Mid-Season Impressions: Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Our Episode 1-7 Impressions on Vivy Fluorite's Eye Song

<p>I hate to admit that I &lpar;along with many others I’m sure&rpar; misjudged Vivy<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;anime-impressions-86-eighty-six&sol;"> this season<&sol;a>&period; What I assumed would be another idol anime with a futuristic twist turned out to be one of the best-looking&comma; emotion-fueled experiences this season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye&&num;8217&semi;s Song tells the tale of a humble Idol android named Diva whose sole purpose is to make people happy with her music&period; Vivy is the first of the androids called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the sisters” who were made to mimic human emotions&comma; each of who have their own function and reason for existing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;image&period;tmdb&period;org&sol;t&sol;p&sol;original&sol;kn1dNNsuUpp2nqQSlk9RLo7C2DM&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye's Song" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">The Android That Sings<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The anime&&num;8217&semi;s first scene gives us a brief but bloody glimpse into this world’s distant future where androids have revolted against humans and have begun killing their creators indiscriminately&period; Luckily&comma; a quick-thinking scientist is able to make it just in time before his death to send an AI to the past in hopes of preventing this disturbing future&period; Once the scene ends&comma; the first episode then introduces us to Diva&comma; the up-and-coming Idol who one day&comma; dreams of singing on the main stage&period; Shortly after however&comma; her life changes significantly when she meets Matsumoto&comma; the aforementioned foul-mouthed AI who visits Vivy with a critical mission&comma; one that will take a hundred years to complete&comma; and one that only her as the first of the sisters can help with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unsurprisingly&comma; Vivy is reluctant to believe the words of this strange and rude AI&period; However&comma; after a lot of convincing from Matsumoto&comma; she &lpar;albeit still reluctantly&rpar; agrees to carry out the duties she&&num;8217&semi;s been forced upon for humanity&&num;8217&semi;s sake&comma; if nothing else&period; These two quickly form an unlikely partnership&comma; but each with polar opposite personalities&period; Due to the way she&&num;8217&semi;s programmed&comma; Vivy is more caring and sympathetic&comma; whereas Matsumoto is more cold and calculating&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;www&period;crowsworldofanime&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Vivy-Fluorite&lowbar;Eyes&lowbar;Song-Episode&lowbar;02-Figure&lowbar;02&period;jpg&quest;fit&equals;2098&percnt;2C1182&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye's Song" width&equals;"2098" height&equals;"1182" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">The Android That Fights<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Another aspect of the anime is how it includes multiple events in two to three-episode arcs&period; The first two episode sees our heroine on a quest to rescue a politician named Aikawa&comma; an assemblyman that’ll contribute significantly to the war between humans and androids from an assassination attempt by an anti-android terrorist organization known as Toak&period; The next mission then sees her aboard a highly advanced and luxurious spaceship run solely by androids called Sunrise&period; If left alone&comma; Sunrise will inevitably crash&comma; killing hundreds on-board which will then lead to further unease between humans and androids&period; For the third mission&comma; Vivy is tasked with infiltrating a self-producing island run by androids to prevent them from becoming &&num;8220&semi;too advanced&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An interesting fact about these missions is that they do not follow each other linearly&period; As this is a hundred-year task&comma; each mission is spread several years apart&comma; be it five years&comma; fifteen years&comma; or more&period; Because of this&comma; we see Vivy grow almost at a jarring rate&comma; both personally and as an android&period; It’s also worth noting that each of these missions affects her significantly&comma; as she always comes out of them slightly different than she initially was&period; We see her go from the reluctant and conflicted hero Diva to Vivy&semi; an android tasked with destroying other androids for the good of humanity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When she isn&&num;8217&semi;t kicking butt and saving lives as Vivy&comma; she still performs her duties as Diva&comma; as the anime makes it clear that her ultimate goal is to make others happy with her singing&comma; both of which she does well&comma; as we see her progressively grow her audience getting closer to her dream of singing on the main stage while doing so&period; However&comma; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t help but ask myself why singing was chosen to be her primary function as many other professions would allow her accomplish her goal of helping people just as well&comma; if not better&comma; as seen with the other sisters in the anime&period; Perhaps because singing evokes more emotion in humans&quest; Or perhaps because as the first sister&comma; her task was made to be as simple as possible&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;animecorner&period;me&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Screenshot-11945&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye's Song" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Storytelling &amp&semi; World-Building<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>A major property of the anime&&num;8217&semi;s storytelling is the butterfly effect seen in each of the episodes&period; As this is a time travel-focused anime&comma; each of Vivy&&num;8217&semi;s actions causes a significant impact on the world&period; Most of her actions help save the lives of countless&comma; yet others notably also hinder the lives of others&period; Ultimately&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;ll have to live with her actions because&comma; in the end&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s objectively for the greater good&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another aspect of the anime&&num;8217&semi;s storytelling is how similar it is to another popular android-themed piece of media&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;detroit-become-human-review&sol;">Detroit&colon; Become Human<&sol;a>&period; While Vivy objectively has better writing the similarities exist regardless&period; Like Detroit&comma; each android in the anime is built for a specific task&period; The androids in both mediums share similar anatomy&comma; function similarly&comma; and both are incredibly advanced&period; And much like in Detroit&comma; the androids in the anime are made capable of emotion and sympathy&period; This inevitably brings up the question on whether androids deserve the same rights as we do&comma; which itself is a question that usually causes a war between each party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Due to this similarity&comma; I have a similar standpoint with Vivy&colon; Androids should not be made capable of emotion&period;  Just a set of tasks designed for them and Asimov&&num;8217&semi;s laws&period; Judging by what I&&num;8217&semi;ve learnt both theoretically and in media&comma; their ability to emote seems to be a major cause of conflict&period; But it seems with humanity&&num;8217&semi;s never-ending quest for advancement this may never change&period; However&comma; this is just my two cents on the subjects&period; I can go on forever about the perks and dangers of android development and advancement&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s a different topic for a different article&period; All in all&comma; I’m glad the writers Eiji Umehara and Tappei Nagatsuki &lpar;who’s also the author of ReZero&rpar; did a better job of executing these themes compared to David Cage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;image&period;tmdb&period;org&sol;t&sol;p&sol;original&sol;z9aargsMHzWauxdZ8zRytRKi6kf&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye's Song" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Conclusion<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>To sum things up&comma; I can only describe Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye&&num;8217&semi;s Song as both grim and beautiful&period; The anime has one of the best animation and character designs of this season&comma; and its direction is nothing short of astounding with stellar production value&period; Its story aims to evoke as much emotion as possible from its audience&comma; and while I am a bit emotionally disconnected&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s no doubt it succeeds at this judging by its current reception&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re a fan of Sci-fi and feels&comma; then you should be watching Vivy this season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye&&num;8217&semi;s Song is currently streaming on <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funimation&period;com&sol;en&sol;shows&sol;vivy-fluorite-eyes-song-&sol;my-code-to-make-everyone-happy-with-my-singing&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Funimation <&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Have you seen Vivy&colon; Fluorite Eye&&num;8217&semi;s Song&quest; What are your thoughts on android revolution&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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