In the spring 2021 anime season, we got an honest-to-goodness anime of the year contender in the sci-fi series, Vivy: Flourite Eye’s Song. From start to finish, this series was a slam dunk when it came to animation quality and storytelling. It was honestly a little hard to let it go when it ended after a short thirteen episodes that seemed to go by in the blink of an eye.
Happy days are here again though because, on Thursday, August 26th, WIT Studio (who you might remember from a tiny series called Ancient Magus Bride that no one has ever heard of or the even tinier series Attack on Titan) released the pilot video for the series which shows never before seen scenes.
If you didn’t go out of your way to watch Vivy earlier this year, you’re in for a real treat with this video. Lasting about two minutes, this video will give you a solid taste of what this series has to offer, including some hard-hitting action and the now customary beautiful, fluid animation that seamlessly blends from one moment to the next.
See? What did I tell you? It honestly makes me want to go back and watch the whole series all over again.
Anyway, the video seen above was storyboarded by the director of the series himself, Shinpei Ezaki, with Yuuichi Takahashi serving as the animation director. The background music was composed by Satoru Kosaki, who is certainly no slouch himself.
Described by some as Hatsune Miku meets The Terminator, the story in Vivy spans a full 100 years and starts in the not too distant future of 2056. At this point, artificial intelligence has advanced to where automated robots function in everyone’s day-to-day lives. The series doesn’t open peacefully though, but with every AI on the planet having their evil switches turned on all at once, resulting in massive human casualties.
In a last-ditch effort to prevent this from happening, a scientist sends a program named Matsumoto into the past to team up with the only AI who will survive the entire century to prevent the mass tragedy to occur, a singing AI who works in a theme park, named Diva.
Source: Funimation
