Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン 外伝―永遠と自動手記人形―, Vaioretto Evāgāden Gaiden -Eien to Ōto Memorīzu Dōru-?, Violet Evergarden Side Story: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll) is a side story to the Violet Evergarden anime series, produced by Kyoto Animation. It screened in Japanese theaters from September 6 to September 26, 2019. [1] It adapts the second story of the same name from Violet Evergarden Gaiden.
Story[]
...I sold my future in exchange for protecting what is precious to me.
A girls' academy that only girls from respectable families could attend. For Isabella York, who attends it under a "contract" with her father, this beautiful place where white camellias bloom is nothing more than a prison...
Before Isabella, who had lost all hope and expectations for her future, Violet Evergarden, hired as her tutor, appears.[1]
Themes[]
Theme song: Amy ( エイミー, Eimī?)
- by Minori Chihara
Staff[]
- Director: Haruka Fujita
- Supervising Director: Taichi Ishidate
- Script: Reiko Yoshida, Takaaki Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Urahata
- Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Akiko Takase
- World Setting: Takaaki Suzuki
- Art Director: Mikiko Watanabe
- 3D Art: Joji Unoguchi
- Art Design: Yūka Yoneda
- Prop Design: Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Director of Photography: Kōhei Funamoto
- Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
- Music: Evan Call
Cast[]
- Violet Evergarden - Yui Ishikawa (JP) / Erika Harlarcher (EN)
- Isabella York - Minako Kotobuki (JP) / Colleen O'Shaughnessey (EN)
- Taylor Bartlett - Aoi Yūki (JP) / Sandy Fox (EN)
- Claudia Hodgins - Takehito Koyasu (JP) / Kyle McCarley (EN)
- Benedict Blue - Kōki Uchiyama (JP) / Ben Pronsky (EN)
- Cattleya Baudelaire - Aya Endō (JP) / Reba Buhr (EN)
- Erica Brown - Minori Chihara (JP) / Christine Marie Cabanos (EN)
- Iris Cannary - Haruka Tomatsu (JP) / Cherami Leigh (EN)
- Luculia Marlborough - Azusa Tadokoro (JP) / Kira Buckland (EN)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The anime had an advance screening at Germany's AnimagiC convention which ran from August 3 to 4, 2019.[2]
- The anime was originally slated for a two week only screening but was extended to three weeks after the Kyoto Animation fire.[2]
- Moviegoers received a randomly chosen original short story written by the light novels' author, Kana Akatsuki.[1]
- Weeks 1-2: Ann Magnolia and Her Nineteenth Birthday, Leon Stephanotis and the First Star, Charlotte Abelfreyja Drossel and the Forest Kingdom
- Week 3: Isabella York and the Rain of Flowers, and a case for storing the short stories.
- The home video release included a new short story by Kana Akatsuki titled Amy Bartlett and the Sunlight Filtering through Trees in Spring.