Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Here’s the elevator pitch for Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (probably): Hatsune Miku halts her dream of making the world hers after she’s called to action to put down her microphone and pick up a gun à la Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell to prevent an AI uprising that wipes out humanity 100 years in the future. If you’re sold on that premise, you should check out Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song.

I was surprised to see that Vivy branched a typical sci-fi action series into a thoughtful exploration of what makes us human. The show has many hearty episodes that focus on the complex natures of jealousy, greed, and loneliness. Some of the standout episodes even rival that of an introspective Cowboy Bebop episode (the anime not the live-action show) in how they let ideas and heartbreaking scenes breathe. Plus, when the action hits, it hits. Vivy’s sick-ass fight scenes feature some of the smoothest movie-quality sakuga animation I’ve seen in an anime series, which shouldn’t come as any surprise since Wit Studio is the same production company behind the first three seasons of Attack on Titan