I recently finished watching Violet Evergarden, and I would like to give her a review pointing out her achievements, aspects to improve, and failures, but I can assure you that it is more than a pretty animation.
Achievements:
Violet Evergarden - Best Female Character: I LOVED VIOLET, but what an amazing character; with her background, her story and her incredible development, she not only became my favorite female anime character, but one of my favorite characters in general; she is the center of the series, without her, everything else would collapse, but how great is Violet, without a doubt a wonderful protagonist and character.
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Story: Her story places us in France in the 20th century, and seeing how Violet adapts to the world that is also adapting after the war is simply magnificent, to see how she learns something in each chapter and she like the sun that is also makes others learn, managed to move me, the story is very well written, and I can only describe it with the word beautiful.
The importance of the letters and the feelings that are transmitted: The central theme of the series, one that fascinated me, I will never be able to see a letter in the same way again hahaha, but seriously, this topic was treated in a spectacular way, it makes you feel its importance from the beginning, and what the characters feel when transmitting their feelings in the letters and when receiving them, simply spectacular.
Beautiful Animation: There is no need to explain this topic, Violet Evergarden is one of the animes with the best animation ever, 11/10.
It is highly recommended: Having a beautiful story, it is one of those few anime series that you can recommend even to people who are not familiar with anime, not at the level of Death Note, but it is still highly recommended, and although not it seems, this point is a great achievement.
It has one of the best chapters of anime in general: Episode 10 is not only the best chapter of the series, but I would dare to say that it is one of the best chapters of anime in general, I know not in a TOP 10 and maybe not a TOP 20 or 30 objectively speaking, but because of the characters that star in the chapter, the story, Violet who had already advanced her evolution and especially because of the narrative, the chapter makes you feel, and it can even reach the bottom of your heart, and without a doubt, for me, I will consider it one of the best chapters of anime in general.
Very good music: At first, I did not take much importance to the music, but the more the series progressed, the more I appreciated the music, both the opening and the ending do their job very well; and the soundtrack is very good. Seriously, the music in this anime is very good.
Narrative: There is not much to say at this point, I feel that the narrative was very good, it is better than average, so it's also an achievement worth mentioning.
Emotional Manipulation: The series does a good job of putting the situation on a silver platter so that you feel the moment, and that is a pretty good thing since it achieves it, however, this issue is a double-edged sword, so you will return it to see later.
Aspects to improve:
Characters: Unfortunately, by treating Violet's character so well, they forgot about the other characters, even though they fulfill their role of being secondary, let's say they did it too well, I didn't empathize with any of them, and being honest I didn't learn the name of none, only that of Iris (Because it shares the same name as the annoying character of Iris of The Flash) and the major Gilbert; I imagine that for the few chapters they did what they could, although I still think they were able to better balance the development of the characters.
Plot Rhythm: In general this topic is quite good, but I cannot deny that although I never lost interest, there were parts of some chapters that I could not help but yawn, especially in the first chapters, something that I had to mention.
The subject of the war could have been better treated: Unfortunately, by treating the subject of the letters so well, they forgot another equally important subject, that of the war, although it works it could have been MUCH BETTER, but I imagine that for the few chapters they did what they could, however, I still think that if they had treated this subject better, the series would be even better.
Failures:
It is very predictable: I would say that this is it's biggest failure, although I praise it's beautiful story, it was one that from the first chapter I already saw it coming, I really appreciate the fact that a story managed to surprise me, and in this aspect Violet Evergarden did not achieve it, since as I said before, from the first chapters I could already deduce the path that the series would take and the pattern of each chapter, a failure without a doubt.
The "villains" are pathetic: Those from the north seemed pathetic to me, "we are bad because we suffer a lot and we want everyone to suffer with more war", perhaps if they they would have treated better, I would have believed them more, but it was not like that and they did not manage to intimidate me at all and it was obvious that they were going to be defeated, another failure.
Emotional Manipulation: As I said before, emotional manipulation is an achievement, but it is a double-edged sword, since at the end of the day you are manipulating the viewer, and when he sees the scene he already says "They are trying to make me cry", and there are many works that can make you feel without having to resort to manipulation (Example: Death Note, The Shape of a Voice, Your Name, etc.), the emotional manipulation is both an achievement and a failure.
Conclusion: Violet Evergarden is a spectacular series, with incredible achievements highlighting its protagonist, story and central theme, and despite having things that could be better and failures, it does not detract from its merits and without a doubt I consider it a series that every anime fan must see, even those who are not familiar with anime can see it, like Death Note.
Achievements: 9
Aspects to improve: 3
Failures: 3
Objective Score: 9.2
Subjective Score: 9.4
Sep 16, 2021
Violet Evergarden
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I recently finished watching Violet Evergarden, and I would like to give her a review pointing out her achievements, aspects to improve, and failures, but I can assure you that it is more than a pretty animation.
Achievements: Violet Evergarden - Best Female Character: I LOVED VIOLET, but what an amazing character; with her background, her story and her incredible development, she not only became my favorite female anime character, but one of my favorite characters in general; she is the center of the series, without her, everything else would collapse, but how great is Violet, without a doubt a wonderful protagonist and character. The Beautiful ... |
