


A personality-less self-insert male character who wants to repent for mistakes he made when he was a child falls in love with the object of his errs. Sadly, the execution is simply sickening. Including deafness or any other handicap into anime is an exciting idea, and I laud the attempt. She is paper thin with her sole character trait being she likes Nishimiya's entire character is her illness. This is clearly troublesome when trying to explain deafness to an able-bodied audience. She is the textbook definition of a mary-sue as well as a damsel in distress. It uses a serious problem as a plot device constantly and reduces Nishimiya to one-dimension. This movie certainly does not allow any greater understanding into the mind of deaf people is the point I want to iterate. I'm not going to pretend to know anything about deaf people. Koe no Katachi is dangerous because it is exploitative.
