The stories of time travel have always been very interesting and striking, additionally we add robots to the formula and it is inevitable not to think of the greatest exponent of these stories as was Terminator, but, although it is undoubtedly the most famous case does not mean that another story with this approach that rebellion of machines and time travel can not be very entertaining, exciting and feeling original in its development. This is precisely what Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song achieves, an anime from the middle of the year 2021 and that in addition to having a great story, has an incredibly amazing animation, careful and denoting a great job from the animator studio, likewise is an anime with a very large success and acceptance with a rating of 8.40 in Myanimelist which can already be an indicator of the great work that turns out to be.
 

This story introduces us to Vivy, an autonomous AI that works as a singer in an amusement park with different AIs, in a world 100 years in the future we see how the AIs have attacked all humanity and created a massacre in the park where Vivy used to sing but now she is simply turned off and exhibited as a museum piece, Like any time travel story that is better not to try to explain how time travel works, we see how a scientist before dying manages to send an AI created by himself with all the information of what happened 100 years in the past to find Vivy when she was still singing in the amusement park and prevent the whole tragedy and the rebellion of the AIs from happening.
 

 
Although this beginning leaves a great doubt as to how it is possible that the AI called Matsumoto was able to return to the past, at the same time manages to create a great interest in the anime by showing you a bloody and devastating future and how now Vivy, who despite being autonomous and presenting a somewhat cold, calm and somewhat distrustful personality, manages to work together with Matsumoto to avoid events and accidents that during the following 100 years were happening and creating a greater gap and resentment between the AIs and humanity until the fateful day of the attack.
 

One aspect that this story lets us understand very soon is that not everything will be a happy ending and besides seeing moments where Vivy has to take actions and decisions that undoubtedly leave her somewhat distressed or frustrated, we also notice how the drama is part of the development of it and although Vivy has information of virtually everything relevant happened on Earth during the next 100 years, she can simply intervene in those events where the relations between AIs and Humans were affected and bring the war between them closer, although she wants to help her acquaintances she will not be so free to do so and change the future completely.
 

A couple of curious aspects in this story is how at the beginning of everything and without the viewer knowing it we have a slight spoiler of the events of the next chapters, although at the time we see it we have no idea what it refers to and it is not until the story advances that we see the relationship and contexts of the images of the future that Vivy observes when she begins her adventure. Likewise, being a story based on 100 years, the chapters will mostly have a fairly long time continuity, between an “accident” in the timeline that Vivy must avoid and another there are several years between them, so between chapter and chapter we can see how not only change the humans present in the story, but also Vivy's situation or reputation as a singing automaton and the conditions of the park, a small timeskip that shows us how everything follows its course while Vivy awaits a new mission with Matsumoto.
 

Similarly many action scenes are quite exciting and unexpectedly dynamic, all this is combined with a really fantastic visual quality and that at all times exhibits the great work that is capable of the Wit Studio team which undoubtedly is at the level of any other great in the animation industry, Vivy's close-ups become fantastic and really shocking with which generates not only a satisfaction in the viewer to watch the anime, also complements in a great way the emotions that is expressing the chapter or scene in question. In addition, since it is a singing AI, the soundtrack is amazing and very appropriate to the situations. Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song is an anime that, while it may have a fairly familiar approach, manages to create its own story in a very captivating and involving way with the viewer.
 

 

 
Mangaka: Tappei Nagatsuki / Eiji Umehara
Studio Animator: Wit Studio

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