Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

When highly evolved AIs set out to eradicate mankind, the carnage that ensues fills the air with the stench of fresh blood and burning bodies. In a desperate bid to prevent the calamity from ever occurring, a scientist bets everything on a remnant from the past.

Turning the clock back a hundred years, AIs are already an integral part of human society, programmed with specific missions meant to be carried out for their entire course of operation. Vivy, the first ever autonomous AI, is a songstress tasked with spreading happiness through her voice. In a theme park where she hardly ever gets a proper audience, she strives to pour her heart out into her performances, bound to repeat it day after day—that is, until an advanced AI from the future appears before her and enlists her help in stopping a devastating war a hundred years in the making. With no time to process the revelation that flips her world upside down, Vivy is catapulted into a century-long journey to avert the violent history yet to come.

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Vivy Main

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Matsumoto Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Estella Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Ophelia Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Grace Supporting

Akesaka, Satomi Japanese

Elizabeth Supporting

Uchiyama, Yumi Japanese

M Supporting

Fukushima, Jun Japanese

Kakitani, Yuugo Supporting

Shingaki, Tarusuke Japanese

Saeki, Tatsuya Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Antonio Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Takahashi, Yuuma Producer

Itou, Hitoshi Producer

Ootani, Joe Producer

Kobayashi, Satoru Assistant Producer

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Jul 11, 2024

Kcmichalson

Recommended

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song has been a pretty good watch. Essentially following the premise of 'AI goes back in time to stop the future AI from becoming mankind's extinction event', the show follows Vivy through her journey of coming to grips with the situation she's in and finding how to rectify the situation that has been prophesized to her.

The show's strong suit is its action animation, has some of the best I've seen in anime so far. There's a pretty decent amount of time in the series set aside for battles and they look and sound great. They might not the best choreographed and maybe ... don't make that much sense, but action is action and this series delivers. Other than that, the sound design is pretty fantastic and it has a really good backing OST, especially during the more mellow dramatic exposition-y bits.

The characters are written fine, though Vivy and her robot companion are given the lion's share of the screen time and development. There are few characters in the show with more than surface level plot development, and many characters are introduced and done with in just 1-2 episode intervals. The characters that do go through development are written well, though. Well,

..As well as the story allows, at least. Hey, I liked the story, but I can't say that its a masterpiece. A lot of the plot of this rides on time travel shenanigans, which as you know, is a very shaky writing platform as-is. Add futuristic AI and dramatic moral dilemmas onto that, and there's just a lot of arcs in this that are either resolved hastily, brashly, or just not at all.

Regardless, I think Vivy is still a good show as long as you are fine looking over some story concerns. It's short enough that the issues aren't too glaring, and if you're watching this for the action you'll most probably be satisfied.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 1, 2023

Tablekun

Mixed Feelings

Vivy is good, not great, but could have been great, given proper bake time in the oven. So often we see titles do this half-baked effort, and it's so unfortunate, because under this half-baked series, is a good premise. Idols aren't my thing, but I gave this a shot, and off the bat I was ready to binge the rest. I did so, and unfortunately, the world, and the story, are underdeveloped. Vivy doesn't get proper character growth, the story is everywhere almost episodic like Violet Evergarden, but not as removed as VE was from its main story. The series ... needed to be 26 episodes. It's a common problem that I wish studios would fix by reducing the number of titles they do per year, to allow these shows to flourish.

Animation 8/10
- The animation is stunning at times, but there are too few scenes that show off this great animation.
Sound 10/10
- The soundtrack and the emotion it conveys is incredible.
Story 5/10
- The story isn't good, much of the world, and its characters are a husk of what it should be, including Vivy. There was so much more they could have done to flesh it all out.
Characters 6/10
- I like most of the cast, but again, they come and go, and in the end those characters are a fart in the wind.
Enjoyment 6/10
- It's too bad, cause this anime does convey emotion, and I loved that about it, but everything as a whole is relatively lifeless.

As far as who I could recommend this to, I would say people who enjoyed Violet Evergarden, would probably enjoy this. It could appeal to random people as well, it's not a bad anime, it is just a wasted potential.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 29, 2022

-_-Weerachai-_-

Not Recommended

"Bad writing is masked by great production" is the definition for this show.

When I watched the first Vivy 2 episodes I feel it's great. The design of the sci-fi world that is rare in anime and the heroine's character design like Vivy is awesome, reminds me of Violet Evergarden. But after that, the story wasn't that good at all.

Vivy's writing is filled with plot holes and sick logic of the characters. There are various crazy concepts such as Humans marry AI?, AI kills themselves? AI takes over the world? Of course, if you don't think about it, it will be normal. But if you think ... about it, this idea is very retarded. Every time I see humans in this story, I tend to think that they have no brains and deserve to be destroyed by their own AI.

Good world design turned out to be a major weakness because the story never explored the setting within the world. We don't even understand what the real state of society would be like when it came to the era when humans created AI to work for themselves. Therefore, there are many questions that cannot be explained rationally.

The plot is divided into arcs. In each arc there are about 2 to 3 chapters telling the main character in that arc. But the narrative is so rushed every now and then that all the characters are cut off so quickly and you'll forget about them at the end of the episode.

I don't recommend that you watch this show if you want a sensible and deep story. But if you want great art and brain-free fun. I would highly recommend it, but for me, I hate this show because it's too stupid for me to enjoy its stupidity.

(Additional: The ending was terrible. Very predictable, extremely rushed, stupid and boring.)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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