The audio commentary of episode 12 of Violet Evergarden TV series again saw Ishidate Taichi (director), Fujita Haruka (series direction), Urahata Tatsuhiko (script), and Suzuki Takaaki (world setting) as the commentators.
They continued to talk about the world setting, and as the episode started with a map, talked about how they made maps based on inputs from author Akatsuki Kana. After creating the continent's map, they worked on establishing the climate for each region, and then the types of buildings found there based on the climate. Tellsis was quite a big continent at first, around the size of Eurasia, but Suzuki cut it down to about half the size after taking into consideration time and space. There were about 10 countries with names, and they also worked on laying out the route of the transcontinental railway. Ishidate also pointed out that Yoshida Reiko (series composition) said that she was not very knowledgeable about war and not good at creating world settings in detail, which was why Suzuki was engaged to help.
They also said that the train story in the light novels was also quite complicated and took up two chapters. This story was somehow weaved together into episodes 11, 12, and 13. They also thought about what to do with Diethard's character, and arrived at him being a tsundere who loves his brother.
When working on the world setting, they even looked at things such as why the war started. Ishidate said that Takahashi Hiroyuki (accessory setting) also liked trains so he did quite a bit of research. One issue was that there weren't many trains from that time period left for use as reference.
When working on the world setting , Ishidate didn't want to be too caught up in actual history, which would then limit the anime story. It would be too restrictive and dark to base on England, so something more tropical was chosen. He saw it as something like a period drama.
The staff went location hunting in Hokkaido and Kyoto for the TV series. When Ishidate went to Germany for the advanced screening, he found that Europe was different from the colonial style he saw in Hokkaido. Suzuki brought up that, due to the lack of earthquakes in Europe, brick buildings continue to be used for many many years, and buildings damaged by fire or war are rebuilt as per the original.
For the background, Ishidate wanted more weathered looks for buildings and things, and therefore asked a lot from the background artists. He said that they did not have smiles on their faces while working on this series. There was also the issue that they had to use black and white photographs as reference and thus did not know how they would look in colour.
Suzuki commented that he ate bamboo shoots when he went to Kyoto for one of the work meetings. Ishidate quickly came in to say that he was born in a place known for bamboo shoots so he is quite picky about them.
While WW1 was used as reference for the world setting, there were no machine guns in the world of Violet Evergarden. It was established at the start that this was a world with low steel production, and so even cannons were not common, and most of them had the power of cannons from around 50 to 100 years before WW1. This was intentional; they changed the world setting so as to bring out Violet's wartime role, since it would be difficult for Violet to play a significant role if there were devastating machine guns and cannons.
My overall thoughts on Violet Evergarden The Movie
Events:
Translations of short stories:
The Tailor and the Auto-Memories Doll (unofficial translation of 仕立て屋と自動手記人形) Gilbert Bougainvillea and the Fleeting Dream (unofficial translation of "ギルベルト・ブーゲンビリアと儚い夢")
Violet Evergarden short stories: "Logbook entry" and "Diary entry" (unofficial translation)
The Starry Night and the Lonely Two (unofficial translation of 星降りの夜とさみしいふたり)
Diethard Bougainvillea's If (unofficial translation of ディートフリート・ブーゲンビリアIf) Tellsis (Nunkish) translation:
Last line of Violet's final letter to GilbertInsights on the movie:
Audio commentary notes:
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