Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden
First light novel volume cover, featuring Violet Evergarden
ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン
(Vaioretto Evāgāden)
Genre
Light novel
Written byKana Akatsuki
Illustrated byAkiko Takase
Published byKyoto Animation
ImprintKA Esuma Bunko
Original runDecember 25, 2015March 27, 2020
Volumes4
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Taichi Ishidate
  • Haruka Fujita[a]
Produced by
  • Shinichirou Hatta
  • Shinichi Nakamura
  • Kazusa Umeda
  • Shigeru Saitou
Written byReiko Yoshida
Music byEvan Call
StudioKyoto Animation
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, TVA, ABC, BS11, HTB
Original run January 11, 2018 April 5, 2018
Episodes13 + OVA
Anime films
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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. It was published by Kyoto Animation under their KA Esuma Bunko imprint, from December 2015 to March 2020. The story follows Violet Evergarden, a young ex-soldier who becomes an Auto Memory Doll tasked with writing letters that can connect people.

A 13-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation aired between January and April 2018 with several advance screenings taking place in 2017. An original video animation episode was released in July 2018, and a spin-off film premiered in Japan in September 2019. A second anime film, Violet Evergarden: The Movie, serving as a sequel to the anime series, premiered in September 2020.

In 2014, Violet Evergarden won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award's novel category.

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  2. ^ "Meilleurs mangas et animes sur le thème "steampunk"". manga-news.com (in French). Archived from the original on September 5, 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2022.


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