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| So cute!!!! Really reminded me of shoujo manga in general with the happy ending <3 |
| WELL, THAT WAS JUST PRECIOUS. BEST episode so far, very funny and cute from Violet stretching her face to her interactions with the princess to the princess's interactions with her prince, to the REACTIONS of all the shippers on deck reading the paper. XDDD Also we got a bit at the end to bring us into the highly anticipated events of Violet's dark past!!! who looks way more like 16-17 imho oh wellz she doesn't know herself tho 10/10 would watch again! Did anyone get Aisaka Taiga flashbacks when you first meet Charlotte? No? Just me? XD |
ChiibiFeb 8, 2018 7:46 PM
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| The rest of the episode doesn't matter anymore as it all comes down to one thing: SHE's AROUND 14 GUYS! Never change Japan. |
SalmonSandwich said: At this point this adaptation is its own thing and I have accepted that. This episode was very nice with the relationship with the princess and Violet, with Violet helping her romantic pursuit with a prince and slowly understanding human connections, and about love. Best part is that it didn't repeat really annoying narrative patterns like people being shocked about her prosthetic for the 5th episode and her doing her infamous "I need to know what love is so that is why im a doll" catch phrase to wrap up the episode again. Really liked the subtle progression with Violet faking a smile in the beginning to her putting on a natural smile by the end of the episode. Slow burning development but have to say in hindsight the last 3 episodes are paying off now after initially turning me off. I guess Violet is roughly 14 did not expect her to be this young (she doesn't look 14?). Thought she was 16-18 in the novel but I might be remembering wrong. In the novel she was roughly 10 when Gilbert first met her, when she received the brooch she was 14, so I thought after the rehab she would be older. Rather interesting placement of her meeting with Dietfried though, did not expect them to place this so early on in the story. Really excited now how this will play out since the timeline is now completely different (for novel readers quite curious what you think about ) Zer0Death said: Seems like this one is Original too. It was the best episode so far IMO, really liked it. The last scene, however, is from the LN from what I can see. Is Dietfried this bitter in the novel ? Agreed best original episode next to Luculia's. Novel details about the event you are asking about I knew there was a reason for what she did in the past. Personally I would go for that route too, but not getting very far due to not being good with sharp objects. |
| For the comments on her age, while I would have preferred if she was older like around 17-18, for that industrial era the setting for the anime/LN is based on (except the typewriter used, which is a bit late historically for that era), it is quite common for people to be working at a very young age. There also seems to be a lot of off-screen character progression, as the viewer only knows of a handful of letters, meanwhile it is implied that her few months work has resulted in a lot of letters and great improvement in her letter writing and speech interpretation. For some people this could be jarring or confusing without a closer step by step progression to link the development, while others are able to extrapolate and rationalize the progression in between episodes. Edit: Unless stated in the LN (which may not apply anymore with the amount of original content this has seemingly gone with), there is no definitive number on Violets age as she states herself she was orphaned with no knowledge of her birth date. |
Mystic_TwilightFeb 8, 2018 11:07 PM
| This episode is so beautiful and that moment when she smiled towards the end just stole mu heart P.S. what that dick at the end said made me want to cut off his small dick |
| Best episode so far. I thought Princess Charlotte and Damien are perfect together! And finally, Violet smiling was the highlight! |
| This episode nearly made me cry, nearly. That ending though can't wait for the next episode. |
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ThreadFazer said: Hopefully violet ends up with Benedict cause he is at least 18 yrs old or below. Cause i dont want my waifu to be marrying a 20+ yr old guy pls.๐ก There is no definite evidence of Benedict's age, but I guess this quote is a hint... Hodgins, when he first introduces Violet to Benedict and Cattleya, says this. 'Her age is closer to you guys, so I want you to get along.' |
 "Le vent se lève!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" - Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière Marin - |
| It was a beautiful episode and probably the best one thus far! |
my oh my.. this scene haha |
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| The fact that she is 14 was really surprising I thought she would be at least 17. Put the whole episode aside that ending was really interesting I can't wait for next week. |
| I was a bit surprised by how amazing letter Violet had written, but then I assumed it was due to time-skip. Apparently they didn't show us everything. If it's not the case, I'd be pretty disappointed since going from only writing military reports to nice love-letters is quite a big step. So Violet is around 14, or so. I'm saying the same as everyone else; She looks much older. Well, it's a Japanese show. We should be happy that she wasn't revealed to be a guy. It was the most interesting episode for me so far. So, reading the comments, I'm guessing we might get the LN adaptation next week? Anyone who's read the manga, do you think they could fit the entire LN story in the remaining 9 episodes? I'm really curious about the story of the LN, since it was hyped. If they don't adapt it, i might read it anyways, but I hope we get to see it in the anime. |
| Maybe it's just me, but the time skip (only several months at that) was a little too convenient for her to suddenly become a Pulitzer writer. |
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| Very sweet episode! They told an interesting royal courtship arranged marriage story. I like how they're free to just go with an entire episodic story. It's a bit irrelevent to the plot but it was enjoyable. Nice characters. Although, it is kind of random that Violet is suddenly that good at writing letters that she is getting private work with royalty. That came out of nowhere; I thought she was still learning. Anyway, this cliffhanger is super intriguing. I'm excited for the next episode. |
Fujimiya said: Meanwhile im shedding some tears on the last charlotte scene where she's showing her gratitude to her lifetime nanny court maid, that such a beautiful yet strong scene. I found the part more heartwarming than the apparent main plot of this standalone episode that is the marriage. I think her name being Alberta (renowned for Wild Rose) was the hidden message of the episode which was the real love story of this episode: a love story of a mother and a daughter who are not related by blood. Btw, the episode had the best reception in Japan since episode 1. Can somewhat confirm from the comments and reviews from anikore and 2ch boards. For now it recovered from the big dip after episode 4. It is still the most revered show of the season. |
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| So Violet is basically a tamed Mikasa xD. I hope we get to know more about her past with the war and all. |
| We finally got to see Violet smile, until that that stupid man ruined it with the past. I was touched by Alberta and Charlotte's moment, how she didn't want to leave. Side note, that kingdom has no privacy for royal figures, by the way they read replies and publish them. |
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| This is an okay episode. I generally cared about everything other than the creepy romance (I know it was a product of the times, it's still creepy and weird, don't @ me). I really do hope we get more episodes dedicated to parental, familial and friendship types of love; they're the ones that really tear me up. I enjoyed having more worldbuilding introduced at the beginning, however brief it was. I didn't read the novel, so I look forward to learning about the setting more over time, since that appears to be how the anime is presenting the world. That ending really got me excited, though! I can't wait to see how it plays out. |
| I don't see why people are freaking out that Violet said she was 14. She didn't say it was for sure, only that it's a "probably" from her growing up as orphan not knowing her own age. So it's up in the air. I wouldn't get too hung up on that. And even if she was...whatever. Doubt their life expectency in that time period was all that long anyway, so it wouldn't be unusual for girls to marry before the men went off to war even as teens, with a high chance of them never coming back alive. Cool to see Violet actually making leaps and bounds in progress in her writing skill to be not totally stiff. I liked this episode more than the previous one, with my favorite being the scene with the princess and her maid/caretaker/mother figure that raised her. That was deep. I had this expression seeing Gilberts brother popping out of nowhere like he was staking the pier out: Really, man? ...As if was her choice that she herself made to be picked up by him when she was an orphan, with the intention of literally being trained and used as a disposable killing machine/child soldier in the war. And now the man himself is butthurt she killed his mates. That's fucking rich. It's like starving your pet dog while teaching it to bite the nuts off of every mailman that walks by, on top of beating it everyday, and expecting it to not bite the shit out of you someday. Unbeleiveable. Every character I hate in this series so far, lacks self awareness. The subs also messed up his name Dietfried as "Diethard" LOL. I'm not even mad; that's priceless. Going to my box of smiles I wanna protect. |
Estoy_GordoFeb 9, 2018 6:11 PM
| Great episode I think. And I'm glad to see Gilbert's brother. I wonder how this will play out. Still waiting for the novel adaptations. I have hope since some are shown in the PV. |
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| This season is really pushing my boundaries on age gaps haha.. Aside from that, it still seems like the backstory is a litlle more interesting. |
| Motherly love is the best, and they threw in romantic love in as well. Then we got that damn smile... Dammit Violet... I can't give this show an 11/10. I just can't... I mean, at the part when she bowed down I almost cried. Brilliant anime. No other words can better describe this. Also, that end preview, makes me think we getting some action as well? God knows. It'd be interesting though. A 10/10 type of interesting. I'm just such a big fanboy XD |
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V0ltg said: Wait so this is kind of an original anime? I thought it was the adaptation of the LN? I haven't read it so pls explain what's up...I thought it was a bit weird to sent Violet to such an important client, but other than that I really liked this episode. The third episode is still the best IMO, but this one was pretty neat, too. But I'd really appreciate it if Kyoani started adapting the novel now. Enough with the original stuff. |
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| This episode was really amazing and beautiful. As for the after credits, I kinda guessed that they will bring up Violet's past more soon enough. |
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| How is that marriage between the princess and the prince supposed to be romantic? The age gap (considering how young the princess is) + the fact that they do not know each other that well just made it very creepy and uncomfortable to watch, especially since it was written in a way that was supposed to make the viewer find it "romantic"... (Also why do these letters have to be made public? Violet only became good at writing letters by analyzing books statistically?) I'm not sure if I want to keep watching the rest of the series... |
| Just another episode of whining and unearned attempts to tug at the audience's heart strings. I literally had a headache by the end of it. |
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Yasaal said: V0ltg said: Wait so this is kind of an original anime? I thought it was the adaptation of the LN? I haven't read it so pls explain what's up...I thought it was a bit weird to sent Violet to such an important client, but other than that I really liked this episode. The third episode is still the best IMO, but this one was pretty neat, too. But I'd really appreciate it if Kyoani started adapting the novel now. Enough with the original stuff. You could say that at this point. Only episode that followed the novel was episode 1... But they still changed quite a bit of that one as well... All the other ones are not from the novel except some of the flashbacks. |
"Le vent se lève!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" - Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière Marin - |
| 5 eps now with violet evergarden, i dont get the criticism it gets. violet is slowly learning about emotion and love, character development is there. with the recent 2 episodes it gets clearer to me that many seem to have expected a full main character centric show while VE actually is rather episodic and crafts a new side story within each episode. it manages beautifully to make you care about each character and new place we get introduced to within 1 short episode. meanwhile violet gets a step closer to her goal every time she spends time with different people and interacts with them. at the start of the show it wouldve been unthinkable for violet to understand what the princess truly wanted and act on it like she did now in episode 5. |
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| I came here to scream because I still haven't recovered from this episode. Really sad to see that not many people are talking about this on social media, likely because it isn't available in America yet. |
| After quite a slow start, this show is starting to show some real development with Violet and possibly the future where she will have to face her past as an assassin. This was, by a longshot, the best episode we've had so far. I really hope that they keep it up. |
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Bobby2Hands said: Just another episode of whining and unearned attempts to tug at the audience's heart strings. I literally had a headache by the end of it. Yet you're still watching it. |
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