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Something that frustrates me about A Silent Voice is that it has become tikokified..
Of course, you can see it and want to watch/read it, but then I see people completely mischaracterize them. Sad to say, especially Shoya - they're making him out to be this completely innocent and socially awkward guy, and then saying "so relatable" when they don't even understand why he became the person he was.
Shoya bullied Shouko, therefore, he felt the insane guilt and regret weighing on him. He made mistakes, obviously repented for them in the future, and tried fixing things he broke - he was a kid, after all.
He felt guilty; that's why he distanced himself from others. Because he knew he made mistakes, he thought he deserved all the bad things happening to him - not because he was just socially awkward from the start, but because guilt ran deep in his blood.
He couldn’t look others in the eye because he felt regret and fear of being seen as the bully from the past.
But this is just my take on it, take it lightly. It just irks me when such well-written characters get turned into something they aren’t.
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