A silent voice

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A silent voice
Original title 聲 の 形
transcription Koe no Katachi
Logo Silent Voice.png
Lettering of the manga
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yoshitoki Ōima
publishing company Kodansha
magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine
First publication August 7, 2013 - November 19, 2014
expenditure 7th
filming
► A Silent Voice (film) (2016)

A Silent Voice ( Japanese 聲 の 形 , Koe no Katachi , Ger. "The form of the voice") is a manga by Yoshitoki Ōima , which appeared in Japan for the first time in 2011 and between 2013 and 2014 as a manga series. In September 2016, an anime film version - A Silent Voice (Film) - was released, implemented by Kyoto Animation .

action

In elementary school Shōya Ishida ( 石田 将 也 ) teased his deaf classmate Shōko Nishimiya ( 西宮 硝 子 ). Through Shōya, the whole class has ultimately avoided and excluded Shōko, and the teachers are also overwhelmed with the situation. In addition, Shōko is shy, although she tried to approach the others, the events lead to her having to change schools. When their situation emerges, Shōya is finally also excluded from the class as a pleasant scapegoat by his classmates and the teaching staff. As a result, he regretted what he had done to her, and when they meet again in high school he wants to make up for his mistake and help her make friends.

Shōya makes contact with his former school friends from elementary school so that they can reconcile with him and Shōko. In doing so, he is confronted again with the damage he caused earlier. Nevertheless, a group of seven friends finally comes together who want to make a film for a competition together. But during the shooting there are again conflicts, because of which Shōya wants to withdraw from the group. Shōko, who sees herself as the cause of all problems, then wants to kill herself, which Shōya prevents. The friends then get back together and finish the film.

publication

Yoshitoki Ōima submitted the manga in 2008 as part of a newcomer competition organized by Weekly Shōnen Magazine and won first prize there. It was initially planned to publish the manga shortly after the competition, which was initially not realized due to concerns on the part of the publisher that the subject of harassment in connection with deafness could cause outrage among the readers.

So the work in Japan was first as a 48-page one shot , which appeared in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on January 8, 2011 (issue 2/2011) of Kodansha , followed by a 61-page remake in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on February 20 2013 (edition 12/2013). Since this remake increased magazine sales by 60,000, it was expanded into a series with the support of the Japanese Association of the Deaf , which ran from August 7, 2013 (issue 36–37 / 2013) to November 19, 2014 (51/2014) in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine appeared. The publisher then brought out the chapters in seven edited volumes.

A full German translation of Egmont Manga was published between July 2016 and June 2017 . The American offshoot of Kodansha finally published the series in the USA, and the Crunchyroll platform brought it out online. It has also been published in French by Editions Ki-oon , in Spanish by Milky Way Ediciones , in Italian by Edizioni Star Comics and in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing .

reception

In Japan the volumes sold over 100,000 copies each in the first few weeks, the seventh and last volume sold over 220,000 copies in the first three weeks. In 2015, Yoshitoki Ōima was awarded the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for the best newcomer for the series and the manga was nominated for the Manga Taisho Award, where it took third place. The series was nominated for the Eisner Award 2016 as one of the best English adaptations of Asian comics.

filming

An adaptation as an anime film produced by Kyoto Animation was released on September 17, 2016 in Japan. The film was licensed by Kazé in German-speaking countries and shown for the first time on May 25, 2017 at the 17th Nippon Connection Film Festival in the original with English subtitles . The film received its regular cinema premiere with German dubbing on September 26, 2017. On March 16, 2018, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD and on June 10, 2019 it was broadcast for the first time on the Sixx broadcaster.

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a silent voice anime film earns 283 million yen in 2-days ranks no.2. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Maya Matsubara: A Silent Voice: Nishimiya Shôko - "Alien" or tragic heroine? Dr. Elisabeth Scherer (Institute for Modern Japan at the University of Düsseldorf ), February 6, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Teresa Kramer: Review: The Controversial 'A Silent Voice'. Comics Bulletin, August 6, 2015, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 週刊 少年 マ ガ ジ ン 12 号 掲 載 の 読 み 切 り 『聲 の 形』 に 広 が る る 反響 「と に か く 凄 い」 「必 読」 . In: ガ ジ ェ ッ ト 通信 . February 22, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ a b c Natasha, Inc .: 「聲 の 形」 8 月 に 連載 開始 、 マ ガ ジ ン で 話題 呼 ん だ 異色作. In: natalie.mu. June 12, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ 「立 ち 読 み で も い い か ら 読 ん で 欲 し い」 20 日 発 売 の 週 マ マ ガ 読 み 切 り 「聲 の 形」 が 大 反響 . In: J-CAST ニ ュ ー ス . February 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, October 20-26. Retrieved July 15, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, December 29-January 4. Retrieved July 15, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Aisawa Riku Manga Wins 19th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award. Retrieved July 15, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Akiko Higashimura's Kakukaku Shikajika Wins 8th Manga Taisho Award. Retrieved July 15, 2016 .
  11. ↑ 2016 Eisner Award Nominees. April 18, 2016, archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 15, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Kazé licenses "Eiga Koe no Katachi". aniSearch , February 16, 2017, accessed September 12, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Silent suffering . Kazé Germany. 10th September 2017.
  14. ↑ TV tip: Animated film A Silent Voice (Sixx). Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  15. ^ Chrystalyn Hodgkins: Aisawa Riku Manga Wins 19th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award. Anime News Network , March 30, 2015, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Michael Cavna: 2016 Eisner Awards: 'The Oscars of comics' announces record number of nominations for women. Washington Post , April 16, 2016, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Rudolph Dirks Award for graphic literature. Börsenblatt , December 13, 2017, accessed on September 16, 2018 .
  18. ^ "Max and Moritz" Award 2018. Comic-salon.de, accessed on June 22, 2018 .