Reviewing Kyoto Animation's VIOLET EVERGARDEN
Japanimation Station S4E28
Welcome to Japanimation Station’s Kyoto Vacation. We are here to dive into the wide and wonderful world of anime, and you can subscribe on all platforms at www.japanimation-station.com.
The 7th and final part of our epic Kyoto Vacation is titled “Through Rain or Shine: The Life and Times of Violet Evergarden,” which means we finally get to dive into an anime we’ve wanted to review for years: Violet Evergarden, the 2018 series based on the acclaimed novels by Akiko Takase. It is, as you’ve probably heard, a masterpiece, a departure in setting and storytelling from many KyoAni works, but tonally and emotionally something a return to their early Key adaptations like Air and Clannad. A mix of anthological storytelling about different characters in need of letter-writing and a serialized narrative about the eponymous child soldier turned auto-memory doll, Violet Evergarden is a powerful, profound, and stupendously beautiful triumph that leads to one of our longest episodes ever – but if any series deserves this much discussion, it’s this one.
Enjoy, and come back next week for our review of the first Violet Evergarden movie, Eternity and the Auto-Memory Doll!
Time Chart:
Theme Song: 0:00:00 – 0:01:30
Intro & History: 0:01:30 – 1:26:03
Eyecatch Break: 1:26:03 – 1:26:41
Violet Evergarden Review: 1:26:41 – 4:17:08
End Theme: 4:17:08 – 4:18:39
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