History YMMV / VioletEvergarden

** "MARY POPPINS, Y'ALL!" [[labelnote: Explanation]]In response to the parasol scene in episode 7, many fans were quick to compare it to ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' [[/labelnote]].

** ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKU4B05fPck Michishirube]]"'' by Creator/MinoriChihara hits just as much feels as the series' Ending Theme.

** "Letters From Heaven" is bittersweet, yet full of warmth and splendor; perfect for the montage of [[spoiler:Ann Magnolia receiving her mother's letters through the years.]]
** "Violet Snow" is a touching piano song hat captures the beauty of Violet's character, as heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9J1vPFhVJo here]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Violet Evergarden: Automemories'', the anime's soundtrack by Evan Call, is a downright work of art.

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* SlowPacedBeginning: A common criticism, especially for those who weren't present for the 3-episode US premiere the series had at Anime Expo and viewed the early raving about it as HypeBacklash. Given that this is meant as an episodically structured, slow-burn character piece, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad in this scenario, as it leads to not only a believable arc for Violet, but also some of the most effective TearJerker scenes in recent anime history.

* SlowPacedBeginning: A common criticism, especially for those who weren't present for the 3-episode US premiere the series had at Anime Expo and viewed the early raving about it as HypeBacklash. Given that this is meant as an episodically structured, slow-burn character piece, TropesAreNotBad in this scenario, as it leads to not only a believable arc for Violet, but also some of the most effective TearJerker scenes in recent anime history.

* SlowPacedBeginning: A common criticism, especially for those who weren't present for the 3-episode US premiere the series had at {{AnimeExpo}} and viewed the early raving about it as HypeBacklash. Given that this is meant as an episodically structured, slow-burn character piece, TropesAreNotBad in this scenario, as it leads to not only a believable arc for Violet, but also some of the most effective TearJerker scenes in recent anime history.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Violet Evergarden: Automemories'', the anime's soundtrack, is a downright work of art.

** While Ann Magnolia comes off as a rather needy little girl, you soon realize that she's only acting out because she just knows that her mother will die soon (in spite of what every grown-up around her says) and she will be left an orphan.

** Luculia's one of the earliest anime-only examples, as she feels helpless to do anything while her war veteran brother Spencer sinks deeper into self-loathing and alcoholism.

* TheWoobie: Oscar from Episode 7 is this. As he lost his own wife and daughter, the thing he loves the most, in his younger days. This resulted his inability to write a story and become a pathetic trainwreck and everytime he felt something about his daughter, You can't help but feel sorry for him.

* StoicWoobie: Even though she doesn't realize it at first, Violet's carrying a lot of trauma and confusion due to her past as a foundling-turned-child soldier. When she fully recognizes the larger consequences of the war, her part in it, and the fact that Gilbert might be dead, she falls into a severe depression that almost results in suicide.

** Violet is a [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Saberface]][[labelnote: Explanation]]Due to how Violet resembles the heroine of ''Fate Stay Night'', Saber, many have joked that she is a "Saberface". Due to this, Violet became very popular in the various ''Fate'' fandoms[[/labelnote]].

%%* {{Moe}}: Violet Evergarden.

* EarWorm:
** ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwph0dv9E6U Watashi nande naiteirun darou? Kokoro ni nante kotaetara ii...]]"''
** ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKU4B05fPck Anata no koe ga... Michishirube...]]"''

** Also with Anime/APlaceFurtherThanTheUniverse, a SleeperHit of Winter 2018 and of similar length.

** ''"Anata no koe ga... Michishirube..."''

* CounterpartComparison: The titular character bears an ''eerie'' resemblance to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Arturia Pendragon]] in both personality AND looks. Jokes about her being mistaken for Saber are commonplace in the fandom. Then there's the fact that in the English dub, she is voiced by Creator/ErikaHarlacher, who voiced Ruler in ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', who explicitly looks a lot like Arturia.

* AwesomeMusic: ''Violet Evergarden: Automemories'', the anime's soundtrack, is a downright work of art.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Netflix's English subtitle for the anime gets blamed of this in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7rh2ug/the_case_for_fansubs/ some]] [[https://i.redd.it/9mpucm6jnza01.jpg places]].

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Given that the setting is in somewhere around 19th century, this is inevitable. Child soldiers, heavy-handed political decisions, arranged marriage at young age (with age gap between the couple at that) for example...

* NarrativeFiligree: A large chunk of the Light Novel consist of nothing but descriptions of the scenery and various characters, which really doesn't contribute to the story, aside from creating vivid images of the scenes and characters in the reader's mind.

* HypeBacklash: After marketing the animated adaptation for months, some viewers felt underwhelmed by Violet and the world around her, seeing the story as bogstandard as far as Western-styled drama goes.

* CounterpartComparison: The titular character bears a ''eerie'' resemblance to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Arturia Pendragon]] in both personality AND looks. Jokes about her being mistaken for Saber are commonplace in the fandom.