The most recent anime I watched was A Silent Voice on Netflix, btw, where I felt obligated to watch the English dub because that was the one that cast a Deaf actress to play the Deaf character (It was very good in general, so back off dub haters)
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I guess I'll branch off into a tangent about that movie, which hit me really hard happening to watch it after the finales of The Good Place and Bojack Horseman Like it's a whole movie about desperately trying to recover from realizing you're a shitty human being who hurts people
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I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the message of the movie (which is clearly heavily compressed from a much longer manga) It trades a lot on making a disabled character a pure innocent victim and so forth But just in the emotional execution it was really powerful
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Like I'm not politically on board with the whole "Cancel culture kills" thing but... just as a movie it is a very powerful wrenching portrait of someone being destroyed by being "canceled" (He was a kid after all)
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The movie, FYI, is about a Deaf girl who ends up bullied and ostracized in her elementary school class, until one day it "goes too far" and gets the authorities' attention, upon which the story gets out and the one kid who was the ringleader gets all the blame
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The opening of the movie just shows the guy, now a teenager, quietly wrapping up his life and preparing to kill himself, certain that he can't go on living a life where he'll never be anything but the monster who bullied a Deaf girl
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The movie is about him pulling back from that and how he ends up rebuilding his life and how he and his former victim fall in love (It's a really touchy, risky concept for a movie that for many reasons I think couldn't have been made in the US)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I read the manga before watching the movie, so I knew what the story beats would be, but it still ripped my heart out.
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