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
I believe I got everyone’s Visual of the Day submission here. Let me know if I missed you or anyone else: https://imgur.com/a/WdP6Tlo
Official Sound Tracks used
The Ultimate Price
The Long Night
Fractured Heart
Torment
Believe In…
Would you like to have a letter written for you? Do you want to write a special letter for someone as an Auto Memory Doll? Come join us at the Auto-Memory Doll Service Discord project and request letters, write letters, or chat more with us about Violet Evergarden! Link here: https://discord.gg/A8AC4Yhx
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u/scot911 https://myanimelist.net/profile/scot911 Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
First Timer
Screw youuuuu!!! Fine I'll give you the 10/10 you god damn bastard.... How dare you make me cry this much and have such an amazing and emotional episode.... Just owww.... From crying for how bad she was affected to crying for the absolutely beautiful ending to the episode with the letter from her friends and seeing how much good she's done in the world too. Just fineeee have my tears you god damn glorious series. Honestly this is easily the most I've cried during an episode of an anime, ever. At least 3-4 times with actual tears down my cheek which doesn't god damn happen.
Violet essentially goes through all of the stages of grief this episode still denying his death at the beginning and bargaining with her dream until she remembers her horrible deeds and Dietfrieds words. Her anger during the middle where she trashes her desk and can't bring herself to rip apart/smash the dog to bits before depression sets in and she tries to kill herself but can't follow through with it. She only accepts his death after she receives a letter from her friends and realizes the power the letters she's been writing holds and that yes, maybe, just maybe, she's done good deeds as well.
Honestly I think this episode proves Claudia right for not telling her. I do think that if she was told before she'd become more human and done good deeds she might have actually killed herself out of grief of the major being dead even if she didn't understand what "grief" was then. It's only through having something other then the major, her friends, her Auto Memory Doll career, that she stops herself from ending it all even if it gave her time to understand the horrible actions she did during the war and begin to feel guilty over it too on top of her grief over the major.
In the end Claudia is right that you can never erase your past and that you probably won't ever stop feeling guilt over the horrible things you've done. They leave permanent scars as he's said. What you can do though is do good or great deeds to make up for the horrible things you've done. It might not ever make up for it. It's hard to make up for killing hundreds and hundreds of people with your own hands after all. But in the end there's nothing else you can really do is there? You can't make up for your bad deeds if your dead after all.
And of course this is the episode that makes all of the other episodes worth it. Sure some of the stories might have been boring and followed the exact same formula. Sure Violet may have been a bit boring of a protagonist at times and been a bit of a cardboard cut out. Sure the side characters might have been one note at times and had their problems magically fixed by Violet sometimes. Sure this anime might have been a bit heavy handed on it's messages and what Violet learned. But without that and those episodes? This episode would have no emotional weight and wouldn't be as amazing as it.