This move is incredibly beautiful and the moments that work are as good as the main series. Unfortunately, it is also overly dramatic (in a bad way and honestly funny way) and long. It makes it really hard to take many of it's emotional highpoints seriously no matter now badly I wanted to. Again, some moments really work but a lot don't. And then there is the ending. Oh god, the ending. It ruins the core relationship that shaped Violet's character and takes a wonderful parent-child relationship and turns it into a romantic one. They Usagi Drop Violet Evergarden and it left a terrible taste in my mouth. Violet also doesn't get to say much in the ending of her own movie and just gets to stand there while the pedophile talks about how he's always loved her that way. But hey it's pretty and it makes you cry a little, so at least there's that, I guess.
Review of Violet Evergarden: The Movie
