Violet Evergarden (2018)

Name: Violet Evergarden
Rating: 8.5

Rating: 8.5

Synopsis

The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.

First Air Date: 2018-01-11

Last Air Date: 2018-04-05

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 13

Networks: Tokyo MX

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Top Cast

Yui Ishikawa as Violet Evergarden (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa as Gilbert Bougainvillea (voice)
Takehito Koyasu as Claudia Hodgins (voice)
Aya Endo as Cattleya Baudelaire (voice)
Haruka Tomatsu as Iris Cannary (voice)
Koki Uchiyama as Benedict Blue (voice)
Minori Chihara as Erica Brown (voice)
Takuya Inagaki as Gardarik Soldier (voice)
Aya Saito as Nerine (voice)
Riki Kagami as Eckhart Munter (voice)

Seasons

None (2018)

The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2018-01-11)

Hodgins retrieves Violet from the hospital, as Major Gilbert asked him to look out for her. After they meet Gilbert's relatives, he offers her a job.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2018-01-18)

Violet tries to adjust to her new job: she needs to learn typing, and her coworkers question whether she has the right demeanor for letter writing.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2018-01-25)

Violet enrolls in a Doll training course. Her classmate Luculia befriends her, though she has her own problems with her war veteran brother.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2018-02-01)

When Iris goes to her home village on an assignment, Violet accompanies her. Iris's birthday party sparks a disagreement with her family.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2018-02-08)

Princess Charlotte is to have a public correspondence with her betrothed, and Violet is entrusted with writing the letters on her highness’s behalf.
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2018-02-15)

Violet travels to the country of Astrea to work with transcribers copying damaged manuscripts. Her partner Leon has a past not unlike hers.
Ep. 7: Episode 7 (2018-02-22)

A playwright with writer's block and a tragic past summons Violet to the country of Genetrix to help him finish a script. They both learn about grief.
Ep. 8: Episode 8 (2018-03-01)

Violet learns that Major Gilbert is listed as missing in action, but his family members think he is dead. Unable to cope, she remembers the war.
Ep. 9: Episode 9 (2018-03-08)

Heartbroken, Violet withdraws from her job and questions whether she even has the right to be an Auto Memory Doll. Then, she receives a letter.
Ep. 10: Episode 10 (2018-03-15)

Violet travels to a countryside mansion to write a letter for a gravely ill war widow, but her young daughter Ann resents Violet's presence.
Ep. 11: Episode 11 (2018-03-22)

Against Hodgins' wishes, Violet takes a job from a soldier at a military base in Ctrigall, a former enemy nation now engulfed in civil war.
Ep. 12: Episode 12 (2018-03-29)

The Major's older brother is ordered to defend the signing ceremony from former Gardarik forces opposed to peace. Violet intercepts his train.
Ep. 13: Episode 13 (2018-04-05)

The signing ceremony concludes, officially bringing an end to the war. While writing letters for an air show, Violet composes a letter to the Major.