With the long war finally over, those who defined themselves through military service must now find a new path… a task especially difficult for someone who was raised to be nothing more than a weapon. This is the position Violet Evergarden now finds herself in, and with the last words of her cherished someone still echoing in her head she decides to try her hand as a ghostwriter; to give shape to others’ feelings in the hopes of eventually understanding her own.
A post-war character drama with occasional splashes of comic relief, framed with romance elements and peppered with wartime flashbacks.
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This was such a disappointment, of a kind to which I’m becoming accustomed. This disappointment comes from shows with plots which could have been written by high schoolers, tarted-up with nice animation and nice finish. Forgettable somethings which adequately satisfy a fan base’s addiction while dulling the mind. We are to smother any questions we might have about miraculous new abilities, miraculous transformations, miraculous recovery. Because the show looks so nice. I love to hate heavily made-up (“ten pounds of powder”), superficial stories such as this. A laughable story with bad animation is, to me, more sincere, ‘We’ve got a… Read more »
What I mean by the above is that I would have preferred a clever idea, executed less elaborately.