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Violet's inability to comprehend other people's emotions is really highlighted in this episode.

I couldn't help but giggle when Violet got straight to business while observing Erica.

"Please cease crying immediately." - Violet Evergarden

Violet wants to know the whereabouts of Gilbert, but Hodgins is holding that information from her? Guess we will have to keep watching to find out!

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halcyon

I think I'm realizing the (version?) you're watching is a little different then the one most people are used to. And I know you mentioned not keeping up with all the different subscription services but if you happen to have Netflix I think I'd recommend continuing the series on there instead

Luis Arispe

I'm gonna make a very male hetero statement.....Cattleya Baudelaire is the sexiest character I've ever seen in an anime....mmm mmm. .... Even her name is sexy... sorry!....HA HA HA. To serious things. Sadly, the use of childs in war as soldiers and as human shields remains a reality even today. We can see it with ease in the armed conflicts today. I don't want to get political, but not all the world consider it a bad thing. The ending song is "Michishirube" by Minori Chihara.

Glen Kelley

We also need to understand that at the time of these early episodes Violet was around 14. We're not sure about her age when she was fighting, but probably around 8-10 when Gilbert first took her in. It's not explicitly stated, but using children for war seems to be more common in this world. Children really don't understand death until they get around 5-7 and if you train a child for war at that time, it will desensitize their feelings, basically delay their emotional growth, shove down any emotions about taking another's life. These children generally have pushed down all those real emotions deep into their subconscious, but eventually those repressed emotions will have to come out at some point.

Andrew Hellebrand

Don't think these are all going to be necessarily in the order you ruminated on things or asked questions this time, but I'll do my best to make sense and hopefully not ramble too much. Violet adjusting her arms when she first started to learn typing, was effectively her calibrating the sensitivity of the mechanisms controlling her fingers. Remember as far as we know she has almost no tactile feedback beyond minimal vibrations up the arms to where the prosthetics meet her shoulders, but they also function by anime logic more than actual mechanical engineering. It's also why Cattleya has to tell her to stop when she first picked up speed, as it's probably audible to her that Violet was hitting the keys too hard. Plus if you use a mechanical typewriter certain combinations/orders of the keys can jam if used without learning the proper technique. You weren't entirely wrong with your initial thought that Dolls would write letters for folk who were illiterate, but that's just one of their simpler tasks and ghostwriting more elaborately & eloquently in longer form for the middle class & members of high society is more demanding & nuanced so in turn is a higher profile job & pays accordingly. I'm fairly confident Cattleya's first name is pronounced 'Cat-a-lay-a' (her name is derived from a type of orchid originally found in Central/South America, sometimes nicknamed the Queen of the Orchids) and her character design is intentionally meant to be very easy on the eye, so your instant girl crush is understandable. She's already naturally voluptuous and flirty personality-wise, but also dresses to accentuate & highlight her figure and is highly intelligent with the self-awareness to match. Being able to simultaneously act any mixture of seductive, sympathetic, persuasive and unthreatening depending on what a situation requires makes her very good at her job as a Doll. From what we've seen so far, it's clear that Cattleya and Hodgins have known each other for quite some time, there's clear trust between them (she's basically his star employee at the equivalent of a new start-up company in the modern day) and they're close enough that she can enjoy teasing him and making him act flustered around others without worrying about causing offence. But whether or not they're in a relationship is ambiguous right now. But it's also apparent from the end scene where they'd gone for drinks that Hodgins came back from the war with his own mental scars and emotional burdens; post-combat trauma in a time before proper societal understanding and professional treatment through therapy became more accepted is a running theme within the show. Regarding Violet's brooch, it features quite a large emerald and this is a time depicted where there isn't mass production of jewellery, so it's distinctive & unique even before factoring the attachment she has towards it. We have no reason to believe that Hodgins didn't spend his wages (his savings/disposable income being limited after having started a company) on getting it back after she discovered it was missing from her belongings, as a former officer in a post-war environment it's not unbelievable that he'd have some knowledge of the black market either (likely acquiring supplies/equipment this way during wartime when there were shortages through official channels). Benedict the young postman with the motorbike is voiced by Koki Uchiyama (who you might recognise as the voice actor for Kei Tsukishima in Haikyu!!). I knew you would probably clock the heels pretty quickly, he most likely wears them for a mixture of vanity/fashion to increase his height and to use like stirrups when riding his bike for work. Knee high boots for men originated in things like cavalry uniforms, but the style of the heels Benedict has are likely exaggerated for aesthetic reasons. Erica is voiced by Minori Chihara (she also played Kaori Nakaseko in Sound Euphonium, the third year trumpeter who Yuko idolised and Reina competed against for the Crescent Moon Dance solo at the end of season one) and I like how her character's introspective nature & inner monologue allowed the story to introduce the origin of the term Auto Memory Doll without it seeming too much like forced exposition; being the precursor to the typewriter in this universe, invented by a husband so his author wife could continue to write as her eyesight failed her.

Joe Kuan

Next episode onwards, you're going to need a lot of tissues. Fun fact: Violet Evergarden and K-On! were both produced by Kyoto Animation (KyoAni). 💜 It’s heartbreaking to remember the Kyoto Animation arson attack in 2019. So many talented artists and staff were lost. 🕯️ RIP to all the victims. They will never be forgotten.

Chris bolieu

i think the one she is watching the subs are based off the English dub and not the Japanese translation. its not a huge difference but it is different.