The feels-filled period melodrama of an emotionless ex-child-soldier amputee girl trying to understand the meaning of love.
A Jormungand that doesn't deal with arms but with feelings, or a single-player Mahoutsukai no Yome.
13 episode conclusive light novel adaptation.
Plus one OVA, set somewhere in the middle of the 13 episodes.
10/10★ - It made me feel human.
Strengths: character development, extraordinarily detailed, excellent scene-writing, artwork and soundtrack.
Weakness: a few child vs. soldiers battles feel ridiculous; can be off-putting, but not the focus of the anime and mainly used as a plot device.
A heart-wrenching no-emotions PTSD child story that stands out for its dedication to character instead of world or plot; brings out every slight emotional change with mesmerizing attention to detail.
Many anime deal with sad traumatized child victims you'd want to protect, but often fail to make you attached to them, distracting you with other stuff instead. Jormungand focus on Black Lagoon-esque gun-fights. Mahoutsukai no Yome's magic world wrestles its MC for screen-time.
Violet Evergarden, however, makes sure it has nothing to see besides Violet's story, whose name entitles the work: the fierce war already ended, the world is simply an industrial period. Each episode solely snapshots her progress to return, or rather, begin of a normal life. Each tiny change, step captured in detail.
How side-characters handle her lack of heart, and how she handles others is a spectacle taking place before your eyes. The environment created by the artwork's texture and the symphonic grandiosity reminiscent of the piece's time is but a declaration that this is a masterpiece worth watching to its every last second.
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The gender-ratio is very balanced, given there's lots of already-made couples in all sorts of relationships in this anime. The artwork gives all characters beauty and charm. It's not ecchi, featuring no sexual themes or nudity in its entirety.
It avoids depicting gore and disturbing imagery, but the anime is tad violent, featuring liters and liters of blood, PTSD-levels of war-zone death, gunshot wounds, and the discomforting loss of Violet's limbs. Again: it avoids disturbing imagery, so it should be fine for most teens and adults to watch.
A Jormungand that doesn't deal with arms but with feelings, or a single-player Mahoutsukai no Yome.
13 episode conclusive light novel adaptation.
Plus one OVA, set somewhere in the middle of the 13 episodes.
10/10★ - It made me feel human.
Strengths: character development, extraordinarily detailed, excellent scene-writing, artwork and soundtrack.
Weakness: a few child vs. soldiers battles feel ridiculous; can be off-putting, but not the focus of the anime and mainly used as a plot device.
A heart-wrenching no-emotions PTSD child story that stands out for its dedication to character instead of world or plot; brings out every slight emotional change with mesmerizing attention to detail.
Many anime deal with sad traumatized child victims you'd want to protect, but often fail to make you attached to them, distracting you with other stuff instead. Jormungand focus on Black Lagoon-esque gun-fights. Mahoutsukai no Yome's magic world wrestles its MC for screen-time.
Violet Evergarden, however, makes sure it has nothing to see besides Violet's story, whose name entitles the work: the fierce war already ended, the world is simply an industrial period. Each episode solely snapshots her progress to return, or rather, begin of a normal life. Each tiny change, step captured in detail.
How side-characters handle her lack of heart, and how she handles others is a spectacle taking place before your eyes. The environment created by the artwork's texture and the symphonic grandiosity reminiscent of the piece's time is but a declaration that this is a masterpiece worth watching to its every last second.
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Drama for the most part. A little bit of action here and there. The journey of writing love-letters offers some brief romance. The prosthetic arms hint steampunk fantasy in similar fashion to those in Fullmetal Alchemist.The gender-ratio is very balanced, given there's lots of already-made couples in all sorts of relationships in this anime. The artwork gives all characters beauty and charm. It's not ecchi, featuring no sexual themes or nudity in its entirety.
It avoids depicting gore and disturbing imagery, but the anime is tad violent, featuring liters and liters of blood, PTSD-levels of war-zone death, gunshot wounds, and the discomforting loss of Violet's limbs. Again: it avoids disturbing imagery, so it should be fine for most teens and adults to watch.
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