I just watched this masterpiece. I was thinking about writing in the title "Koe no katachi VS Kimi no na wa" but if just felt not right. First, because I did not even make a review of Kimi no na wa yet, and second, because it somehow gives me pain to rate one over another. Let' say that the topics and points of view in both movies were different. That said, Koe no katachi feels to me kind of more deep into the character's feelings. (Well of course, we are talking here about a story of feelings and interaction among people).
I said that Koe no katachi is such a masterpiece. I will explain now why. When I rate any story (may it be anime, manga, a movie, or whatever format) I normally value it for how deep are the feelings it stirs within me. So there we have this girl that can almost not hear. How she tries to fit with the other children, how she wants to be friends, how she never minds little things. How she does not want to be alone, like any other human being. In general the story is rather slow-paced but very intense in concepts and emotions.
Also we can see the bullying, something that is happening nowadays. How the difficulty to understand someone else can lead to this. And there we have one of the main topics of the story: Communication. If I have a barrier in my communication with the rest of the group, then they will not be able to understand. They are human beings, frightened creatures that become afraid of anything they cannot identify.
Well I do not think it is that easy to explain everything about this movie, but the powerful feeling of guilt, the big atonement for one's mistakes, and even the little thing that was never mistaken in the first place, yet she regretted her very own existence. All of this make this story so human and deep in our reality. If I watch this movie again I will probably write a different review. Like deeper in the understanding of the character's behaviors and feelings. Especially I would like to mention, I did not pay so much attention to the secondary characters, and yet they could have an interesting part of the story (like I did in my review of Golden Time).
Thanks for reading, see ya guys! If you have feelings about this movie you would like to write, please do so :)
