Kyoto Animation’s Violet Evergarden: The Movie anime film will open in Japan on 18 September. The announcement reportedly appeared after a re-airing of the final episode of the Violet Evergarden television anime on Thursday.
The film’s official website announced on 6 April that Kyoto Animation postponed the film’s opening in Japan due to concerns over the new coronavirus disease (covid-19). The film was slated to open in Japan on 24 April. This is the second delay for the film, as it was originally slated for a 10 January 2020 opening in Japan.
The franchise’s separate side-story anime, titled Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll (Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jidō Shuki Ningyō), opened in theaters in Japan last September, and it screened for at least five weeks. The film eventually earned a cumulative total of 641,980,500 yen (about US$5.98 million). Netflix debuted the anime on 2 April.
The television anime adaptation of author Kana Akatsuki and illustrator Akiko Takase’s Violet Evergarden novels premiered on television in Japan and on Netflix in some territories in January 2018. The anime launched on Netflix in the United States in April 2018. The series features Yui Ishikawa in the central character of Violet, Minako Kotobuki as Isabella and Aoi Yuuki as Taylor. Other actors include Takehito Koyasu as Claudia and Daisuke Namikawa as Gilbert.