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NEWS: KyoAni Award-Winning Novel Violet Evergarden Gets Anime Project

Sometimes for the better (Free 2 seasons cause actual novel adaptation which was the movie flopped) or for the worst (Phantom World)

ultimatemegax wrote:

Violet Evergarden is an "Auto Memories Doll," a robot made to help those who cannot write put their thoughts on paper. Throughout her life, Violet meets many people and connects many hearts together through their letters to one another. Though her time with each person is short, the bonds formed during her time with them will not easily be forgotten.

Sounds like something of a mashup of Shinigami no Ballad, Tegami Bachi and Plastic Memories.

That synopsis sounds terrible, like an average robot girlfriend kind of trash, but the addition by ultimatemegax does make it sound a little more interesting. Still not so remarkably outstanding to explain why this one would get the grand prize and any of the other ones that have been animated wouldn't, but I guess we'll have to wait to see the actual show to judge

Zatheyll wrote:

Hibike Euphonium was one of their best works. Amagi Brilliant Park was fairly good for what it was, much better than KnK, Chu2Koi, and Phantom World, that's for sure. Tamako Market was nice, and the movie was amazing. Hyouka was also wonderful. That's a good 4 shows in the past 4 years they've done that have been great.

Hibike was good but I wouldn't say it was stellar. The animation was nice but the direction felt pretty flat to me, the characters were enjoyable enough but nothing that felt too distinct from your usual KyoAni affair. Maybe it's just the fatigue of their constant school cute x doing y settings that made me lose interest in it. There was enough to keep me entertained, but I didn't think it did enough to stand out as a KyoAni work tbh.

Amaburi too was okay, the comedy was too hit and miss and the side characters were pretty unenjoyable imo. Also I didn't think it was paced that well...not as good as Hibiki,

Tamako market was [expletive] atrocious. The movie was good because it included all the plot the series should have had, I won't let them off based on that.

Hyouka was the best series they've ever made - a good character drama with great direction(another of my complaints about Hibiki, the direction and visuals are pretty flat). Part of the reason for that is that the adaption is a carbon copy of the novel, they are pretty much exactly the same with some very minor changes here and there.

Currently KyoAni's formula for adaption is take novel + moe and it always makes the series worse. I admit to being pretty biased as Hyouka was one of the first KyoAni shows I saw and every subsequent series has tended to be a disappointment after that. Perhaps if I saw Hibike first I would feel differently, but after watching their progression of series it failed to really hook me - it was just KyoAni.

I hope that they can make Koe no Katachi a good movie though I fear for how they are going to adapt it into one movie. Again though, that's mainly because I know the source material is really good there and as long as they don't fudge around they'll do fine.

Hibike doesn't have flat direction, far from it actually and it seems like you don't understand what that really means. It's fine if you don't like them but the visual storytelling there is top notch.

Flat direction is something like what you see in any character interaction scene in the show One punch man or the last couple of Dragon ball z movies.

I agree that phantom and knk were bad shows but people say they suck without giving them a single look. Your hate for them blinds your judgement.


PD: No way in hell VE will have those visuals for a tv show.

KyoAni Award winner doesn't exactly put it in esteemed company.

It seems that there are only 2 volume of the novel, so maybe it's not going to be 13-episode anime or more.