Parents' Guide to Violet Evergarden: The Movie

In VIOLET EVERGARDEN: THE MOVIE, Daisy is a young girl mourning the loss of her grandmother. She finds a collection of old letters written to her grandmother by her great-grandmother Violet (Yui Ishikawa), who worked as a scribe or "Auto Memory Doll" after the war. Violet's job was to write letters for those who found it difficult to put their feelings into words. During the war, she was a skilled soldier who was adopted and trained by Major Gilbert Bougainvillea (Daisuke Namikawa). During a particularly bloody battle, Gilbert is injured, and as Violet tries to carry him to safety, a grenade lands nearby, resulting in the loss of both of her arms. As they are separated for what seems like the last time, Glibert's parting words to her are "I love you." In the years after the war, Violet gets a pair of mechanical arms and hands, and attains success as a letter writer because she has found a way to channel her love and loss for Gilbert into words for others, but when a tween boy who is sick and bedridden asks her to write letters for his loved ones, Violet must confront her feelings for Gilbert, especially when she learns of rumors that Gilbert may still be alive. As she goes off in search of Gilbert, she must learn why Gilbert chose to disappear and lead her to believe that he had died, and, if she sees him, express her true feelings for him.