I love this movie and the writing and the plot is outstanding, but there is a sign of something close to home for me personally, well you see on my right ear I am like 10% hearable, and the over 90% is all gone making me like half deaf and the way that they bully the main character is so similar to what i experienced in school because I hade a hearing aid like on the bone behind the ear because there is a hole behind my right ear and I had like lost of operations when I was little like 13 or 14 years ago I'm 15 now but this one made me cry because of how close it is to be deaf but I can hear alright but not great I don't ware that hearing aid anymore because it bugged me on my head and was bullied for a while and had like a number of threats to break or smash the hearing aid and had a number of people tried to kill me by poring water down my ear witcvh could kill me because the infection can start again and go into my brain and could be really brain dammaged or dead so i am luck to say but this movie is one of the most best anime films i have seen for a while so i do recomend it for people who like sad and depressing anime.