Bullying is not something that is typically used as the central part of a manga plot.

A Silent Voice
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Oima. The series was originally
released as a one-shot story in the February 2011 issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, followed by
a full serialization in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2013. The manga concluded on
November 19, 2014. Kodansha has been published in seven volumes of tankōbon in Japan. The
manga was digitally released by Crunchyroll Manga and licensed by Kodansha USA for a printed
English version. An animated film adaptation developed by Kyoto Animation was released on
September 17, 2016. Oima was born on 15 March 1989 in Ogaki, Japan as the third daughter of a
sign language interpreter mother and has an older sister and an older brother. She was inspired by
her mother's work as a sign language interpreter to write the A Silent Voice Manga series, where
she was helped by her mother and her sister working on the series. Her first manga was Mardock
Scramble, an adaptation of the same-named novel written by Tow Ubukata and published in 2009.
She was even responsible for illustrating the ending sequence of the ninth episode of Attack on
Titan. After her success with A Silent Voice Yoshitoki Oima, she worked alongside other manga
artists on a manga collaboration called Ore no 100-wame!! In 2016, Yoshitoki Oima released her
third full-length manga series under the moniker To Your Eternity.

However, A Silent Voice questions this concept by using violence to tell a story about two children
who are faced with the impact of such acts and traces their lives based on the perspective from
both sides. Manga is often read comics because it portrays what is not realistic in our world, or
reflects on a set of unusual circumstances that build an interesting story.

In this way, A Silent Voice is unique: it tells a story that is not only possible, but rather believable
as something similar to what can and does happen in real life, and it enhances the story's ability to
move its readers, including myself, emotionally. It contains 64 chapters. The story beautifully
portrays the journey of a high school boy's emotional and mental maturity. We were first
introduced to the protagonist Shouya when he was in primary school. When the deaf transfer
student, Shouko, joins his class, he previously observes it from a distance. He can not understand
with Shouko who can not speak, can not hear and communicate by writing a notebook. In his
youthfulness, Shouya's lack of understanding takes the form of hatred and disgust for Shouko,
which he emotes by harassing her. The growth of Shouya's character starts when he becomes a
victim of harassment. We see him turn into a high school shut-in of the outgoing child he was a
while ago. His depression is so serious that he's having suicidal thoughts. As the last thing on his
checklist, before he kills himself, Shouya goes to see Shouko, who has since moved school because
of the threats to recover her communication note. Shouya also learned some sign language so that
he could show his sense of regret to Shouko. This is Shouya's first move, mistakenly to try to
understand Shouko. Their hangout is a bridge over a river, a symbol of Shouya's efforts to become
friends with Shouko. It is also where he changes relationships with his old friends and makes new
ones, and where he once wanted to end his life by jumping off a bridge, he finds a new purpose to
live. Even the writer puts the viewer through a test. Shouko's younger sister, Yuzuru, has a hobby
of pressing on pictures of dead animals.