Vivy what a freaking amazing anime.
This waifu has broke me a couple of times already so let's take a quick non-spoiler
look at what makes Vivy so amazing. If you're watching definitely chime in too so go ahead
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Vivy anime from the x Attack on Titan studio WIT studio and yes I've been keeping a close
eye on them like a jelly ex-girlfriend. What have you been up to you naughty naughty studio?
In recent years WIT studio has actually started to move in a direction similar to PA works.
Forget the giant naked dudes. Your own original anime is the name of the game. You might recall
the Great Pretender that came out for Netflix last year. They got Vampire in the Garden that's
another original anime with Netflix attached. Even back then when they were the Attack on
titan house when they found some time was still to release their actual own zombie anime
Kabaneri of the iron fortress. Yeah that was a total attack on titan rip off but it was still
fun hell I enjoyed it and it was even successful enough to get its own movie and mobile game.
I wonder if that's still around. Getting into the world of Vivy you're welcomed into this
advanced AI world ai robots here exist to fulfill their one main purpose. The actual
backdrop to this is that it takes place in this amusement park run by AI. Watch that's
going to be how the mouse house gets taken down.
You got the protagonist singer Vivy taking stage. Oh sorry did I say stage it's like they
purposely put Vivy in this backstage corner alley. The poor girl she has like no one showing
up to her shows. Hey Vivy have you tried singing on future tiktok? The actual story premise
here is actually a familiar one that you might have heard before. One day Vivy's cute teddy
becomes sentient. You got the rogue bear claiming humanity is going to be wiped out in the future
except it won't be this giant grape dude snapping us away. You could thank our new ai robot overlords
for turning us into milkshakes. Now it's up to this unlikely duo Vivy and Matsumoto they
now have to work their asses off to stop the rises of the machines. U swear this actually
could be Terminator secretly rebooting itself for the 13th time only this time make it anime.
I mean who doesn't want to see anime Schwarzenegger but seriously Vivy gives you an excellent
example of how to take this known premise and spice it up. Like why not take advantage
of dear Vivy that does not age. Something pretty awesome with the first episode is them setting
up this two-parter story. The two got to prevent this AI rights activists from being creamed
otherwise the dude's downfall might just speed up ai development. Great job ai Karen's but
are Vivy and that chew toy successful? I'll let you discover that fun development. A little
bit of flavor i love from this anime is how it jumps through time post mission. You have
the time traveling bear saying sayonara to Vivy only till then meet up like a decade
later for the next mission. Let's actually get a closer look at the characters i mean
forget about the story none of that matters if you don't actually care for the heroes.
You're following for Vivy. She starts off pretty robotic which makes total sense she's an Ai
who desperately wants to make people happy with her music. At least early on she gave
me this awfully similar vibe to Violet and her journey. Recall Violet Evergarden? It would
have almost been frightening if Yui got to voice Vivy too.
Perhaps as a positive unlike Violet you do get development for Vivy a lot quicker.
I mean who wouldn't going through all of these time missions especially at times where you
do have to make the difficult decisions like say, save people in the present day or prioritize
your mission for the sake of the future.
It really does help that you are leaping through a good chunk of time.
Eventually you do have Vivy sporting android version 139. All that really boils down to
is more time for AI to advance.
Naturally you do see Vivy progressing to being more human-like as the years go by not only
through all the cloud updates but through her own experiences.
Just realizing and seeing how much Vivy progresses and develops actually makes the
later losses that much more devastating. Fun fact about Vivy she is voiced by Atsumi but
the studio actually went the extra mile to get a talented singer for Vivy's stage scene.
You got Kairi Yagi from Sony Music shining through whenever Vivy sings her ticker off.
The other side to this anime coin is bear kun known as Matsumoto. He serves as a wonderful
contrast. Future boy is much more serious more straightforward to getting the mission completed.
You can see that he's obsessed with that often to a fault. How appropriate that he becomes
a companion cube later. It is a blast seeing the dynamic between him and Vivy. At times it may
even remind you of this brother and sister relationship the metal edition. That said for
how goal focused this cube gets he does carry this sturdy mysterious stank. All i'll say is keep
a lookout on the results for a given mission. What actually makes this bear so much more
fun it's actually Jun Fukuyama playing him. You definitely know him from Lelouch or Lawrence
from Holo. And here's a fun fact from the Rezero author the name Matsumoto was actually
supposed to be a placeholder name but eventually it became official so careful when picking
anything temporary. It might just end up becoming permanent. On top of Vivy and her buddy you
do have the various AIs they do come across over the years. Let me only touch on them lightly
to sidestep spoilers. Let me just say I do love how the anime ties them back as sister
AIs back to Vivy. Imagine that this relationship connection despite them not being blood related.
It does seem like a small detail but trust me it does help make any mini arc with them
that much more impactful. I'm really getting a kick out of the current one especially with
Vivy taking on this senpai type of role her being that much more experienced singer good
thing you don't age it Vivy one of the themes and conflicts you do see Vivy phase is multi-layered
the entire reason for her existence is to make people happy with their songs part of
that at the beginning means vastly improving your skill set you then have this major extension
that comes with their long-term mission let's actually save people to make sure there is
anyone around to hear your music you might see the obvious challenge and problem Vivy
is up against which is to stick to saving humanity long term in other words doing whatever
it takes to complete your mission bystanders be damned or say screw that and at least try
to save those within your reach which could potentially jeopardize your mission as an
audience member i do love how the anime makes you question this yourself too what would
you do at a high level all of this actually makes any loss for Vivy that much more tragic
for me it actually sometimes felt like a punch to the gut so far the end of the last two
arcs just destroyed me talk about cry time if you're caught up you know what i'm talking
about another aspect you'll love from this anime is it tackling ai in our world what
i mean by this is that it feels like a very timely topic with kids nowadays growing up
with like Alexa i was born in the 1900s could never imagine so besides trying to prevent
this incoming doomsday you do have that juicy question that i guarantee is coming sooner
rather than later like who's going to be the first lonely dude or girl who tries to marry
their sunday waifu siri did someone say the movie her or a different fun topic that'll
blow your parents minds say a decade old ai getting together with the 30-something oh
no that ai is underaged you could imagine someone trying to cancel that a little bit
earlier you heard me bringing up ai rights too recently the SAO anime touched on this
and is currently diving deeper with the light notes let me just be fair and say that i do
see this being much further in our lifetime but just don't be shocked if Alexa gets tired
of your crap getting back to the actual anime structure you do have to get props to how
Vivy tells the story oh yes i'm talking about the two episode arc structure the first episode
always serves to ease you into the current mission while at the same time giving you
an update on what Vivy has been up to then bam you get this wrecking ball to your feels
your heart the next episode top-notch cliffhangers by the way part of what really brings Vivy
to life is a wonderful animation from the axe attack of dotting !. you're already 8
episodes in and you could really feel the love sweat and tears that the wit doodle is
putting into this on top of this you do have extra media episodes too sorry for anyone
that loves the opening or ending which is something i think doesn't get enough credit
for any anime studio giving us more content freaking thank you on that note take a look
at this lovely scene one of the episodes starts with Vivy taking stage then freaking transitions
into the anime opening i will mention they do change it up to match Vivy giving her performance
on stage what amazing attention to detail what studio just wanted to be extra and let
me not forget you do have an extra special sauce making a return which includes certain
scenes that are ultra god tier under detail ironically this helps to flesh out and remind
you just how non-human Vivy is the social high detailed scenes have really become what
trademark of WIT.
Back when attacking season two was being produced they actually had a dedicated makeup team
he later saw them continue to spice things up in future anime like for best girl moon
mini from their Kabaneri anime and get this they actually reveal spending up to 3 days
for some of these scenes so once again thank you so much i'm just eating it up other studios
take note of course this isn't even getting into all the action animation scenes for Vivy
if you think she's only a good singer you're about to get your marbles crushed seeing this
robot waifu work or magic feels like call back to some ghost in the show action scenes
and yeah i'm including this garage live action movie for that so here's hoping the animation
doesn't take a dive and blow up like the last Attack on Titan anime productions if you know
you know that still burns let's actually take a moment to appreciate just how stacked the
team working on Vivy is you got the ReZero author nagatsuki Tappai on scripting duty
come on bro how can this dude just crap out divine writing he must be taking notes 24
7.
i will mention it is a good thing that this anime project didn't crash and burn anyone
recalls playing anime recently right i didn't think so the director on this has worked on
the Attack on Titan season one banana fish guilty crown well at least the animation was
nice for that one but don't forget about the silent director i feel these guys don't get
enough credit the deuce worked on fire forth jiu-jitsu kaizen kaguya sama no game no life
recreators, Your Lie in april and of course re-002 the composer for the music here has
worked on lucky star and haruhi here's something i just found out recently this actually has
a light novel being released right alongside the anime called Vivy prototype i found out
about this when i saw it at the bookstore here just know the light novel is lagging
behind the animated head the Rezero author said they didn't want to give anything away
and come on i'm already craving a Vivy figure maybe i'll just settle for a waifu shirt so
so far you do have michelin star quality anime ingredients the reason your author WIT studio
not to mention the talented voice actors you could just feel all the love being put into
this original anime with all the top ingredients this really is set up for a success eight
high quality episodes so far i'm gonna be so disappointed that this dumbo's right before
the finish line and i know i know you've heard it before people like to throw the word masterpiece
or anime classic around but for me it feels justified either this very anime does have
that potential so i'm just praying hoping Vivy lands the finale come on smash the final
two episodes hopefully WIT studio has learned from the great pretender don't try to cram
everything and finish up your load in such a convoluted fashion come on tope you're stirring
this chef you got it please Vivy don't crash or short circuit make your actual anime viewers
happy with your final song no joke this actually has anime the year potential for new anime
right now i'm predicting at a minimum it'll be my top 10.
let's see what happens by the end of this year and i'm still working through winter
anime season but anyway let me know your thoughts on Vivy below is that your anime of the season
so far do you see it being topped an anime for you this year was there anything i missed
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