I just watched Violet Evergarden: The Movie. It came out in 2020 in Japan, but released over here on Netflix in late 2021.
It is the most beautiful movie I've seen. Absolutely perfect. My new favorite movie perhaps. It's been a little while since I cried this much during a movie...
I highly recommend that everyone check out the series and then this movie, even if you're not generally a fan of anime. It's generally more serious and doesn't really follow any obnoxious tropes of other popular anime.
The series is about a young girl who was raised to fight in a war, not knowing anything else, now finding her way in life after the war is over. She takes on a profession in writing letters for those who can't write themselves, meanwhile longing for her father figure who hasn't been seen since the war. There's more to it but I don't want to say too much.
The movie serves as a conclusion to the series, and it does its job wonderfully. It's actually the second movie, but the first one is essentially just a extended episode of the series; not bad but not as significant.
Please I need more people to experience this story.