What is it, in summary?: It is a story that focuses on the beauty of letter-writing and the impacts a letter has on both the writer and recipient. A soldier who at teen age was trained to be a killing machine for the war, struggles with getting in touch with her emotions now that the war has ended. Having lost her primary purpose, she explores these emotions she struggles to understand through learning the art of writing letters as a Doll, which is a profession in the world where humans tell the Doll who and what they want written in a letter and have it sent out for them.
What do you love about it?: I love reading epistolary fiction, and the emphasis on letter-writing and its impacts really speaks to me as someone who still sends out snail mail to penpals over the world.
It has stunning graphics and is extremely pleasing to the eye to watch. The music score is also beautiful.
Furthermore, Violet Evergarden is a tragically beautiful story; a girl who had her childhood stripped away from her so young and became dehumanized into a war weapon, learning how to actually be a human again. She formed a close bond with her major in the war, whom she was separated from after their last battle, and is taken care of by one of the major's friends, where he helps her get gainful employment and readjust to a post-war society, but the readjustment is not easy for her, especially with not knowing where her closest ally ended up.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Fic or Art, the story ends at a good stopping point where you can continue the story to how you think the characters in the cast end up, or make up your own episodic journey of Violet learning more about her emotions and the world. I would also love art, since Violet Evergarden is stunning visually.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Although the series is very short and manageable as is, there is also a "summary episode" on Netflix that is only an hour or so long that splices the most essential parts of the canon for the first ten episodes into a condensed one. Then you only have to supplement with the last three episodes to get the gist of the main story.
Violet Evergarden
Media: TV series, anime found on Netflix here.
Approx length: 13 episodes
Where to find it: Netflix here.
What is it, in summary?: It is a story that focuses on the beauty of letter-writing and the impacts a letter has on both the writer and recipient. A soldier who at teen age was trained to be a killing machine for the war, struggles with getting in touch with her emotions now that the war has ended. Having lost her primary purpose, she explores these emotions she struggles to understand through learning the art of writing letters as a Doll, which is a profession in the world where humans tell the Doll who and what they want written in a letter and have it sent out for them.
What do you love about it?: I love reading epistolary fiction, and the emphasis on letter-writing and its impacts really speaks to me as someone who still sends out snail mail to penpals over the world.
It has stunning graphics and is extremely pleasing to the eye to watch. The music score is also beautiful.
Furthermore, Violet Evergarden is a tragically beautiful story; a girl who had her childhood stripped away from her so young and became dehumanized into a war weapon, learning how to actually be a human again. She formed a close bond with her major in the war, whom she was separated from after their last battle, and is taken care of by one of the major's friends, where he helps her get gainful employment and readjust to a post-war society, but the readjustment is not easy for her, especially with not knowing where her closest ally ended up.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Fic or Art, the story ends at a good stopping point where you can continue the story to how you think the characters in the cast end up, or make up your own episodic journey of Violet learning more about her emotions and the world. I would also love art, since Violet Evergarden is stunning visually.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Although the series is very short and manageable as is, there is also a "summary episode" on Netflix that is only an hour or so long that splices the most essential parts of the canon for the first ten episodes into a condensed one. Then you only have to supplement with the last three episodes to get the gist of the main story.
Condensed recap here.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): gore, set after a war but flashbacks to war scenes.