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EP. REVIEW: Violet Evergarden

How is possible that the main character is not appealing at all?

than this boring girl that does nothing.

Funny fact, without violet the show would be way better

Zzshcl wrote:

How is possible that the main character is not appealing at all?

Just because she’s not appealing to you doesn’t mean she isn’t appealing to everyone.

Zzshcl wrote:

than this boring girl that does nothing.

Uh... this past episode just had Violet help the guy decide to leave his home where he’s been holed up to follow his dream profession.

Zzshcl wrote:

Funny fact, without violet the show would be way better

Then it would be a completely different show with different goals in mind. This show is named after her, so if you’re this bothered by it, I think it would be best if you were to just leave this show nd move on to other things.

I'm also struck by how Leon comes across as more endearing in the anime. I always liked him; he's basically a male tsundere. But the light novel lingers more on his hatred of women, whereas in the anime he just comes across as awkward. That scene where he asks Violet to go stargazing with him was especially amusing. His fidgeting movements telegraphed his crush on her, but when she says yes, he tries to play it cool and act pompous. Adorable.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, while I appreciate all the effort KyoAni puts onto the themes, symbolisms and visuals, they should give more attention to the basics.

For what I know I can understand why the original LN is well regarded.
And seeing how this adaptation is playing out I strongly disagree with the changes. At the same time that KyoAni changed the narrative to be more conventional it also, like I said, neglects the basics.
Oscar should be the protagonist of this story, we should see the events by his perspective, but the anime adopts a middle ground that just detracts. If this episode had so little time to tells his story why “waste” time with Violet? Why, instead of showing those over dramatic flashbacks not use their time to make he and Violet spend more meaningful time together? At the end he could just tell that he had a daughter that died and we would understand perfectly well why having Violet there taking care of him would hurt so much. The way they did, cutting any arguing between the two about the story and letting only some key phrases, being spoken over some tone deaf score, it was embarrassing for my decaying ears.

And I have to say, Violet jumping over the lake was the definition of “forced animation”, and this looks like the one time when I can say this without being a “meme”. For what I understand Violet really indeed walked on water. But because of the way the scene is animated like so many others we may think that there’s nothing unusual there, it was just one more pretty scene. Again, KyoAni trying so hard that it detracts.

When this anime ends if anyone says that it’s masterfully animated I’ll agree, it is. The animators and art directions are really working very hard, no denying it. However I definitively can’t recommend for the script.

This is developing to be a truly divider of opinions.

Other thing that annoys me in the way the story is being told here is that it makes more difficult to believe in Violet’s lack of understanding about herself. If this is the first story in the LN, ok, but here, in the seventh episode of the anime seeing Violet being able to empathize and understand the feelings and desires of the characters of a book while still being unable to understand even the most patent feelings she feels… it’s hard to believe.

I'll copy two comments that I made somewhere else about episode 7:

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