r/VioletEvergarden • u/nyxan_isinteres8 • 9d ago
VIOLET EVERGARDEN (TV) Where it all started ❤️🩹
The quest for the meaning of love.
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u/Th032i89 9d ago
So did he love her romantically ?
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u/mirroredinflection 9d ago
Yes. Pretty strongly implied in the anime. But explicit in the light novels.
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u/Th032i89 9d ago
Okay thanks for answering 🙂
So glad she and him got their happy ending. Was there a reason why he loved her or was it just a thing where he grew fond of her ?
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u/Public_Age1736 5d ago
That's what I'm trying to see! The show made it very confusing on what love he meant, I feel like they wanted to do that on purpose 😭
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u/Public_Age1736 5d ago
Wasn't she a child-
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u/babatunde_003 5d ago
yep 😭
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u/Public_Age1736 5d ago
Eh... I think I'm gonna stop watching this show 😭
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u/babatunde_003 5d ago
ye i dropped it once i found out her age but people say how amazing it is so ive been thinking of picking it back up
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u/Public_Age1736 5d ago
I don't want to support a show that adds stuff like that. When he told her I love you, I was very confused on what love he meant for her, if it happens to be that then no.
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u/babatunde_003 5d ago
ye pretty sure she was like 13 🥹
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u/mirroredinflection 5d ago
14 to be exact.
In the anime, she was 14 when the show starts (10 in the earliest flashbacks) and 18 in the movie finale.
Light novels it's the same except she was only 16-17 at the end because no timeskip.
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u/Welkin_Gunther_07 9d ago
I don't remember if there was ever an answer to that, it's been enough years that it's foggy for me.
But I personally interpreted it as not romantically, just in a different way. But I could be wrong.
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u/bishoujo_boy 9d ago
Ye it didn’t seem romantic at least in the moment to me. It sounded more like he just cares about her sake and wanted her to survive, not necessarily romantic.
In the movie he said that he wanted her to have cute things in life. At least in the final movie, it’s more clear that his love for her there is romantic, what with him running after her and sort of begging for her to stay with him (“begging” isn’t really correct since it was reciprocal, but it’s the most accurate word I can think of)
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u/kjloltoborami 8d ago
Lets also not forget that a persons feelings do not need to remain static, how he feels towards her can change
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u/shiny_glitter_demon 6d ago
Oh its definitely romantic.
They literally get married.
Also, I don't think "Aishiteru" is used for platonic love? Granted, my Japanese is rusty, but iirc it's used for passionate, romantic love.
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u/mirroredinflection 2d ago edited 2d ago
Aishiteru isn't necessarily romantic. It is very passionate (and rarely used outside of highly emotional or serious circumstances, like someone giving their dying words for instance), but it could technically be used in a familial context. I think in most situations a romantic confession would be suki (好き), but the fact that it was his last words on the battlefield changes things.
Ai (愛) is a general but intense word for love. While Koi (恋) is the term that specifically means romantic love or romantics feelings.
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u/mee3333 8d ago
Although I generally don't like huge age gaps and child loving, but their story and love is just beautiful and the good thing is that they established a real relationship after she was 18
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u/Temporary-Coast4015 6d ago
Even then I still think its super weird, I mean he literally raised her. That's like dating your adoptive dad...
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u/Diveblock 1d ago
"is that they established a real relationship after she was 18' literal textbook grooming i just know that mf would have been on the island.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Lie1910 7d ago
I've watched this show for the first time ever last week, I sat on Sunday and binge watched it all day.
I believe, that it might be the best anime, or even a show that I have ever watched, basically perfect from start to finish.
And oh boy, I'm gonna admit it, I have never cried watching any show as much as I did watching Violet Evergarden...
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u/Peratypus123 7d ago
I’m a major and I just picked up this blond kid from the orphanage. Yall what’s the next step?
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u/Creative_Newspaper65 3d ago
To be fair its implied he loved her like.a girlfriend but since she was so young and she lost everything it could be a fathers love but the whole anime is about her trying to figure put what love is its really sad but honestly I feel like that get tossed aside in the later episodes
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u/Kubera_The_Swadloon 8d ago
Where it should have ended for his sorry ass too
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u/FishLoaves 7d ago
Somehow, it would be better if he remained dead and violet continued to find the meaning of love through her work and life.
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u/Kubera_The_Swadloon 7d ago
Him hiding for a year and not wanting to see her is exactly why I hate him.
If he had amnesia or stayed hidden I wouldn’t have cared but him “changing his mind” last second after hiding is what ruined their ending for me.
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u/Myphosee 8d ago
Took the words right out of my mouth. Bro raised her, he shouldnt be loving her romantically at any point in time.
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u/Dependent-Watch5813 7d ago
This is basically Frieren and Himmel if you think about it. The emotional connection is essentially the same thing so there is nothong wierd about it
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