Violet Evergarden Episode 10 Discussion

Lelouch0202 said:
Beautiful episode and easily my favorite so far.

I kept thinking that the letters were for someone who was gonna take in Anne after her Mom died but once I realized that the letters were for Anne herself I got really emotional. On one hand, the fact that she received letters from her Mom encouraging her to live strong put a smile on my face but on the other hand the whole thing was just a tragic thing that no child should've had to go through. :(

The whole final montage with Anne receiving her letters years after her Mother passed away was incredibly touching and I couldn't help but tear up at the end when Violet started crying. :(
I'm sure Anne's mother is proud that she grew up to be a proud and strong woman.

BlueSkylark said:
Ok after 10 Episodes I can finally say that I am tired of this show. I swear I wanted to give it chances, I didn't wanted to sound like a hater.
It's not even that I dislike the genre.
Cause I have high scores for Slow moving shows like Aria or Barakamon(which actually made me cry a bit) and I have even a high score for a show that involves a robot girl and drama in Planetarian. So I should like this show. Instead it bores me so much that I even check my phone every 5 minutes which I normally won't do.
And I don't even know why.
Maybe it is because it breaks my immersion every 5 minutes through some kind of plot convenience or plot holes.
Maybe it is the fact that Violet is a 14 year old super soldier.
Maybe through the earlier episodes I grew so numb that I even started to be picky about the voice acting of a child character or the overblown soundtrack.
Maybe it is because that everything is so bloody predictable. Especially with Ep 10 it was yep Mommy dead, writes letters for daughter and Violets gonna cry at the end.
or maybe and that is my biggest maybe it's for the fact that Violet just does not feel like a "genuine" show.
It feels like a show were some board of directors sat together. Picked a folder with "all the dramas that worked in other stories" written on it. Looked through it and picked 10-11 at random, without any regard for the stories that they came from. Cause I swear that each of those short stories that Violet presents I have seen somewhere before. Not only that, but better. Cause they had context within the story. They were not just randomly thrown together. And even if the charcters in those were only their for one episode they still felt a lot better. For example the postmen Episode in the 2nd Season of Aria did more for me then the entire runtime of Violet so far.
It feels like it tries so hard to be an epic drama that it forgets to tell a compelling story.

KingKatsura said:
never in my life have i been more disgusted by an episode of anime.

you could predict the entire episode, and no I don't mean the general direction, I mean quite literally the exact progression and outcome, from within the two minute mark.

incredibly manipulative. anyone could write a random, episodic, and overwhelmingly simple, sad story about a young girl watching her mother die of illness, but it takes an abhorrent lack of ambition and creativity to actually pull the trigger and execute it.

Draigg said:

I'm happy I'm not the only one who thought the letters were for someone who would take care of Anne after her mother passed away. That's why when she got her first letter I lost it. I don't know if it is because my father passed away when I was little or because it almost brings me to tears to think of my mother dying, but to see Anne's mom do something so special for her, so she could make her death more bearable for her daughter... that really brought me to tears.

When Violet began crying I was like, "I fucking know what you mean. If I had known the letters were for Anne from the beginning, I would have felt like crying the whole episode."

I get that Anne was an annoying brat most of the time, but I just find it really weird that there is people who got so annoyed by it, they felt nothing in this episode.

dor1806 said:
Where can I watch this episode? Please someone tell me i'm dying to see it :(

Rudan said:
why someone always has to be dying

SMGJohn said:
LOL, cannot believe they fucked this arch up so much compared to the novel, KyoAni went full rtrd by not letting Hyouka director Takemoto, Yasuhiro direct the series as he wanted and then they had the FFF courage to remove the scene were Violet cleans her gun because it offends Americans that a woman can clean guns, thanks Netflix and thanks to all the people who went behind scenes to uncover why Violet Evergarden has turned into most likely the biggest disaster that has struck KyoAni since Clannad.

Japan community is up in fire over this nonsense crap, I suppose its not a big issue for those who never read the novels, good for ya. As for the rest of us I guess we just have to cut ourselves in despair for what could have been KyoAni's greatest series yet directed by none other than God director Takemoto, Yasuhiro.
That man makes my testicles tickle

aiem said:


Nothing has to be unique nor unpredictable to be good though. You've stuck for 10 episodes and by now you should know what this show is about.

The themes in this episode were something that people who have experienced loss can relate to. If you say that this is a normal thing and nothing special that you are so disensitized about it then I'm sorry to hear that.

SalmonSandwich said:
Please next chapter be Aiden's story please... D: