Violet Evergarden

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Violet Evergarden (????????????????, Vaioretto Ev?g?den) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase. It won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award's novel category in 2014, the first ever work to win a grand prize in any of the three categories (novel, scenario, and manga). Kyoto Animation published the first light novel on December 25, 2015 under their KA Esuma Bunko imprint. An anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation will premiere in January 2018, with several advanced screenings taking place in 2017.

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Plot

The story revolves around Auto Memory Dolls: dolls initially created by a scientist to assist his blind wife in writing her novels, and later rented out to other people who needed their services. While the initial function of these Auto Memory Dolls is only to generate voices into text, a second group of people created a company that rented out beautiful talented women who, while having the same function as the original Auto Memory Dolls, also can perform military-related tasks.

Characters

Violet Evergarden (????????????????, Vaioretto Ev?g?den): Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa; Violet is a newcomer Auto Memory Doll at the CH postal company. She has wanted to know the meaning of "certain words" she received from Gilbert when she was a soldier.

Claudia Hodgins (????????????, Kuroudia Hojjinzu): Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu; Claudia is a former army commander. He founded the CH postal company and serves as president.

Gilbert Bougainvillea (?????????????, Giruberuto B?genbiria): Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa; Gilbert is a major of the Leiden Shaf Rich Army. He treasures Violet much more than anything else.

Cattleya Baudelaire (???????????, Katorea B?dor?ru): Voiced by: Aya End?; Cattleya is an Auto Memory Doll who works at the CH postal company. She has been close with Hodgins even before working there.

Benedict Blue (??????????, Benedikuto Bur?): Voiced by: Koki Uchiyama; Benedict is a postman who works at the CH postal company.

Erica Brown (????????, Erika Buraun): Voiced by: Minori Chihara; Erika is an Auto Memory Doll working at the CH postal company. She is poor at interacting with clients.

Iris Cannary (?????????, Airisu Kanar?): Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu; Iris is an Auto Memory Doll who started working at the CH postal company a bit later than Erica. She is a working woman.

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Media

Light novels

Anime

The anime adaptation was first announced via a commercial of the light novel's first volume in May 2016. In June 2017, Kyoto Animation announced that Anime Expo, AnimagiC, and C3 AFA Singapore 2017 will host the world premiere of the first episode. The anime will premiere in January 2018 in Japan. The series is directed by Taishi Ishidate at Kyoto Animation with the screenplay written by Reiko Yoshida. Akiko Takase designed the characters and Yota Tsuruoka handles the sound direction. True will perform the opening theme titled "Sincerely" while the ending theme will be "Michishirube" (?????, lit. "Guidepost") by Minori Chihara. Netflix will stream the series.