Violet Evergarden has been really uneven in terms of quality, in my opinion. It's been mostly amazing in the episodes where Violet plays a supporting character in someone else's story, but the ones more focused on her have been bad. I just don't think her character fits in the world and now that we're past the flashback episodes I doubt they're going to address this. The setting seems like an alternate WWI-era Europe for the most part, with Violet being literally the only thing that doesn't fit. They have standard technology except for her robot arms. They have standard armies except for this one random child soldier that Gilbert's brother... found? I mean, imagine WWI British soldiers finding some orphaned French boy and dragging them to the trenches and forcing them to fight. It's absurd. And Gilbert is the only person in this whole world who had a problem with it. I rolled my eyes when his superior said "just force the little girl to fight and then dispose of her after lol". It's so stupid, and that's sad because the show has proven capable of being poignant when they actually earn it. I enjoyed the second half of the latest episode too. ---