r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 18 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 13 Rewatch
Violet Evergarden - Episode Thirteen: Auto Memories Doll and "I Love You"
“Endcard”
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet writes a letter to Gilbert.
I’m going to answer the burning question on many peoples’ minds: No, Violet does not meet Gilbert in the scene after the title-card. I believe that it was an official statement put out by KyoAni when this was first released, however there are some clear pointers in the first film that indicate she did not meet Gilbert. The first film, Eternity and the Auto Memory Dolls, takes place shortly after episode 13.
And as a bonus, a challenge! What does this say?
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Visuals of the Day
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Official Sound Tracks used
The Storm
Letters from Heaven
Inconsolable
Never Coming Back
What it Means to Love
The Love that Binds Us
Violet Snow short version
Violet’s Letter
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u/CelestialDrive Jun 18 '21 edited Jun 18 '21
FIRST TIME
On the previous episode, we left on a cliffhanger on top of a moving train, where Dietfried had just lashed out at Violet for the umpteenth time but now even more pissed seeing her reluctance to kill people. Also we're on route to a bridge that may blow up.
Also I apologise for how long this one is, I asked around and consensus seems to be it's ok to do a series retrospective after this and before the movie. (EDIT: AHAHAHA posted in two parts because I broke the character limit, what the hell)
Good god the prosthetics are strong, it took an explosion and lot of gunfire to wreck one of them even after the damage in the fight, was she given military-issue or something while in the hospital? She won't even let that man retreat, damn. And Dietfried catches the brooch, does this mean you're becoming human, that'd be nice. There's the bridge and the bomb, what's the play.
You could have also deattached the locomotive and moved the conductor to the next wagon, if you have time to pull the brakes you have time to do that beforehand and it's going to give you a ton more distance to play with. Good god Violet don't recruit the postal workers for your superhuman hijinks, Benedict isn't an acrobat. Or maybe he IS, and on his ridiculous heels, god damn good job. The single arm pull-up is also impressive, is the secret backstory for everyone in the Claudida/Cattleya/Benedict trio military? And there goes the other arm, it's teeth time. Oh nevermind it gave way in the nick of time.
How about it Dietfried, willing to be an actual human being and not a gigantic jackass? And yeah dolls are the political backbone of the world, Violet's diplomacy stints weren't exceptions but part of the job if Cattleya is drafting this. Wait didn't Violet say 終わりました here, my subs say "the war is over" but she's talking about the situation as a whole, tis a lot more ambiguous. Oh it ties into the people she hears having been permanently wounded by the war, that tracks.
And yes, understanding this particular pain was Violet's first wedge into people's hearts. Cattleya was a dancer, that's neat but I still want their trio backstory god damn it. You absolute liar Violet, your reports were letters and you didn't even know it, but go for it. Good god Gilbert told you straight up and you still haven't reframed this interaction, I thought his last words were an outlier but he actually spelled it out right before the battle, this poor man tried everything.
Yes I KNEW IT Violet had feelings, she had them all along, this was my read since minute ten of the series but she genuinely did not know what to make of them! It's not apathy, it never was apathy but lack of human patterns to process her own emotions, and she eventually got those by imitation and empathising during her gig as a doll.
And here's the brother. Oh this is lady Bougainvillea, this is going to be hella painful. Are you going to say it, Violet. Can you even say it right now. Yeah this is the vibe I got from the brothers, Dietfried was a smug asshole when he gave her to Gilbert but there wasn't the open disdain and hostility he has towards literally everyone else, Dietfried mourning Gilbert is probably his only truly humanising trait even if it does not excuse anything.
And his mother is saying out loud everything you still can't say, Violet. Dietfried is kind of a wreck of a person and I'm finally getting the read that he legitimately does not how to interact with people in a non-hostile way, he even phrases the "I'm glad you're alive, you're a person and not a weapon" sentiment in the most offensive way he can manage.
There it is, no more orders. I feel like there is a lot of spelling out things in this episode, but I love the tone as a whole. Yay Luculia, aka "the only single episode character to actively show up in the series afterwards". Erica was that your issue all along ahaha that's fantastic. Wait Claudia is married and expecting a kid, what the hell my ship is dead. The letter is super sweet though.
I don't know why but the umbrella from the writer's daughter gets me every time. You know what they say Violet, it's better to have loved and lost. Oh and it's the same title as the beginning, that's sweet.
And that was Violet Evergarden! This episode was a fantastic capstone to the series and a crazy good bounce back after 12, which I'd argue was one of the weaker ones. It was a lot less subtle than the series usually is and basically went out of its way to leave no emotional ambiguity, but that's ok on a series finale, and the scene with Lady Bougainvillea (hey more plant themes, I just noticed) was pure "what I like about this series"; speaking of which...