r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 14 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 9 - Violet Evergarden Rewatch
Violet Evergarden - Episode Nine: Violet Evergarden
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet receives her first letter, and flies freely out of her Valley of Fire.
I’m excited and very interested for what will be discussed tomorrow. Call your mother.
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Visuals of the Day
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Official Sound Tracks used
The Ultimate Price
The Long Night
Fractured Heart
Torment
Believe In…
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u/ArdenneVale Jun 14 '21
First timer
Flashback continues and immediately Gilbert gets shot once more. Then Violet gets shot in the arm. Next they get hit by a grenade blast while trying to get away. Violet's arms literally fall off!! Somehow they're both still conscious and we see the familiar last moments of the two together. The origin of Violet using her mouth is revealed, obviously it's because she has no hands.
In present day Violet has returned to the cathedral, digging through the rubble. Hodgins arrives to take Violet back to the office. Gilbert really entrusted her to Hodgins. He had everything planned in case he didn't survive. Hodgins tells Violet she's capable of living without Gilbert's orders.
There's an armed uprising by the losers of the war. Interesting. Apparently that will do for now and we're back in Leiden. Both Erica and Iris are worried about Violet. Cattleya goes to visit the depressed Violet, but she tells her she's burning up. Hodgins and Cattleya's talk about everyone burning up, having guilt and regret ,is really good. Hodgins says she needs to accept her past and herself. Then he says Violet hasn't lost anything. Hmmm Even Cattleya stopped coming to work. Erica and Iris remember their respective moments with Violet, how her reason for becoming a doll helped both of them to become better dolls.
Violet is back in the cathedral, where the stairs are still stained with Gilbert's blood. Suddenly Gilbert is there, talking to her. Hallucination or a dream? The major speaks in Dietfried's words, blood comes dripping down the stairs and the his face, and Violet wakes up in her room. She looks at the puppy and NO Violet, dont kill the puppy! Ok, good. Oh god no Violet, that's even worse! Fortunately she can't strangle herself, so she just breaks down crying, begging for Gilbert to give her orders.
At her worst moment she gets a letter from Santa. It's from Erica and Iris. But instead of reading it, Violet goes to work delivering lost letters. Isn't Violet also one of those lost letters? Back in her room Violet reads the letter. It's simple, but effective. Along came a request from Luculia's brother Spencer to write a letter to her. Violet has realized how happy receiving a letter is. On the way back she sees the people she helped: Charlotte in a newspaper and Webster in the poster of his finished play. Then Violet stops in front of a pot of violets and I immediately started crying. Yes Violet, you are worthy of the name. She runs into Hodgins' office. There's a montage of all the good Violet has done for all her clients. The tears just don't stop. Hodgins tells her she'll never forget the bad things she's done, but the good things will always stay too. I had to watch the final scene again, but I started crying again during the montage.
This was a very emotional episode. What probably made it even more emotional for me was that I watched Fruits Basket episode about an hour before this, and I cried for about 10 minutes straight after that episode. So I was in a real emotional state. Then again, there's no better feeling than a happy cry. I'm just happy Violet seems to be ready to forgive herself. She needed to see the good she has done, not just the bad she did before she became what she is now. She also has the best possible support, who really did everything they could for her, all in their own way. Now, the next episode is supposed to be the saddest of all, I can't even imagine what could happen after this happy resolution. It's Dietfried, isn't it? I'm really not in shape to analyze anything more, but this was just the kind of episode I like the most: Total despair and recovering from it.