I'm adding it to my list of digs, though the digs will all get nullified later.as you'll see.) (Even if her customers couldn't read, you'd think they'd have the "Doll" read the letter back to them to see if it was what they wanted this is not done in some critical cases. So she bungles spectacularly some of the early letters she's commissioned to write. It's just that she still acts like she's in the military, AND she has a LOT of trouble with empathy she can't really put herself in others' shoes at all, and cannot grasp the subtleties of human emotion or desire except where the Major was concerned, she's never felt anything at all, and she really doesn't, at least at first, understand her own feelings toward even HIM- or the ones he had toward HER, for that matter. No, not mechanical elements of composition or typing speed- she's frighteningly perfect there. Violet, however, has some problems as a writer. (Wish I'd gotten to peruse the manga version first, to clear this up.) It is interesting that in THIS world, despite the weird "Doll" term, the women who do this are held in high esteem- a very different treatment than female "secretaries" are typically given in our world. In any case, the function is apparently associated with human typists at the time of THIS story. I was also a little confused about the "Auto Memory Doll" term as well I thought it maybe referred to the typewriter itself- perhaps THAT was a recent innovation in this world as well?- but the Wiki article says the reference is to literal dolls created by a "Dr. (The overall technological sophistication of this show's world seems to be around the 1920's of our world.) "Her letters allow people to be true to themselves"-Cattleya Baudelaire (a fellow Auto Memory Doll)Ĭonsidered logically, there are myriad details of this show I could pick apart, starting with those prosthetic arms of Violet's, and how something of such mechanical sophistication that it even permits the fine motor control required for high-speed typing could exist in a world where the typewriters are not only manual, but require the carriage return be performed by hand. Hodgins employs Violet as an "Auto Memory Doll" (professional ghostwriter/scribe-for-hire) for his firm, the CH Postal Company. Violet later finds herself in the hospital, now equipped with fully-functional mechanical arms and hands, and is taken under the wing of a man named Hodgins, who was a comrade of Gilbert's- and who is very evasive with Violet about the Major's current circumstances. But I WOULD still like to know who made those arms.ĭuring the war between the Gardarik Empire and his own country of Leidenschaftlich, Major Gilbert Bougainvillea has a feral young girl foisted on him by his older brother Dietfried, with the intention of using her as a "tool of war." But Gilbert humanizes her as well, giving her the name Violet, and treating her with great kindness. Some of the Netflix material refers to Violet as a robot. Notes: Based on light novel series by Kana Akatsuki, illustrated by Akiko Takase, and published by Kyoto Animation Related Series: OAV (special), Violet Evergarden: the Movie (.well, movie, of course), Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (movie) Length: Television series, 13 episodes, 24 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by FUNimation, and also available streaming on Netflix.Ĭontent Rating: PG-14 (Violence, mature elements.)
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