**Warning, some spoilers of the first few chapters will appear, nothing big but be warned!**

Well if your here that means that you are unsure whether to read this manga, you are looking for someone to explain to you why is there such a hype over this? To tell you the truth i don't know, i read the manga while waiting for the movie to come out and while i was reading it i just found my self drawn in to it.
Now i will point ot a few flaws that to me didn't make me give this manga a perfect ten, but non the less for me this is a must read.


- Ok we all been to school(some of you are still going) and we all seen, experienced, witnessed, did or tried to stop some sort of bullying. There are weaker kids, those that will pick on someone to make them self look stronger, those that will point out the flaws in others for a few laughs or trying to hide there own flaws and shortcomings.
And there are those that suffer, those that are picked on by others. The victims of the some times harsh life off a school kid. They can fight, run, hide, join others on bullying someone else so every one would leave them alone. Some times it's just to hard and they decide to change school or stop coming all together.
But that's not all, we talked about the few kids in a classroom that are directly involved. What about the rest, those that stand aside and do nothing? Or better yet just join in for the laughs and give support to the bully by doing so. Are they to blame, should they all stand up together and stop it?

Any way sorry for that but those are the main questions in this manga, and you will get to hear all sides of the story.

- Koe no Katachi is not a typical school slice of life manga. It's not all that happy, and for every moment you enjoy it it will give ten times more anger and sadness to overcome. We start the manga whit Shouya Ishida who is on a dally quest to fight against boredom. He jumps of bridges, get's into fights, doesn't really try to understand feelings of others. (he is the bully)
Then one day he hears a new transfer student is coming to his class. And on stage comes Nishimiya Shouko. A deaf girl. When she try's to be friendly towards the class Shouya doesn't really get it and starts picking on her. When he sees that the Nishimiya is still being nice to him and trying to get along he gets even more confused and starts to dedicate all of his school time to picking on Nishimiya. He starts destroying her things, writing insults and even gets physical...
To make the maters worse rest of the class and the sensei don't even seem to be trying to stop him. In the end Nishimiya is forced to transfer schools and all of the blame falls on Shouya.

Next we follow Shouya enter high school as a shut in kid, he doesn't have a single friend and has decided to end his life after he apologises to people he hurt the most.

For the rest read the manga!

- Now one of the main things that i didn't like about it is that Nishimiya dose not get any real depth. Most of the support characters on the other hand have been done like this was a much longer manga.
The story it self is so real and down to earth, and yet so exciting and at times so uplifting and so horrible and tragic at other. The artist really did mange to bring the pain of the characters to the reader. You hate some guys, then love them, then hate them again...
The story it self is great, but the way it was told is something that for me is the best part of this work.

- The art is standard for '13, it conveys the story to the full and is consistent throughout the whole manga. Nothing new or ground breaking, but on the other hand just right and perfectly fitted in to the story.

- Characters are great, for a 64 chapter manga they have an amazing depth. You get to know to motives of most of the characters to the end, and you don't hate them that much because you get to know them as human beings. On the other hand the shortness of 64 chapters is the "double edge sword" of this story. For me that's the only down side of this manga, that you don't get to know anything that's not essential to the plot. And the unfairness of Nishimiyas lack of story?!

- Enjoyment... well if i didn't have to go to work i would have read this in one go. It just pulls you in as the reader. You will want to know what happens next, why did he or she do what they did, how will something end? Enjoyment is a pure 10/10, i really didn't have such a fulfilling read for a long time!

- Overall this is a must read, i really rarely bother to even think to write a review and only a few times did i actually bother to write on. Koe no Katachi got me that inspired! For me now there is only to wait for the movie to come out, for those of you that haven't read it... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!?