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I think there are some spoilers forward, but I don't care, since nobody actually read reviews before watching anything, anymore.

I actually liked Violet Evergarden. It was my first anime since 2014 that I watched week after week, after every new release, without getting bored. However, the ending pretty sucks. It was pretty anticlimactic and it didn't felt as a proper ending. I think it's mostly about structure, since the ninth episode would be a better series finale. They should have switched the order, making Violet's discovery about Gilbert's fate after the end of the war. Her breakdown and overcoming would be a proper ending ... for the main character than that stupid finale. I dare say that episodes 10, 11, 12 and 13 are just filler.

Besides that, the art and music are gorgeous. Most of characters are pretty likable, even if they don't have more than one episode of development for each one. However, since this anime is called "Violet Evergarden" and not "Violet Evergarden and Friends", it doesn't matter at all.

Overall, it's a nice series. Pretty overrated, judging by what people are saying about it, but still nice.

I went to a special screening of this and watched without knowing anything about it. I actually liked, since it's a well-intentioned coming-of-age story with some magical realism as a plot device to make the story happen.

The basic premise is somewhat close to Bill Murray's Groundhog Day, with the difference that the day isn't fully reset, but it restarts with some kind of checkpoint, just to correct the last mistake the main duo, that is running away from their boring routine, made.

The main complaint about this movie is about the "density" of the characters. Let me tell you something: you don't have space ... to develop multi-layered characters in a short story like a movie. You need more time to make it. What we need to understand is that both protagonists are upset with their lives and they want to change it. The main mistake, I think, is the way the movie presents the boy first as the main character instead of the girl. Without this choice, we wouldn't feel like something is still missing at the end.

The sound is Ok and the same goes for the art, besides the ugly CG that they used for almost everything.

What matters is that the movie is entertaining. I'd rather watch a simple movie like this one instead of a pretentious deep and complex story that makes me bored.

Looks like people are butthurt that this isn't a new Your Name than anything.

You know, the main problem about Makoto Shinkai is that he doesn't know how to tell a different story. Everything he writes is just the same. Your Name is nice, but Shinkai took like about ten failed attempts to finally make something passable. It's not essentially different from Voices of a Distant Star, The Garden of the Words or The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

If I didn't know about Shinkai and any of his work before and watched Your Name without any previous knowledge, it definitely would be a more enjoyable movie. Reminds me a lot fo La La Land, but with a pretty ... happier ending.

And I still don't know why this movie is such a phenomenon. Is not like anything that hasn't been made before. Ok, it’s a good movie, the first Shinkai work that is entertaining and not just plain boring, but I’ve seen a lot of Japanese anime movies that are a lot better, like Bakemono no Ko, Omoide no Marnie, Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari and Hotaru no Haka. Damn, even Redline is more refreshing, innovative and bold than Your Name.