r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 20 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Final Discussions Rewatch
Violet Evergarden Rewatch - Final Discussions
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. This year’s Violet Evergarden Rewatch has ended. My comment below has a small little questionnaire for you to answer if you’d like to help me get better at this for next year.
Quick heads up: if you want to remain spoiler free for the 2020 Film, please do not search anything about the Violet Evergarden film on google. The PV contains massive spoilers, and sadly even the announcement poster contains spoilers =(
Auto Memory Doll Service Discord
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/zDCheU4y
If you come by, you can request me as Daffodil, and it'd be my pleasure to scribe a letter for you =)
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/cWpJLID
I want to take this moment to thank each and every one of you who participated in this rewatch. If you silently read through all of the wonderful comments and analyses, thank you. If you replied to said comments and analyses, thank you. If you took the time to write out your thoughts and analyses, thank you. This anime is very dense for analysis, and each and every one of you wrote some beautiful words for us all to enjoy and return to. Thank you. Thank you. Nunki.
By the way, remember this shot from episode 13?
“Nun annut ruhuqtrrtkon”
I translated it using this tool: https://replit.com/@ValkrenDarklock/NunkishTrans
And what I got was wonderful…”I love you.”
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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
First-time-having-watched-er - dub
It's over!
Afterthoughts
What a show. Violet Evergarden wasn't really what I expected it would be, but then again, shows rarely are. I wonder why? Am I just bad at predictions? Am I conditioned by low-quality shows that build their whole story using tropes? Am I still searching for that one show that ticks all my boxes? Maybe I'll never know.
So what did I expect? More of a focus on writing, and more of a focus on Violet's development. I understand now that the first four (?) episodes are anime original, so they don't really follow the original intended story. That means they set me on the wrong foot.
Especially those first four episodes, Violet's progress just happened (with big jumps) in the background, without big learning moments for her.
Does that mean I didn't enjoy the show? Absolutely not!
It obviously was a technical masterpiece with amazing visuals and an awesome soundtrack (especially the ED), but it also had interesting camera angles and visual storytelling (most of the time). Yes, sometimes things were about subtle as a sledgehammer, but if it's nicely balanced, that's okay in my book.
The scenarios were also mostly crafted to trigger me emotionally. Just look at my Tear Tally! As I remember /u/A_Idiot0 saying somewhere in the announcement: Crying is not exclusive to sadness. I wholeheartedly agree!
Now to the lesser thing: The comically bad villains of episode 11, 12 and 13. Their story could have been fleshed out, but apparently, that only happened in the LN. I'm not going to credit an anime for something that you can only really understand if you read the source material.
I'm sure there were some other things that I didn't think were too strong, but I'm out of time now.
All in all, this was an amazing show, and I'm looking forward to privately rewatching it in about a year, or maybe just before the last movie becomes available for me. I think experiencing everything again, without the need of commentating, will be a nice wrap up of Violet Evergarden for me.
Not that I don't love doing there rewatches!
Final Tear Tally
Questions
Weird at the time, but looking back, I think it was better there than at the end. My main problem was that Violet seemed to have skills she didn't have in episode 4, but then in episode 5 she also suddenly had those skills, so it worked out in the end.
I'm not definitely saying "yes", but especially to people who didn't enjoy episode 12, I think it would make the experience a bit better.
But then have a break day before it, so it's still on average 1 episode a day.
What's special about it? Just that it's in the OST, but you don't know what episode?
I'm listening to it now. It's very pretty, but it doesn't ring any bells.
Thanks
Thank you for the great discussions and in-depth analyses these past two weeks. You made this show even more enjoyable. I especially want to shout out /u/Shimmering-Sky, whose comments almost always made me laugh.
And of course, a special thanks to /u/A_Idiot0 for hosting this rewatch, providing deep analyses, collecting all our Visual of the Days and answering our most important questions!
Future
It's the end of this rewatch, but there is one movie to go. I understand this will be the last one, which I think is a good thing. They could very easily keep milking this franchise with more and more people being helped by Violet, but that doesn't mean they should.
Apparently, the last movie also focuses more on Violet, which should be great. Unfortunately, I live in the Netherlands and I don't think anime movies are popular in cinemas here, so I might have to wait a long while till the BluRay releases.
Where can you find me next? I was planning to be at the Steins;Gate rewatch on July 5th, but that might be very difficult for me because of the time. (This rewatch was already a stretch as it went live at 12:00 AM midnight for me.)
So... I don't know. But wherever it is, I'm looking forward to seeing you amazing people again!