Your Name vs A Silent Voice: which one actually made you cry harder?

• R

  Riley2w ago

  The bridge scene in Silent Voice vs the staircase scene in Your Name. State your allegiance.

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• L

  Liam2w ago

  A Silent Voice cuts deeper because it's about real pain — bullying, guilt, the desire to disappear. Your Name is gorgeous but it's fantasy. Silence wins.

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• A

  Alex2w ago

  Your Name has the better ending. A Silent Voice has the better message. Pick your poison, both leave a mark.

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• M2

  Morgan 212w ago

  Your Name's twilight scene is the most beautiful three minutes ever animated and I won't be debating that.

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• IT

  Iris T.2w ago

  Your Name is hope. A Silent Voice is healing. I sobbed at both but only one made me text someone I'd hurt years ago.

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• N2

  Noah 212w ago

  A Silent Voice tackled disability and suicide with more grace than most live-action 'serious' films. It's not even a competition.

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• NR

  Noah R.2w ago

  Your Name is a 10. A Silent Voice is an 11 that I can only watch once a year because it wrecks me.

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• M

  Morgan2w ago

  Silent Voice made me confront how I treated a kid in school. No movie has a right to do that to a grown adult.

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• D

  Diego2w ago

  The X on the faces in A Silent Voice falling away is the single best visual metaphor in any anime film. It destroyed me.

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• AS

  Avery S.2w ago

  I watched Your Name on a first date and we both ugly-cried. We're married now. That film has POWER.

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• Y

  Yuki2w ago

  Both are masterpieces but only one of them I had to pause to go lie on the floor. (It was A Silent Voice.)

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• HR

  Hana R.2w ago

  Shinkai makes you cry over what could have been. Naoko Yamada makes you cry over what already happened. Different wounds entirely.

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