{"id":7490,"date":"2018-02-08T00:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:54:47","slug":"the-problem-with-violet-evergarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-problem-with-violet-evergarden\/","title":{"rendered":"the problem with violet evergarden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that I don&#8217;t give a SHIT about Violet Evergarden. After writing <a href=\"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-place-further-than-the-universe-4-6\/\">my last post on <em>Sora yori mo Tooi Basho<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(which, by the way, has a stupid-as-hell English name so I&#8217;m going back to Japanese), I went and watched episode 5 of\u00a0<em>Violet Evergarden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I had <em>Violet Evergarden<\/em> in mind as I was ranting about how\u00a0<em>Antarctic Girls<\/em> is falling into the pattern of a &#8220;conflict-of-the-week,&#8221; and it&#8217;s pretty obvious why: it&#8217;s an episodic show with a microscopic overarching plot of\u00a0Violet becoming human. I&#8217;m using &#8220;microscopic&#8221; because so far I haven&#8217;t been able to detect any meaningful change in our beloved robogirl.\u00a0And while the conflict-of-the-week is sometimes interesting, everything revolves around KyoAni trying to make me feel sorry as I watch socially-inept Violet drawing pity as she takes off her gloves.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t give a shit about this character. There&#8217;s nothing remotely appealing about a main character who has no emotions, and it&#8217;s even worse that <em>every<\/em> interaction and dialogue has to do with how she has no emotions.\u00a0I could bear with it for the first few episodes, but now it&#8217;s just KyoAni flexing their animation skills and puking out a European Endless Eight where the only thing everybody talks about is how Nagato has no emotions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png\">you suck<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7493\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?resize=590%2C332\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?resize=590%2C332 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ve.png?w=1180 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that I don&#8217;t give a SHIT about Violet Evergarden. After writing my last post on Sora yori mo Tooi Basho\u00a0(which, by the way, has a stupid-as-hell English name so I&#8217;m going back to Japanese), I went and watched episode 5 of\u00a0Violet Evergarden. I had Violet Evergarden in mind as I was ranting about how\u00a0Antarctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-shit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-1WO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}