Tag: Violet Evergarden

July 23, 2022 · 2 comments

By Andrew Osmond. American voice actress Erika Harlacher has had a multi-faceted career through the last decade, including a host of game roles: Ann Takami in Persona 5 and the bard Venti in Genshin Impact. In anime, her major parts include the vengeful boy Kurapika in Hunter x Hunter (the 2011 TV series); Shinobu in […]

June 16, 2022 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Violet Evergarden: The Movie is a film about second chances, piecing oneself together after tragedy and allowing oneself the luxury of love despite the overwhelming guilt of survival. The very real tragedy of the arson attack on Kyoto Animation’s studio haunts the film. It is one of the reasons for the film’s […]

June 8, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. An “Auto Memory Doll” was originally the name given to the typewriters of Telsis, invented by a man who wanted to help his novelist wife to continue writing after she became blind. But much as “computers” were once both the machines that computed and the women who operated them, Auto Memory Doll […]

April 9, 2021 · 1 comment

By Jeannette Ng. Set in the aftermath of an all-consuming war, Violet Evergarden follows the eponymous lead, an ex-child soldier, as she tries to piece together the fragments of her self through a new job ghost-writing letters.

February 18, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. So, what happened at the Japanese box office in 2020? The critics lists and industry stats from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, or Eiren, are all now in, so it’s time once more for my annual mull over the figures, trends and top titles of another year in Japanese cinema. 2020 […]