Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is Kyoto Animation's stunningly beautiful anime — a visual achievement of almost overwhelming elegance that uses extraordinary animation quality to externalize an emotional journey of profound human depth. Violet was trained from childhood as a living weapon, her body augmented with mechanical arms, her understanding of human emotion entirely absent. Surviving a catastrophic war, she becomes an Auto Memory Doll — a professional letter writer — and through the act of finding words for others' deepest feelings, gradually learns to understand her own. Each episode is essentially a standalone short story about a different client and what they need expressed — grief, unrequited love, parental devotion, an apology that comes too late. The cumulative emotional weight is extraordinary. KyoAni's dedication to quality — every frame painted with the care usually reserved for theatrical films — makes Violet Evergarden one of the most visually gorgeous series in anime history. The theatrical film delivers a transcendent conclusion.