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Purple Plan Screens New Violet Evergarden Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Purple Plan announced on Tuesday that it will screen Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden: The Movie anime film with the title Violet Evergarden -Finale-. The company did not announce screening dates or regions for the film.
The film will open in Japan on September 18. The film's official website announced on April 6 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 April 24. This is the second delay for the film, as it was originally slated for a January 10, 2020 opening in Japan.
Singer TRUE will return to perform the film's theme song "WILL."
The franchise's separate side-story anime, titled Violet Evergarden I: Eternity and the Auto Memory 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 April 2. Purple Plan screened the film in Thailand last November, and in Singapore on January 9.
The anime held its world premiere as planned at the ANImagic convention in Mannheim, Germany last August. The ANImagic organizers said that they continued the screening "at the express request of the studio."
Kyoto Animation's 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.
