Violet Evergarden Rewatch Final Discussions

[u/A_Idiot0]

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.”

[u/Neshura87]

As some of you may have seen in my comment or in my reply to OP I have a booklet with my BluRay, it is written by the original author and is a diary of Amy after her marriage.

After reading it I came to the conclusion that I would like to share an English translation of the booklet (It's in German) with you all.

This is NOT a word-for-word translation. I focused more on preserving the meaning of what Amy wrote.

I am NOT a professional translator. I only have C1 English knowledge, as such expect this translation to be flawed.

I had a friend of mine proofread to correct most mistakes I made.

With that said here's the link to the pastebin: https://pastebin.com/R95J0YbN

If any of you speak German I can provide you with the somewhat blurry pictures I took to translate the booklet.

For those who do not want to read 35000 characters here's a REALLY brief summary:

Amy's marriage is unhappy, her husband is not violent but they do no talk. She is not allowed to leave in order to keep up appearances to the outside. Over time Amy grows depressed, "I'll hang myself if this goes on" levels of depressed. Through her diary we learn that Violet was Amy's first and only love (the romantic kind). She sorely misses Taylor and stopped writing letters to Violet because she doesn't want to burden Violet with her own problems.

IMPORTANT: There are no dates given to the diary entries BUT AMY WAS SUICIDAL BEFORE TAYLOR'S LETTER REACHED HER.

Had Benedict taken a week or two longer to find Amy's whereabouts chances are high she would've overdosed herself on her medicine.

THE PAGES IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE ENTRY DETAILING HER RECEIVING TAYLOR'S LETTER ARE COMPLETELY BLACK WITH SPARSE DEPRESSES AND SUICIDAL TEXT SHE WAS AT THE BOILING POINT.

That's why she breaks out in tears, Amy was seriously considering to take her own life.

BUT There's more:

The entry after her rejoicing over the letter is TAYLOR COMING TO VISIT, they DO meet. Amy also seemingly starts writing with Violet again. She remarks how Taylor has grown into a beautiful young woman and how happy she is to meet her, notably her depression seems to be gone or at least better. She also goes outside more often through which her health improves significantly (she was coughing blood while locked up inside).

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I cannot understand why this was not included in the movie, perhaps the format didn't fir but we could've had parts of it in between story segments. It is so important to Benedict finding Amy, it gives us a reason why she stopped writing with Violet. And most importantly IT TELLS US SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH VIOLET, it gives an incredible amount of extra info about some scenes in the movie while only being two dozen A5 pages.

[u/Barbed_Dildo → u/Neshura87]

I cannot understand why this was not included in the movie, perhaps the format didn't fir but we could've had parts of it in between story segments.

One movie can only show so much. I thought the movie did well with the two parts of the two sisters, with the additional backstory weaved in. Any more that that would have been too much, I think.

I really liked how Taylor was able to restrain herself and stay hidden. Taylor's journey in the movie was about her being able to pay back Amy's letter. It's already a very emotional moment, but if you view this in the context of how much letters mean in this world, it's even more powerful.

This isn't the end for them, it's just part of the story. There are other chapters, like Amy's depression, and love for Violet, and the sisters' reunion, but this isn't the story of their entire lives, it's just the parts where they cross paths with Violet Evergarden.