Global streaming giant Netflix has added the first episode of Kyoto Animation’s newest anime series Violet Evergarden in the Philippines.
The first episode has started streaming the first episode on Thursday, January 11, within 24 hours after its Japanese telecast. Subsequent episodes will be streamed on the platform every Thursdays.
The anime is available in Japanese, English and Spanish audio with English, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) subtitles.
This would be the first time an anime title will stream on the platform on a weekly episodic basis, instead of their usual “binge watch” format, outside Japan.
A certain point in time, in the continent of Telesis. The great war which divided the continent into North and South has ended after four years, and the people are welcoming a new generation. Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as “the weapon”, has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she is deeply moved by the work of “Auto Memories Dolls”, who carry people’s thoughts and convert them into words. Violet begins her journey as an Auto Memories Doll, and comes face to face with various people’s emotions and differing shapes of love. There are words Violet heard on the battlefield, which she cannot forget. These words were given to her by someone she holds dear, more than anyone else. She does not yet know their meaning but she searches to find it. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Violet Evergarden is an anime series based on a Japanese light novel series, written by Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase.
The novel has won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award competition in 2014, marking the first time that any submitted work has earned the grand prize on any of its three categories, which are the novel, scenario and manga.
KA Esuma Bunko, which is the light novel imprint of the anime studio, had published two volumes of the novel in December 2015 and December 2016.
Taichi Ishidate, who previously worked in the Beyond the Boundary anime series, directed the anime series, with Hyouka key animator Haruka Fujita serving as the series director.
Reiko Yoshida, who was the scriptwriter for the Bakuman. anime series, handled the series composition, while the light novel illustrator Takase also handled the anime’s character designs, which was produced by Kyoto Animation.
Yui Ishikawa, who voiced “Mikasa Ackerman” in the popular anime series Attack on Titan, played the titular character “Violet Evergarden”.
The first episode of the anime series had its preview during C3 AFA Singapore event in November last year, where the staff announced that the anime will begin streaming on Netflix in Singapore this month.
