Takase, Akiko

I love her art

Another talented person in the god studio that is KyoAni

Violet Evergarden is the most beautiful anime I've ever seen!!!!

Nice art!

Debuting character designer and chief animation director Akiko Takase has an overwhelming style in all regards. Very intricate designs with obscenely detailed clothing, none of which get spared when it comes to actually animating the show. There are a quantity of lines that makes any cut feel like a massive endeavor, to the point that I don’t think this could have ever existed as a standard project – though thankfully it is anything but normal! Arguably the most impressive feat isn’t reaching this level of detail, but rather how unashamedly it all moves. Even ridiculous sequences with complex camerawork and 2D crowds retain these extraordinary drawings. As usual when it comes to KyoAni’s more serious work, though, the expression is achieved more through obsessive attention to gestures and body language than through the movement itself, although there is some of that; there’s a cut in the first episode with Seiichi Akitake’s animation flair all over it that stands as a great example of amusing expressivity achieved through the way the drawings move rather than the actual actions of the character, even if that isn’t the focus of this show.