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Vivy is definitely one of the best sci-fi anime out there!

Do you like Sci-fi? Do you like robot? Most importantly, do you like good stories? If so, Vivy-Fluorite Eye's Song is a must watch. Join the 100-year-long quest of Diva to save humanity. This, is Vivy.

The story began with the rouge AI robots one day started killing humans with no signs in advanced. Just when everything was ruined, a scientist sent an AI, Matsumoto, back to the past to save humanity by modifying the singularity points of AI development. However, Matsumoto had to partner with another AI and convince her to join him on the mission. That AI was Diva, the only AI lasted for a hundred years.

In this world, AI fails to function properly if given too many tasks, so each AI was given one sole purpose. The main character Diva was given the purpose of 'make everyone happy with her singing,' and her companion Matsumoto was given the purpose of 'avoid the war between AIs and humans.' To convince Diva to help him, Matsumoto initially twisted the narrative as 'to make sure your audience will live, you have to help me.' Diva eventually agreed to help, and went by the name Vivy, a name gifted by her first fan, during the world-saving mission.

However, it would seem that whatever they did, the results never went their way. For instance, there's a tower that indicates the development level of AI. The original plan was to slow down the pace of AI development, but the tower still grew taller even when they changed the singularity points. To be honest, whatever they did eventually ended up being a positive influences to AI development. Each episode we were given a touching story with well-done plot twists and proper ending, but you'd have a feeling that what they've done probably didn't really mattered in the wider scope. In fact, the latter episodes kind of proved that as well. So, if the quests themselves wasn't the point, what's the meaning of all this? You got it, it's the character growth along the way. In the whole show, Diva was searching for the meaning of 'using your heart' to get better at singing. Sure, it's not news that robots always struggle to understand how human works, but Diva was that kind of person that will directly ask you 'what does it mean?' is pretty funny, probably in hope of getting a clean and definite answer when there is none. I'm glad to report that in the end it Diva did find her own definition of the human heart, performed the best show of her life, and saved humanity.

One talking point I'm quite fond of is the purpose of an AI. Although only given one purpose, when you think about it, that wasn't really the case. To accomplish the true purpose, you'll always find new sub-purpose that will help you fulfill the main purpose. In Diva's case, she was even capable of over-extending her purpose of 'making everyone happy with her singing' to 'save humanity to prevent her future audience die.' You can say that she called herself Vivy when saving the world, and therefore it counts as two personalities. However, Vivy is till 100%vDiva, it's not like she gained a second personality from saving the it's just the robot figuring out she had different characters in different situation, but this idea itself actually challenges the one purpose rule. That makes me wonder the problem may not be AIs cannot handle multiple purposes but other reasons. Sadly I didn't find any definite answer in the show, but a novel series is currently on its way, let's hope the idea would be explained further.

When it comes to saving humanity, of course there are some fight scenes, and I must say the fights were done incredibly well that you can clearly tell this is two robots fighting rather than human. Although being humanoids, the AIs' moves and gestures just constantly put you off and kept realizing the fact that they are robots, and this feature was best express in battles, I really dig it.

In conclusion, Vivy-Fluorite Eye's Song is a great anime. It has Everything, Good story, good emotional attachment, good character design, robots, sci-fi stuff, great fighting scenes, and constantly tricking you into listening to the opening. I could hardly imagine someone watch it and doesn't like it.