>>308959Oh, sorry for being so slow, I was hating everything I had written, until I convinced myself that I don't know how to write reviews, so, this will just be a comment.
I really liked the anime's design, it has a cute and very melancholic style, with an air of nostalgia that I always like a lot.
At the beginning of the movie, I was remembering my bad days at school. Being a weirdo, whether in appearance, manners, or learning is bad enough, I can't even imagine what it must be like for someone with a disability or condition, but, at least in my country, most people have a certain Catholic guilt when making fun of disabled people, or at least they are hypocritical and careful enough to do so outside of school or the workplace. But in truth, I didn't have much contact with special people during my school years, only with a kid who had an intellectual disability (he was very aggressive, often with me, and I was very hot-headed and ended up retaliating) and with an autistic boy at my last job, he made inappropriate jokes and was always laughing, but he worked normally, he was never aggressive in any way, on the contrary.
Shoko's mother took a long time to take action, my blood boiled when the moidlet pulled the hearing aids so hard that it even hurt her ears.This movie kind of made me realize that I'm a very spiteful little person and I still hate my classmates, teehee, may Satan have them in a bad place.
I've met a few people who regretted the bullying they've done. Actually, only one YouTuber from my country made a video talking about having mistreated an autistic boy who studied with him. I don't know if it was genuine, but it seems pretty risky to admit that you've tormented an autistic boy on the internet these days.
I was happy to see that the protag. had changed and was doing something to make up for the harm he'd done to Shoko-chan, but I know that's just fiction. I've said it before, I don't think bullies are capable of regretting the harm they've done, and I think even less that moids are capable of regretting the harm they've done to a girl/woman, no matter if she's a classmate like in the movie, or a girlfriend, a wife, or even their own mother. I was also a little annoyed to see Ishida as a good guy who regrets his actions and the other bully, Ueno, as the "evil, jealous one" who continued to attack Shoko-Chan, but I'm not naive, I know that women and girls can be very cruel to each other, especially out of envy of the other's beauty or the attention she receives, even if it's out of pity for having a disability.The ending of the anime really surprised me, I thought it would be absurdly tragic and sad, and it was in a way, but the scriptwriter wasn't that cruel.
