To be honest, I was wondering why even though a part of people in the world of Violet Evergarden can read letters, they request the dolls to write their letters.
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To be honest, I was wondering why even though a part of people in the world of Violet Evergarden can read letters, they request the dolls to write their letters.
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(From Reddit of Violet Evergarden)
I'm Japanese so it seems I must answer your question. As for me, I say "Aishiteru" to my wife about once a month especially when she is exhausted. When right after I married her, I said about once two days... This is so embarrassing! Also, I say "Aishiteru" to my children once a month. I think this frequency is even higher in Japanese.
Basically "Aishiteru" and "I love you" are so different. The former is very dramatic, like confessing your romantic feeling and the latter is ordinary for family. We usually say "Are you fine?" or don't say anything but just smile gently or show empathy for them.
I think the alternatives to the "I love you" for Japanese are simply "I'm going", "take care", "I'm home", "welcome back", "hello", "Good morning", "Good afternoon"... greetings. Us Japanese think greetings are quite important (I think you too). Probably almost all families discipline kids for many and many times not to forget greetings. I think they are replacement for the "I love you".
In my opinion, the Japanese don't like straight expressions, while it:s recommended to speak your opinion and debate in some western countries. Us Japanese like ambiguous opinion and pick up them so that it looks as if there were no conflict. Maybe it's because we live on islands, we are an (almost) single tribe, our culture has small diversity, we don't have the religious discipline... we have had fewer times to debate in everyday life.
I think I'm a bit responsible to explain about the previous chapter in Kaguya-sama. In the map below, I draw a red circle and an orange circle. The former one is an area for very rich people and the latter one is for rich people.
The reason why the red circle is for very rich people is history. Basically, the beginning of Tokyo city is the red circle including the empire palace (In the era, that was the Edo castle).
There were inn towns in the orange circle. Thus the value of the area depends on history.
This is about the contradiction of Dietfied's behavior to Violet that he often blamed her while he saved her on the train.
His facial expression when he said "Gil, she’s no child. She’s just a weapon" in beginning of episode 8 looks a little sad for me.
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