In spring 2016, Kyoto Animation produced an anime promo for Violet Evergarden. The book, written by Kana Akatsuki, won the grand prize winner of the 5th Kyoto Animation Award.
The work received honorable mention in 2013’s 4th Kyoto Animation Awards along with Soichirō Hatano’s basis for the Myriad Colors Phantom World anime and Koji Dogu’s Yatara Uro Uro Mettara Doki Doki.
KA Esuma Bunko, the light novel label associated with Kyoto Animation (this season’s Sound!