There has always been a lot of controversy about the anime "The Shape of Sound", especially for those who have only seen animated movies and no manga, always think that this is an animation about school bullying, after all, more than half of the animation is about this related theme.
In fact, if you have read the manga, you will know that there is still a long period of time between the opening of the heart of the male protagonist of the animation and the male and female protagonists holding hands to go to the coming-of-age ceremony, and some of the problems reflected in this are the themes that the whole article wants to express. But the problem of school bullying is indeed one of the themes of this anime, and it is also a big opportunity to promote the development of the plot.
So if you just look at the animation, you can think of it as an animation that reflects the problems of the campus. Although the plot in the animation is somewhat exaggerated, the disabled heroine has been bullied by many people, and it seems that some two-dimensional idealization, but in fact, the three-dimensional problem is much more serious than this problem.
If you pay regular attention to the news, you will find that from time to time an event such as this will be exposed, and then it is likely to disappear after a while. The problem of bullying in schools exists not only in our country, but also in a widespread problem around the world.
Not long ago, there was a very regrettable school bullying incident in Japan. A 14-year-old girl from Asahikawa City, Hirose Shinsei, was found frozen to death in a park in Hokkaido, nearly a month after she actually lost her life. The tragedy was caused by the fact that the weather was around minus 17 degrees Celsius and that it was snowing heavily.
And with the long-missing she was found, a series of school bullying incidents were implicated behind it. Shuangcai was threatened by two men and a woman (senior sister) to take photos and videos since junior high school, followed by a series of bullying incidents. We know that the more we compromise on such a situation, the worse the other side will become.
When all this was learned by her mother, her mother had gone to the school for help many times, only to be prevaricated by the school for various reasons and eventually led to the tragedy of the present. When she disappeared, her family once offered a reward of 1.5 million yuan to find her, but they did not expect such a result. However, the result was that due to insufficient evidence, the three bullies only received verbal warnings, and the matter was not resolved.
When I heard about this event and then looked at "The Shape of Sound", I found that the things shown in the animation were not exaggerated at all, and they were much better than the three-dimensional dimension.
In reality, I believe that many people will encounter bullying when they are young (I have also encountered it myself), and perhaps there are few miserable people like Shuangcai, but the problems reflected in this matter should be taken seriously.
Although there are many characters with a strong sense of justice in Japanese anime, the real situation is likely to be like the passers-by described in the crossing ban, "hanging high without concern". Although the direct cause of the misery of Shuangcai is the behavior of the bully and the single-parent family behind her, but the conscience of those bystanders, schools, teachers and classmates really does not hurt at all.
I believe that if there really was a plot like "Hell Girl", Shuangcai might have chosen to land on hell girl's website a long time ago (or her mother would do the same). But when people turn a blind eye to the misery of others, think that more is better than less, and even like her class teacher has already shirked responsibility within her own category, then the tragedy will be like beating the drum and passing flowers, and no one knows whose turn will be by whom.