A SILENT VOICE T02 AT 3 EUROS

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Available on 06/20/2024
20 years, 20 volumes at €3 to celebrate the series that embody the diversity of the Ki-oon catalogue!
The manga that shook Japan!

Shoko Nishimiya has been deaf since birth. Even with a hearing aid, she struggles to understand conversations and what is happening around her. Frightened by this handicap, her father ended up abandoning her, leaving her mother to raise her alone.

When Shoko is transferred to a new school, she does her best to overcome this handicap, but despite her efforts to integrate into this new environment, nothing works: the persecutions multiply, led by Shoya Ishida, the class leader. Intrigued, fascinated, and finally exasperated by this young girl who does not know how to communicate with her voice, Shoya decides to devote all his energy to making her life impossible.

In turn psychological then physical, the young boy's attacks become more and more violent... until the day when the bullying too much provokes a complaint from Shoko's family, as well as the intervention of the school principal. That day, everything changes for Shoya: his classmates, who until then also never missed an opportunity to torment the young girl, will turn against him and designate him as the only one responsible...

Published as a 60-page short story in 2011, A Silent Voice achieved the resounding feat of placing number 1 in the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (Kodansha) readers' vote ahead of the current bestseller in Japan, Attack on Titan . This feat earned it a series version and established itself as a true social phenomenon. A manga like no other, which brilliantly succeeds in talking about disability in a shonen magazine, in a fair and touching way!