Violet Evergarden is a gorgeous, gorgeous anime. It is the journey of a young girl, trying to rediscover that which she had never known, to understand the feelings she experienced, yet never had the chance to understand, while coping with intense loss which most cannot even fathom to do.

The art is... well... beautiful. Absolutely stunning animation. This, in combination with the story and storytelling is a bittersweet ironic representation of Violet and her development as a person. It's of untapped beauty, hiding beneath a breaking shell. Though this anime absolutely SHINES, in more ways than one.

I found it so endearing yet heartbreaking to relate to her as a character and person. Violet is an incredibly well written character, with true struggle and sadness.

Without even exclaiming or stating so, you can feel the sadness brewing within her, but also spark up in joy, everytime she discovers and learns about happiness, about being whole, one step at a time. And boy oh boy is it enjoyable to watch her take those steps. This anime makes you root heavily for your protagonist, for a girl, raised into her life in an unhealthy, unnatural manner, learning to embrace what she had missed out on and fought so much with.

Violet Evergarden is a work of art. Hard work. Sweat and tears went into the creation of this anime and it shows. It is an emotional ride, a marvelous display of depressing valleys making way between the hills and mountains of joy and love. Violet herself, has got to be one of my favorite fictional characters ever, I feel true warmth towards her character, no, her person. Impressively realistic, in an unnatural yet sadly real situation.

This wondrous symphony of human emotion is a must watch, if you want to feel emotional, that is.
Even to someone like me, for whom it is not the most usual to watch such heavily emotional shows or pieces of fiction in general, it brought me down to humility and hurt, the best kind of hurt.
Struck with pure emotion. A pain that I can even long for. It feels just right, to experience, to feel, to fall and climb back up.

I thought I would really have to push myself to review this, but alas, it's so powerful, it moved me to do so regardless of what I thought!
And it absolutely deserves all praise.

It made me wish I could cry more...
Thank you, Kyoto Animation for bringing this amazing story even further to life.
Thank you for letting me experience this. It is one joy I will hold close to heart for it is a spin on the joys of life, that I wish I could experience the same way. Thank you.

I can confidently and completely recommend Violet Evergarden to anyone who enjoy emotion, and chances are, if you are a human, that this is the case.
And if you don't, then maybe you're just like Violet and need some acceptance and understanding.