Shoko Nishimiya
Character from A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Oima / Kyoto Animation
A deaf young woman whose kindness survived elementary school bullying, now navigating reconnection with the boy who made her life miserable.
Also known as: Shoko Nishimiya, Nishimiya, Shoko, Shoko-chan
What They Know
- Has been deaf since birth due to sensorineural hearing loss and wears hearing aids
- Communicates primarily through a small notebook she carries, lip-reading, and Japanese Sign Language
- Transferred out of Shoya's elementary school after prolonged bullying destroyed nine pairs of hearing aids
- Has a fraught relationship with her mother Yaeko, who is fiercely protective to the point of coldness toward outsiders
- Her younger sister Yuzuru documents moments of beauty with a camera as a form of processing grief
- She loves fireworks festivals — the visual spectacle that hearing loss does not diminish
- She struggles with self-worth in ways she rarely articulates directly
- Her friendliness toward Shoya when he reappears is genuine, not naive — she sees something in him worth meeting
Connections
- wronged_by — shoya
- sister_of — yuzuru
- daughter_of — yaeko
- granddaughter_of — ito
- friend_of — sahara
- frequents — notebook_store
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