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I went into this knowing one thing, it had the director of K-On! I love K-On, it's saccharine good fun, and the best part of it is the characters. This is the biggest problem with A Silent Voice, the characters are awful. I've always said that a good story is only held up on the strength of it's characters. Main deaf girl has literally no personality, other than she's deaf, and likes to feed fish. Fantastic, let's make a two hour long sadfest dedicated to this horrible character. Main boy guy is almost just as awful, he spends the first twenty minutes of the movie ... abusing this poor disabled girl, then decided when he's an adult, he needs to "make amends for his sins". This character never gave a shit about anyone but himself, all he's looking for is redemption, he truly doesn't care about the people around him. The only two good characters in the movie are the moms, they seem to be the most fleshed out and real, I liked the subtle scene where main boys mom is covered in blood and had her earring ripped out, that was very subtle story telling.

My second biggest problem was the fact that it just feels manipulative. There's no humor in this at all, it's all drama. K-On! was a fantastic mix of comedy/drama, it made every episode feel fun, but also heartfelt. A Silent Voice seems to want to kick you in the stomach every step along the way, this movie thrives on bullying and suicide attempts.

A Silent Voice in the end wasn't the worst anime/movie I've ever seen, but considering the director and the MAL score I was really disappointed by it. Can we just have more K-On! please?

I feel the need to write a review for this interesting little film right here simply because of it's score on this website, which I feel doesn't do it justice whatsoever and therefore I need to be that white knight for anime everyone hates. The reason I wanted to view this came from two reasons. One, I had recently finished Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which I found to be amazing and terrifying, and two, I've had and interest in Ufotable this anime's studio since I've been watching the well known film works the Kara no Kyōkai series. The original novels of which come from none ... other than Kinoko Nasu creator of the extensive and legendary Fate series. Aside from all that I will put out there I have not read Gyo yet, and this seems to be where a lot of the contention of the movie comes from. Going into this movie knowing nothing of the original work but being familiar of the author and studios previous endeavors I can undoubtedly say that this is a fantastic piece of work. As a fan of the horror genre this hits every trope of the general American B movie but takes it so over the top with an interesting aesthetics and otherwise simply praiseworthy visuals(for the most part). It isn't as beautiful as Kinoko Nasu but considering it's trying to bring out the disturbing nature of Junji Ito's drawings it couldn't be even close to that cleanly done. The CGI I think is done very well, and It works with the shadelss character models and the stark backgrounds. The scene where whatserface beat Erika to death with the ashtray was so disturbing, and other parts of the movie genuinely made me think about the terrifying concept of death and the thought of living a disgusting afterlife attached to some alien machine from the depths of the ocean. If you can't see even a lit bit of dark beauty in this terrifying classic than I'm sorry for you.

I'm gonna make this quick. Samurai flamenco is meta as fuck. The show goes through three different genres throughout the entirety of the show. Starting off as a realistic if not somewhat parody based drama, then changing into a full force super hero show, and then pulling back and becoming somewhat of a psychological thriller(the final genre being the one to really make me appreciate the show). I think if I could rate the three different genre changes in the show I'd give the drama portion a 7, the super hero portion a 6, and the psychological portion an 8. If you like something that ... doesn't take itself too seriously but you still want to get something out of it than I think this would be the show for you. I got a lot more out of this show than I was expecting which I why I'm deciding to write my first review on Mal because of it.