Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jidou Shuki Ningyou Episode 1 Discussion

Eh, didn't really like it.

Firstly, the whole premise with Violet being hired to aid in ex-hobo rich heiress' study of etiquette appears far-fetched. I couldn't agree more with Isabella's question "Do machine dolls do that too?". Then, there is Violet calling Isabella "the first ever friend she made" (if the translation by localization company was correct). So that means she does not consider her fellow dolls (Lucalia, Cattleya, Iris, Erica) and other people she's close to, as friends? To be honest i did not see that much development happening between Violet and Isabella to notice how their relationship is any deeper than with any of the aforementioned characters. There was a sleeping- and bathing- together scenes, but you don't befriend people just by sleeping and taking bath with them. I probably missed a few points here, but the whole school arc felt like cheap yuri bait.

Then there was a time skip where we get to see that city is going through rapid growth both in size and technological progress. The lives of familiar characters, on the other hand, did not seem to have had any changes outside of them having different clothes and haircuts. There are no new employees at the office and everybody there seems to still be single. Violet's dialogue with Luculia implied that they didn't communicate in a long time which saddened me to be honest. Also i expected Luculia to be surprised and ask if Violet was demoted to postman, but it appeared that she wasn't much interested in Violet changing her line of work. Taylor was more annoying than cute.

P.s. did anybody check if there was after-credits scene?

I guess that was a story you would expect from Violet Evergarden. Though it feels a bit incomplete without the sisters meeting each other again, not the happiest of endings somehow.