As a teenager, Ishida has spent his school years in complete social isolation and has come to hate himself. Shortly after this event, Nishimiya transfers out of the class and Ishida resigns to his fate as a social outcast. While not alone in this act, when Ishida points out to the teacher that the rest of the class was just as complicit in bullying Nishimiya as he was, the class ostracizes him and begins bullying him, as well. Ishida actively bullies her as a way to impress his peers, and in an act of childish cruelty, he winds up stealing and destroying her hearing aids. She makes up for this shortcoming by trying to be overly selfless and helpful so that she won’t be a burden to her class, but eventually the other students begin to resent her. We quickly learn that Nishimiya is a girl who is deaf and is unable to properly communicate with any of the students around her. The story is told completely through Ishida’s perspective. The first volume of A Silent Voice introduces us to two grade school children, Shoko Nishimiya and Shoya Ishida.
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