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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Wow! Just Fucking WOW! We go back about 2.5 Months ago... The Fire break on July 18th on Kyoto Animation 1st Studio. That was something no anime fan can forget about... "KyoAni has lost 34 (35 If I'm wrong please correct me) Handful work of People that gave smile to our faces in that Horror like Firebreak. This was Devastating. No one knew How to help them... But Japanese people as they are, any kind of money sent to them went to the families who lost their loved ones. KyoAni couldn't been in an even worse then that. AND EVEN SO THAT MOVIE WAS A SPECTACULAR MASTERPIECE. I holded myself so hard no to interfere to the Japanese Audience, but I just Started Crying when the movie finished... That most be one of their greatest movie they made! Even with the lost of their most people! If this movie was for the ones who are in heaven right now, the people who are alive right now that made this, should be very happy right now (; LONG LIVE KYOTO ANIMATION! 9/10 |
| The Movie was really good. The production value was just Top-Notch, The landscapes were so richly detailed also, Violet, Amy, and all the other cast were Amazingly animated too. The mix of drama and comedy was ideal and very appealing. |
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| 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? |
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| Felt kinda mixed but to be expected considering that this is from the first half of the gaiden. Art was amazing as usual, time skip was not ideal but understandable. |
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| Stunning movie, easily into my favourites list and probably just about edging Tenki no Ko (Weathering With You) too as the Best Movie of 2019 for me! Such a heartfelt story yet again and Kyoto Animation didn't hold back one bit to display their finesse. And the Sound Department was fabulous too! I don't think there were any new noticeable tracks for the Gaiden movie but why even bother when the tv series had such a masterpiece-level Sound Department in the first place. Watching the trailers and the first few minutes of the movie, I thought I'd come to dislike the elder step-sibling but boy I couldn't have been more wrong there. Of course the little one is still the MVP but I was quite intrigued by her character too. Fitting for Violet's friend, I totally approve. And now the MVP! God, she's just too sweet! Violet going along with the flow during the job interview-ish scene was really sweet to watch as well. Nee-nee and Nii-nii, gah she's just too cute. No wonder why the elder one took her in instantaneously. Aoi Yuuki, the VA, did a fantastic job as always! Benedict, or Shisho, being moved by her straightforwardness and dreams of becoming a delivery person was really sweet to see as well. I just loved their chemistry, I hope we'll get to see more of that in the upcoming movie! But yikes, the moment he tore up during the "so close yet so far" scene was the final jab to my heart. Cried buckets even before that and after mind you, but that was a tiny bit special even then. Overall, I'm really glad this Gaiden movie got an official premiere here in Mainland China! I can only hope they'll do the same for the next project! Solid 9/10! Thank you to Kyoto Animation for producing this dime and I'm really looking forward to all the future projects from them! #WeLoveKyoAni And here's a bit more of my thoughts on the reception of the Movie at my place: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1802066#msg58939881 |
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| Taylor is just Aoi Yuuki emulating her inner Aoi Yuuki |
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| Finally got to see it! Thank-you Eurozoom for bringing this masterpiece to France! Outstanding production from Kyoani. It was so good that I did it even noticed those 1h30 on the cinema. I was more than surprised when the credits showed on the screen! What a memorable experience! Now I want to see even more the real Violet Evergarden movie! |
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| damn, what a beauty of a movie. the animation was really great, character designs are gorgeous and movements are so elegant and enjoyable to look at, especially the dance segments were really nice. backgrounds were great most of the time, other than sometimes just being flat-looking or just plain cgi on the other end, the story was so-so to say the least. still a fine movie to watch  |
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| Audience in my city is great. Credit rolls and no one stand up. Everyone wait for message about Kyoani... then it end. I don't know if the message is there but not subtitled or is not there to begin with. No images of staff, I only remember there was 4kanji in the end of credit. |
| There is like 2 weeks delay in my recent reading list I randomly bought discount/second hand manga with cute/mysterious cover.  Use Personal Blacklist extension in Chrome if you just want to Google for a series synopsis, without google slapping MAL score in it. 3/1 |
| Loved it. Beautiful, as expected. A few minor things I want to point out though. First, she called Amy her first friend, but by that time she should have made friends with the other Dolls and Luculia too. She doesn't consider them friends? Or maybe this happens before all that? But the latter wouldn't make sense seeing the time and how far Violet's developed. A minor thing, but still. Can't decide between an 8 or 9... I can't say this is a 10, but this was still really really good. Something I wouldn't mind watching more than once. I was really sad that they didn't show the credits honouring those who were killed in the arson attack here in Indonesia. I was looking forward to that. It was such a heartbreaking and devastating event and I wanted to see for myself the credits honouring those people. Sad they cut it out for the one here. I hope KyoAni keeps making beautiful, in every sense of the word, art like this. #ThankYouKyoAni Major_Gilbert said: Felt kinda mixed but to be expected considering that this is from the first half of the gaiden. Art was amazing as usual, time skip was not ideal but understandable. Do you mean this movie only covered half of the novel? |
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| Does anybody know the title of the Waltz music on the dance scene ? |
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Of the Gaiden novel, it only adapted chapter 2. They extended it quite a bit, actually the whole second part is original. Chapter 1 is already adapted in the main series. So technically I guess it's less than half... |
"Le vent se lève!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" - Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière Marin - |
Major_Gilbert said: Of the Gaiden novel, it only adapted chapter 2. They extended it quite a bit, actually the whole second part is original. Chapter 1 is already adapted in the main series. So technically I guess it's less than half... So what's the rest of it about? |
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| After a full week of exam on my college, i decided to watch this movie on theatre tonight! *The movie is great, the quality of the animation and also the soundtracks is giving me that nostalgic feel. Got my eyes a little bit wet at the end of this movie :,) |
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Major_Gilbert said: Of the Gaiden novel, it only adapted chapter 2. They extended it quite a bit, actually the whole second part is original. Chapter 1 is already adapted in the main series. So technically I guess it's less than half... Ah thats why the second half is kinda weird to me... |
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The others are chapters on other CH postal workers like Benedict, Cattleya, Gilbert&Hodgins as students in military school and the last chapter is one that involves everyone. Sternengesang said: Is this canon? Or is this just a ova? Overall great movie 9/10 The first part is canon, since it's from the Gaiden novel. But the second half isn't. |
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| Just finished watching it in the cinema. I didn’t expect anything less from the animation, it was really beautiful. The music was too. I definitely liked the first part more than the second part. The time skip kinda threw me off. Aside from the dancing scene, nothing really grabbed me. The original series was very emotional for me to watch and there were a lot of scenes that stuck on my mind but the same feeling didn’t appear here. Also, I really wished they met at the end. |
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| Just finished watching as well, as expected for godly animation and soundtrack. But the story eh, like most of Violet Evergarden episode... not my cup of tea, this could be easily done in 30 minutes, nothing special and impactful, some questionable areas to make it looks sad but im not even sad im questioning it lol, Amy is so sentimental about her sis but never do anything... giving her a better place in orphanage and lost contact with her forever, she only writes letter once, she never check her even after married... if lil sis doesn't come by herself, she probably never will and why are you standing still lil sis? just go meet, hug your big sis and be done with it. Well at least it's not such a waste in a big cinema. |
| God damnit, I don't like Violet Evergarden... always makes me cry like a little... girl. Twice this time during the movie. It's kinda works as two parts and one movie and both works amazingly well. Hope changes and characters from it stay in next movie (season 2 ever?). Let's conveit it a bit chronogically. Start's as standart Violet episode. I was bit confused at start, basically till half of movie, then I recognize why. First part is flashback, from start of series, Violet working for half a year as doll. So somewhere between episodes 3 - 5? I thought other dolls (Ludicia as well) and princess was first of Violet's friends, but guess not. Movie takes it times to explain why Emi/Isabella is noble and orphan child as same time from similar age, but it works in the end. Little sister is cute. Always breaks my heart see little girls crying. Then comes big brother Benedict. What a thoughtfull guy he is. Anyway, never noticed or forgot his BDSM quirk, does he really have to have high heels and pants like that? Creep. Second part of movie everything was coming together, but anytime girl start screaming loudly I heard Tanya Von Debrechaff clearly, which was kinda threatening. And it was really sad they didn't see each other in the end, but I believe they will, it ends with positive notes and Violet brings romantic happiness as always. Animation was beatuiful, characters were believable and music was on spot as always. 10/10 melancholic movie. |
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| "Watashi wa anata no namaewoyonde, sonotoki dake watashitachi no kankei wa eien ni tsudzukimasu." I call your name, only then will our relationship last forever. |
| looked beautiful, just gonna have to wait for better subs |
| Screenings in Mexico thanks to Konnichiwa Fest. The first part of the movie felt a little bit rushed (or maybe it was just me, who knows) but I liked, Taylor was such a delightful little girl. |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
| Freaking love it. I watched it today. This movie is packed with emotion. |
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| Another story of separated people working through their emotions and becoming connected through Violet and letters. Despite these arcs getting repetitive, the visuals and characters freshen it up every time. This was even more gorgeous than the TV series though. But most importantly this included multiple bath scenes (nothing like those beautiful arms against Violet's pale skin) and TWINTAIL VIOLET :) |
| Pretty nice movie. Animation was gorgeous as expected. I wasn't expecting a time-skip, looks like the next movie will take place then as well. The story was decent, It didn't make me cry or anything though and i recall the anime series managing that quite a few times. Overall not much impact on me, but i did enjoy my time with it. 7/10 |
| This was a bittersweet movie. During the first half of the movie, I initially thought it was moving towards the yuri path, but it didnt and was more of friendship. Whew! The second half was the heartfelt, happy yet sad part of the film. Enjoyable movie! |
You can just be yourself. Do things your own way, one step at a time. You'll get there. Just be yourself, you'll be fine." ~Fruit Basket |
| First half was fine, but the kid was so annoying in the second half. Couldn't enjoy it. |
| The movie was so beautiful in many ways! Love it!! <3 I was waiting the moment Taylor would come out from the brushes and hug Amy, but in the end, she didn't... I actualy felt quite disapointed cuz the moment was too perfect for the big reunion ;-; They did a wornderful job as always :) |
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| Such a wonderful film...hmmm |
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| Such a wonderful movie, I hope Kyoanimation can bring us quality content in the future and wish their lost souls in the fire rest in peace... this movie included some of their touches and I really appreciate that.. ;-; |
| First off, massive condolences to the amazing people over at KyoAni who worked on this film who got killed in the arson attack last year, it was a very harrowing scene of humanity's most extreme disgust and sadness. In loving memory of the hard-working people over at KyoAni, this film is nothing short of brilliant, as expected to be of Violet Evergarden. Getting a side story on the reconciliation of two orphaned souls: Amy Bartlett and Taylor, the unnoticed daughter of the prestigious York family. Through the unnerving fate of cripples these two form a bond, only to be separated and living their different lives apart from each other. Amy a.k.a Isabella the illegitimate daughter has lived under the breath of the royal family, only to find that the royal life impairs her ability to communicate, and so in a girl's boarding school Violet makes her way to groom her for a 3-months contract. Honestly, her part totally feels like bait click-and-switch with the Yuri themes as Amy got closer to Violet and releases her weak agile body to be life-breathing in Violet's presence. And as expected, the letter scenes always kills me softly with scenes of regret and the eventual hope to reconcile in the future. As for Taylor the Nee-chan of Amy, as a young kid and worse an orphan, life does not play roses on her as her memory lingers on hoping to find Amy once again and reconcile with her. So fast forward in a time-skip, she's all grown up but with her disability of reading Violet shows her the reassurance. That took a major leap with Benedict going the way for her to pass her letter to Amy, the only minor gripe being for both of them to show up on each other's side, face-to-face. Regardless, the letters served their purpose to know each other's wellbeing and heart pangs of the suffering went through in their early days. The icing on the cake is always KyoAni's gorgeous visuals, and it is absolutely plastered all around. Sad that we won't be able to see another KyoAni work anytime soon, but great hopes for the movie. What a great side story film, the story being so-so but the visuals selling the film, which to me, still is enjoyable from start to finish. |
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| *sniff*sniff* I'm not crying...you're crying!! Seeing Amy and Violet dance was perfection in of itself. Just a stellar scene. |
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| damnn .. i wish this will be sad ending but i was wrong .. overall 6/10 |
| What an emotional rollercoaster this was, my gosh. Didn’t expect that development in the second half, but it was sure a welcome one. Cried twice. 9/10 |
| Oh God Aoi Yuuki actually voices the little girl. I didn't even realize while watching but then at the end after she delivered the letter I just heard Tanya when she spoke and went to check. Pretty fun. As for the movie itself, oh God I just hated that first half. A bunch of yuri baiting garbage while trying to make Violet look masculine even though she's one of the most beautiful anime characters ever. Just why? Could have had the same story while making them normal friends without all the weirdness. Second half was way more wholesome and largely saved the movie for me. The idea of this little girl traveling all that way with nothing but a letter with Violet's name on it saying to come to her if she needs help was just so amusing. 7/10 overall. |
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| holy shit that movie was atrocious. That troll ending where she was 5 feet away and didn't meet amy? 4/10 and that is being generous. No sad scenes besides a tiny bit when she opened the letter at the end. WOW, honestly mind boggling. |
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| Honestly was a lot better than I expected. First half was emotional enough but the 2nd half...I did not expect a 3-year tiimeskip and I didn't expect Taylor to become such a great character. Really beautiful story, top-tier level visuals as expected from KyoAni. Really a wonderful film as a whole. The love between the two sisters is just beautiful. |
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| The plot of this series never ceases to amuse. What a wonderful story to tell about the words that make the distance between the two disappear. Fabulous. |
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| This anime really keeps amazing me, the bittersweet thoughts, emotions, and characters all fit so well into each other into such a wonderful scenery that you just can't look away from this beautiful piece of work! Just absolutely amazing! |
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