/a/ - Animu & Mango

Shoya learned to accept himself and his life.

I dunno what the blurry window thing is supposed to mean.

>>771770

>I dunno what the blurry window thing is supposed to mean.

Me too.

Why couldn't they stay young? Loli Shouko was 10 kinds of adorable.

I enjoyed her mom materializing out of nowhere to slap the shit out of Cat Cunt. Cat Cunt is only good for some hard dickings.

can we agree that ueno is best girl followed by yuzuru

>>771962

Unironically agree.

The events that happened earlier in the story were a tragedy out of nowhere for the relationship between her and MC

>>771772

it shows shinomiya and shouya holding hands, it's kind of a hint to the ending of the manga

>>772207

Thanks.

>>772297

If I remember right from the manga, then the hand signs she does here are something along the lines of "I want to die"

>>772306

Pretty sure that one is tomodachi

>>772306

This was from the scene at the bridge right? I figured this one out. It is a combination of the hand signs for friendship (clapping together hands) and promise (pinkie fingers interlinked). I guess this implied their fortified bond and that they will be friends forever. Very beautiful scene. The music was also perfect.

Then at their grand mother's funeral was another hand sign that was not explained. Shoko and her sister were standing outside and then a butterfly came across them. Then one of the girls made the hand sign for grandmother implying it was their grandmother's soul flying away like the butterfly.

I find such subtile things beautiful.

>>774604

Manga has the movie subplot though. The film version of cutting out the "let's make a movie" part was great. But overall, the manga is much better.

>>774673

I didn't mind the movie subplot. What I just found too clichee is that after highschool all main characters go to tokyo to chase their dreams.

I didn't know squat about the manga so I went in blind for the movie. I thought the protective woul be annoying but I felt a stirring in my loins, and then they revealed she was a reverse trap. Goddamn I loved her.

>>771760

Read the fucking manga. Don't watch the movie.

>>774989

that was the passion a wife would feel for her husband and fighting for him with all her power. I am still surprised how Ishida failed again to realize she liked him the entire time.

In the story later on they are in the last year of high school which is from 17 to 18 in Japan.

I agree on your remark for age 10 though. I also felt that the kids look way too young for 6th graders in the early part of the story. But somehow I have this age problem in everything. When I used to watch tv shows about teenagers I thought they look really mature for teenagers when the actors were probably early 20s while filming the show

>>775000

Bad news for me, Ueno wasn't a loli.

>>774979

Pretty sure my brain isn't doing too hot recently. I meant to say that I thought it was gonna be an annoying protective little boy, but my loins told me the boy had something weird going on, and she turned out to be a reverse trap. Best girl for me.

>>775029

I'd still hatefuck the shit out of her, Loli or not. She needs dickings and desperately.

Saw the movie and thought it was okay, read they manga and ended up liking it less. The manga has a better conclusion than the movie but it still lacks punch, the romance shit never gets resolved either.

Her running off to tokyo gave me flashbacks of that bitch disappearing in nozoki ana. There's no strong closure and the mc seems like he's flailing just as much at the end of the movie, he doesn't really come into his own everyone has their 'thing' except for him and psycho-eyebrows. It bothers me that the story doesn't end with him having way more confidence than he does or even pursuing any of the girls romantically. It's a blueballs ending for me especially since knowing nothing about this story I thought before diving in it'd be a romance story.

Japanese people apologize too much.

just remembered one thing.

Ueno was basically only in love with the former Ishida. Even later in the story she would remind him that the former Ishida would never hand out with those weirdos. So if Ishida was not a failed bully, she might have no sympathy at all for him.

This movie required far more social know how than my brain is able to process

Why did Nishimiya repeatedly apologize after being bullied? Also, why did she jump?

>>780485

She thinks everything is her fault and is sorry for not being able to communicate normally. She also thinks it was her fault when the group breaks up again; if she didn't exist then everyone would be happy.

I read the manga

then watched the movie

The movie is decent, and it's nice to see the characters that I got to know moving and in colour with voices. Shoya's voice was harsh and grating in a way that doesn't come across as well in the manga. I loved the soft art style too. But the manga is just so much better.

The movie had a more clean and simplified approach to the story, whereas the manga developed the characters more, so they weren't just good people or bad people, they were human beings who have understandably become the characters we see.

I also appreciated the manga more because it drew heh the story out for longer so the changes in the characters seemed more gradual and natural. I binged through the manga, and it still took me 2 days to finish, compared to the 2 hours it took to watch the movie.

Just rewatched the end of the movie, and I have to say, they really fucked that up from how it was done in the manga. "Show don't tell aside", not much was shown and nothing was told.

Both the manga and the movie are fucking terrible although the Movie is marginally better than the manga since it has the who and it's shorter. To unironically enjoy the KnK manga, you must be mentally stunted or a literal teenager. The melodrama and bullshit is unbearable. It's sad though because it started off pretty good. It would have been much better if it just were about Shouko and shoya without those stupid teenage ANGST side characters. Should have just been a positive friendship story about redemption and forgiveness, but instead it was just bullshit with a side of bullshit.

>>788785

But what's the point in having shouko and shoya exist in a vacuum.

>>788974

Side characters are fine, but it would have been nice to see their relationship develop on its own. I feel like the author wasn't skilled enough to competently write a compelling story about two people just getting to know each other, so she had to introduce the drama and childhood friend stuff too. The eyebrows guy and his lover girl were absolutely shitty characters and honestly shouldn't have existed. Ueno was needlessly evil. The fat kid was totally pointless and existed just to be stupid. Most side characters, most of the time, were just talking plot devices and catalysts for melodrama.

And forgive me for forgetting some of the names, it's been like a year since I watched this.

>>772295

At that scene when Shouko says she has to go study, she walks off and Shoya catches up to her telling her "See you later" in sign language, after a hesitation she says "Thank you." which is the sign in that picture.