[ SECRET POST #2814 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2814 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/o4HdqYD.png

[(Anonymous)]

lol I'm pretty sure he's disabled now, and considering the next chapter is 'miracle on the bridge', I bet they'll start dating, too.

Whichhhh might make it worse for you, I supoose

[(Anonymous)]

For anyone wondering what the manga is, it's Koe no Katachi.

[(Anonymous)]

Be warned, it's depressing as hell

[kallanda_lee]

Not familiar with the canon, but that happen in r/l, too, sometimes. Unlikely friendships can form.

[(Anonymous)]

Kid is horrible to deaf girl. Like, ripping her ear open to steal her hearing aid, beats her up, throws her notebook into the water...

[kallanda_lee]

Well, that is pretty awful.

Then again, I want for a drink and an afternoon of banter with the dude who broke my nose (and who I strangled, I'm not exactly an innocent in most these matters).

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a little different, as the deaf girl was really nice to him/the others. They/he just beat on her because she was deaf, so she spoke strangely and whatnot.

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, that would probably rub me the wrong way, too.

[(Anonymous)]

The two main characters do end up physically fighting, though. From what I remember, I think the rewrite/expansion from the original one-shot has actually been doing a good job making it feasible the two could form a friendship later on (if the continuation started from the original one-shot, it would have been a much harder sell imo).

[(Anonymous)]

Thing is tho that the boy goes through great lengths to understand and apologize to her. He even learns sign language. And it's not like everyone forgave him easily (the girl's family, and he himself) It gets pretty damn dark, since he deals with the repercussions of the bully mentality that pervaded their classroom too.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed - I've experienced it personally. There was a girl in my class in grade school who was a notorious bully for a few years because she suffered from some serious insecurity and inferiority issues. Eventually she matured and realized how shitty her behavior had been and the two of us ended up becoming friends.

[ex_mek82]

Yeah, this is true.

I once knew a girl in my old neighborhood who was your prototypical bully to most of the other kids on the street. She made the mistake of hurting my sister's feelings once (bear in mind, my sister is also autistic and I used to beat up bullies at our old grade school when they'd pick on her. Swung my backpack at them on the walk home. Ah, the 90's...) and I let her have it. I don't know when exactly the worm turned, but somehow we worked things out and I found out she actually wasn't that bad of a person. She soon became my best childhood friend.

So while it doesn't happen often, a turn-around isn't entirely implausible of a thing to consider.

[(Anonymous)]

This is more a response to everyone in this thread: It's a bit different when someone is bullying you based on a disability, not only in the feelings of the person being bullied, but also in what it says about the character of the bully. I also don't think it's fair to compare secondhand experience. No matter how much you care about the person, it's not the same as experiencing it yourself.

[kallanda_lee]

It wasn't secondhand experience in my case, but fair enough about the picking on disabled kids.

[gabzillaz]

I think it was well written, though I understand why some people wouldn't like it.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't mind it. I can see how people would dislike it, but I also am not a fan of the idea that 'child who was a bully = irredeemable forever ever' which large swaths of many fandoms seem to subscribe to. They're elementary schoolers. People change, people grow. Plus a big part of the story is how Ishida was also bullied and the effect all of it had on him. I guess some people would've been happier if he'd just killed himself in the first couple chapters like he intended to. It's the whole 'James Potter can't be a good person because he did bad things as an ignorant teenager' principle again.

[nyvz]

This. I thought the way they handled his transition and struggles with trying to be a better person well, as well as the backlash that he got for it.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the same thing. It's pretty obvious he genuinely feels very regretful about what he's done and tries his damn best to make up for it (and even then, he acknowledges that he can never give back what were suppose to be her happy childhood days) to become a better person. People can change and I like this story because it shows all the hardships that comes with the journey.