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I haven't seen Violet Evergarden since it aired, so I can't argue my position with a lot of supporting details from the show or anything. I'm also not going to argue that it's total trash and no one should like it. I mean, you should wait and see some of the dumb bullshit that makes up my own favorites! Everyone has different tastes.

I do want to clarify, though, that I think you misunderstood my orphanage comment. I meant they should've sent her to an orphanage rather than making her a child soldier, not send her to one after the war. Gilbert, Hodgins, etc, shouldn't have that guilt from forcing her take part in the war. She shouldn't have taken part in the war in the first place. I could accept it if this was a common thing in the setting. Child soldiers certainly exist in our own world, after all. But, from everything we're shown, it isn't common in the setting. Yet someone found this little girl and decided to turn her into a killing machine and I just... I don't buy it. I don't understand how that was even a thought someone had, and why no one stepped in and said "wtf are you doing, no we're not sending this little girl to war, what's wrong with you". If Violet was the standout soldier from a whole unit of child soldiers, it'd make a lot more sense to me. Her existing in a vacuum just feels so fake to me.

To use my own analogy again, it'd be like in WW2 if the Americans liberated a French village, found a little orphaned French girl, and decided to conscript her and make her fight for them. If the WW2 Americans were so desperate in some alternate universe that they were conscripting everyone with a pulse, okay fine, but that isn't the world that's presented. I guess I just can't get into the premise of Violet Evergarden. I can't imagine that situation happening in a world where it doesn't happen all the time. And the fact that she's a child soldier is such an important foundation for her character and everything that follows that maybe I didn't give the rest of the anime a fair shake, I dunno.