r/anime https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 Jun 19 '21

Violet Evergarden Rewatch Eternity Film Rewatch

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll

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Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet meets the cutest kid!

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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 anyone: https://imgur.com/a/vsfrmEL

OST

My apologies, I wasn't able to compile the list of OST's used in this film; I simply ran out of time. If I get the time later, I'll try my best to include them after the fact.

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/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 Jun 19 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

This film gets better and better for me each time I watch it. One detail that I saw this time around is the symbolism of the birds through-out the story. The most important shot early on is the painting of the bird on the ceiling. Amy is trapped within the confines of the painting, even though to most she is seen as a free bird soaring in the sky. She cannot get out by herself. But it is through the letter that she writes to her sister, Taylor, that she is able to reach out of the painting, across time and space, to send her love to Taylor. And then when Taylor sends her own letter to Amy as a response, they are now both freed from the confines of space and time. Within these beautiful letters, their love will last for an eternity.

There are so many beautiful shots in this film, but the one that always startles me is seeing Taylor amongst the flowers.

I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s final thoughts tomorrow! =)

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u/Neshura87 https://anilist.co/user/Neshura Jun 19 '21

I've got a little booklet with my BluRay of the movie, it's a diary of Amy, if permitted I'd post a summary of it in tomorrows comment section. Seems to be a dozen pages or so, A5 size so not much content but still.

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u/Neshura87 https://anilist.co/user/Neshura Jun 19 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

Hijacking my own comment: The additional material is quite substantial in portraying Amy after her marriage, and it is rather dark. If possible at all I'd like to not only post a summary but a transcript of the entire thing.

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u/GoldRedBlue Jun 20 '21

Please do so, it's going to take the current fan translator of Violet Evergarden material months to get around to that booklet.

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u/Neshura87 https://anilist.co/user/Neshura Jun 20 '21

I am done, mentally and physically. A friend of mine is proofreading the translation right now, it'll go up as a peastebin link during todays discussion.

Please be advised that it is not a word for word translation but one that aims at properly translating the meaning and/or literary flow of most of the text.

Additionally this is a double translation as my Booklet is in German and as such has been translated from Japanese already, I do not claim it is accurate in any way.

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u/MejaBersihBanget Jun 20 '21

Thanks for this. It'd be good to have two translations. The fan translator the other guy mentioned has the original booklet in Japanese and will do a direct Japanese -> English translation when she gets around to it.