Fans, long wait!
On January 10th, kyoto animation (i.e. Kyo Ani) produced the film "Violet Eternal Garden: Forever and Automatic Hand Puppets" will be officially met with Chinese audiences as scheduled.
"As long as you call your name, my bond with you will be eternal", this is a sentence that appears at the end of the film, at the Chinese premiere, Kyoto animation producer Shinichiro Hatta also chose to use "bondage" to describe the film.
Shinichiro Yada also wrote a letter for fans, he said sincerely, "Even if we are far apart, but we miss each other, the heart of each other is the same, so please do not forget, if you have a cherished person, please be sure to call his name, because he has always been by your side." ”
Continuing the spirit of Kyo Ani, this film still accompanies the audience with love and hope.
Kyo Ani fans and two-dimensional fans must be ready to go to theaters to support the movie, but if you don't understand the "Violet Eternal Garden" series, what is the magic of this animation that fans call "the Bible of Mankind"? What are the secrets behind the making of the spin-off film? You may wish to explore this unique animation world with Xiao Dianjun at the beginning.
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"Violet Eternal Garden: Forever and Automatic Handwriting Doll" is the "Violet Eternal Garden" series of animation sequel theatrical version, the title of the 18 words, it is very difficult to read, in fact, "Violet Eternal Garden" in the mouth of fans there is a simple abbreviation name - "Jing Zi".
Kyoto Animation has been established for nearly 40 years, producing "The Melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu", "Light Voice Girl", "The Other Side of the Realm", and "Blowing! On the Bass Horn" and other masterpieces. The TV anime Violet Eternal Garden was born in 2018 and is based on Kana Xiao's illustrated light novel of the same name, which won the 5th Kyoto Animation Award.
This TV anime series scored a whopping 8.8 on Douban, "Beautiful to explode!" "Tearful eyes" "The first words look at crying"... Rave reviews. The Douban score of the movie is currently 8.2 points.
The "automatic handwriting doll" in the title of the sequel actually refers to a profession in animation, which originated in the original novel, Dr. Orland invented the "automatic handwriting doll" in order to help the blind novelist's wife continue to write novels, which is a typewriter function of a machine, which later evolved into a ghostwriter.
The protagonist, Violet Eve Garden, is known as an "automatic handwritten doll", and fans affectionately refer to her as "Vivignette".
The protagonist, Violet Eve Garden
Violet, blonde and taciturn, is a dreamy and beautiful girl. With her flawless countenance, it's hard to imagine that she was born as a military warrior with amazing combat effectiveness. Unfortunately, she lost both hands in the war and was separated from her close minor, Zoelbert Bugumbria.
Together, beauty and pain form this beloved heroine.
Later, she put her hands on mechanical prosthetics, and because she wanted to understand what Shosa meant when she said " I love you " , she worked as a letter ghostwriter in a postal company. In her contact with her client, she gradually learned what love is.
Violet's hands are mechanical prosthetics
The original novel consists of a short story, each chapter is told independently, and the TV animation is basically presented in the form of a unit drama, with a total of 13 episodes.
There is no flower such as "Violet" in this work, nor does it appear in any "Eternal Garden", why is the title of the film "Violet Eternal Garden"? In fact, this is the result of Chinese mistranslation.
The novel and animation were originally titled "Violet Evergarden", which is also known as "Violet Evegarden". "Violet" is the name Shōzo gave her, and "evergarden" is the family name that Violet took upon her adoption.
At that time, after the release of the leading pv of the TV animation, the domestic audience directly Chinese transliterated it as "Violet Eternal Garden". However, it is also crooked, and the official trend is adopted, because the name is very close to the temperament of the animation itself. The flower language of "Violet" is "eternal beauty and love", and this title can directly make people feel feminine, romantic, healing and other style labels.
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"Violet Eternal Garden" is set in a time and space setting outside of Japan, and the story is set after the virtual "Continental Civil War", from the perspective of scene design and costume, it should be a reference to the European world after World War I.
The mix of Japanese characters + the Worldview of the European stage can be associated with the Japanese animation "Oath of The Flowers" released in China in early 2019, but the painting style of "Violet" is obviously more refined.
The line strokes of each character image and the outline of flowers, trees and other scenes are very delicate, especially the light and shadow effects, and the light and shade details are handled in place, showing a distinct sense of transparency.
"There is no unnecessary letter", which is a classic line of Violet in the anime. Similar to "Witch House Emergency", this animation strengthens the meaning of the postal service, through the work of letters to elicit different emotional relationships between various characters, conveying the purest and most moving love and true feelings.
In the TV animation, the tenth episode is the most touching, and it is also the recognized peak in the eyes of fans. On imdb, the tenth episode has a rating of 9.7, the highest score of any episode.
Episode 10 scored a whopping 9.7 on imdb
This sentence tells a touching and profound mother-child relationship. A mother is about to die, she asked Violet to secretly write 50 letters for her young daughter in the future, misunderstanding that the mother's daughter later received the letter and realized the love that her mother silently guarded for her.
Voice actress Shiri Chihara gave a voice to Erica Brown in the Violet Eternal Garden series.
She is the "royal voice actress" of Kyoto Animation, and because she was the voice of Yuki Nagato, the "Daimon God" in "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", fans affectionately called her "Daimone-san".
Shiori Maoyuan was interviewed by the 1905 Movie Network
Shiori Maobara recalled that after taking over the dubbing work of "Kyozi", he read the original book, and was often moved to tears during the reading process. When she recorded the tenth episode, she and all the voice actors could not control their emotions, "We all cried and collapsed, so we had to all quit the studio, readjust our emotions, and then return to the studio to continue working." ”
Producer Shinichiro Hatta also revealed that the creators couldn't help but cry emotionally when they watched the script and production clips of the tenth episode, and the director of the tv animation version, Taiichi Ishitachi, also thought that this was the most memorable chapter for the audience.
"Kyoto Animation's works are all based on meticulous materials, and the common denominator of the works is that they examine the entanglements and cowardices between people with a warm eye, and then express the process of transcending difficulties and growing continuously." NHK has commented on Kyoto Animation, and the "Violet Eternal Garden" series is even more so, leading the audience to grow up warmly in the exquisite pictures and tearful stories.
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In addition to tv anime and spin-off films, the Violet Eternal Garden series also features a theatrical version that will be released in Japan on April 24.
Shinichiro Hatta tells us that the gaiden is the bridge between the TV anime and the theatrical version, which will continue the main plot of the TV anime series and tell the story of Violet Eve Garden in the future. Ultimately, these three works will form a complete series.
Theatrical pilot poster for theatrical version of Violet Eternal Garden
The two works were connected by the sequel, and both the producer and the series director, Taiichi Ishita, wanted the series' assistant director, Haruka Fujiwara, to try to take on the role of director, and Haruka Fujiwara also accepted the challenge. As a producer, Shinichiro Hatta said that they have always not interfered too much in the director's creation, "Everyone works together to support the director's ideas and complete the works that the director wants to do." ”
The story is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the deep relationship that Violet Evegarden had built with Isabella Yorke in the aristocratic girls' school as an educator; the second part tells how the little girl Taylor found Violet and, along with the postman Benedict, delivered the missing letter to her sister Isabella.
Sister Isabella
Sister Taylor
Violet is the middle character who connects this sisterhood, and the sequel does not involve much of Violet's personal main plot, such as the whereabouts of the young man she has always missed, and there is no explanation here, and it seems that this suspense will not be revealed until the theatrical version is released.
According to Shinichiro Hatta, the story comes from a certain chapter in the original novel, and it is also based on the consideration of taking care of non-fans to the audience. Through a brand new unit story, they can understand and enter the plot of this series faster.
The lyrics and singing of the theme song of the film was written and sung by voice actress Shiori Maohara, who is also the lyricist and singer of the theme song of the TV anime. This time, in order to write satisfactory lyrics, Shiori Chihara repeatedly communicated with director Haruka Fujita, absorbing the director's suggestions and incorporating her ideas.
The theme song appears at the end of the film, and the song is titled "Amy", another name for Isabella York and the affectionate call of her sister Taylor.
Shiori Maohara said that there are two lyrics that best represent the emotions she wants to express, one appears in the climax, "compiling all my feelings to convey to the other party", and the other appears at the end, "Call my name, call your name".
Shiori Maohara hopes that the audience can revisit the entire work through this song at the end of the film, and the lyrics she designed are also very careful, "The first person in the lyrics of the first and second paragraphs is not the same, the lyrics of the first paragraph are written in the first person by Isabella, and in the second paragraph, the lyrics are written in the first person by Taylor, and the first-person change actually reflects the emotional changes they have compiled together." ”
This animation has laughter points and tears, and when the final song sounds, both fans and ordinary audiences will feel the love and warmth that this animation wants to convey.
Kyoto Animation is now facing post-disaster reconstruction work, and in addition to donations from various sectors, the box office of the released works is also particularly important. The film was released in Japan in September 2019 and eventually achieved a good result of 832 million yen.
ABC Animation, one of the producers, has been cooperating with Kyoto Animation for a long time, and ceo Nishiide told us that compared with the past, they paid more attention to the promotion and distribution of overseas markets this time, and invested more heavily. But more important than the box office, their purpose is to feedback the fans who have long supported Kyo Ani animation through this animation.
In the anime, Violet loses both hands in the war, but she is not defeated by disaster, and with the thought of Shosa, she becomes a person who conveys happiness. In reality, Kyoto Animation was not overwhelmed by a sudden disaster and continued to use this spin-off film to convey the true meaning of love.
At the premiere ceremony, producer Shinichiro Hatta shouted firmly to Chinese fans, "We will continue to work hard to create, bring more emotions to everyone, and let us meet the future together!" ”
So on January 10th, go to see "The Tale of the Violet Eternal Garden" and feel the hope and beauty that Kyo Ani continues to bring us!
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