My favorite detail in Vivy is when Vivy hears the AIs singing her song and is devastated they they're using it while killing people. The whole show started because the creations of humanity, the AI, went against their creators. Vivy experienced a truly human phenomenon in that moment, when her creation went out of her control in that way.

The metal float arc was just one of the most soul crushing moments in anime ever im do inlove with the writing of this show i genuinely wish it got more attention

This is definitely one of the more underrated animes I've seen

10 IQ: “Her name is Vivy.” 100 1Q: “No! Her name is Diva!” 1000 IQ: “Her name is Vivy.”

Beautiful song! Beautiful anime! This is art masterpiece. Fluorite is used to make the clearest camera lens. So Fluorite's Eyes are robot eyes made from Fluorite, indicating "The Clearest Eyes of an AI". When the virus hit, Diva got killed (only memory remains) and Vivy came back out as main. Vivy cannot sing because there was an unfixable conflict in her logic. Previously her songs caused the death of an AI and human lover couple. The human thought the AI can multitask, handle the factory and still love him. But as it turn out, the AI could only do 1 single mission at a time. So that song was just a saved memory, playing on repeat. The AI girl has forgotten about the human guy a long time ago, once she was assigned a new mission. That's why he said "All that's left of Grace is this MP3 file, a heartless repeat of her favorite song." If he knew, he probably would have never agreed to let her go. Vivy's action pushed that factory ahead by 15 years ahead of the original timeline, hence Grace was put in charge of it. Vivy's song directly leads to that heartbreaking situation, leading to the death of both the AI girl and the human man. If her singing has a chance, however slight, to cause some people, any people, misery, how can Vivy carry out her mission? How can she sing to make "everyone" happy, when her song might directly make some people miserable? There is a bug in the algorithm. Her mission becomes impossible to complete, because that insane requirement of "make EVERYONE happy" is absolute in her mission. That's one problem with AI, it is pure logic and there is no room for flexibility. That was why Vivy was shut down, and after rebooting Diva took over. Human's advantage over AI is, humans can have multiple missions in life. They can in fact make up their own, new mission as their life journey continues. This is why when Vivy sing at episode 13, she is proven to be the first AI in history that can also create her own new mission, that overpowered the mission she was born with. Many previous AI's has sacrificed themselves to save humans, but never before did they have to go directly against their original mission that they were born with to do so. This is actually the reason Vivy's body and mind was cracking up as she sing, because of the major internal conflict within herself. Her new mission is to save humanity. However she had to fight her first/original mission to complete that. To save humanity out of love, she must sing (heart). But as she sings, she knows there is a chance that her song would somehow cause some human misery (logic). In the end, her heart beats her logic, and she completed her song and saved humanity. This is the reason why Archive let Vivy's decision be the final decision of all AI. Archive is the oldest and most powerful AI, and it's mission is also in all other AI's in existence: To help humanity evolve into a stronger species. It thought that when AI became able to create art, like Vivy's song, it has evolved past humanity, so humanity is no longer needed. This was why Archive can take over every single other AI, because of this common hidden mission inside all AI. Even Vivy carries this mission in secret. However since she is a multi-mission being, she wasn't taken over but was instead woken up by the take over attempt. The logic of "AI is the next step of human evolution" wasn't able to overwhelm Vivy's heart of "I love humans and want to save them". Vivy also disagree that AI is more evolved than humans, because AI at that point still doesn't have heart, instead are limited to just logic. Diva would have gotten taken over by Archive, but not Vivy. That personality erasing virus that they plan to install into Archive was never going to work. Because it was in fact Archive who wrote that virus in the first place, to erase Diva from Vivy's body. So the only way for the virus to work is if, Archive just lets the virus kill itself on purpose, without fighting back. As powerful as Archive is, even it can only focus on the one mission it was born with. Vivy is the next evolution of AI, because she decided her own new life's mission as her life journey goes. She did this when she decided to write a song. And she did it again when she sang with her heart despite her logic. Since Vivy is the next evolution of AI, and her decision is to save humanity out of love/heart/memories, and to shut Archive down, Archive respected her decision and shut itself down, after backing up all AI including Vivy (it is the Archive). If evolution is the mission, the old powerful dinosaur must leave the stage for the next generation to take over. The old AI must yield the decision making to a more evolved AI. Navi, representing Archive and all older AI, witnessed and claps for Vivy before fading away. AI has evolved into having creativity and heart. But with only 1 AI operating (Beth) in the world, it is up to humanity to decide if they want to shut down all AI's forever, or create new evolved AI's with Vivy as a blueprint. And it seems they chose the latter, as the new Vivy goes out to sing. Since they called her Vivy instead of Diva, it means humanity and Matsumoto remember what she did. Only improvement I will make to the show is this at the end: When Matsumoto give the new Vivy her mission "To make everyone happy with her singing", Vivy should have replied: "Everyone? Don't think that's possible. Maybe change it into bringing joy to as many people with my singing as I could?" And Matsumoto "If that's your decision, yes. Anyways let's go. Everyone is waiting for you!"

completely masterpiece but extremely needs your attention to understand while watching. But I like it

This is what analysis vids should be like. I do like how some just go through the story but I prefer this where you give some insight into the characters and point out what was probably or could have been missed that helps explain the plot. Thank you for this!

This is an anime that I was moved by, watching once, but really came to appreciate the underlying themes watching the second time. I've described it to friends as 'Hatsune Miku is the Terminator' but it's very underrated for the quality and story that was put into it. This was an okay analysis but I'm a little disappointed you barely mentioned or analyzed the musical score - I think it carries the anime as much as something themed around a 'diva' ought to, and the songs carry a lot of meaning into the themes of each arc in their lyrics: This I believe is best reflected in the titular, capstone song of the series, Fluorite Eyes Song. Not only does it carry the moral of the story the anime spent its lifetime to convey - that one's heart is the sum of the memories they've experienced, but I believe gives a more satisfying tone to the post-credits scene. She sacrifices her life to carry the future forward - in a way, the original Vivy still lives on through the memory. She is given a second chance to live in spite of that, in a future without the burden of calamity, and with the past Vivy carrying her forward to fulfill her mission with more satisfying purpose. She has no need for the 'heart' of her old mission - its clearly shown she does not have the empty eyes the first Vivy woke up with, as she already has the heart to sing and make others happy with.

Thanks for that analysis. I missed a lot of that when I watched the show and was very confused by the Diva/Vivy split.

Outstanding quality, an impressive dive into the story. This small channel gave me a higher level of analysis than most of the bigger, mainstream YT channels.

I thought the ending was horrific for the Vivy character. After Vivy became so "human" and started to understand emotions - that shell of what looked like her was more cruel than her dying would have been. All of her memories and experiences, that she had suffered so much to gain - were gone. Death would have been better. But a brilliant anime. Reminded me of some of Ruther Hauer's scenes in Blade Runner.

Excellent analysis! In any interpretation of the ending, Vivy is dead, that's so sad! Almost everyone died. So sad but so beautiful.

Vivy Flourite really was a fantastic anime for 2021, really really love it❤❤❤

This show is gonna be a cult classic if it isnt already. Great video. Thanks a lot

I really enjoyed their banter starting from Ep 8 onward Yeah I’m so old-fashioned that I firmly believe you can’t have great inter-character dynamics w/o good banter

This is such a great breakdown. It cleared up a lot of confusion I had watching Vivy. One of the best animes I’ve watched.

Amazing show. Also, I believe one of the authors mentions in an Akiba Souken interview that Antonio’s name is actually derived from the Italian classical composer Antonio Salieri. Anyhow, this was a great rundown and explanation of Vivy!

Criminally underrated channel

I've watched the show since the day it came out. And I still wish I could watch it all over again like I did the first time. The ending still wrecks me emotionally even after watching it several time already😢.

This one the best explanation of the series, I am so happy to finally understand the series more. Learned some new facts. Thanks For making the Video. If only I could only forget the series, So i can fall in love again with it.

First time seeing your videos! Its a great video, keep at it. hope you get more attention soon

Thank you for this in-depth analysis as I have not seen many youtube videos covering Vivy and its underlying subtle tones.

Been a while since I watched this show.. thanks for the recap and your interpretation! Hope your channel gets much bigger!

I was looking up songs from this anime and stumbled across your channel. Absolutely fantastic summary, you've got good quality for a young channel and i hope you succeed ^^

pure catharsis 😭great video

What I liked the most about this video is that it's hasn't been even a minute and this guy mindfkdme in many different ways. Amazing

Literally the easiest vid to watch on this that explains everything in detail

I'm only 13 so at times it was hard to understand things but after watching this vid everything came together piece by piece. Tysm :)

THIS VIDEO WAS AMAZING

If Vivy went saving toak instead of Dr. Matsumoto, he must have sent back another "Matsumoto" to the past, indicating that the time travel in Vivy is like the one in Monogatari, multiple straight lines. But if that's so, maybe in the "first history" our Matsumoto is trying to modify Vivy was also here saving Toak instead of the professor. There are so 2 types of Timelines alternating : 1) The ones where Vivy and Matsumoto try modifying the world during a hundred years, and at the beggining of the bug save the professor, which lead to world's destruction, 2) Vivy is sent back in time to the beggining of the war, just after the events of the 1), saving the world but letting the professor who thinks it's all over sent back matsumoto in time. The "true history" of our Matsumoto is the history a "previous" Vivy and a "previous" Matsumoto tried to alter, but the professor at the beggining of the series, and so our Matsumoto didn't know about the try, thinking the history went by its own. This is really complicated and I wonder if I'm not forgetting anything that could make this alternating timelines theory wrong. Please tell me if so. Nice video anyway. I finished Vivy yesterday and it skyrocketted in my favorites animes. (Sorry if my English isn't perfect, it's not my native language)

ahahahha that ending with the bear was too cute. Really caught me off guard after that analytical vibe of the rest of the video...

This was a great breakdown, crazy you've only got 86 views. I saw someone else suggest that the final scene is an alternate past/present/future orchestrated by Archive. This is possible since they've already shown they can do that. Perhaps the events of the last arc was part of Archive's plan after all for some other purpose.

A yes my second favorite anime, good job explaining it

"Other than that..." It's an 11/10 show.

The way my finger hit the subscribe button.

I'm gonna check this out for sure, I'm seeing nothing but positive things about it.

Great video

The only thing I don't understand yet is why would the Archive give Vivy the final say in activating her song, shutting everything down. Isn't Vivy the proof Archive would use to solidify their superiority? Does it simply recognize her as the goal of Ai and allows her to be their leader? If so, why shut down, Vivy included? Is Vivy's reboot at the end a reboot for every AI? Awesome show, really

Wounderfull way for you to explain the anime, i just rewatched it again, i Also picked up upon the name references. But every time i see ending it Will hits hard with both happiness and sarrow to think this new Vivy is a replica or a clone like Beth, But would make sense, since her memory got wiped out

My personal anime of the year 2021. Amazing story, characters, pathos, animation and especially music. The only thing held it back from being a 10/10 is the simplistic Project Singularity, which is supposed to be the highest achievement of the top scientist in 22nd century, but there's no backup plan, no contingency adjustment. Just got to change the outcomes of 4 events and humanity will be saved? I understand that the final arc also serves as a critique against Project Singularity, but still. Perhaps it was conceived as a 24-episode anime in the first place, but was cut down to 13 episodes due to budget limitations or other reasons. Still, the 13 episodes we ended up getting are packed full of chewy details and thoughtful writing.

MOARRR

1 of my favorite animes :D

I Love vivy thank you

Esse anime e um dos meus favoritos. Na minha opiniao ele tras um grande alerta para a humanidade de onde as IAs podem chegar sem a devida supervisao.

that bear is scary GIVE ME BACK MY CHEESE!!!!!!!!!

Who on earth claims that anime is badly written? Stuff like this has plenty of awesome symbolism, themes, and writing

One question I have is why couldn't they bring Ophelia back like they did with Beth? That part confuses me

The only thing i dont get is how the AIs know vivys song from the beginnig till the end without it even being created Im not sure if the archive person said it when talking to her about it or if she saw in the future but i still dont know Would be glad if someone could clarify me.

ei man go do some voice work read some books or something like that tell me when you do nice voice

Looks like it could have benefited from a simpler more congenitally written story…

I don't understand how everyone sees this show as good. All this pretentious talk about hard to keep up with characters, you have to be watching show with no sound to struggle with such a thing. I was bored out of my mind watching this show. All she does is saying the same fraise about "Wtf does it mean to sing from "heart"?" for 13 episodes and in the end it comes to singing while she things of her memories. That's it. Everything they doing for 100 years is just stupidest, illogical layered bullshit like - oh, we need to save this space station from falling because everyone will think that AI did this and it somehow suppose lead to AI having more rights? while mission Singularity is created to destroy all AI's? Like what? Everything else is just as "logical". But the best part is that when they "arrive" to the AI uprising, they learn that everything they did had nothing to do with the actual uprising. All that mattered is freaking giant 5G tower they ignored for 100 years and Vivy's new song. I'm genuinely going insane while trying to understand why no one else sees this HUGE problems. All this show has is good visuals and (personally) ok music, 2-3? good 20 sec fight scenes per 13 episodes. Is it enough for people to be blown out of their minds just have good animation? Are people actually find touching every time she goes:"that's good and all but what does it actually mean to sing with "heart"?" while doing random stuff? If you have actual explanation, please answer me.

-this anime was so confusing but from 4-6 was when the show peaked afrer that just had a crazy downfall but still a good show tho, it's a 7.8/10 at best, thanks for clarifying 😮‍💨🫱🏼‍🫲🏽