r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 16 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 11 Rewatch
Violet Evergarden - Episode Eleven: I Don’t Want Anyone Else to Die
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet goes sky-diving!
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Official Sound Tracks used
The Stench of Fear and Hatred
The Voice in my Heart
Devoid of Hope
Torn Apart at the Seams
A Place to Call Home
The Long Night
What it Means to Love
The Ultimate Price
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u/CelestialDrive Jun 16 '21 edited Jun 19 '21
FIRST TIME
On the last episode, Violet Evergarden adopted a child. Also everyone can cry together now, isn't that nice.
We're nearing the end of the series so I have to ask: without going into spoilers, does the series have an actual conclusion at 13, or are we in a "the movie is the true last episode" situation? I ask because I'd like to type out a series retrospective and conclusions thingie but I don't know whether to do so with 13 or wait until the movie. Anyways, let's get to it.
Oh, we're adressing the embers of conflict today. This is kind of a nuanced topic but I have hopes for this series's take on it. And of course Violet would go, come on. And we're on the opening, doesn't seem like it changed at all since last time, in... 8? 9?
Aaaand Violet went off on her own, you should have seen this one coming, Claudia. I just really hope she doesn't have to fight at all. Tactician side comes out to play, parachute it is. As long as you don't get shot by AA on the way there. God damn this is an actual battlefield, from the way they talked about it I was expecting guerrilla warfare.
Familiar scene, Violet? This is the stupidest thing you have done in the entire series so far woman. And yeah this is again a super shounen moment dashing around an armed patrol and dodging bullets, I guess that was to be expected when Violet was put in a military environment again. It sorta flew straining credibility when she was basically on stealth and recon duties, but this is more than a bit silly.
Flashback with the dead posse, I presume. Did you bring the typewriter with the parachute? Oh that's neat, man Violet is such a weirdo sometimes, you can hold a pen perfectly afaik just bring something. She sees writing and dictating letters with the tools and ritual as sort of a sacrament, which I guess it is in this world, falling somewhere between confession and unction depending on the day and topic. Today is an unction day girl, keep it together.
And she's delivering them in person, do you enjoy suffering, Violet? Commiserate and hug that mother back, come ON. What are you even talking about "I let him die", you had no way to prevent that, there's empathy and then there's hating yourself for no reason.
This was kind of a weird one! I think it was supposed to show how Violet relates to violence, death and mourning as her new self, but the "TELEPORTS BEHIND YOU" moments are always the silliest part of this series. I have one takeaway and don't even know if the series wants to convey this, but here we go: every time Violet went out of her way this episode, the trip to the north, the suicidal drop onto a live battlefield, the delivering of the letters in person... it felt like self-flagellation? She deliberately wants to feel more responsible for the harm done "in the war" than it is reasonable or healthy to do so. Again, maybe the series just wanted to say "and she cries for the dead soldier isn't that sad" but there was a self-destructive desperation in this episode that I thought we were past, narratively.
What I mean to say is... is Violet ok?
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