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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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