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Get Anime'd: Violet Evergarden Episodes 3 & 4 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-08-14 04:00:04
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2025-07-31 19:32:10
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Matt, Heather and Nick discuss episodes 3 & 4 of Violet Evergarden, "May You Be an Exemplary Auto Memories Doll" & "You Won't be a Tool, but a Person Worthy of that Name". Violet Evergarden is available on Netflix.

Next week we are watching Violet Evergarden: Special (a separate entry on Netflix) and episode 5.

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they *gotta* find a word other than tool

Luke Lamar

Just for some language context as this, along with many anime, are very german coded (probably because a lot of the Meiji restoration was modeled off of german examples), but "Leidenschaftlich" means Passionate in German, a nice subtext to the emotional work that Violet is attempting.

SchniedelWutz

I think Japanese writers use German like western writers use Latin names. The strangest recent example for me was frieren with names like Heiter, Denken or Lügner (amused, thinking, liar)

Notrock

Nick's comparison to older TV is spot on. Violet Evergarden is a breath of fresh air from rushed 8 episode seasons and cinematic universes. It's nice to take some time to vibe in a pretty landscape and warm, sentimental feelings for 20 minutes.

ryan mcgrath

File this show under r/im14andthisisdeep They work at a brothel, get it? I’m just glad they have strong feelings one way or another of this show.

Rory McDaid

I do hate to prove Heather wrong but… this guy here sitting on his Rahxephon series and movie dvd’s, Rahxephon novelisations and manga, imported Rahxephon art book and soundtrack..… This guy, is a person alive that cares about Rahxephon. I got bit pretty hard by the Rahxephon bug back in the early 2000s - also when I was spending way too much on anime merch, apparently. What a weird and stupid word to write so many times… For a fairly obvious Evangelion clone, I always liked the things it did differently. No idea if I’d still feel that way now. I maybe also liked it more because everyone dismissed it for being too Evangelion-like and, ever the contrarian, made me love it more. I liked the mechanical design and the plot twists later in the series and built into the premise, and overall still have a lot of affection for it (even if I haven’t rewatched it in 15+ years).

Console Canon

I enjoy Suicide Squad: Isekai, but I will concede that the characters are drawn with broad strokes, even for those characters.

Craig K

I watch along with the show for every anime and the completionist in me will probably keep me going, but this is hands down the anime I’ve struggled most with of everything the show has covered so far. Just finished episodes 3 and 4 and the show is just so sluggish and predictable. None of the big emotional swings work for me because they’re all so telegraphed and obvious. I know it’s not a constructive or interesting thing to say, but IMO this show is boring!

Rory McDaid

This is a series I tried to watch back when it dropped and I abandoned after a few episodes. Like Heather and some others, it felt too familiar and the execution didn’t feel as successful as comparable series’. Beautiful, sure, but just didn’t do it for me. And I love a slow, episodic series. Series’ like Natsume’s Book Of Friends feel so much more successful at having a slower long term plot while each episode tells a small story about characters and the world they inhabit. Or even Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee, the Shonen Jump version of “Postal service x Memories and Feelings” from a good few years back, felt more interesting in its storytelling of small, unimportant characters.

Kevin Ela

Frieren is this + dragons and magic and cool fights. We could still pivot to Frierennnnnnnnnnn

Bobson Dugnutt

Guessing it’s too late now, but the food segment could have been called ‘Get Plate’

Michael Pemulis

I am enjoying this show. I will say, I'd like it more, if Violet's arms were chainsaws.

oom

I love many things in the slice of life vein. I love the heightened handling of everyday crises. But books, movies, and shows that do it well manage to be electrifying through and because of the way their perceived gentleness penetrates and reveals hard-to-isolate truths in characters and circumstances. They don't take up our time telling us things we already get. (Disclaimer: I only believe this to be mostly true, there're always exceptions.) So far, this show numbs and frustrates me. Its biggest shortcoming in my eyes is how it includes us in Violet's education on things we've already anticipated or understood, and offers us no lens through which that education might gain relevance to us, or be humorous, or be insightful. That, and the tiresome "women as dolls" thing, which I just find to be uncute and a bummer. Tough to sit through, despite its heady beauty.

Rachael

If we get to the end of this show and find out Violet was a robot this entire time, I’m going to launch myself into the sun. It’s literally the only plausible explanation for how obtuse, frustrating and boring of a character she is. If it’s true, START THE SERIES WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE.

MK

So far this show is like a walk in the park. It's beautiful, serene and... kinda boring. That said, I think it'll be pretty easy to vibe our way through the rest of the series on looks and music alone.

Will Hoff

I'm loving the melancholy beauty of Violet Evergarden, so I could easily get bummed out hearing Heather rag on it. Instead I've cognitively reframed the podcast as a Denpa Shōnen-like social experiment: We've taken this mega-talented cancer survivor and paid her to waste precious hours of her life consuming media she finds painfully boring for our own entertainment. New Patreon tier idea: I will pay more to make Heather slow down the Netflix playback next time she wants to speed it up.

Zack Tennenhouse

Man, different strokes and everything, but Violet Evergarden was the first show I watched on my own volition after this pod got me into anime in earnest with NGE and I was so excited to hear you'd be covering it. Bummer that it's not doing it for you guys!

Sid Tovar

So much of the joy in anime for me is watching something and being like "yeah, that was mid". I feel like you guys are denying yourselves the gratification of just calling it mid

Big Chunk of the fanbase

Heather is so smart and witty and quick that her getting destroyed by the crockpot had me cackling like a supervillain! Been burned so many times in the pun game gotta respect when other do too

XRedGambit

At the beginning of this episode Heather was channeling Mike Ehrmantraut (from breaking bad or CBB) with her saying don't talk to my wife, don't look at my wife, don't think about my wife. Talking about shoes, what is a good shoe to wear in Japan for easy on/off and is comfortable to walk in? I'm looking forward to watching more of this series and finding out if you go full harem anime next. I'd suggest Tenchi Muyo! Since it's a shorter series. Any thoughts on Ranma 1/2 remake coming out?

David Mucci

I think Heather hit the nail on the head of my overall feelings on the show, which probably set in around episode 4 and unfortunately stayed that way. Absolutely gorgeous to look at and listen to, kind of boring, frustrating main character. To echo a previous comment of mine, I made the mistake of watching this one after another show that did similar things way better: Frieren. And I think it comes down to the fact that the character of Frieren, crucially, is funny as hell.

Murphy

Love this show but wouldn’t be mad if it was the first you dropped.

Grant Prusi

I accidentally found that the beautiful, if boring, experience of this show works best if you use it to follow up a viewing of something very emotionally difficult and stressful, say, the original 2022 “Speak No Evil.” Unrelated, I just assumed Iris’s arm was hurt, not because she fell, but because Violet did indeed catch her with a very strong robot hand.

Zeon Liberation

When Heather is making little skeptical noises, it reminds me of Bob from Bob’s Burgers.

KidKimura

I find this show so frustrating. They have this beautifully animated world with a rich lore, but fuck all happens.

KidKimura
>>146663214

I also have a real problem with oversimplified autistic-coded characters. As an autistic person it's like the writer is saying "this character is you, and you're stupid."

Patrick M.

I’d love to see you cover Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, particularly the OVA series.

Clitrocket

Guys hear me out. Dating app for Pokémon fans. I think it’ll go over great

Garrett

My fellow weebs, due to the discourse and mixed opinions of Violet Evergarden, I believe now is the right time to launch my campaign for Get Anime’d to cover Mob Psycho 100. I had previously thought Mob would be a show that each host will enjoy for different reasons, but that has become concrete due to the criticism of Violet Evergarden. Mob is a compact 36 episodes split into 3 seasons with fantastic animation, comedy, fight sequences, well written characters, and heartfelt moments. You’ll be on your toes from the razzle dazzle of a psychic power battle, then find yourself overcome with emotion as Mob struggles to control his immense powers and learn what it means to be supported by the people around you. It is for these reasons, weebs of the Get Anime’d community, that I ask we come together and try to get Heather, Nick, and Matt to give Mob Psycho 100 the chance it deserves! Thank you for your time and consideration.

Christopher Montoya

I must confess, episode 4 is the first one I’ve fast forwarded through since the endless eight. How many times do we have to watch violet slowly take off her gloves as everyone gasps in awe and a swell of the score plays? This is my second attempt at this series after bouncing off it on original release. I find the characters overly simplified and the plots too predictable, although everything is so gorgeous to look at. Edit: just listened to the pod and lol’d hearing that Heather fast forwarded through episode 4 as well

Michael Pemulis

I like reading the different opinions on the shows we all watch, for the podcast. But we're not going to quit watching Violet Evergarden, no matter how mediocre anyone thinks it is. Because I watched all of FLCL, ugh, and that insufferable Ubisoft thing. So you're all going to sit there, be quiet, and watch Violet Evergarden, and you're going to like it. Or so help me, I'll turn this goddamned car around and we'll go straight home and nobody'll get to watch anymore anime, ever again.