Violet Evergarden Episode 6 Discussion

Major_Gilbert said:


Anime producers made a mistake. In the novel, she doesn't say anything related to her having learnt writing a few years ago when she is typing for Leon.

However, the only time where she mentions learning something is during the conversation with those other men. She says this

“It has only been a few years ever since I learned how to read.”

So they should've said 'read', not 'write'.

Yasaal said:
Makes sense. You gotta be careful when doing an original show loosely based on an existing media as well. Btw, you are a big fan of Gilbert aren't you? XD

TragicRomance said:
My God can we tell her Gilbert has died already. Every time she mentions him, it feels strange. I mean. I have heard she doesn't mention him as much in the novel so it definitely feels off.
This episode was a downer until the last few moments. Previous episode and even 3-4 ones were much better imo.

Yasaal said:
Now that you think of it yeah you're right. Maybe she learnt while on the war? But then that can't happen since first off she can't have time to learn to write while fighting XD and then in the first episode she didn't know how to write. I think she lied or smt? Or that the novel said she learnt it a few years ago while the anime (which is mainly original content) got it mixed up... Maybe the director didn't check it up or something...

lithae said:
Everywhere I try to watch this episode, they have episode 4 posted as episode 6. Am I missing something or was the entire anime community just off yesterday? Is episode 6 actually out anywhere yet, I'm so confused.

Major_Gilbert said:
Nice. Chapter 4 has been adapted. Good to see Luculia again.

This episode went so fast, felt a bit too rushed. I think they reduced quite a lot of the dialogue between Leon and Violet. This could've been the best episode but they didn't do well on it.

Would've preferred the novel's ending of chapter 4 as well. I'm not sure why they changed Leon's hair colour...

Also I was surprised that they didn't include the fact that it was actually Cattleya who was supposed to be there, not Violet. The dolls had to stay for 30 days, and since Cattleya was already busy with other jobs, Violet replaced her for a week and left earlier than all the other dolls.

MysteriousBanana said:

Remember at the start of the first episode Violet was already trying to write a report to him concerning her condition? She already knew how to read and write before becoming a Doll and it's most likely Gilbert was the one who taught her (particularly since he wanted her to grow up as a normal person). Only reason she couldn't write was because she wasn't used to her prosthetic arms yet.

DatRandomDude said:
i had my hopes up with last week being genuinely good for once but its back being alright at best.

far from the worst episode but still .. urgh

Abyhape said:
I'm getting tired of hearing her full name everytime someone call Violet.

Toshiya0 said:
Hahaha, yes. All you need to do is open your heart and your wishes will come true. Rejoice, shounen.

Nine_ZnT said:

Violet's smile. Episode 05 all over again. Hahaha

johnisnothisdate said:
Not to be dramatic, but I'd die for Leon

Major_Gilbert said:
Nice. Chapter 4 has been adapted. Good to see Luculia again.

This episode went so fast, felt a bit too rushed. I think they reduced quite a lot of the dialogue between Leon and Violet. This could've been the best episode but they didn't do well on it.

Would've preferred the novel's ending of chapter 4 as well. I'm not sure why they changed Leon's hair colour...

Also, I was surprised that they didn't include the fact that it was actually Cattleya who was supposed to be there, not Violet. The dolls had to stay for 30 days, and since Cattleya was already busy with other jobs, Violet replaced her for a week and left earlier than all the other dolls.

MrMushin said:
Now, this is what I want to see from this series.

The direction here is amazing, the music placement is suiting, the animation is beautiful, the story is interesting, Literally, everything in this episode felt great for me!
There is character development for side characters here as well, though it works pretty slowly on Violet.

Damm, I really thought tsundere boy was a girl at first lol...

5/5 This is what I want to see from Violet Evergarden.

Tarotist said:
"A profession full of women who hope to one day marry into money." That's racist. *DING!*

Astronomical observatory...more like one huge dating convention...

I miss Violet's salutes...but the show must go on...

"If one's birth or upbringing places a restriction on who they can speak to, then I believe you should stay away from me. I am merely stating the facts."

Translation: "If I'm not good enough for you, then BTFO." PWNED! +1 to Violet!

Among the side characters we've come across, I think Leon is the best one yet. He's a little similar to Violet, and he got to converse with her a lot about who she is and what she feels. Nice episode overall.

Faederwulf said:
I was glad to see Luculia again.

tambi33 said:
"That guy's" dad was basically the tomb raider of book collecting...
for some reason i'm shipping "that guy" and Violet. why...? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

and Violet, she's bloody Sherlock sometimes

but her hearts in the right place (as she is meant to be sort of emotionless)

meh, this episode was interesting... although ive forgotten some of the characters; who was it that she first met in that building.
and have i missed an episode since last episode ended with Dietfired (i believe) and this week was something different is there some sort of detach between episodes or something

Major_Gilbert said:


Yeah. Doesn't get enough screen time though.

Kirie-san said:
I really liked this episode although there were some changes from the novel like Leon's appearance, I don't know why they decided to give him white skin and dark hair...
The backgrounds were pretty, I imagined it like that when I was reading the novel. Leon's character, his interactions with Violet and his background were faithful to to novel, although I think they should have spent more time on his story. But it was really moving.
They also changed the farewell scene, and Leon's confession, but I think it was well done in the episode.

So despite the changes, I liked this episode, my favorite one with Luculia's, and I hope the next ones will be based on the novel. Episodes with Erica, Iris and Charlotte were a waste of time for me.

XavierLockhart said:
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who's kinda disappointed with this episode. I was looking forward to the adaptation of this chapter, but it feels completely rushed and several scenes are skipped, if not altered completely.

No mention of Cattleya whatsoever; no description of how Leon's view toward women changed after that, and how Violet is basically the first one he ever fell in love with; Leon's infamous green hair didn't make any appearance and instead changed into Gilbert's hair color; no confession from Leon at all; and most of all, the one I'm most disappointed about is the fact that there's no meeting between them in the future like in the novel. IT COMPLETELY DESTROYS THE MESSAGE IMO, AND I'M SO SAD

Eanraig said:


Leon blamed his mother for leaving him, and saw love as something that makes everyone act irrational, he also seems to have resentment towards women in general. When Violet tells him that she would leave to find that person she loves, Leon is surprised, he didn't think even someone like Violet, as robotic and perfect as she seems to be, would act the way her mother did. He's acknowledging that part of human nature, and decides to step out of his comfort zone, maybe unconsciously wanting to go look for his parents even though that's an irrational action that will most likely get him killed as well. I haven't read the novel but I didn't think this episode was "nothing", far from it. if you can't track his progression that's on you more than the screenplay.

Petalview said:
I'm sorry, I know the novel might have told a totally different story or depict it in another way. For me, this episode didn't feel out of the place as I haven't read the novels, yet. There might be more background on this and more reasoning why exactly Violet was there, but if they had included it, I guess it wouldn't fit into "one" episode. I'm quite interested in the changes they made. What did Leon originally look like? After watching this episode, I thought he was a fitting character to this series.

Actually, I can imagine that the mother of Leon just wanted to protect him by leaving him behind. After all, she was going on a dangerous journey.I also liked this scene, where EVEN such a person as Violet would do the same and do everything for the other person. Although, what I even liked more was her response. It was about how to apologize to Leon because of leaving him behind and not fulfilling her given task aka the duty to finish her work there.


Last but not least, I know that the last episode ends on a cliffhanger, but Violet asked at some point during this episode, if she is allowed to have such a beautiful profession, it didn't feel as if the didn't continue at all. Of course, I would have seen more of the conversation between Violet and the mysterious guy who knows more about her past aka Naval Captain Dietfrien Bougainvillea, but the talk she had with him left his marks within her. Even if we only were able to recognise a little bit in this episode. I think at a later point we will learn more about that particular conversation. The cliffhanger puts even more importance and weight to it.

EDIT: One more thing, I grow to love the ending song more and more. It really fits this series and somehow it is placed quite well at the end of every episode.. Or let's say, they made the end of the episode fitting to the ending song as well as being an interesting conclusion to the episode.

Kirie-san said:

I've read the novel and episode 6 didn't feel out of the place, even with the changes they've done (according to me). I do think that Leon's story deserved to be told as it was in the novel, but you're kinda right, they focused on the most important parts.
In the novel, he's more a tsundere than in the anime, but in the anime they didn't really developped his "hate" for women. But the fact that he didn't cleary tell Violet that he loves her is consistent with the fact that in the anime, they didn't manage to show everything about him, his story. So I think that despite the changes, it was a good episode, it was as interesting as the novel chapter. Although they really could respect his novel appearance (brown skin and greenish hair according to the description since in the illustration we don't get to see his face).

While I was reading the novel, I was also thinking that Leon's mother wanted to protect him by leaving him behind but we can't be sure since we don't get to know what she was thinking, we only got Leon's point of view.

You're right about Dietfried in the previous episode, but what annoys me is the fact that we got to see few novel content adapted and too much fillers since the beginning. I don't know how they'll handle what's left since in the novel, after the war Dietfried doesn't meet Violet this early in the story. But it seems that Charlotte story will be include in the Gaiden...

I suppose I'm the only one who doesn't like the ending song lol...

CrystalGemFox said:
Not gonna lie, towards the part of the comet, my heart started getting flooded with feels, really hope we see Leon again.

Oh_Rusty_Nail said:
My favourite episode so far. Didnt feel the previous ones that much. I wish there was a series with Leon.

Loved the setting.

shanimebib said:


You mean a whole new anime with Leon as the main character or another episode revolving around him?