Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2025)

Violet Evergarden: The Movie (劇場版ヴァイオレットエヴァーガーデン, Gekijouban Vaioretto Evāgāden^?) is an animated movie based on Violet Evergarden light novel series by Kana Akatsuki and the finale to the Violet Evergarden anime series. Produced by Kyoto Animation and distributed by Shochiku, the film is directed by Taichi Ishidate from a script written by Reiko Yoshida. Initially teased in March 2018 as a new project, it was revealed in July to be an anime film. Ishidate and Yoshida were revealed as part of the film's staff in April 2019. The film suffered setbacks following the Kyoto Animation arson attack and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Violet Evergarden: The Movie premiered in Japan on September 18, 2020. The film grossed over $21 million worldwide, and received awards and nominations, including the awards at Tokyo Anime Awards Festival and Japan Media Arts Festival.

Synopsis[]

The name of the girl who writes on behalf of others is "Violet Evergarden". Four years have passed since the end of the war that had deeply injured people. The world is gradually regaining its peace, life changes with the development of new technologies, and people advancing forward. While holding her feelings for her important person, Violet Evergarden tries to live in this world without that person. One day, a letter is found...^[1]

Summary[]

After the funeral of her grandmother Ann, Daisy Magnolia and her parents return to her grandmother's mansion. Daisy, angered at her parents for deciding to return to work right away, rushes out into the garden. She finds a box filled with letters from her great-grandmother to her grandmother. Among the letters, she finds an old newspaper clipping with the photo of a woman: Violet Evergarden, the Auto Memories Doll who helped write these letters.

The story goes back many years before Daisy was born, when the construction of the radio tower is almost finished and the telephone starts becoming popular. Leiden is holding a thanksgiving festival towards the sea. Violet was chosen to write the hymn to the sea that year, which is read out loud by the goddess of the sea, Irma Fliech. After the ceremony, the mayor, who was the one who recommended her for the role, praises her poem. Despite all her accomplishments, including writing the public oath for King Damian's ascension, Violet feels melancholic because of her unresolved feelings for Gilbert.

Violet and the other employees of CH Postal Company run into Erica at a street market. Erica had become Oscar Webster's apprentice and asks them to come and see her first play. Later that night, Violet writes another letter to Gilbert, still hoping that it will reach him one day. On the weekend, she visits Mrs. Bougainvillea's grave to put flowers on it. She runs into Dietfried there. He remains hostile to her and tells her to forget about Gilbert, but she tells him that she can't do that for as long as she lived. After Violet returns to the postal company, she receives a phone call from a young boy who wants to hire a Doll. He asks her to go to the hospital where he is staying.

Themes[]

Theme Song: Will by True

Staff[]

• Director: Taichi Ishidate
• Script: Reiko Yoshida
• Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Akiko Takase
• World Setting: Takaaki Suzuki
• Art Director: Mikiko Watanabe
• 3D Art: Joji Unoguchi
• Color Design: Yuka Yoneda
• Prop Design: Hiroyuki Takahashi
• Director of Photography: Kohei Funamoto
• 3D Director: Rin Yamamoto
• Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
• Music: Evan Call

Cast[]

Main[]

• Daisy Magnolia
• Daisy's Parents
• Violet Evergarden - Yui Ishikawa
• Gilbert Bougainvillea - Daisuke Namikawa
• Claudia Hodgins
• Iris Cannary
• Erica Brown
• Cataleya
• Benedict Blue
• Yuris
• Dietfried Bonginvilla
• Gilbert Bongainvilla
• Roland

Minor[]

• Ann Mongolia (flashbacks)
• Irma Filech
• Queen Charlotte (cameo)
• King Damian (cameo)
• Oscar Webster (flashback; cameo)
• Mr. Bougainvillea (flashback)
• Mrs. Bougainvillea (mentioned)

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Trivia[]

• The movie was originally scheduled to be released on January 10, 2020, but was moved to April 24, 2020.^[2] The date was moved once again and finally premiered for a September 18, 2020 release.^[3]
• Moviegoers randomly received one of three booklets containing a short story written by Kana Akatsuki: Benedict Blue's Violet, Oscar's Little Angel, and Violet Evergarden If.
• Starting October 2, 2020, moviegoers received a booklet with the short story Gilbert Bougainvillea and the Fleeting Dream.
• Flashbacks from "A Loved One Will Always Watch Over You" are seen; referencing the letters seven-year-old Ann Mongolia received since the death of her mother, Daisy's maternal great-grandmother.

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