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The staff working on A Silent Voice, an anime adaptation announced in November 2014, has been revealed. K-On! The Movie and Tamako Love Story director Naoko Yamada has been appointed to direct. Kyoto Animation will be in charge of the animation.
Kyoto Animation has worked on a variety of series including The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Hibike! Euphonium, and Free, and is popular among anime fans as a talented studio.
Additionally, alongside this announcement, comments from the director, Yamada, and the author of the original work, Yoshitoki Ooima, were also released. Expectations are high for many original theatrical releases from Kyoto Animation.
A Silent Voice was chosen for the 80th Weekly Shonen Magazine Best Rookie Manga Award in 2008. After that, Yoshitoki Ooima’s work appeared in the February 2011 and December 2013 issues of Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha), and the manga was published from 2013 to 2014. It captured everyone’s attention with its theme of deafness, winning awards like the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize New Creator Prize, the Comic Natalie Grand Prize, as well as the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2015 1st place ranking.
Naoko Yamada, directing this anime, had her first role as a director in 2008 for the TV anime K-On! It caught everyone’s attention with the lighthearted interactions between the female members of the light music club, as well as the exciting concert scenes, and in 2011 she worked on K-On! The Movie. After that, she earned high praise as a young creator through achievements like winning the 18th Annual Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Art Festival Newcomer Rookie of the Year Award in the animation division for her work in 2014 on Tamako Love Story. Yamada also caught everyone’s eye in 2015 with her work as the series director for the TV anime Sound! Euphonium in 2015.
Kyoto Animation is in charge of the animation. All eyes are on this as their newest high-quality work. Details like the release date for the film, cast, and production staff are planned to be released at any time.
[Katsunori Takahashi]
[Staff Comments]
Yoshitoki Ooima, Original Author:
“I think there are many things that can’t be expressed outside of anime. How will this turn out? I’m looking forward to seeing it.
I told a lot of stories in the manga about my own family and friends and people close to me, and about people I’m not close to at all, but for the anime, I think this will be a work that everyone will recognize as my story.
I hope that it will be A Silent Voice that’s familiar to even more people, and I think that the director, Yamada, will be able to make something that will surprise people beyond what you can imagine. I’m excited for it.”
Naoko Yamada, Director:
“It’s nice to meet you. I’m the director, Yamada. The way of expressing what you want to understand about other people, and what you try to understand, comes in many different shapes for each and every person.
I want to keep on searching for hope with Shoya and the others through this work.
Source: animeanime
Source article written by Katsunori Takahashi
