Violet Evergarden isn’t sad enough. It highlights how sad things can and do happen, but it gets there by highlighting how happy they needed to be for that to even be troubling in the first place.
Given Violet’s own arc through the entire thing, the show overall ends up as a celebration of things that are worth fighting for, and a discomfiting reminder that nobody is guaranteed anything. Much like Violet herself, the story fights to the very end and never gives up.
If it makes anyone want to kill themselves though, they really missed the core of the show. It can also make you want to fight.
Not the creator of the meme but I assumed that it wasn’t about those animes being sad but them making you cry.
Violet Evergarden could have been subbed for Grave of the Fireflies.
any good recs?
Plus let’s not forget that many talented individuals who worked on Violet Evergarden we’re fucking killled by the KyoAni Fire attack
Grave of the Fireflies.
Holy fuck. I can’t even look at small rocks without knocking back the handle.
The whole film, from start to end, it’s all feels. Fuck I promised myself i wouldn’t cry.
Angel Beats if you want to cry while watching highschoolers blow each other away with assault rifles.
If I wanted to do that I could just watch the news
Is this some USA/Brazil joke I’m too European to understand?
I do enjoy a good feels-anime. Your Lie and Violet are probably my top two for that.
Little Busters was one in that vein to a degree. Gotta get through the second season for the full story impact though.
Some others that aren’t as sad but still feels heavy: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, A Silent Voice, Garden of Words, Bubble, Belle, Weathering With You.
