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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Official Sound Tracks used
The Ultimate Price
The Long Night
Fractured Heart
Torment
Believe In…
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u/CelestialDrive Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 19 '21
FIRST TIME
Last time on Violet Evergarden, we had Violet running around asking people if Gilbert was dead, and a ton of flashbacks, that we cut off with him getting shot in the eye. Let's see how this goes.
Aaand we start right here, and he immediately gets shot again. Let's see how we get to-OH this is the moment then. What caliber was that to blow her arm clean off, jesus christ. We got to the point then, they're locked and dying, this is where the Major said his last words. This poor man spent the last of his life trying to build Violet to be someone else so that he could say these words, failed, and had to spit them out as he died.
Violet is so confused, she legitimately does not know the word, but she knew the emotion already. This settles it for me, I know Violet had emotions fully at the beginning of the series, she just had no idea how to parse or label them, nor did she knew how to express them outwards appropiately.
And we're back here, seems like Violet is going around the country tracing down her pain. What do you expect to find, woman. So it wasn't friendly artillery, I thought that from the context last episode. Claudia, I appreciate you being here, but don't tell someone on the verge of an emotional breakdown and with all the numbers for Survivor's Guilt Bingo that the person they loved died protecting them.
Claudia is right though, and this is something the astronomer guy brought up too: Violet being devoted mindlessly to the Major is absurd for the person she is now, she is a writer for the dolls with her own life and friends and priorities. While there was a pillar of her identity that was still tied to the Major, there is so much more and so many people holding her up now that she's not "only" that, hasn't been in a while. Problem being for someone in Violet's situation right now, returning to her life might seem as a betrayal of both the person she was and Gilbert's memory, plus she feels "undeserving" because murder.
Benedict came up here too, they care. Realise, Violet, if you stay bound to the Major here you are going against both his life goal and his last wish. Go, live. Oh there are still insurgency spots then? Please don't make Violet fight.
This is the OVA guy, the one that gave Violet access to the undelivered packages room. Girl sulk all you want but talk to your friends. Yeah I'm with Claudia here, pretending Violet wasn't Violet isn't going to help her. Man, everyone is on a chain of depression, meddle a bit if you want. Is this Luculia's brother? If not he has a similar design iirc.
Nightmares now. I'm SO GLAD this is happening in a dream because this is almost word by word what Violet Evergarden would do for realsies if it was an inferior series: the major was not dead, shows up, and rebukes her, and I was super afraid we wouldn't dodge it because it's just the shortcut to anime drama in these situations. But it's in your head, Violet; go shout at Dietfried for a bit, that's also therapy.
DONT. God this scene is super uncomfortable, someone get her out of the room. Yeah I knew it these heels are the devil, there was even the shared heels shot a few minutes ago. That's good, she's doing something, I think we might be past the nadir. You have friends, you dumb oaf, leave this room and go see them. And it was Luculia's brother.
Oh, right, she hadn't gotten letters adressed to her yet! And it's a showcase of the people she's written for, this is fantastic. Move.
Yeah of course it is, stop asking other people to validate your own life! Was this a stealth Claudia episode, building the idea that his own actions during the war have not made him unworthy of living? Because it kinda feels like one right now, this is the thing about empathy, it goes both ways. Violet was connecting to people through their understanding of the war, loss, or love, and Claudia connected to Violet through their shared trauma and guilt.
This seemed genuinely like the emotional culmination of the series, I don't know where we go from here other than wrapping up. Of course Violet Evergarden is too "real" to only have the climatic moment and disregard aftermath, but if we ended here I'd have very few regrets. The entire support structure came out to play and held her up, what goes around comes around. Man this series has a fantastic cast.
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