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Violet Evergarden Anime Review

" We should Learn Empathy from the very core of Human Emotions! And Violet Evergarden is one of those series that serves as a medium to it. " - Saptarshi Bhowmick And like I said before I am one of those strangers who really liked it when the shows make me cry most; it evokes certain emotions in me that I might have never felt before. Violet Evergarden is among those few series that recapitulated all the epitomes of civilized empathy. let's summarize shortly the plot of the series~ Plot -  The story revolves around Auto Memory Dolls: people initially employed by a scientist named Dr. Orland to assist his blind wife Mollie in writing her novels, and later hired by other people who needed their services. In the present time, the term refers to the industry of writing for others. The story follows Violet Evergarden's journey of reintegrating back into society after the war is over and her search for her life's purpose now that she is no longer a ...

The Whole of a Life in Ten Seconds: On 100 Meters (Hyakuemu) and Why We Run

I come again with an interesting insight on a film I have seen recently. Today I am going to talk about it. Hope you all will find it to your hearts_ There's a shot a little past the middle of 100 Meters that I can't get rid of. A teenage sprinter has just lost a final in heavy rain, and he stays standing on the track while the downpour thickens, until you can barely tell where he ends and the weather begins. I rewound it the first time, not quite sure what I'd just seen. It isn't my favourite shot, though. My favourite is the very last one, and most of this post is an attempt to explain why. Spoilers ahead. I talk about the whole film here, ending included. The Film, Briefly The director is Kenji Iwaisawa, who made On-Gaku: Our Sound , about delinquent kids who form a band without being able to play anything. This time he's adapting Uoto's first serialised manga (Uoto later wrote Orb: On the Movements of the Earth ). Most of it is rotoscoped, drawn by hand ov...