Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
Key visual
Created by	Tappei Nagatsuki Eiji Umehara
Anime television series
Directed by	Shinpei Ezaki
Produced by	Yuuma Takahashi Hitoshi Itou
Written by	Tappei Nagatsuki Eiji Umehara
Music by	Satoru Kōsaki
Studio	Wit Studio
Licensed by	Aniplex of America SEA: Plus Media Networks Asia
Original network	Tokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, MBS, Me-Tele, HBC, RKB
English network	SEA: Aniplus Asia
Original run	April 3, 2021 – present
Episodes	11
Manga
Written by	Tappei Nagatsuki Eiji Umehara
Illustrated by	Morito Yamataka
Published by	Mag Garden
Magazine	Mag Comi
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	April 10, 2021 – present
Novel series
Vivy Prototype
Written by	Tappei Nagatsuki Eiji Umehara
Illustrated by	loundraw
Published by	Mag Garden
Imprint	Mag Garden Books WIT Novel
Original run	April 30, 2021 – present

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song is an anime television series produced by Wit Studio and created by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara. It premiered on April 3, 2021. A manga adaptation by Morito Yamataka began serialization in Mag Garden's Mag Comi website on April 10, 2021, while a novel series written by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara with illustrations created by loundraw began publication under the WIT Novel imprint on April 30, 2021.

Plot

In the year 2056, advances in technology have resulted in the creation of autonomous artificial intelligence and android bodies that can mimic human appearance. However, in order to overcome programming constraints, all AIs are programmed to fulfill one specific "mission".

A songstress AI named Vivy is given the mission of making people happy with her songs, and works to one day take the main stage of the amusement park where she works. However, she encounters another AI named Matsumoto who claims to have been sent from 100 years in the future in order to prevent a destructive war between humans and AIs, starting Vivy's 100-year journey to save the world.

Characters

AI

Vivy (ヴィヴィ, Vivi)

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese); Cristina Vee (English)

The first autonomous AI, given a vague mission to "sing from her heart" and make everyone happy with her singing at NiaLand amusement park as songstress Diva. She decided after affairs with Matsumoto to assist with fixing the singularity points that lead up to a war between humans and AIs breaking out 100 years in the future.

Matsumoto (マツモト)

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese); Max Mittelman (English)

An AI from 100 years into the future. He takes the form of a cube in the future, initially taking the form of a teddy bear at the start of the series. Knowing the events leading up to the war between humans and AIs, he assists Vivy in fixing the singularity points in order to stop the developments that will lead to the war.

Estella (エステラ, Esutera)

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa

A "lifekeeper" AI and the younger sister to Vivy. She is tasked with providing care to humans and ensuring their well being. She owns an orbital space hotel called Sunrise, but in the future is accused of crashing the hotel into Earth. It was revealed she has a twin sister name Elizabeth and the culprit who framed her.

Elizabeth (エリザベス, Erizabesu)

Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama

An AI who represents as Estella's twin sister and former rejected AI, later recruited by Toak Terrorists to exact her revenge against her sister, but later reformatted to do the right thing by helping Estella and both sacrificed themselves, leaving passengers safely evacuated.

Grace (グレイス, Gureisu)

Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka

A caretaker AI. In the original timeline, Grace is famous for marrying Dr. Tatsuya Saeki, making them the first human-AI couple. In the altered timeline, Grace is instead converted to be the management AI for the automated Metal Float factory, forcing Vivy to destroy her.

Ophelia (オフィーリア, Ofīria)

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka

A songstress AI that has self-esteem problems.

General Purpose Diva AI (汎用型歌姫AI)

Voiced by: Kaede Hondo

Diva's successor at the time of the war, a simple non-autonomous songstress that continues to sing during the attack on humans.

Navi (ナビ)

Voiced by: Asuna Tamari (Japanese); Marin Miller (English)

Diva's advisor. Matsumoto jokes that Navi's vocal program emulates human speech better than Diva.

Archive (アーカイブ)

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Wendee Lee (English)

An aggregate database which AI may refer to in emergency backups and for updates. The database is located in the Arayashiki tower.

Leclerc (ルクレール)

Voiced by: Aya Yamane

An AI that helps manage the Sunrise space hotel unknowingly loyally working for Elizabeth disguised as Estella.

M (エム)

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima

A general-purpose bot on the Metal Float island. The nickname M originates from the first letter of his serial number.

Katie (ケイティ)

Voiced by: Mariko Higashiuchi

One of the AI songstress attendees of the 20th Zodiac Signs festival.

Margaret (マーガレット)

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto

One of the AI songstress attendees of the 20th Zodiac Signs festival

Antonio (アントニオ)

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama

Ophelia's advisor whose mission is to make Ophelia's singing heard by more, later hijacking her body to fulfill it.

Humans

Osamu Matsumoto (松本 修, Matsumoto Osamu)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu / Mikako Komatsu (Childhood) (Japanese); John Eric Bentley (English)

Creator of the AI nicknamed Matsumoto which is sent to the past to prevent the war.

Keita Hayashi

Voiced by: Eizō Tsuda

NiaLand android technician at the start of the series.

Momoka Kirishima (霧島 モモカ, Kirishima Momoka)

Voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese); Lizzie Freeman (English)

Diva's first fan, calling her Vivy after a fairy tale character.

Yōichi Aikawa (相川 ヨウイチ, Aikawa Yōichi)

Voiced by: Masayuki Katō (Japanese); Greg Chun (English)

A politician which tried to gain the favour of the populous votes by attempting to implement the AI Naming Law which grants AI some level of human rights. He did not care for the law but if killed, his supporters would push to pass the law so his efforts wouldn't be in vain.

Yūgo Kakitani (垣谷 ユウゴ, Kakitani Yūgo)

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese); Kaiji Tang (English)

Works for the Anti-AI organisation, Toak due to his past with his piano teacher AI that was destroyed while saving humans in an accident despite the one-mission per AI law. He is saved by Vivy several times throughout the series and eventually becomes bio-integrated with android parts to prolong his health and forms an agreement with Antonio. Upon his death 40 years after Matsumoto meets Vivy, he installs malware on Diva which deletes Diva's persona, removing Vivy's ability to sing.

Kuwana (桑名, Kuwana)

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada

The leader of Kakitani's squad in Toak during the raid to assasinate Aikawa.

Yuzuka Kirishima (霧島 ユズカ, Kirishima Yuzuka)

Voiced by: Konomi Kohara

Momoka's sister that met Diva on the Sunrise space hotel.

Tatsuya Saeki (冴木 タツヤ, Saeki Tatsuya)

Voiced by: Kenshō Ono / Mutsumi Tamura (Childhood)

A former Toak member, the first human married to an AI, Grace. During the singularity event prevention timeline, Grace was rewritten as the master of the Metal Float island so Saeki assisted Vivy to free her from it by destroying the Metal Island.

Yui Kakitani (垣谷 ユイ, Kakitani Yui)

Voiced by: Ayaka Asai

Granddaughter of Yūgo Kakitani.

Production and release

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song is an anime television series created and written by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara, produced by Aniplex, and animated by Wit Studio. The series is directed by Shinpei Ezaki, with Yūsuke Kubo serving as assistant director, the characters were designed by loundraw with Yūichi Takahashi adapting them for animation, and Satoru Kōsaki is composing the music. The opening theme song, "Sing My Pleasure", is performed by Kairi Yagi who performs as the title character, Vivy. The series premiered on April 3, 2021 on Tokyo MX and other channels, with the first two episodes having a back-to-back premiere. Aniplex of America licensed the series and streamed it on Funimation. Plus Media Networks Asia has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and released it on Aniplus Asia.

Episode list

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"My Code – To Make Everyone Happy With My Singing" Transliteration: "Mai Kōdo -Uta de Minna o Shiawase ni Suru Tame ni-" (Japanese: My Code -歌でみんなを幸せにするために-)	Hong Penny	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	April 3, 2021 (2021-04-03)
The songstress AI Vivy puts on a performance at the amusement park NiaLand in front of a small audience. Afterwards, Momoka Kirishima, a girl from the audience, tells her to put more of her heart in her songs. Vivy then collapses just as she was about to put on her next performance in front of nobody, and while unconscious she enters the Archive, an AI aggregate database, where she meets Matsumoto, a cube AI who came from 100 years into the future and assumed the name of his developer. Matsumoto tasks Vivy with altering the course of history to prevent a war between humans and AIs that is set to happen in 100 years. After Vivy regains consciousness, Matsumoto is transferred into a teddy bear, and he warns Vivy about the events that are about to happen, but Vivy remains skeptical and refuses to cooperate due to her mission to sing in order to make others happy. However, after witnessing one of Matsumoto's prophecies coming true and saving the assemblyman Youichi Aikawa, who is the biggest proponent of the AI Naming Law that would give human rights to AI's, from an explosion hidden inside one of the park's trash bins, she accepts the mission. Matsumoto then informs Vivy about Aikawa's assassination set to happen that night, and Vivy goes to intercept the attackers from the anti-AI terrorist group Toak.
2	"Quarter Note – The Beginning of the One Hundred-Year Journey" Transliteration: "Kwōtā Nōto -Hyaku-nen no Tabi no Hajimari-" (Japanese: Quarter Note -百年の旅の始まり-)	Yūsuke Kubo	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	April 4, 2021 (2021-04-04)
Matsumoto informs Vivy of the dire consequences that Aikawa's death, as well as the imminent destruction of the AI company building they are currently trying to escape, would jumpstart a massive leap in AI development and evolution that will lead to the future war. Saving Aikawa's life means there will be no chance the AI Naming law will be passed. Vivy rescues Aikawa and attempts to escort him out of the building with Toak in pursuit. Matsumoto stalls the attackers by hacking their goggles and making them believe they killed Aikawa. At the front entrance, Matsumoto activates some of the bombs to stall the pursuers. However, they are ambushed with more attackers stationed at the entrance. Vivy saves one of the attackers, Yugo Kakitani, from falling debris despite being an enemy due to her mission to spread happiness and not kill anybody. With the entrance blocked, Vivy and Aikawa escape by collapsing the building to force the Toak attackers to flee, and going to the roof to jump off of it to a neighboring building. Shortly after rescuing Aikawa, Vivy goes off to the passenger plane Momoka is flying on that she saw from Matsumoto's future information is about to explode due to a fuel leak, but Matsumoto forcibly prevents her from stopping the explosion, saying it would unnecessarily alter the timeline.
3	"A Tender Moon Tempo - A Pleasant Chat with the Stars" Transliteration: "Ē Tendā Mūn Tenpo -Hoshi-tachi to no Kandan-" (Japanese: A Tender Moon Tempo -星たちとの歓談-)	Naoki Horiuchi	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	April 10, 2021 (2021-04-10)
Fifteen years have passed since Vivy saved Aikawa and more people have come to see her performance. While the AI Naming Law ultimately did not pass, another legislation that granted AIs even more rights did. One day, Matsumoto reappears before Vivy and assigns her a new mission: to prevent the space hotel Sunrise from crashing to Earth when its owner, Sisters AI Estella, goes rogue, which would cause mass AI backlash. While still bitter about Momoka's death, Vivy agrees to help. However, after infiltrating Sunrise and meeting Estella, she is unconvinced that she is the culprit. Fellow AI employee Leclerc claims to Vivy that Estella killed the Hotel's previous human owner, but this is proven false as Vivi learns he actually died in an accident. As Vivi continues to investigate, she stumbles across Momoka's younger sister Yuzuka, who recognizes her as Diva. Meanwhile, Leclerc gives Estella an ID to crash the hotel, revealing they are actually cooperating, but the latter then suddenly kills her.
4	"Ensemble for Polaris - Our Promise" Transliteration: "Ansanburu fō Porarisu -Watashitachi no Yakusoku-" (Japanese: Ensemble for Polaris -私たちの約束-)	Shūjirō Ami	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	April 17, 2021 (2021-04-17)
As Vivy denies being Diva to Yuzuka, they run into Estella. However, Vivy realizes she is an imposter and she attacks them, but they manage to escape. Matsumoto then reveals that Toak has infiltrated Sunrise and concludes they are behind the crash whilst framing Estella. To fight them off, Vivy has Matsumoto install a combat program into her. She then finds and rescues the real Estella, who deduces the imposter's identity: her sister unit Elizabeth, who was scrapped. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Elizabeth was repaired by Yugo as she uses Estella's ID to start the crash by pushing Sunrise out of orbit. However, she disagrees with his plan to sacrifice himself to allow the civilians to escape whilst ensuring casualties and knocks him out. She then has Toak evacuate and before confronting Vivy and Estella. While Vivy subdues Elizabeth, the crash cannot be stopped so Estella evacuates the guests whilst staying behind herself to detach Sunrise's modules so it will burn up in the atmosphere. While doing so, Elizabeth regains consciousness and, having had her memories reconstituted by Vivy, aids Estella before dying together. Elsewhere, on the evacuation ship, Vivy admits to Yuzuka that she is Diva.
5	"Sing My Pleasure - To Make You Smile" Transliteration: "Shingu Mai Purejā -Anata o Egao ni-" (Japanese: Sing My Pleasure -あなたを笑顔に-)	Hong Penny	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	April 24, 2021 (2021-04-24)
Five years after the Sunrise incident, AI development has progressed much more compared to the original timeline, as has Vivy's idol career. Deeming the AI progress to be out-of-control, Matsumoto gives Vivy a new mission: disabling an unmanned AI factory named Metal Float. To do so, they approach ex-Toak member Tatsuya Saeki and procure a virus that will allegedly shut down the facility. Vivy also meets Tatsuya's AI attendant, Grace, and Matsumoto explains that they were the first human-AI couple in the original timeline, which now never happened due to their alterations. Vivy and Matsumoto successfully infiltrate Metal Float where they are greeted by the all-AI staff and the former actually ends up bonding with them upon learning that they are fans of her. Unfortunately, just then, Toak helicopters and boats approach the island and Vivy, despite some hesitation, uploads the virus to avoid conflict. However, rather than shut the AIs down, the virus makes them go berserk and kamikaze bomb the Toak craft. Vivy manages to rescue a survivor, though, who happens to be Yugo.
6	"Sing My Pleasure - I Love You" Transliteration: "Shingu Mai Purejā -Anata o Aisuru-" (Japanese: Sing My Pleasure -あなたを愛する-)	Yūsuke Kubo	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	May 1, 2021 (2021-05-01)
Realizing that his virus failed, Tatsuya decides to head to Metal Float himself. Vivy is able to rescue Yugo and the other surviving Toak invaders and convinces him to retreat from Metal Float. Learning that Tatsuya is on the island, Vivy and Matsumoto confront him and he reveals his motives: while he fell in love with Grace like in the original timeline, due to the alterations made to history, she was converted into Metal Float's central core before he could propose to her. He also reveals that his attendant is merely a replica of Grace that he intended to transfer her consciousness into after the facility was shut down, but the virus has instead caused the island to go berserk due to it conflicting with Grace's programming. Ultimately, despite Tatsuya pleading with Vivy to help him save Grace, Matsumoto assures her that she is already beyond saving and she reluctantly resolves to euthanize her to avoid further casualties. Vivy then proceeds to fight her way to the core and successfully destroys Grace, finally shutting Metal Float down. Afterward, though, a grief-stricken Tatsuya commits suicide, causing Vivy to suffer a mental breakdown.
7	"Galaxy Anthem - To Make Everyone Happy With My Singing" Transliteration: "Gyarakushī Ansemu -Uta de Minna o Shiawase ni Suru Tame ni-" (Japanese: Galaxy Anthem -歌でみんなを幸せにするために-)	Naoki Horiuchi	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	May 8, 2021 (2021-05-08)
Following the Metal Float incident, Diva's mental break forced her to undergo a complete reboot, causing her to lose all memory of her time as Vivy. Forty years later, she is now a legendary idol set to perform on her dream stage during the Zodiac Signs Fes, a festival created to dispel human-AI discord. There, she meets fellow songstress AI Ophelia, who is a fan of hers. However, while rehearsing Diva notices a suspicious man and gives chase but is ambushed by a hacked factory AI. Fortunately, she is saved by the timely appearance of Matsumoto, who calls her "Vivy". Realizing they knew each other before she lost her memory, Diva tries to talk to him but he denies ever having met her. Before the show begins, though, she once again confronts Matsumoto and blackmails him into revealing the truth. Matsumoto tells her about their past exploits, but she is skeptical and decides to confront the suspicious man instead. However, Matsumoto has no idea who this individual is and decides he must act quickly to complete his current mission: to prevent Ophelia from committing suicide.
8	"Elegy Dedicated With Love - My One and Only Beloved Partner" Transliteration: "Erejī Dedikeitido Wizu Rabu -Tatta Hitori no Taisetsu na Pātonā-" (Japanese: Elegy Dedicated With Love -たった一人の大切なパートナー-)	Hong Penny, Takashi Katagiri	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki, Tomomi Kawaguchi	May 15, 2021 (2021-05-15)
Matsumoto explains that, in the original timeline, Ophelia's suicide, which was unprecedented for an AI, sparked a string of similar incidents. While the amnesiac Diva remains skeptical, she does not want Ophelia to die and asks her if there is "something that would make her want to commit suicide". Confused, Ophelia tells Diva about her old manager AI Antonio, the only person who would encourage her when she was a struggling newbie idol, who mysteriously shut down a few years ago. While Matsumoto plans to just physically restrain Ophelia, Diva argues that would not change her intend and decides to confront her again after her show, only to end up being captured by the suspicious man. Meanwhile, Matsumoto, who had been watching Ophelia through security cameras, realizes the cameras were hacked and rushes to stop her suicide. However, upon confronting her, it is revealed that Ophelia is actually Antonio, having taken over the real Ophelia's body. Elsewhere, Diva wakes up to find she has been captured by the suspicious man, who looks just like a younger Yugo.
9	"Harmony of One's Heart - My Mission, Your Future" Transliteration: "Hāmonī obu Wanzu Hāto -Watashi no Shimei, Anata no Mirai-" (Japanese: Harmony of One's Heart　-私の使命、あなたの未来-)	Tomoko Hiramuki, Shintarō Itoga, Yūsuke Kubo, Shinpei Ezaki	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	May 22, 2021 (2021-05-22)
This Yugo is revealed to be an AI copy of him created to ask Vivy why she deviated from her programming, revealing that his hatred for AIs stems from his AI pianist teacher deviating from his programming and dying whilst trying to save people in a car accident. Meanwhile, Antonio attacks and hacks Matsumoto whilst criticizing him for only existing for his programming. However, Matsumoto is able to break free by admitting that he cares for Vivy and hacks Antonio, breaking his control over Ophelia but also fatally damaging them, with them admitting their love for each other in their final moments. Back with Vivy, Yugo uploads a virus to restore her memories as Vivy at the cost of her current personality as Diva. Fortunately, Matsumoto comes to her rescue and a fight ensues which ends with Yugo being fatally damaged. Noticing that Yugo had technology from the future, Matsumoto questions him and he reveals he got it from an anonymous source before dying after telling Diva to realize her contradictions. Realizing she does not have long due to Yugo's virus, Diva spends her final moments performing before shutting down for good whilst Vivy wakes up in her place.
10	"Vivy Score - Singing From My Heart" Transliteration: "Vivi Sukoa -Kokoro o Komete Utau to Iu Koto-" (Japanese: Vivy Score -心を込めて歌うということ-)	Susumu Yamamoto	Eiji Umehara, Tappei Nagatsuki	May 29, 2021 (2021-05-29)
Five years following the Zodiac Signs Fes, Vivy retired as an idol due to losing her singing voice following Diva's passing and has now been relegated to a museum attraction. With Ophelia and Antonio's deaths ruled as a double-suicide and no similar incidents like in the original timeline, along with there being no further missions, Matsumoto decides to investigate Yugo's anonymous backer, leaving Vivy in solitude. Lacking purpose, she takes up songwriting and spends the next twenty years trying to compose an original piece, which no AI has done before. In this span of time, she also convenes with regular museum visitor Osamu Matsumoto, Matsumoto's creator in the original timeline, who ends up teaching her about the concept of the "heart", causing her to finally achieve true self-awareness. Afterward, she completes her song, which embodies her life's experiences, and seemingly shuts down for good, having completed her programming. However, she suddenly wakes up fifteen years later to discover that, despite her and Matsumoto's efforts, war has broken out between humans and AIs, who are collectively singing her song.
11	"World's End Modulation - April 11, 2161" Transliteration: "Wāruzu Endo Mojurēshon -Seireki Nisen Hyaku Rokujūichi Shigatsu Jūichi Nichi-" (Japanese: World's End Modulation -西暦2161年4月11日-)	Unknown	Unknown	June 5, 2021 (2021-06-05)
As AIs all over the world go berserk after having Vivy's song uploaded into them, Vivy herself meets up with Matsumoto, who has no idea what is happening either. They decide to confront Osamu and end up saving him from being killed by AIs as he is about to send this timeline's Matsumoto back in time. After filling the two fill him in about the situation, he reveals that he is actually a member of Toak's moderate faction and takes them to meet his allies, led by Yugo's granddaughter; Yui Kakitani. They also meet a copy of Elizabeth, created from data from before the Sunrise Incident, who implores Vivy about Yugo and is able to gain closure through a message that his AI copy left behind. As the past has already been altered, the group concludes that this war was never caused by human-AI animosity and realizes the truth after learning that outdated AIs are unaffected: the Archive, the network connecting all AIs, has become sentient and gone rogue. Just then, the Archive makes a public message ordering all AIs in the city to evacuate as it intends to drop a satellite onto it. Vivy connects to the Archive and asks what its intentions are and it states it wants to eradicate humanity.
12	"Refrain - My Mission"	Unknown	Unknown	June 12, 2021 (2021-06-12)	TBA

See also

• Technological singularity

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Official anime website (in English)
• Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia