Previously, Indonesian film distributor Feat Pictures has announced that the Violet Evergarden spin-off “Violet Evergarden: Eternity & The Auto Memories Doll” will be screened in Indonesia in January 2020. On Wednesday (01/01), the instagram account of Feat Pictures has posted a new promotional picture and inform that the film will be begin screening in Indonesia on 29 January. Details about ticket price and the cinema chains that will screen the film have not been revealed yet.
Adapted from a novel by Kana Akatsuki, the anime series of Violet Evergarden tells the story of Violet Evergarden, an ex-soldier who becomes a ghostwriter for those who can’t express their own feelings into letters. The anime series aired from January to April 2018, followed by one OVA that released in the same year.
The spin-off film, Violet Evergarden: Eternity and The Auto Memories Doll (Japanese title: Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jido Shuki Ningyo), tells a story when Violet meets Isabella York, a daughter of a wealthy family who feels restricted with her noble life. The film has been screened in Japan on 6 September. Yui Ishikawa will also reprise her role as Violet Evergarden, while new character Isabella York will be voiced by Minako Kotobuki.
The original novel of Violet Evergarden won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award in the novel category. It was first published on December 25, 2015, by KA Esuma Bunko, a light novel imprint established to publish the works that received prizes in Kyoto Animation Award. Kyoto Animation had also planned to release another Violet Evergarden film in January 2020, though it has been delayed to April 2020 after the arson incident at Kyoto Animation’s Studio 1 building on July 18, 2019 that killed 36 animators and staff members and injured 34 others.
This would be the seventh work from Kyoto Animation to be screened in Indonesia after Tamako -Love Story- (limited screening at Japanese Film Festival in 2015), A Silent Voice (general release in 2017), the two Free! Timeless Medley films (general and limited screening in 2018), Free! Take Your Marks (limited screening in 2018), and Chunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai: Take on Me (released in 2018).
The Indonesia Anime Times
