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Last month, I watched an anime movie on Netflix called "A Silent Voice", which is about a former-bully who tries to redeem himself by making amends with a deaf girl he bullied. It's a pretty emotional movie, and it's beautifully animated as well.

As I watched the movie, Shouko (the deaf girl) reminded me of two other deaf characters I've encountered. Those two would be Dougie (from "Bluey") and Jackie (from "Craig of the Creek"). While I've only seen a few episodes of Bluey and I don't watch Craig of the Creek, clips featuring Dougie and Jackie appeared in my recommended. Maybe if Shouko met them, she would be in good company and all three of them would hang out even though their respective sign languages might be different from each other.

BTW, just to be clear, all of them are signing "I Love You" in American Sign Language. I tried to look for the hand sign for that in Auslan and Japanese Sign Language, but I couldn't really find them.

Anyway, while I am hearing, I'm glad that there's more deaf representation in recent animation. It's a good way of showing people what happens in deaf communities and what challenges deaf people face.

Shouko belongs to Kyoto Animtion/Yoshitoki Oima
Dougie belongs to Ludo Studio/Joe Brumm
Jackie belongs to Cartoon Network/Matt Burnett & Ben Levin

DO NOT TRACE AND/OR STEAL!

Description
Last month, I watched an anime movie on Netflix called "A Silent Voice", which is about a former-bully who tries to redeem himself by making amends with a deaf girl he bullied. It's a pretty emotional movie, and it's beautifully animated as well.

As I watched the movie, Shouko (the deaf girl) reminded me of two other deaf characters I've encountered. Those two would be Dougie (from "Bluey") and Jackie (from "Craig of the Creek"). While I've only seen a few episodes of Bluey and I don't watch Craig of the Creek, clips featuring Dougie and Jackie appeared in my recommended. Maybe if Shouko met them, she would be in good company and all three of them would hang out even though their respective sign languages might be different from each other.

BTW, just to be clear, all of them are signing "I Love You" in American Sign Language. I tried to look for the hand sign for that in Auslan and Japanese Sign Language, but I couldn't really find them.

Anyway, while I am hearing, I'm glad that there's more deaf representation in recent animation. It's a good way of showing people what happens in deaf communities and what challenges deaf people face.

Shouko belongs to Kyoto Animtion/Yoshitoki Oima
Dougie belongs to Ludo Studio/Joe Brumm
Jackie belongs to Cartoon Network/Matt Burnett & Ben Levin

DO NOT TRACE AND/OR STEAL!