Most importantly, Isabella pines for Taylor, the young orphan who befriended her before the Yorks brought Isabella under their wing.Ī lost loved one? Problems relating to others? Yeah, Violet knows all about that.
She isn't interested in the customs and routines that go hand-in-hand with being a member of the upper class. She doesn't fit in at the private girls' school she attends. See, Isabella, the heir to the York family's fortune, is having trouble. In Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, the first feature film spinoff of the Violet Evergarden anime series, Violet adds another title to the list: teacher.
Still, Miss Hokusai is an interesting look at a very specific moment in Japanese history, and as you'd expect for a movie that's all about art, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Miss Hokusai doesn't really have a plot - the closest thing the movie has to a real story is a subplot about Tetsuzo's other daughter, O-Nao, who's essentially abandoned by her father due to her blindness - and not every one of the short stories quite works. In another, Tetsuzo charges O-Ei with creating erotic prints, but as a virgin, O-Ei doesn't have the experience she needs to meet their customers' demands.Īlong the way, other artists from the era flit in and out of the movie, as do elements of Japanese folklore and Buddhist philosophy. In one short story, a client goes mad after O-Ei paints a picture of Hell. Like the manga it's based on, Miss Hokusai unfolds over a series of small vignettes that show what life in Japan's Edo era was like for Hokusai - at this point, still known as Tetsuzo - and O-Ei, who is both Tetsuzo's assistant and a talented artist in her own right.
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