Violet evergarden is easily the most anticipated anime of the spring 2018 season. I wasn't really excited for it since I never read the light novel, or was interested in it after hearing it looked visually appealing. I finally watched it because I wanted to see what the hype was about and it did look beautiful. For sure the art and animation lived up to the hype but the storytelling and characters were lackluster, which I expected going into the series.
Story (6/10): The story mainly focuses on the main character, Violet Evergarden, and even though she is a human, she never really learned any human
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emotions, since she was only ever used as a "weapon" in the war instead of a human being. This all changed after Gilbert, the major in the army, started to care for Violet like a regular human being. Unfortunately, Gilbert passed away and his last words to Violet were simply "I love you" which became a key part of the story as Violet becomes an "Auto memory doll", a typewriting job that conveys one's thoughts and feelings onto paper. Violet tries to find the meaning of the words "I love you" and also tries to develop human emotion through this job.
The concept of the story was pretty good but the way it was written and developed was very disappointing. Almost every episode, Violet meets a new client who wants letters written for their loved ones and that in turn was also a big part of how Violet's character developed. This however, became one of the most mediocre bits of the series because almost every character that was introduced only appeared for one episode and were put in a melodramatic sad scenario. They were pretty unlikable, thus why some episodes were flat out bland and boring. As for Violet, she was present for all of the story so the parts with her in it were at least entertaining. As expected, a melodramatic series would have a lot of cliches, especially if a series takes its sad moments very seriously, so thats another flaw of the series. I would have also liked to see more of the interactions with the Major and Violet, as these characters are why the story existed in the first place.
Art and sound(9/10): The art, as expected from Kyo Ani, was amazing, as well as the animation. Even though I never really cared for Kyo Ani works, it really was great. It had bright colors, beautiful looking character designs, and the music fit the melodramatic tone of the story.
Character(5/10): I thought a character like Violet had massive potential to be a great character but all I saw was a cliche character that didn't really have a personality. Her personality can be summed up by just saying she loved Gilbert, and thats really about it. Sure, I had a good laugh when she had robot-like actions since she didn't have any emotions but that didn't really add anything to her as a character. Violet's development was not forced but it felt a bit cheap because for me it was very unbelievable how Violet could learn human emotion so quickly as well as suddenly be able to write a letter filled with emotion. Emotion is not something that easy to learn, especially human emotion. The creators should have showed more of her development instead of fast forwarding through it a bit too quickly. Kind of like a math problem, only showing some steps to an equation but missing some key steps. It didn't help when the supporting cast who was supposed to help with Violet's development were boring characters that I couldn't care about or relate to.
Despite my gripes with her, she was still the best character because she was the only one with development through all her experiences with her clients. The side characters, aka Violet's clients were all very one dimensional and the scenes where they where put into a sad scenario made me cringe. It was too much for me. It baffles me how the creators think people can fall in love with these characters by just having them appear for one episode. As for the characters who worked with Violet, they had nothing interesting to their character so I wasn't really invested in them at all. Gilbert was a "good" character. Good as in he was a very nice person to Violet. Other than that I think his character was a bit wasted because more interactions between him and Violet could have been shown instead of just letting him appear in a couple of short flashback. The characters were easily the most disappointing aspect of the series because a type of story like this is supposed to have strong characters that develop well as well as a strong set of side characters that help Violet develop her own character.
Enjoyment (6/10): I normally do not enjoy Kyo ani shows, as I think they are boring and the characters and story are usually really mediocre. I surprisingly somewhat enjoyed Violet Evergarden even though some episodes were also boring. I quite enjoyed the scenes with Violet but only the ones with comedy, not the scenes where she cried. (melodrama) As for the story I didn't enjoy it that much because after watching some episodes it felt like nothing significant happened in those episodes. Pacing was slow even though its only a 12 episode anime and only about 3 episodes were worth watching for me.
Overall (6/10): I honestly thought I would give a lower score but the series really wasn't bad at all. Just not nearly as good as people were praising it to be. There are no complaints for the art and animation but I didn't get how people could praise the mediocre characters and the story. Its one of those series that are supposed to be sad and use emotion to let the viewers relate to the characters or feel bad for their struggles but it failed to be that way because of the way it was written. I recommend this for people who already love the works or Kyo Ani but I don't recommend this for people who dislike melodramatic series.
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Sep 22, 2018
Violet Evergarden
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Violet evergarden is easily the most anticipated anime of the spring 2018 season. I wasn't really excited for it since I never read the light novel, or was interested in it after hearing it looked visually appealing. I finally watched it because I wanted to see what the hype was about and it did look beautiful. For sure the art and animation lived up to the hype but the storytelling and characters were lackluster, which I expected going into the series.
Story (6/10): The story mainly focuses on the main character, Violet Evergarden, and even though she is a human, she never really learned any human ... 
Jun 29, 2018
Diamond no Ace
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I have caught up with the current ongoing manga so my thoughts on the anime has changed a little since reading it
Story -6 : The story of this series is very typical shounen material so its something you would expect from most sports anime. Usually a sports series is good because of its characters anyways so thats all I will say for the story. Art -7: I liked the art, it doesn't try to be too flashy, and characters all have different designs so its easy to tell the difference. I think the anime does a decent job, especially when trying to portray the emotions of ... 
Aug 14, 2017
One piece is a great shounen series. Some people might wonder why I put the score so low. We are talking about the anime here thats why. At first the animation was fine but later on after the new world it became terrible. Pacing is too slow and the animators are lazy. I would have given early one piece anime a 6 or a 7 but overall its not that good. I still recommend the anime because at times some scenes are done better than in the manga and the story of one piece is still interesting. just don't expect something top quality
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