Violet Evergarden

Just saw it. Human mind cannot fathom how good it was. Every aspect of this show is far beyond perfection. Clearly years ahead of its time. This is what all other studios will strive to replicate for the next ten years at least.
Need to say, it makes any other anime (even Kyoani ones, even the Hyouka) look like a sad joke in comparison.

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Singaporean or copypasta?

But is it better than Kyoani's Magnum Opus?

It's another VEG bait thread. How come they don't get deleted at this point?

But THIS IS Kyoani magnum opus. You peobably think someone makes jokes about it but this is absolutely true.

How can we know that if we haven't even watched it yet? Let's all wait for the TV premiere before deciding.

Based Netflix original anime.

Lots of people actually seen episodes 1-3 on dedicated events and all reviews were ranged from excellent to perfect. Even the MAL knows what's going on.

Well, it would be interesting to see if it holds up. For all we know they could be normies or KyoAni fags. As a KyoAni fag myself I'm trying to keep my expectations low (less I get disappointed again like with Phantom World and Kyoukai), but if anything I'm scared that the show might have a good start but fall flat at the end.

What happened to Reina's feet?

Fuck, MAL needs to fix that airing date

dumb flip

Reminder there's only like a month and a half left.

I have high hopes for Ishidate, but let's not pretend this will be better than Hyouka.

What does your picture have to do with their Magnum Opus? You posted their worst series.

it got k-on'd

Hyouka is their worst series.

If you're actually braindead, then sure.

These are the only acceptable choices for KyoAni's worst:
>Air
>Clannad
>Kanon
>Munto
>Chuunibyo
>Kyoukai no Kanata
>Phantom World

TOP FUCKING KEK
I love this new meme.
I hope other anons can make more dank description about this though.

>Giving a shit about fractale 2.0

We attended the early screening of two Violet Evergarden episodes – the very first time #1 was shown in Japan, and the worldwide premiere of #2 – so we’re here to offer you a spoiler-free set of impressions that might get you more excited about this tremendous production.
Let me start by saying that, despite how this will undoubtedly be framed amongst certain crews that aren’t fond of the studio, Violet Evergarden is in a way the safest project Kyoto Animation has had in a while. Dissenting critics and fans will rush to point out that for once their work isn’t focusing on teenagers and the setting isn’t Japanese, thus it’s much riskier than usual… even though the show itself appears to have a sure path to success as long as they can keep up the terrific execution. Which to be fair is what anime usually struggles with, but they’re a bit of an exception.
Series director Taichi Ishidate is a very straightforward person with no intention of hiding his influences. He’s been increasingly mixing the grand spectacle of high profile American movies he loves with the obsession over character expression that defines his studio. The end result here is a series that is shaping up to be like a nice Hollywood film, both in its spectacular production values and the transparent intent to pull your heartstrings – which as far as I can tell is already working! If you’re into anime for more eclectic work, chances are you won’t fall in love with this (although so far it seems very hard to hate, too), but otherwise it seems like a sure international hit. Netflix’s intervention is unfortunate, but I have to acknowledge that this time they’ve targeted something that makes a lot of sense for them to grab. Now if only they had some of that sense when it came to timely releases. But I digress.

Since the first two episodes are essentially just the introduction of Violet to her workplace at the CH Postal Service, as well as a quick peek at her past, you shouldn’t worry about narrative spoilers yet. Ishidate, alongside the other performers at the event, constantly stressed that the series will be all about her growth from essentially nothing. Which is to say, there isn’t much we can say quite yet, other than pointing out the believability of her naivete. What we can talk about, however, is the frankly ridiculous animation effort. Properly appraising Ishidate’s fantastic storyboards for the first episode will have to wait until it has received a proper release as there’s tons of imagery I’d like to talk about in depth, but the sheer strength of the production is something I can already get across.
Debuting character designer and chief animation director Akiko Takase has an overwhelming style in all regards. Very intricate designs with obscenely detailed clothing, none of which get spared when it comes to actually animating the show. There are a quantity of lines that makes any cut feel like a massive endeavor, to the point that I don’t think this could have ever existed as a standard project – though thankfully it is anything but normal! Arguably the most impressive feat isn’t reaching this level of detail, but rather how unashamedly it all moves. Even ridiculous sequences with complex camerawork and 2D crowds retain these extraordinary drawings. As usual when it comes to KyoAni’s more serious work, though, the expression is achieved more through obsessive attention to gestures and body language than through the movement itself, although there is some of that; there’s a cut in the first episode with Seiichi Akitake’s animation flair all over it that stands as a great example of amusing expressivity achieved through the way the drawings move rather than the actual actions of the character, even if that isn’t the focus of this show.

No quality drop in the second episode, which is hardly a surprise for the studio but might have been expected when the first episode set such a high bar. It doesn’t have quite as many complex sequences, instead managing to present itself as majestic in other ways, like its incredible 2D mechanical art. It feels as if Euphonium has rekindled a certain passion at the studio, because the gorgeous cuts of Violet’s robotic hands and the typewriters they use are more than plentiful. This episode is also a notorious return to production stability, as it was entirely supervised by Chiyoko Ueno and didn’t require many animators; #1 was clearly rushed to meet 6 month early prescreen deadlines and so Takase couldn’t supervise it all (noticeable in some scenes with Hodgins’ hair, as long as you’re very familiar with her style), but #2 is a return to KyoAni’s (ab)normally short staff lists. Alongside Nobuaki Maruki, Ueno is one of the few animation directors at the studio who blossom in detail, so her work felt very compatible with Takase’s to begin with. The last scene in particular, with Violet trying out her uniform for the first time, features nothing but jaw-dropping art.
It’s also worth noting that this second episode was directed and storyboarded by the studio’s new rising star, Haruka Fujita. Not only that, she’s also been appointed as the show’s series director, meaning that she’ll have a lot control over the execution of the show. My first impression was that Ishidate’s storyboarding work was stronger, while Fujita imbued in it more of her style as an episode director. Violet’s delicacy, which is by no means fragile, seems to fit her like a glove, so having a young creator receiving such responsibility isn’t the only reason to rejoice. I have to admit though, I’m very proud to have talked about her alongside Takase in the KyoAni-focused post of our series on brilliant youngsters. As it turns out, they’re now a team!

It’s not just the animation department that delivered stunning work, though. There’s a clear intention by the studio as a whole to turn this into their new flagship title, which means that everyone clearly gave it their all for this. Maidragon’s team of Yuka Yoneda as color designer and Mikiko Watanabe as art director returns stronger than ever. I’ve always found the show’s palette attractive, but rather than the vivid colors themselves it’s the thoroughness of the painting that is the most striking; it always feels like highlights and shadows are granted extra tones that they wouldn’t usually have, making every shot feel even richer in detail. And although they don’t have the appealing roughness of the first key visual and her previous work, Watanabe’s background art is a huge improvement over her own take seen in Evergarden’s novel commercials. That vague sense of digital sterility is gone, replaced by much denser traditional work. The European inspired scenery is always a joy to look at.
The composite deserves a mention as well, since it will catch the eye of many viewers. This is Kohei Funamoto’s major debut as director of photography after having served as assistant on projects like Hyouka and Tamako Love Story, but ultimately it’s Ishidate’s vision that seems to dominate this aspect. Unlike the camera lens freaks like Naoko Yamada and Tatsuya Ishihara, Ishidate isn’t concerned with emulating effects as if he really were filming his cartoon. Instead, the very noticeable postprocessing effects simply try to give extra oomph to the animation, ideally without getting in its way. Your mileage may vary in this regard, but I found it spectacular despite not being the biggest fan of his approach, so chances are that you’ll be pleased as long as you’re not an extreme purist when it comes to anime’s composite work.

I have no issue acknowledging that I was quite skeptical of the extreme praise that Violet Evergarden was getting after its US premiere. KyoAni’s strongest production seemed like an exaggeration that I felt might have been born precisely from those fancy digital effects, since a lot of fans are – rightfully, don’t get me wrong – in love with very shiny cartoons. After having sampled it myself though, I can’t deny that this is at the very least a candidate for that title; Evergarden isn’t just a flashy anime (though it sure is one), it also seems to be fundamentally very well put together, in ways that you should never expect from something that’s technically a TV anime. If it’s won me over despite not really appealing to my sensibilities, you might want to keep an eye on it as well.
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Thank you, Netflix, for bringing this anime to the world.

Well, we all know this IS the show that finally will give Kyoani all worldwide recognition they deserve and will make other studios irrelevant. Only 1,5 months...

Maybe it will put the anime industry as a whole into the focus of profitability in the western world. Maybe there will be big time investors going to Japanese studios after VEG becomes widely known, funding random sakuga anime by Deen in the hope of getting the same results.

>MAL ratings

only air kanon and munto ican actually be considered 'worst'; the rest is actually good

Chuunibyou actually had like 3 good episodes at the end of S1

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JAW DROPPING ART

That will be Koe No Katachi once it gets the Oscar

Fucking kill yourself.

No wonder this is so good, thay made it for two years in a row, also they treat their animators like humans, unlike other studios.

Somes I wonder if people would care about VEG if it were done by any other studio. Are people caring about it on its own merits, or is it just the KyoAni association?

>forced drama for the sake of drama
>women animators trying to draw actual warfare
>mary sue "I don't give a fuck" nonhuman being protag who kills people just because she can
>no general plot
>attempt to create an image of authentic and historically accurate Europe that failed with the very first dinner scene
Try to guess.
But there are not problems since Kyoani makes it.

Why the hate towards Kyoukai no Kanata?

I'm a KyoAni fag, but they have way worst shows. The pacing seemed rushed, but you can expect that from a 12 episode show, and let's be honest, the movie was top tier.

Nah, only braindead people with IQ

>authentic and historically accurate Europe
Aside from your own shitposting, when was VEG ever advertised as this?

Twitter reviews

>forced drama
This is baby's first criticism of anything they don't like. Opinion invalidated.

How are you supposed to judge its merits when it hasn't aired yet?

Well, two (or three) episodes were aired, and novel was translated, and lots of e-celebs that Sup Forums trusts praised it. I guess this is something.

To be fair, with any other studio it'd probably be forgettable fantasy #112617 that falls apart a couple episodes in due to production issues.

No author would bring his Oscar Wilde/Charles Dickens tier masterpiece novel to any studio other than Kyoani anyway.

>attempt to create an image of authentic and historically accurate Europe that failed with the very first dinner scene
Why did it failed?

I mean: if it was done by, say Madhouse or Liden Films, or any other studio, but was otherwise the exact same show, would people care about it? Because somehow, even as a KyoAnifag myself, it pretty much feels like the only reason why it's getting so much hype is because it's a KyoAni show. Otherwise, people would just dismiss it and not give it much attention.

They really thought we Europeans eating tofu with chopsticks at the beginning at the XX century

That's not so bad, I thought it had muslims eating halal or something like that.

The direcor said it's purely Victorian Europe

>Ishidate: The worldview of “Violet” is fantasy, but it’s not the kind of unique fictitious world that has never been seen or heard of; it’s basically the same as the history of the real world, so I believe we’re going to create a world from which the people living here will be able to naturally feel their lifestyles and routines. Based on the features of the European region, we also incorporated Oriental elements, such as Oriental culture and furniture that was sometimes depicted in the novels. I mean, tofu also exists in that world. In the anime, there are scenes in which the characters use chopsticks to eat as well, so I think it’s not an animation solely about European culture.

Where?

Kyoani knows better.

They fucked up the dinner scene by drawing traditional japanese food and then realized it so director said it to cover that. It's not a bug, it's a feature, guys!

Victoria died in 1901. Evergarden is Edwardian, if it's supposed to be an analog for WW1.

What we have seen looks like shit. Even the artwork looks like it was left out in the rain.

Holy shit, Ishidate is suck a hack. Even worse, he said they drawn a better image of Victorian Europe than actual Europe without using a single photo reference.

If it were Shaft, some anons would be saying, "this is Shaft's Heaven's Gate, right? This will finally put them out of their and our misery."

>he said they drawn a better image of Victorian Europe than actual Europe without using a single photo reference.
sauce?

Check archives

And here I thought Sup Forums hated e-celebs.

Are we talking about Sup Forums that was parroting everything that youtube reviewer said about Phantom World? Like, turn your brain off lmao

There's no sauce. Ishidate simply said he wish he came to Europe earlier for a better depiction in Violet.

And then he said "lol this is not Europe at all I was just pretending". Such a hack indeed.

Well, this is hard to still pretending that your image of Europe is HISTORICALLY ACCURATE and FAITHFUL if you have no idea how Europe looks and what Eirope eats.

He could've just covered his ass by saying this is actually another quasi-European fantasy world.

Well, that came from your ESL spic head, not the director.

I hope you realize that Europe in the book is actually feithful since it even has Prussia in it.

I heard the novel has a toilet or poop scene in it. Any chance it will be animated?

captcha: select all images with boats

>such as Oriental culture and furniture that was sometimes depicted in the novels
Oh ok, guess he was lying about the novel he's adapting

This one?
Imagine Violet taking a dump. Her supposedly perfect body sits on the white-snow toilet reflecting all delicate parts. Her bewitchibgly beautiful eyes, two spheres of blue crystal from another world, are slightly closed in a joy that no human being can experience. A smalls splash of water below her creates a small rainbow straight from fairy kingdom. Her beautiful, slender fingers are gently caressing the piece of thin tiolet paper, and other pieces are suddenly starting to floating around like a sad letters from the past... This is she. A cursed fallen angel Violet Eergarden. Broken but yet unbroken.

>>‘It’ was a bewitchingly beautiful doll. Golden hair shining as though ‘it’ had been born out of moonlight. Blue orbs that glowed like gems. Bright rouge-colored lips so plump as to seem they had been pressed hard. A Prussian blue jacket under a ribbon-tie snow-white dress that bore a mismatched emerald brooch. Cocoa brown knitted boots that stepped steadily onto the ground.

>hurr I have no idea what I am talking about

>She was sitting there on the toilet, and her sudden desire to void her bowels was in fact a desire to go to the extreme of humiliation, to become only and utterly a body, the body her mother used to say was good for nothing but digesting and excreting. And as she voided her bowels, Violet was overcome by a feeling of infinite grief and loneliness. Nothing could be more miserable than her naked body perched on the enlarged end of a sewer pipe.
The third episode will have it, yes.

>giving it attention

>The third episode will have it, yes.
Sauce?

>MAL
I found your problem.

If the Fireworks movie had been a hit, some people would've said, "Based Toho; Shat just did what they were told and cut down on their retarded quirks".

You can kiss your old unenlightened self goodbye because watching VEG, or Violent Evergarden, will change your life.

I personally separate my life to pre-VEG and post-VEG periods, as watching it has completely changed how I view the world. It taught me to appreciate life much more (or rather in a different way) than I used to and also be more honest with myself. It may have a similar effect on you, or it may do nothing if it’s not your kind of thing, but one thing is clear — you’ve got to watch it even if it’s the last thing you do.

My life has been an ongoing quest to discover life-changing works of fiction, and despite having gone through thousands of books, movies, games and the like, I have yet to find anything to even rival Violent Evergarden. I’m honestly getting goosebumps just remembering it.

All I can say is that it’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced.

I can already see posts making fun of violet autism once the first episode start airing.

>normies

why you acting like you ain't, you dumb monkey

Fucking impressive, user.
HOW CAN ANY OTHER STUDIO EVEN COMPETE.

2018 should just VEG anime airing alone, since any other anime are not even close to it

I literally only give a shit about it because of KyoAni. The story sounds generic and uninspiring but I have high hopes for the animation quality to carry it. Honestly, I do not expect a Hyouka, because the Hyouka source material was actually good and it had more going for it than sheer animation quality. KyoAni always delivers in the production value department but they rarely get decent source material to work with. This one might be just good enough to hold its own and let the animation shine. If it were another studio I wouldn't care at all because "Just good enough to be carried by the animation" doesn't work for any other studio on a consistent basis.

>Just good enough to be carried by the animation
BONES though

I attended C3AFA (but consciously decided against watching the premiere).

The word from acquaintances who'd watched it was that KyoAni has taken a turd of a LN source and polished it into what could well be the best series they've made for a while. However it was announced that it'll be on Netflix, which probably means it won't be streamed until the entire series has aired, so I'm not sure if the KyoAni brand will be enough to overcome the lack of weekly exposure online and make the series a hit.

That said, having also gone to the KyoAni & Do event in Japan and seen their Violet Evergarden storyboards and misc. materials, I've basically bought into the hype and am looking forward to the TV premiere.

Most anime fans, at least where I live, use Kissanime, so it shouldn't be that big of an issue, assuming it gets fansubbers.

>current state of kyoani

based godani

You forgot flop dragon

I honestly think this will flop hard and not live up to any expectations

i want kyoani action show

Posting an example of literature that will become the classic soon.

>Not even while being a machine girl can she be left with wet clothes. As a change of clothes was necessary, she lay a bathrobe around her supposedly perfect body and headed for the bathroom. It had been a while since anyone other than Oscar regularly used it, so in a lapse of memory, he entered it without knocking and ended up seeing her while she was had not changed yet.

>“Ah, I’m sor… ry… eh?”

>He swallowed his breath due to perplexity.

>“EEEH?!”

>What was reflected in Oscar’s eyes was a sight more bewitchingly beautiful than any naked woman. Dripping golden hair. Beautiful blue orbs of a dimension that would not soften even within a painting. The finely-shaped lips just below them. A flesh body with a slender neck, an outstanding collarbone, plump breasts, and feminine curves.

>Her artificial arms consisted of metal rings from the shoulders to the fingertips. But it was only them. Despite the many scratches, other than the arms, the rest was surprisingly real skin. With that delicate body, she did not seem at all like a mechanical doll, but a relatively normal human being.

>With everything he had believed in until then being mantled over by the shocking revelation, Oscar tried to confirm what he was seeing many times.

>“Master.” Violet called with a voice that seemed to be judging him as he continued to ogle in astonishment.

>“UAAAAAAH! UAAAAAH! UAAAAAHAAAAAH!”

>Part of the outcome of that incident was Oscar’s screaming. The other was him half-crying while going beet-red, after having yelled on top of his lungs, frantically inquiring, “Are you human, after all?!”

>Wrapping a towel around herself, Violet plainly commented, “Master is, truly, a troublesome person.” Her cheeks were rose-dusted as she muttered, her face a little lowered.

Are you serious

Truly the Ulysses of our time.

Or Madhouse. And it wouldn't have the blurry, washed-out imagery on display here.

>KyoAni viral marketers

I almost hope it will just to shut up the falseflaggers and the people actually meaning it. Threads like these have already ruined the show for half the board.

>grimderp
>great
found the underage poster