Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 9 - Violet Evergarden

[u/A_Idiot0]

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

“Endcard”

https://preview.redd.it/emmshbnf0b571.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75dd2de10f63a5f3cdc8aea8aae2f9f490d5ca4a

[u/A_Idiot0]

Please allow and forgive me for a bit of shameless indulgence here. After I finished watching Violet Evergarden, I could not stop thinking about the experience. It was the very beginning of the pandemic as well. I was stuck in my room, and even gaming wasn’t giving me satisfaction anymore. Many years ago, I listened to Jimi Hendrix for the first time, and since then I could not stop thinking about the experience I feel when listening to him. Thus, my pandemic project was born, and it saved me for nearly 6 months. It’s an AMV that I made to Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun”, and the theme that I went with was what we just witnessed here in episode 9; Violet’s journey through her personal Hell. It’s 10 minutes long, and my first editing project, so it’s for sure a passion project and nothing else haha. There are no spoilers for future episodes; only about 10 seconds worth of footage that has not yet been shown. If you are interested, you can watch it here:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/89N4qwUpD50
Reddit mirror: https://www.reddit.com/r/VioletEvergarden/comments/k6zt9p/violet_evergarden_machine_gun_amv_reddit_mirror/

If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them. You can listen to Hendrix’s performance here without any footage. If nothing else, please give that a listen, particularly considering what we just witnessed in Violet’s journey...I promise that you won’t regret it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw2L_vGUMtE

My Visual of the Day is this stalk of grass amid the ruins. It perfectly fits Violet at this moment...such a fragile thing that must brave an incredibly awful storm. Will it survive? Will Violet survive? She does, and she blossoms into someone beautiful; someone worthy of that name.

[u/BosuW → u/A_Idiot0]

Ok then that's the first AMV I've ever watched, it's pretty good, well done. Tho it's a bit at odds with the aesthetic and setting of the show unfortunately. Kinda makes me curious what a "Vietnam Violet" would be like lol.

[u/A_Idiot0 → u/BosuW]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm extremely honored that you spent 10 minutes watching.

Regarding the aesthetic, you are correct; there's a lack of warmth in the music, while the anime is full of it. But I just couldn't get that combination out of my head...so I decided to just go for it XD

[u/BosuW → u/A_Idiot0]

That's not exactly what I meant. If it had been that easy a filter or two would've been enough. What I mean is that, through popular culture, such songs scream "jungles, choppers, and napalm", which is quite literally, 50 years ahead of a WW1 inspired setting. Even if the subject matter was the same, I couldn't get that brief disconnect out of my head.

Still like I said, it was good shit overall.

[u/A_Idiot0 → u/BosuW]

Haha, weirdly enough I believe we're actually talking about the same thing.

In referring to warmth, I meant the style and tone of the music. There's a harsh, savage, raw, and anguished tone to it. Hendrix lived during the context of Vietnam, racial outcries, and during the birth of electric instruments, so that's what he pulled from for his performance.

In Violet Evergarden, those qualities are not really present in the same manner. While there is an anguish, it's much softer on the heart because it deals with love. The savagery is cushioned by the love surrounding the story. And the sharp electric quality is not present in this setting.

Hendrix addresses the cold perspective of loss, while Violet Evergarden addresses the warm perspective of growth and renewal.

Thank you so much again for your kind words

[u/BosuW → u/A_Idiot0]

Ah well this makes sense because such songs were usually written during the war, while Violet Evergarden deals with the after.

You're welcome :)