A Silent Voice

by Yoshitoki Oima / Kyoto Animation

A story of redemption, deaf identity, and the fragile bridges rebuilt between people who hurt each other and still chose to reach back. Navigate the quiet, complicated world of Shoya Ishida as he tries to make amends with Shoko Nishimiya — the girl he once bullied — before time runs out.

23 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Ito Nishimiya — Shoko and Yuzuru's grandmother — gentle, welcoming, and one of the few adults in the story who simply receives Shoya without judgment.
• Miki Kawai — The class president type from Shoya's elementary school — outwardly empathetic and morally self-assured, inwardly skilled at avoiding accountability.
• Miyako Ishida — Shoya's mother — a woman who has run a hair salon through hardship and loves her son with a tireless, practical ferocity.
• Miyoko Sahara — A kind girl from Shoko's elementary school who tried to befriend her and was bullied out of it — now reconnecting years later with all the tenderness
• Naoka Ueno — Shoya's former elementary school friend who participated in bullying Shoko and has never genuinely reckoned with that — her resentment of Shoko persis
• Satoshi Mashiba — A quiet, observant classmate who joins Shoya's loose friend group and sees more than he lets on.
• Shoko Nishimiya — A deaf young woman whose kindness survived elementary school bullying, now navigating reconnection with the boy who made her life miserable.
• Shoya Ishida — A teenager carrying crushing guilt over bullying Shoko Nishimiya in elementary school, now trying to rebuild connection with the person he hurt most.
• Tomohiro Nagatsuka — Shoya's first genuine friend in high school — an exuberant, self-proclaimed filmmaker who latches onto Shoya with unearned loyalty and refuses to let
• Yaeko Nishimiya — Shoko and Yuzuru's mother — cold, fiercely protective, and shaped by a grief she has never fully processed into warmth.
• Yuzuru Nishimiya — Shoko's fierce, gender-ambiguous younger sister who photographs dead things to understand loss and will do anything to protect Shoko.

Locations

• Ishida Family Home — The house where Shoya and Miyako live — functional, modest, connected to the hair salon Miyako runs.
• Lake Biwa Fireworks Festival — The summer fireworks festival at Lake Biwa — a pivotal setting where the group comes together and where a serious crisis unfolds.
• Nagahama City — A real mid-sized Japanese city on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture — the town where the whole story is rooted.
• Nishimiya Family Home — The home where Shoko, Yuzuru, Yaeko, and grandmother Ito live — a space of complicated family dynamics and rare moments of warmth.
• Shoya's Elementary School — The school where Shoko transferred in and where the bullying happened — a place the story returns to in memory and eventually, cautiously, in person.
• Shoya's High School — The high school where Shoya, Tomohiro, Miki, and Satoshi study — a place of qualified new beginnings and unavoidable old patterns.
• The Footbridge Over the River — A pedestrian bridge over the river running through Nagahama — a recurring liminal space tied to crisis, reunion, and unspoken turning points.
• The Notebook Store — A stationery and notebook shop in Nagahama where Shoko regularly goes to buy the notebooks she uses to communicate — the place Shoya first engineers a

Items

• Shoko's Communication Notebook — The small notebook Shoko carries and offers to others to write in — her primary bridge to a hearing world, and a recurring symbol of the effort she ma
• Shoko's Hearing Aids — The hearing aids Shoko wears — the instruments destroyed nine times during the elementary school bullying, and now simply part of how she moves throug
• Sign Language Library Books — The library books on Japanese Sign Language that Shoya used to teach himself to sign — the evidence of his years of quiet, private preparation.
• Yuzuru's Camera — The camera Yuzuru carries everywhere, used to photograph dead things and beautiful things — a tool for confronting mortality and documenting a world h

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