

For reasons he did not understand, Violet spared Dietfried and obeyed his orders. Violet then stalked and killed all the other crew members. Her combat prowess was discovered when she killed several soldiers who attempted to molest her before he could stop them. As an abandoned and nameless child, Violet was found by navy officer Dietfried Bougainvillea on an island where he and several members of his crew were forced to land after a naval engagement. The story follows Violet Evergarden's journey of reintegrating back into society after the war is over as she is no longer a soldier, and her search for her life's purpose in order to understand the last words her mentor and guardian, Major Gilbert, had said to her: "I love you."Ĭharacters Main characters Violet Evergarden ( ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン, Vaioretto Evāgāden) Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese) Erika Harlacher (English) Violet is a newcomer to the CH Postal Company, and works as an Auto Memory Doll-a ghostwriter for people who cannot write or are looking for help expressing their emotions in letters. In the present time, the term refers to the industry of writing for others. Dr Orlando then created the first Auto-Memories Doll for her, meant to register everything said by a human voice. His wife, Molly, was a novelist, but she became blind and could not write anymore.


It was originally made by Professor Orlando, the authority on letterpress printing and a researcher of mechanical dolls. There was a machine invented as a prototype for the typewriter, called Auto Memory Dolls. In 2014, Violet Evergarden won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award's novel category. A second anime film, Violet Evergarden: The Movie, premiered in September 2020. An original video animation episode was released in July 2018, and a spin-off film premiered in Japan in September 2019. The story follows Violet Evergarden, a young ex-soldier whose recent employment at a postal company tasks her with writing letters that can connect people.Ī 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired between January and April 2018 with several advance screenings taking place in 2017. It was published by Kyoto Animation under their KA Esuma Bunko imprint, from December 2015 to March 2020. Violet Evergarden ( Japanese: ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン, Hepburn: Vaioretto Evāgāden) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019).
