Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jidou Shuki Ningyou

Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her future, seeing the prestigious school as nothing more than a prison from the outside world. Her family notices her struggling in her lessons and decides to hire Violet Evergarden to personally tutor her under the guise of a handmaiden.

At first, Isabella treats Violet coldly. Violet seems to be able to do everything perfectly, leading Isabella to assume that she was born with a silver spoon. After some time together, Isabella begins to realize that Violet has had her own struggles and starts to open up to her. Isabella soon reveals that she has lost contact with her beloved younger sister, Taylor Bartlett, whom she yearns to see again.

Having experienced the power of words through her past clientele, Violet asks if Isabella wishes to write a letter to Taylor. Will Violet be able to help Isabella convey her feelings to her long-lost sister?

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Evergarden, Violet Main

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

York, Isabella Main

Kotobuki, Minako Japanese

Bartlett, Taylor Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Blue, Benedict Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Baudelaire, Cattleya Supporting

Endou, Aya Japanese

Hodgins, Claudia Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Marlborough, Luculia Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Cannary, Iris Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Roland Supporting

Kagami, Riki Japanese

Brown, Erica Supporting

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Nakamura, Shinichi Producer

Saitou, Shigeru Producer

Suzuki, Megumi Producer

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Aug 6, 2019

valdzack

Recommended

First things first,
Thank you so much KyoAni for the World Premiere Screening on AnimagiC, Germany.

Simply put, the story is like a very long version of a typical Violet Evergarden Episode, where this time Violet considers someone as her first real friend.

Animation is like every KyoAni movie breath taking and in comparison to the TV-series, there is slightly no difference. As for the soundtrack, there is some old very recognized ones as well as some new tracks. Main and support characters are presented or mentioned, with also a lot of references from the TV-Series.

Overall, very good story, animation and soundtracks.


... The Story/Synopsis,
is about a illegitimate noble woman Amy, who survived during the war years alone, resp. with her (not related) little sister Taylor. Due to a deal with Amy's father both were separated from each others. In short, Violet helps Amy and later ...

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 11, 2019

Elevenfive5

Mixed Feelings

Minor spoilers to the film and SAO within the review
NOTE: I have not read the light novels of the film or the TV show and this is entirely based on what the anime has to offer.

When I had first watched Violet Evergarden, the series had left a hole in my heart for being a sad, happy, and vibrant story of Violet’s trouble adjusting to the post-war era, becoming an ‘Auto Memory Doll’ to understand what her Major meant when he said: “I love you”. The side story: ‘Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll’ follows that journey, of Violet’s growth in the series, but what I ... believe is not canon to the actual story. And is a decent spin-off of the plot of Violet Evergarden.

Plot 5/10
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll, follows the story of a Noble family member named ‘Isabella York’ who is tired of living her life in this ‘prison’ of a boarding school until she meets Violet, who changes her life entirely. This section of the movie was in my opinion, the best part of the 90-minute film, but it had its issues. The main issue of this part is the pacing, it seems that the entire section of Isabell’s character growth was skimmed over with what felt to be not even 20 minutes, of course, I didn’t time it, but it felt really short and underwhelming. When heading into this film I expected this movie to be revolving around the character growth of Isabella and Violet within the boarding school. This was not the case. In the 20-45 or so minutes of screen-time that this section of the film gets, there seem to be many details skimmed over that might have been deemed unnecessary to the plot. This seems to be a mistake as the character development felt rushed and lack-lustre.

After the first part of the movie, the movie introduces us to another main character, Taylor. I can’t go into very much detail about her but she has close ties to Isabell, but they have split apart due to reasons. Taylor takes over the second part of the film as she tries to find Isabella again with the help of Violet Evergarden and Benedict. At this point in time in the film, I feel that the story took somewhat of a 180 with the story, performing a time-skip and having some sort of a ‘second-arc’ of the film. This kind of felt like the first season of SAO when the characters leave Aincrad Kirito still has to save Asuna who was transferred to another VRMMO game. It was unnecessary and made the arc that was prior seemed skimmed over and unfleshed.

Sound 8.5/10
The OST of the film was mostly re-used from the TV show and doesn’t need to be explained thoroughly. If you’ve watched Violet Evergarden, you will know how good the OST is for the show and this is no different, it still somewhat adds a ‘magic’ feeling to the scene of the movie, but points can be taken off because of the pacing that ruined the character development.

Art 9/10
Kyoto Animation has done it again with their vibrant, unique art styles that they perform to their works that create a realistic feeling. CG in the film is there and noticeable, but there seemed to be only 1 or 2 scenes that did use CG, they may have been more than just those but they were unnoticeable as they blended so well with the background art style.

Character 5/10
Due to the pacing problem with the plot, certain aspects of the movie were skimmed over, creating a feeling of unsatisfaction as the characters didn’t have any meaning placed behind them and the 180 of the story didn’t help either diluting the character growth, making it a stagnant mess with the three or four main characters. With the first half of the film being about Isabell and the second about Taylor, it just didn’t feel that there was enough attention with each of them and that focusing on one or the other would have produced a greater piece of work, by fixing the big pacing issue that plagued the entire film.

Enjoyment 5.5/10
Hopping into the film, the first part had really entertained me with the bond between Violet and Isabell, but the switch of stories and main characters diluted the entire film and kind of ruined the experience by the feeling that is was just 2 stories that barely correlated together, being stretched and sewn together to create this 90-minute film.

Overall/Conclusion 6.5/10
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll seemed to have sewn two stretched episodes of the show and create a decent but lacklustre movie that had issues with the pacing, character growth and the overall 180 of the story of the movie at the halfway mark, making the overall rating of the film a 6-7/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 15, 2020

yona2005

Not Recommended

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violet Evergarden is maybe the only anime that I rated 10 in myanimelist , which makes it harder for me to accept that this movie is also called violet Evergarden .

(SPOILERS!!!)

first of all the art is amazing as usual , it was the only thing that saved the movie . the sound is good too .

now , let's talk about what was bad .

this story mustn't be a movie , you can call it an OVA or anything but not a movie . usually in movies there is the first part where you get to know the main characters , understand the world ... they're living in , and the problems they're facing . The second part is where the characters interact with each other , face their problems and have a character development . The last part is the climax where the problems are solved , the characters live happily , and the movie ends .

while here nothing of that happens . the first part was good at first seeing violet interact with Isabella and I thought that this is going to be the movies main problem , helping Isabella who wants to be free and hates her life , or helping her to meet with her little sister . Yet the whole first part was only about Violet and Isabella doing things together ( which actually , allow me to say , made think I was watching some Yuri stuff . I'm not a fan of this genre , and I only watched some episodes of a GL anime years ago , yet I still had this vibes that their interacting with each other was a little different than two girls getting to know each other and become friends ) and some scenes where we see how much violet is the perfect girl that can do anything and everything .

The second part is where the movie started to become bad , and I mean the little sister's part . it was meaningless , was only there for nothing but to add time . most of the scenes weren't needed , the ending would be nice if we saw the little girl gets emotional after hearing the letter her older sister wrote for her and then deciding to become a postman , then we see her after years when she gets older that she actually became one .

but no , what we saw was her delivering letters with Violet or Benedict , then delivering a letter to her older sis , then we see that she was adopted and that's it . that's how the movie ends , sorry , what is supposed to be a movie .

now , talking about her delivering her letter to Isabella , which is the last scene , I have one thing to say : worst scene ever .
There is nothing that can explain why taylor hid in the trees and never appeared in front of her sister who was separated from her for lot's of years . you see , i'm 15 years old and i'm 100% sure that i'd run the fastest I can and hug my older sis ( I don't have one ) If I were to be separated from her , so how could a little girl whose maybe not even 10 years old not do so ?

now , because I talked a lot , the last things I want to talk about is two characters . the first one is the blond girl who I don't remember her name , who wanted to befriend Isabella , she was meaningless , I don't even know what her role was , if she disappeared nothing in the story would change . ( funny fact : to show you how much meaningless this character was , when I searched about her in MAL she wasn't even in the character list , so I don't even know her name ) .

The second character is benedict , the blond postman . it's not that he's is bad or something , it's just that the movie focused suddenly on his character without any sign or warning or whatever the hell you call it .
we saw him delivering letters then boom ! he became an important character in the movie !

he wasn't even a important character in the series or the first part of the movie . maybe if the movie focused on him from the beginning , shown us a different side of him , and made him a main character in the movie , that'll maybe would be better .

" we deliver happiness "

the last thing I want to say is , even thought I didn't like the movie , I liked what it was trying to say

" Even if you were separated forever , as long as you call the names , you'll never forget each other "

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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