I love oregairu, Its my favourite romance anime. This video was so good and made me understand everything in this anime even better than when i watched it a few months ago. Thank you for all the work that u put into making that video, it was amazing. And to anyone reading that commnent - hade a great day.
I liked your essay, but I disagree completely with you mentioning Hachiman having a romantic dynamic with Yukinoshita all the way throughout the show. Everybody's referring to the scene where she tended to his bruise, but there's nothing there at all, just ackward people being ackward. He had similar scenes with Totsuka, even Yuigahama. Not to mention the only person Hachiman is displaying repetitive hints of having some sort of a crush on - actually being a dude. Don't get me wrong, the chemistry between the main duo is there, but it was mutual admiration and respect growing, not romance. In other words, more of a Mulder/Scully dynamic. The thing WW decided to bring them together (imho) was a hastily-made decision in order to conclude the story so that people who tend to automatically ship the protagonist with the main girl of the show would be satisfied. It's amusing how people see what they wanna see.
I rewatched this after 4 years and now I realize wow this movie has a lot of self blame, especially Ishida. When people tell him he's the problem, he just accepts it. You gotta have really terrible depression to openly accept everything everyone says about you even when its false.
Ill watch this later, but man what u described about the main charater is eerely similair and relatable on how i see the world and how i have 0 friends, its crazy
I don't see many people using secondary sources in video essays, so I really enjoyed this. It's clear how much effort went into this video, from the research to the script and the editing. I don't think any other movie has resonated with me as much as A Silent Voice did. This might sound strange, but I've been in both Shoko's and Shoya's shoes. That moment when Shoya's classmates turned on him after he got in trouble hit me hard. Feeling disgusted with himself, trying to be a better person but fearing that he was sentenced to loneliness... I'd never related to a character so much before. I came across this movie not long after becoming a Christian, and I felt like this was God's confirmation that I was forgiven. On Christmas, I sent a letter of apology to the person I had wronged, and I was able to move on. The guilt doesn't just go away, but it's amazing that God knows me better than anyone and still loves me. A Silent Voice shows us that no matter what we've been through or what we've done, our past does not define us. So don't give up on others and don't give up on yourself, because God will never give up on you.
This anime does something to me every time i watch it. I change as a person every time even after 10+ rewatches. thank you for going so in-depth about the sgow i love so much!
(This is my experience of being an 11-15 year old who has utilised my mental health [the issues include, anxiety that can render me disabled, severe depression, and suicidal ideation) to control someone, if that is too intense for you then do not read.) In late 2020 or early 2021 (or when I was 6-10) I had an argument months in the making with someone who I know know is my crush (my experience with said crush is toxic and troublesome, this is not because it is a queer love but because of the internalised homophobia, self loathing, and mental illness of myself) and who is my first friend. How that argument ended went something like this: She went quiet and I took the opportunity to say “You make me wish I was a dead clam.” and it soon ended after that, I do not remember what happened besides that one moment. All I know is that we stayed friends. I haven’t felt like a good person since, I don’t know if I ever did feel like a good person. Maybe it’s a result of the fact of me having had anxiety and depression for as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s just been festering over the past years to the point where I wanna kill myself, the only reasons I didn’t in 2023 (early 2023) was because I told a teacher that I almost started self harm in a casual way, and I didn’t wanna leave the people caring about me thinking they could’ve stopped me from killing myself. Maybe if I hadn’t have gotten worse and stopped being human I wouldn’t want to start hurting myself and I wouldn’t have ideas related to killing myself. I dunno, I know what it feels like to think that someone killed themself, though we weren’t really friends then we are now, I don’t want them to hurt. I don’t think I want to see people hurt, I don’t think I want to hurt people. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to do either.
Every season has 1 ova each and i recommend you to watch all of them. 3d season's ova gave a better and with no gaps left ending and it was truly a masterpiece go watch it and the ending will seem much better than before
Just seeing all the reasons why Hachiman was genuinely more interested and invested with Yukino hurt me on a deep level as a lowly Yui fan. Just like Yui i just got to grit my teeth and know that it was never meant to be 🥲
16:41 your wrong mc lost the ability to understand some pain don't stop at him. Shit rolls down hill and he is at the bottom simply put no one can care for him it can not happen.
The fact that he and yui spend most of the time together but he still chose yukino...he even once said that conversing with her was comfortable and thats something he cannot get with nice girls
During the Kyoto incident, Hachiman was right all along. Both Yukinoshita and Yuigahama are aware of what his solutions are yet they just let him do it. What's worse is that they acted like he was the one who hurt them. It's like when there was an assigned group project in which they didn't really help, only to complain when the output is not what they desired to be.
