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A Silent Voice Anime Film Reveals Trailer, More Cast, New Visual

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Aoi Yūki, Kenshō Ono, Mayu Matsuoka, more join cast for film opening on September 17

The official website for Kyoto Animation's anime film adaptation of Yoshitoki Ōima's A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) manga revealed the film's trailer and a new visual on Thursday. The video previews AIKO's theme song "Ai wo Shita no wa" (Loving Is).

The website also revealed more of the film's cast and character designs.

Aoi Yūki as Yuzuru Nishiya


Kenshō Ono as Tomohiro Nagatsu


Yuki Kaneko as Naoka Ueno


Yui Ishikawa as Miyoko Sahara


Megumi Han as Miki Kawai


Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Toshi Mashibasa


Mayu Matsuoka as Shōya Ishida as an elementary school student

The cast joins the following main cast:

Miyu Irino (Mr. Osomatsu's Todomatsu, Seraph of the End's Yuichiro Hyakuya) as Shōya Ishida


Saori Hayami (Snow White with the Red Hair's Shirayuki, Bakuman.'s Miho Azuki) as Shōko Nishimiya


The film will open in Japan on September 17.

Naoko Yamada (Tamako Market, Tamako Love Story, K-ON's two anime seasons and anime film) is directing the film at Kyoto Animation. Reiko Yoshida (Non Non Biyori, K-ON!, Yowamushi Pedal) is writing the script, and Futoshi Nishiya (Free!, Hyōka, Nichijō) is designing the characters for animation. kensuke ushio (Space Dandy, Ping Pong) is composing the music at Pony Canyon. Shochiku will distribute the film.

Crunchyroll describes the original manga's story:

I wish we had never met. I wish we could meet once again.
A boy who can hear, Shoya Ishida, and a transfer student who can't, Shoko Nishimiya. One fateful day, the two meet, and Shoya leads the class in bullying Shoko. But before long, the class shifts its target from Shoko to Shoya. Years later, Shoya feels strongly that he must see Shoko once again.

Ōima began the manga as a one-shot in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2011, and then turned the story into a full series in the main Shonen Magazine in August 2013. Kodansha published the manga's final chapter in November 2014. Kodansha Comics published the seven-volume manga in print in North America. Crunchyroll released the series in English simultaneously as Kodansha published new chapters in Japan.


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