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Violet Evergarden Film Listed With May 1 Opening in Taiwan

Yahoo! Movies Taiwan is listing Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden: The Movie anime film with a May 1 opening date in Taiwan. Cai Chang is listed as the distributor for the film.

The film will open in Japan on April 24. The film was originally slated for January 10 before being delayed.

The franchise's separate side-story anime, titled Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll (Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jidō Shuki Ningyō), opened in theaters in Japan on September 6. While theaters originally planned to screen this anime for two weeks only, the anime extended its run several times. Cai Chang opened the anime in Taiwan on November 1. The anime held its world premiere as planned at the ANImagic convention in Mannheim, Germany, which ran on August 3 and 4. The ANImagic organizers said that they went ahead with the premiere "at the express request of the studio."

On July 18, Kyoto Animation's 1st Studio building suffered a fire that killed 36 people and injured 33 others. Kyoto Animation has opened an account to accept donations. The company will give the funds to families of the deceased and injured victims of the fire, as well as for rebuilding.

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.

Source: Yahoo! Movies