Vivy’s time travel adventure: Fluorite Eye’s Song might draw comparisons to Re: Zero, but the AI-centric series perfectly stands on its own.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song, broadcasting on Funimation.
After the successful conclusion of Re: zero Season 2 and a potentially long wait until Season 3, understandably fans are clamoring for Re: zero Creator Tappei Nagatsuki’s next project, Vivy: Song of the Fluorite Eye. This original anime is co-written by Nagatsuki and the writer of the sci-fi / horror visual novel. Chaos; Boy Eiji Umehara and animated by Wit Studio. While the anime shares some similarities with Re: zero, stands alone as a thought-provoking sci-fi story perfect for our time.
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The story of Vivy follows an AI-powered android named Vivy, a name given to him by a human girl. Vivy was originally created to be a singer who performs at a theme park. One day, a mysterious AI hacks Vivy’s system and claims to be 100 years in the future. The AI takes the form of a teddy bear and calls himself Matsumoto. He tells Vivy that a war between the AI and humans will break out in 100 years and humanity will be annihilated. To avoid this, Vivy and Matsumoto must prevent artificial intelligence technology from overdeveloping by changing the results of various singularity events, thus changing the story.
The connection between Re: zero Y Vivy it is clear: both stories try to change history by remaking key events. But in Re: zero, Subaru has the advantage of redoing the same event many times. Meanwhile in Vivy, the protagonists only get one chance to rewrite history, Matsumoto even actively prevents Vivy from changing too much by cutting her arm at the end of Episode 2. This means that the time travel in Vivy’s The world is linear, rather than parallel, and all actions will have consequences in history.
Traveling in time also brings up the possibility of the butterfly effect, a topic well explored in Re: zero, and is equally well illustrated in Vivy. The way events progress Vivy It is not as straightforward as you might expect. For example, Vivy and Matsumoto’s first mission is to stop the murder of a pro-AI politician. According to Matsumoto, the rise of AI begins with legislation called the “AI Naming Law,” which is passed in response to the politician’s death. For the law not to be passed, the politician needs to survive.
Ironically, after Vivy saves the politician, he goes from being a cynic who only uses AI rights to gain political credit to someone who genuinely advocates for AI rights, and an even more lenient version of it is passed as a result. the AI rights law. This shows that the story is not linear at all, with tragedies leading to positive change as often as they result in even more tragedies. Changing seemingly related things doesn’t always add up to an ideal outcome.
But the series doesn’t try to get too complex with its time travel, either. Umehara and Nagatsuki argued they intentionally made the science of the show less complicated. The result is a humane and timely story about social change, despite the AI focus. The show’s AI is clearly an allegory for minorities, and while comparing oppressed peoples to computer software is not without its problems, on its own, AI technology remains a realistic prospect for our future, realistic. to ask the questions. Vivy raises about them relevant even without allegory.
What Vivy what it intelligently does is that the narrative doesn’t take a particular side. The AIs are shown committing atrocities early in the series, so viewers understand why many feel they must be controlled, and even Matsumoto is constantly acting in increasingly dangerous ways. But at the same time, many humans in the series are also arrogant, selfish, or ruthless terrorists, which is why even they are not that understanding. So far, the only clearly “good” main character is Vivy, and it is due to her ability to empathize with everyone and not take sides.
The way Vivy portrays the gray area in society is nuanced and thoughtful and, add the mystery behind Matsumoto’s actions and the excitement of each mission, and you have a completely engaging series. Vivy It is not just a retread of Re: zeroBy looking at the trajectory of history, it is not even necessarily about changing the course of history, but rather about showing the journey that leads history to where it could ultimately go, as a composite of events with many actors and motivations different. It’s a fascinating look at human nature through the lens of an AI.
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