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I haven’t been this moved since I read Bitter Virgin(which I also recommend, link HERE). Manga comics has always been better at telling a serious and bittersweet story than European and American comics. I’m surprised by the lack of sucker-coated story telling, but I shouldn’t really be by now.

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Maybe Ishida has to learn how to forgive himself?

But Shoko, surprisingly enough, does not hold a grudge. Not because he expect to be forgiven, but simply because its the only decent and right thing to do. Ishida feels that it is his fault that Shoko’s life suck, and he does all he can to make up for the damage he believe he alone caused her. It’s not about bullying being wrong(well, that too), but about two people, both suffering of lack of self-respect as a result of all the crap they had to face in their very young life. This story was actually not as preachy as I thought it would be. He has a dept to pay to his former victim.īut it had a sort-of happy ending, though. … And he realizes that he can’t kill himself. He learns how to speak sign language, tracks her down… But not before he can apologize to Shoko. As he feels his existence is meaningless, both for himself and the rest of the world, he decides to end his pathetic life. Six years later, Ishida now lives in a zombie-like state, ignoring the world around him. All his classmates turned on him, claiming that it was him and only him, making him the target of bullying, not only by his fellow students, but his teacher as well. And, just to make it worse, Ishida ended up shouldering all the blame. But eventually, the children’s cruelty went too far. He was not alone in tormenting her, pretty much the entire class was teasing her, especially because they feel that she was slowing them down during classes. When he was a kid, he was bullying a deaf girl named Shoko.