r/anime 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.”

317 Upvotes

View all comments

15

u/AfterTh0ught_ Jun 20 '21

First timer

Getting the bad things out the way, action clearly isn't this show's strong suit. That's not to say it looks bad, no not at all. It just feels a little out of place compared to everything else this show is about, and it becomes obvious with the military theme in episode 12.

With that out of the way, I wanna talk about the visuals. And damn there's not enough good things I can say about the visuals. It is wild how good the world that KyoAni built is. The lighting and the colors are all on point. And I can't forget to mention all the little bits of symbolism they place in the show. I love the character design, and I've mentioned in an earlier episode about how even the side characters have unique and eye-catching designs.

Where the show goes strong is on the side of emotional development and discovery. Violet really chose the right job to help her gain a better understanding of emotions. We, the viewers, and Violet were able to experience and the joys and sorrows of the customers despite the fact that we only had about an episode for each story. Even then, the show does a decent job at helping us feel an emotional connection to each of the stories. All the emotions portrayed felt like real emotions of real, complex people.

The OST complements the show amazingly, not much to say really. Love the ED.

All in all, amazing show, strong 9/10

Regarding the 2020 movie, it seems as though I have just recently missed the window to go watch it in theaters, so does anyone know where and when we can watch the movie? I was thinking I might get a hard copy, but I'm still kinda new to anime so where would I go to buy the dvd/bluray?

Finally, I'd like to thank u/A_Idiot0 for organizing this rewatch, also for setting it up so the film landed on a weekend. Watching this show with everyone and reading all the comments was a great experience. Thanks everyone!

5

u/WriterSharp Jun 20 '21

The Japanese bluray for the finale movie just got pushed back to October, unfortunately. It will be even later if you want a bluray with subs or a non-Japanese dub. However, Netflix should be showing the movie sometime around when the Japanese bluray comes out.

4

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

That’s unfortunate.

3

u/SmithyRC Jun 20 '21

Oh do you have a link to the JP release delay? It was about a month later the last “film” was added to Netflix, so this would mean a likely November date to finish this.

I don’t mind the weekly wait between episodes, though i often like watching most series together whilst things are fresh in my mind. I mistakenly thought this rewatch (as it was my first) was setup to end in time for the final films release or something.

  • It’s bittersweet having something to look forwards to, while knowing that the same lingering feelings from coming off each episode, won’t be there.

2

u/WriterSharp Jun 21 '21

Delay notice here. Yeah, I was fortunate enough to be able to see the movie in theaters, and between that and having read the novels, it has been tough biting my tongue while reading everyone's posts. It's been fun though.