The whole adaptation was a huge dissapointment from the LN but the main series, at the very least, is tolerable. I took my time watching the film because I knew that the changes in the plot would not suit me well. When I finally gave it a chance, it left a bad taste to the mouth because 1.) the emotional scenes were shoved to your mouth and 2.) they already butchered Violet's character arc in the series but they fcked up even anime!Violet's journey and growth in this movie.
Even in this last film, I was looking forward about the cute dynamics between the peeps from the CH postal but they didn't deliver. Their interactions felt force and unnatural, it was a great disservice to the original source because the CH postal in the LN is definitely one of the best found family I encountered as of late.
Both Violet and Gilbert didn't have a good character development and even the smallest amount of character development they gave Violet from the series was lost because of this film.
I bet though, that if you love stunning animation, emotional music, and tear jerking scenes shoved on your throat, you'd probably give this an 8 or even 10.
At the end of the film, all I could think about was pedo Gilbert inflicting more emotional baggage for young Violet as the latter has already chosen to stay at Ecart and take care of poor old Gilbert.
(The original source that actually took its time developing Gilbert and Violet's own characters and relationship will not make you feel this way so I guess, if we quite share this view, you might want to try reading the LN. Also, not to be mean, characters like Iris and Erica doesn't add anything to the story at all. These two characters replaced MORE amazing characters from the LN and I'm still pissed off about it.)
