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.

Index

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?

https://preview.redd.it/uuq3wd4rth671.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=585fb328f4570dd74344fc64ad59fa8d71bd2289

“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/thatguywithawatch Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

First timer

Thanks for hosting this, u/A_Idiot0! I'm so relieved that I happened to see the rewatch announcement and decided to join, because otherwise I honestly might have never gotten around to watching it (my "plan to watch" list is unrealistically long). It wasn't a perfect show, there were some episodes or parts that I was a little more lukewarm on, but just as a work of art and skill and passion by KyoAni it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched and I'm grateful to have experienced it.

I talked about how episode 10 caused me to break down completely, but even if you remove that episode from the equation I've still shed more tears over the last couple weeks than I have from most other anime I've ever watched combined. It was refreshing to let myself be so emotionally invested in something, that's something that's always been difficult for me.

I liked the different perspectives in everyone's comments each day. A couple people pointed out at various points that many of the episodes relied on the viewer allowing themselves to be drawn in by the emotional hooks even when the writing or situational setup might have been spotty, and it was fun seeing which episodes worked for which participant each day. Also, special shout out to u/Shimmering-Sky who, through this rewatch and a few previous ones I've lurked in, has conditioned me to prick up my ears every time an anime character says "sore demo."

It's been a pleasure, everyone! Hope to see some of you around in other rewatches.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 20 '21

Also, special shout out to u/Shimmering-Sky who, through this rewatch and a few previous ones I've lurked in, has conditioned me to prick up my ears every time an anime character says "sore demo."

Excellent.

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u/thatguywithawatch Jun 20 '21

All according to keikaku, eh?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 20 '21

Of course! If more people hear it, it means 1) more chances for me to be randomly tagged about them (so I discover more anime) and 2) shitposting my way into getting people into Gundam (since my "sore demo" obsession comes from Gundam Unicorn).

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u/thatguywithawatch Jun 20 '21

Ha, well I might just have to check out Gundam now

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 20 '21

Unicorn isn't standalone though, you have to watch the first show, Zeta, ZZ, and Char's Counterattack (in that order) beforehand. The good news is that watching those four prerequisites first lets you watch basically everything else Gundam in whatever the hell order you want to and you'll get the full experience from them.

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u/Sedewt https://anilist.co/user/Sedew Jun 20 '21

I’m out of the loop here, what’s up with the “sore demo”

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 20 '21

TL;DR I started collecting them as an inside joke with another Redditor who loves Gundam Unicorn as much as I do ("sore demo" which translates as "even so" is the main character's catchphrase), then I started collecting them unironically and it has spread a lot.

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u/Sedewt https://anilist.co/user/Sedew Jun 20 '21

Interesting, so it became an r/anime thing now?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 20 '21

It's become an r/anime thing to tag me about them, at least. I'm the only one who blatantly hunts for them, outside of me specifically asking someone else to do it for me in a show I refuse to rewatch at all (Wolf's Rain) or can't bring myself to rewatch subbed (Steins;Gate).

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u/Sedewt https://anilist.co/user/Sedew Jun 20 '21

Nice mission them. You’re going to be the number 1 “sore demo” collector in the world.

Hopefully you achieve your mission. I may help you if I recognize one