In episode 5 of Violet Evergarden, Princess Charlotte is going to marry Prince Damian who happens to be 10 years her senior. When Charlotte told her story to Violet, she said that when she turned 10, she started receiving marriage proposals because in her kingdom that age was fine to be engaged.
Now, people are losing their shit because they accusing the series and Kyoto Animation of apology for paedophilia.
People, this series is set in a fictional world pretty similar to ours around XIX Century. Monarchies always managed in that way regarding marriage. They arranged marriages when the princes and princesses were babies and then they got married when they were 14. And sometimes, they arrange marriages between a newborn princess and a 10-year-old boy. In A Song of Ice and Fire, Daenerys is 13 years old when she married Khal Drogo, (that’s in the book, not in the tv series, yes the book came first and is much better). Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI when she was 15 and she was engaged to him when she was a child.
So, can we stop judging fiction and history with present eyes and keep in mind that in another time and cultures things were and are different?
I know a lot of bashing against Violet Evergarden anime comes from the fans of the light novels. I didn’t read the novels yet, but I’m enjoying the anime that IMHO is one of the best of this season and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.
If you want to drop the series, go ahead. But don’t come with the bullshit of the age gap between two characters that only appear in ONE episode and we’ll never see them again.