A Silent Voice 1

(W) Tow Ubukata (A/CA) Yoshitoki Oima. A Silent Voice is a thought-provoking* dramatic story of a deaf student and the boy who bullies her. In elementary school* Shoya bullies the deaf Shoko mercilessly. When she transfers to another school to escape his torment* Shoya finds himself bullied by the students he once considered his friends. Years later* he learns sign language to apologize to Shoko for his behavior* and so begins a relationship that will change his and Shoko's lives forever. Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes and to face the classmates who turned on him.