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This touching and unusual anime about a deaf girl and her school bully was very different from what I expected. The subtitles were in very bad English which made it difficult to follow the finer plot points and character details, but the broader strokes of the story were enough to see the unconventional themes of this project. Dealing with heavy topics such as physical disability, mobbing, depression and suicide, presented in the foreign context of Japanese society, the film was quite ambitious in taking on so much at once. The script didn’t help, providing flashbacks and disconnected vision-like scenes and dream sequences that confused me even more. Still: even though I couldn’t truly understand the characters, the story moved me. The visual execution was good as well. Though not a Miyazaki-level masterpiece, there were some nice pictures in here. I would like to see this again in the dubbed version. 3/5
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