I found Violet Evergarden to be terrible. They wasted fantastic visuals on poor direction choices. Apart from Violet the characterization of the rest of the characters is next to none existent and Violet is not a good enough character to carry a show on her own.
Violet also being a skinny 14 year old super soldier that gets robot prostheses in what was otherwise a setting grounded in reality pulled me out of it.
yeah but there's more to storytelling than fights
There's literally nothing wrong with Clannad's ending.
I thought the characterization of Violet was crazy inconsistent. In one episode she's a turbo autist, and in another she's helping a princess to connect with his true love
I think it was an attempt to show her character development but it was handled rather poorly.
I mostly agree though I didn't mind really the prosthesis, it just gave the setting more steampunk feel. Being some sort of super soldier was retarded though, she was just a well trained child soldier.
Remember, songstress special episode is set between episodes 4 and 5.
she went directly to be an autist again at the very next episode though
in the novel it was implied she was a reincarnated goddess of war which I don't know what it does for the story, but... uh... that's an explanation
the show wasn't too good, but that ending fucked everyone up. You are lying if you say otherwise.