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Absurdly overdue, but at long last, I have worked up the will to watch the VE movie. And I gotta say, I actually liked that the pacing wasn’t as choppy and the storyline isn’t as incoherent as in the anime series. I loved Yuris’s story. It was the highlight of the whole movie for me, if I’m being very honest, and I remember a lot of Anons saying the same thing back when the title had just been released. Another highlight is that my headcanon that Gil and Dietfried’s dad would be voiced by either Nakata Jouji or Hayami Shou was spot-on. It’s all about being a Fate Series fanfic even when it isn’t. 👌

The rest of this movie, though... it did horribly in the romance department, but the glaring amount of sheer dedication poured into it makes me wish we could’ve seen that story with characters other than Gil and Violet. I keep thinking that it could’ve been Luculia and Spencer instead, with the same plot, except familial in nature instead of romantic. It would’ve been a thousand times more interesting than Luculia’s episode in the show.

There was just a lot of detail and thought put into the course of events and how one thing leads to the other in this movie, even though sometimes things happened inexplicably. Like Gilbert teleporting from his home to the grape plantation during the few minutes that Hodgins and Violet were talking to each other, and then back to his home in the apparently short meantime that they were looking for him. A good half of the movie was a nice watch, and it’s a pity to see it wasted on so many cold takes about Gil and his relationship with Violet.

Also, I feel kinda bad for this, but I cry-laughed REALLY hard when Gil and Violet were running towards each other at the end. I literally don’t remember the last time my stomach and cheeks hurt so much. On one side, we’ve got Gilbert rolling off the cliff like a huge sack of shit, and on the other, we have Violet slowly emerging from the sea full-on Godzilla style. I fucking lost it, y’all.

So yeah, I did like the parts of the movie that weren’t about GilVi, and all the while, I was hoping we can one day get a remake where this story is recycled to give Luculia the awesome backstory she deserves. But boy, did a lot of stuff rub me the wrong way in this thing. Mainly related to Gil, of course.

I couldn’t stand the way he abandoned everyone and everything, and then didn’t even bat a lash at his best friend and older brother when they came to see him after so many years. Or how the movie backpedals real hard at Violet’s character development. Or that Violet’s friends and family don’t seem to miss her much and her absence is accepted rather fast.

I hated that Gil and Dietfried’s roles reversed completely. That Gil only went after Violet once Dietfried guaranteed he’d be free of his duties as heir of the Bougainvillea. That Violet didn’t say she loved him in the end. All of this and a lot more.

But I had already read about what would happen as soon as the movie came out in Japan. I knew very well what to expect, so it didn’t bother me as much. I just get amused at the huge discrepancy between novel!Gil, who says he isn’t worthy of Violet despite the fact that there’s literally no one better than him for her in canon, and anime!Gil saying it, with it being completely true this time. I can’t deal with how hysterical that is.

One thing that bothers me, though, is that the anime seems to have ended on a rather dull note. That last scene where Violet is walking through a dark road completely alone felt very lonely and quite depressing. Compared to the novel’s counterpart, the last page of volume 2, where Violet is walking next to a rail road towards a glorious sunrise, it’s really clear how both have completely opposite vibes. The books are full of hope and positivity, of love actually winning against adversity in the best ways possible without being unconvincing. Meanwhile, the anime is limiting and lacks heart aside from its original content. It doesn’t take the source material seriously enough and gives its own material too much attention.

I always have a hard time reminding myself of why it is the way it is. And coming to terms with the fact that we’ll never see the best of it. That we can only have it on paper and in our heads. It sure is frustrating, but at the very least, the novel still continues to offer us bits of happiness every now and then, and that’s enough comfortation for me.

Anyway, back to translating Last Letter. >:^)

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