scenes were cut that they just flew by 😅 I'd rather enjoy a longer reaction than a reaction I cant really enjoy

[@joaosoares-rr5mj]

17:05 the bad news is that one of her ears stoped working, the one ear that bled when ishida took off her heaing aid so abrubtly, because he did that, her ear created scring inside and that specific ear stoped working 100%

[@outsidetheboxdesigns6265]

Still to this day may favorite animated film. This should have won every award!!!

[@carronline1]

the X arent for friends per say its more to represent him being able to talk and linked to his depression and anxiety when it comes to looking people in the eyes

[@saraislfe14]

This is probably my favorite anime movie. I absolutely love this movie with all my heart🫶🏽

[@Jennilynne]

Suki (like) sounds similar to tsuki (moon), so he thought she was talking about the moon. Little things I wish they would include with subtitles, lol

[@karlluigi1987]

UENO the most adorable character in the movie

[@サファイアグーティー]

日本で凄い人気のあるアニメ映画でした〜公開されてから日本では合言葉のように、「河合を許すな！」とメッセージが流行りました 日本では河合さんが1番嫌われたキャラクターでした しかしこの映画は沢山の人に見てほしいです。😊

[@AMStryx]

I recommend the anime series *A Sign of Affection*. It also features a deaf MC, but the series doesn't rip your heart out anywhere near what this movie does. The series is kind of a "slice of life"/romance. Definitely watch the Sub instead of the Dub though, as the Sub will make text readable unlike the Dub a lot of the text being at least partially relevant to the plot(particularly characters text messaging each other). The manga for this movie though actually offers a lot more details behind different characters motivations and stuff(same with the manga for the anime I recommended) so that can offer greater insight into how things turned out and also shows some of what they got up to after the end of the movie.

[@Theflyingstain23]

i'm so glad you watched the sub. I feel like you get so much more emotion from the original VO's. I get it's harder for people to react to but the dub is nothing compared imo

[@r.h.6249]

This movie was great and now that i am an adult i look at my own high school experiences differently..in high school i was a happy go lucky but completely oblivious guy....for the longest time i thought my own high scool was very good, we didnt have outright bullying in my school..we didnt have cliques in school, everybody was friends with everybody, atleast that's what i believed...i reconnected with an old friend recently and i was talking about our school time and said we were lucky that we didnt have bullying or fights in our batch even to this day everyone was really good friends with each other and what she said opened my eyes..she said that i was wrong because i was the class topper and a nice guy and everyone liked me so me and my best friends didnt really had a hard time...but in the last year of high school, a guy proposed to her and she got angry and denied him and other people saw that and made up rumors about her, she had to take a month off for some family emergency and there was a nasty rumor going in high school that she got pregnant by him and had to stay off school because she was going through abortion...i was completely surprised bcoz i never heard taht rumor but she said that last year of school was difficult for her bcoz all of her girl friends alienated her and most of the guy friends teased her about the public proposal from that guy..she had a few friends but she had become a joke of the school, everybody laughing at her and passing comments made her feel so terrible, she was lucky that she had a group pf close friends to rely on her but most of us werent that helpful...she said that i was one of the good ones bcoz i was always nice to her and didnt treat her differently but i was just completely oblivious to that rumor but i too laughed at her whenever made fun of her of the guy propsing to her in front of everybody...i felt really ashamed that i didnt know what was going on and she always laughed with us too, so we thought it was okay, we didnt know she felt this bad an alone...we all went away to college after that so she started form scratch..i realize now that people like Ueno ang young Shoyo are rare but people like Kawai and Sahara who enable those bullies and do nothing are common and i was one of that...i my case we all grew up and matured quickly after college and my classmates got back together at reunion, many of felt terrible and apologised to her and she was nice enough to accept it and we all are still friends to this day...but we learnt a valuable lesson and we plan on passing on that lesson to the younger generation

[@alistaircraig7849]

This film is an all time favourite of mine

[@morbidgirl6808]

So true, I also bring issues for Asian series/films 😂😭 They are either super emotionally-wrecking or absolutely cheesy. No in between. That's why I'm so attracted to Asian cinema. It's such a masterful powerhouse that can depict human nature on screen with a huge impact on audiences, and there's so much psychological suspense to it.

[@DaneofHalves]

Edit: Sorry didn't fully read the comment. But the "Frieren" recommendation with definitely touch the heart and is not a Studio Ghibli movie. This movie really touches the heart. Nice to watch movies with you again! If you want to watch something with a lighter tone but still a good watch, Studio Ghibli's movie "Spirited Away" is a good one. Great art and fantasy. Highly acclaimed movie. Or if you want to try out a series that easily digestible and doesn't require you to watch a ton of it, a popular series just finished up it's first season: "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End." The last one is broken up into short 20 minute episodes but they pack a lot of good story into it. Lots of people watching it right now. Can't go wrong with either one, I promise and I'm sure you'll enjoy them. But whatever you decide, I'm sure we'll love to see them with you! Cheers!

[@Schmokeabowl]

I Hope you are happy and well @Nic&Nacs 😊 I enjoy your videos ❤

[@rous3369]

Satoshi Kon is widely considered the greatest anime movie director and has had a big impact on western films and directors too. He directed 4 films before his death sadly at the age of just 46. His first film is Perfect Blue

[@jefffredenburg7231]

This movie is so sad after you watch it a year later just hearing the title will make you cry

[@ChezaWR]

Read the manga and watched the movie. Both made me cry so much during and after the fireworks scene...

[@urborg74]

Such a fun watch, thank you!

[@zxokku]

the manga the movie is based on actually shows more of what happens after this all the way to graduation i recommend reading it if your like me and need more of it

[@muhammadnazrin3390]

15:45 Random question other than random back pain, can you point to moments in your life where you felt, damn I'm getting older?

[@UndeadBex]

This movie is so beautiful!! Someone else also recommended this but I too recommend Perfect Blue! Idk if you will cry but it is SO good, very eerie, and messes with your head. I understand avoiding Ghibli cause of the strikes issue, but I hope you'll check them out on your own time! My favorite of those is Princess Mononoke

[@gabriellbraga7732]

More recs: Mandatory Satoshi Kon films (Perfect Blue is one of them, he has very few but masterpiece movies that Hollywood copies as lot like Inception => Paprika), Berserk (memorial edition, and/or 1997) - if you're an orphan of Game of Thrones or just likes dark fantasy. March Comes in Like a Lion (realistic drama + wholesome) Live action exception: Alita Battle Angel - this one live action is actually pretty good. Others/serialized: Nodame Cantabile, Elfen Lied, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

[@ArthurKain]

Beautiful example of storytelling done well.

[@DanteRU0312]

Yeah, this movie has some culturally based stuff. In any other production, reconnecting with Ueno would've been a crazy idea.

[@SSP50505]

1 Regarding the title, "the shape of voice" (the voice's shape) is the literal translation of "koe no katachi". "A Silent Voice" was the English version of the title. These changes happen a lot between vastly different languages, as you may have already realized. 2 A lot of people understandly hate/can't stand Ueno the most but to me Kawaii was worse, as the story never, not once, tries to entertain the idea that she's faking her innocence. It feels as though she truly believes she did nothing wrong, a constant victim syndrome. At least Ueno, terrible as she may be, was straightforward with her feelings (which in reality where also mostly fabricated out of low self-esteem, guilt and probably a loss of belonging). When the story we get to see ends, Kawaii has learned and reflected on absolutely nothing. 3 I love how you picked up on the parallelism between the fireworks in the opening scene and the festival scene later on. 4 At 30:20 we're shown that his childhood friends happened to be around the area when he fell into the water and were the ones that rescued him. 5 I highly recommend you read the manga. The film is a fantastic adaptation but it had to leave some things out for the sake of time, as is usually the case.

[@asbehsam]

AHHHH I love this movie! My face fell when you said you can hear fireworks because I immediately thought of the climax of the movie :"""""I

[@DesertHomesteader]

I've watched a dozen reactions to this movie and I've cried every time (even if the reactor doesn't). So don't hold back those tears too hard. Just be yourself. 🙂

[@Latchkei1]

This movie always makes me cry, and what do you know- I cried along with you! TT^TT And OMG your hair loops are so amazingly cute!

[@hunni_chan]

the subtitles seemed a little wrong in this version you watched. hopefully that didnt ruin your experience.

[@dillonbrett9259]

Highly recommend reading the manga of A Silent Voice. You get a lot more context for basically everything

[@joaosoares-rr5mj]

i realy do need to read it, but it saddens me that even in the manga they dont kiss ;-;

[@dillonbrett9259]

@joaosoares-rr5mj I'm okay with the fact that they don't kiss. The romance was never really in the foreground for the story imo. Like, it wasn't tacked on arbitrarily, or anything like that, but the core of the story was the redemption arcs, which were handled exquisitely.

[@joaosoares-rr5mj]

@@dillonbrett9259 well yes, but also the core of the story is her understanding that she can be happy and that she is not a burden to the people around her, that they like being with her, and I wanted her to be super happy, and it is clear that she had feelings for him ( same as he had feelings for her) therefore, them kissing would for me, simbolize her happiness reaching the top

[@dillonbrett9259]

@@joaosoares-rr5mj You also need to remember that they both have severe social anxiety... let alone all of the nuances that go with him falling and going into a coma, her finally realising that she wasn't hurting people by existing, but by not allowing herself to understand other people and their feelings on account of her own self hatred. Any attempt for them to kiss in the immediate wake of any of this would be really awkward and somewhat unrealistic.

[@joaosoares-rr5mj]

@@dillonbrett9259 i mean yeah but, the festival is a few days after that xD Regardless, I just wish that it was stated they were now dating somehow, I'm a sucker for love endings, I would like to imagine they gonnaerry and have babies together and live haply ever after xD

[@mitchhamilton64]

ueno i cant really hate tbh. from her perspective shoko was the one to ruin everything for them. ueno was genuinely nice to her in the beginning, helping her out, taking notes for her but really, shoko shouldnt have been there in the first place. she shouldve been in a special school or class. also the teacher was horrible as well, not slowing down so ueno was falling behind on her own studies while trying to help shoko. also, she liked ishida when they were younger and saw the bullying as a way to get his attention since he started it, which is messed up, not gonna lie. but ueno has guilt for how he was treated back then because it was something she couldnt get back and it was all shoko's fault. not really but it all started because of her. to speak harshly right now, shoko shouldnt be the classes responsibility, they shouldnt have to learn sign language, a whole other language to help one student. it would be nice if they did but again, its not their responsibility. and one thing ueno hates about shoko is she never really spoke to her on the same level. she'd always apologize instead of telling her how she felt. shed put on a fake smile and say thank you instead of being mad. ueno was kind to her and treated her nice and shoko just kept her at arms length. even on the ferris wheel, ueno was looking for a compromise for them to "get along" she put all out in the open for her so they'd have an understanding. but shoko rejected it. though shoko was being genuine when she said she didnt hate ueno but herself but she still rejected uenos compromise. still shitty for her to some of the things she did but i understood why after a while. but fuck kawai, shes the worst. she faked singing early so shoko would sing early so she could step in and look like a good person. she faked cry when she was called out in elementary, she purposefully spoke aloud about past events when ishida confronted her and you can see her smiling as ishida runs out the classroom.

[@davidmeir9348]

Such a great film. It really handles maturely the difficult subject of bullying. Hard not to tearing up when watching it. Hope one day you'll do a reaction to my personal favorite anime, the psychological thriller with elements of horror, Perfect Blue, by the fantastic Satoshi Kon (rip).

[@DarthKay093]

This movie is the definition of emotional damage

[@GabrielleBraswell]

Wolf children 🤩 next please 🐺

[@KaeMcSpadden]

Belle is also great too, the animation is beautiful and the songs are so catchy, the dub did a good job with the songs.

[@Sky_linez]

Generally the names being different for the movie is because of translation decisions. If the person translating goes for a direct translation of the Japanese movie title or sometimes something quite different that better translates the movies theme☺️

[@RobertBurns71405]

I adore this movie so much!

[@nonypoo1845]

You would love your lie in April it's so happy 😊😊

[@Jennilynne]

Loved that one! Even though it broke me lol

[@elvisvasquez7553]

It is really interesting that people only care about the isolation of others when they are disabled... Very interesting...

[@noirgatherer]

The film suffers from being overly condensed from the manga. A lot of character arcs were cut and backstories of the other characters. Having read the books this feels just too brief. I encourage you to read them.

[@lalalarose8197]

It may have worked better as a series than a movie.

[@somber087]

Thats not the point of the movie. Its about the journey of shoya towards self love. The other characters backstories arent relevant enough and would just seem like filler scenes

[@DaElfer]

when you said K- Dramas. i dare anyone to not fall in love with attorney woo

[@KaeMcSpadden]

If you watch Maquia, you would be crying like crazy!

[@SAR-nj1pz]

And just to think this masterpiece of a movie lost animation of the year to boss baby. Evil world we live in

[@josemanuelarceomedina7237]

I would be so happy if you see Perfect Blue, The Boy and the Beast or Belle, amazing movies in my opinion, greetings from México 🇲🇽😊

[@RF-eq9rf]

You should watch frieren beyond the journey, best ever

[@watchalert1752]

Good Movie and Reaction!

[@amethystb12345]

If you like emotional anime then I will suggest Clannad & Kanon (I might have that one spelled wrong not sure) both of those are sooooo good Warning: you will cry! I did & still do!

[@aeinrv]

I love your reaction and when you comment on a scene. you have to watch "wolf children" please

[@TrentRushton]

If you want emotional trauma, I loved your reaction to Invincible season 1 check out season 2, just when you think Mark could not stand more.

[@TrentRushton]

One movie I really liked is Summer Wars.

[@Animeedits54]

It lost Oscar Nomination they chose Boss Baby over A Silent Voice 🤯

[@jih_ooo]

the x's are there cause he has social anxiety and can't look people in the eyes (tho there are multiple reasons for why there are x's on peoples faces, and the movie has a crazy amount of symbolism)

[@AA-lc6bf]

Damn this subtitle was rough. There are multiple different subtitles but this one is the worst so far.

[@zacklepto]

There’s another anime movie called Belle. I think that would sound interesting for another video

[@preciousbun]

there's so many little things you notice in this movie during a second watch! I love this movie sm :') Ueno has a lot of depth actually, she's struggling in school because she's dyslexic (which is why she has such a hard time communicating with Shouko) and in the scene were they're reading outloud she gets reprimanded while Shouko gets "a pass" in her eyes. She does a lot of mean things, but I feel like at the end she has at least grown a little bit by starting to use sign language to communicate with Shouko (even if she insulted her lol). Kawai is one that doesn't really grow at all in my eyes, she never takes any acountability (compared to Ueno who doesn't hide her dislike) for bullying Shouko. When they're singing she's the one that pretends to start singing which causes Shouko to sing too early, but then she acts as if she's being "nice" by helping her. It's a different kind of bullying, but she keeps acting as if she's "innocent" in it all...

[@mitchhamilton64]

this is a first im hearing she has dyslexia. was that in the manga?

[@luancardoso2251]

Faça um react por favor sobre o filme "túmulo de vaga-lumes".❤❤❤❤❤

[@dragulia_venaro]

You probably should watch "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas". :)

[@FNXMFTmrmonky]

Man Shoko is a baddie

[@outsidetheboxdesigns6265]

And Boss Baby beat this for an Oscar

[@marcoskazu_]

❤

[@CyanHope]

Next you should follow with Weathering With You, I wanna eat your pancreas, Suzume and The Lonely Castle in the mirror, Makia

[@benjaminguzman8645]

This did what 13 Reasons Why completely failed to do.

[@RexFernandez-ri4oi]

Love You ❤❤❤❤

[@joaosoares-rr5mj]

i have cried in many movies, i have ugly cried in many movies, but i never crried as much as i did, when i watched THIS movie, like for real, i cried so much i started moaning while crying, like, those crying moans you make when you're desperetly crying... i cried so much that i couldnt believe how loud i was crying...

[@TheSuperNotFunHorrorChannel]

Any reason why you don’t wanna do the Ghibli studio films? I love them all 🙃😂 maybe a copyright issue

[@nicsandnacs]

Studio Ghibli give people channel strikes and I’ve heard some really bad KZbinr horror stories. Not risking it 😬

[@TheSuperNotFunHorrorChannel]

@@nicsandnacs oh that’s fair!! I was unaware but thought that may be the issue! I hope maybe you’ve enjoyed them on your own time!!

[@foxpaw1]

people are seeming to overlook that he was bullied first. his bullying is a result of him trying to fit in or focus the bullying away from him.

[@FightingTorque411]

It seems fairly clear, at least with more than one viewing, that the bullying he suffers is a direct response to trying to draw blame to the others for their bullying of Nishimiya as well as his own. He doesn't appear to have had any negative treatment from classmates before then.

[@panjisuryap]

now u have to react to Weathering With You.

[@franciscogaxiola9450]

You would enjoy Violet Evergarden.

[@Goodkat2319]

They're children.

[@ryannyarumba5919]

Next watch i want to eat your pancreas,im not a crier i can be a bit tough but that movie had me sobbing like a baby

[@muhammadnazrin3390]

Miki Kawai is the worst, she was a bully as well but never own up to it at all, she's one of those fake nice people.

[@XxMr_cocoanut_v.11xX]

The movie was sad isn't it 😭😢😢

[@lalalarose8197]

Personally think the manga is much better but the movie is fine for what it is.

[@MrProdigy810]

Watch Your Lie in April

[@yesman8682]

Try to find better subtitles next time please