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Takao said staff in their 20s and 30s worked with everything they had and clashed with one another to make the film under director Naoko Yamada.","whyItMatters":"A decade on, the account from inside the production puts the film's reputation down to a young Kyoto Animation crew arguing over scenes rather than to a settled house method.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eTakao joined Kyoto Animation in 2004, the same year as Yamada, and the two worked together on Lucky Star, Nichijou, Free! and Sound! Euphonium before A Silent Voice. At the greeting he recalled disagreeing with Yamada on certain scenes and said those creative clashes produced strong results.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also described a production problem: animators struggled to capture the exact demeanor of protagonist Shoya Ishida, so the team recorded reference video of a staff member whose natural posture resembled the character\u0026#39;s, which guided various scenes. Takao praised character designer Futoshi Nishiya\u0026#39;s work for not aging over the past decade.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Kazuya Takao's account puts the friction inside the room: A Silent Voice was made by staff in their 20s and 30s who argued with each other under Naoko Yamada, not by a settled veteran unit.","twitterPost":"Kazuya Takao describes A Silent Voice staff clashing with each other under Naoko Yamada, a young team arguing the film into shape.","threadsPost":"Kazuya Takao's recollection of A Silent Voice is about friction, not harmony: staff in their 20s and 30s clashed with one another while working under Naoko Yamada. Youth was the resource, and disagreement was how the film got made.","newsletterBlurb":"Kazuya Takao spoke at a Tokyo stage greeting tied to A Silent Voice's 10th-anniversary re-release and Dolby Cinema run. The Kyoto Animation director of photography said young staff argued over scenes and that those clashes produced strong results. 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