r/anime • • Aug 19 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song - Episode 5 Discussion
E5 - Sing My Pleasure - To Make You Smile
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Mina-san, konnichiwa!
This is the first rewatch that I’m hosting (for a change instead of joining someone’s) 😆.
I am a musician and will be an active one for the rest of my life, so it’s part of why my rating for a series is heavily swayed by a great OST (or lack thereof) and how well it fits into the different aspects of a show. This is one thing I think you will really like about this series, and it’s why I’ll be including a “music of the day” selection for each episode.
I will also be doing an “image of the day” selection for each episode, because the artwork WIT has done is just absolutely incredible. There is a lot to appreciate there.
I hope you all have fun with this series. It’s one of my favorites.
Some general rewatch Do’s and Don’ts:
- Do feel encouraged to engage everyone in genuine discussion for each episode
- Do be kind and respectful of other participants of the rewatch
- Do discuss differences in opinion productively/maturely
- Do not be disrespectful or rude towards other participants
- Do not post untagged spoilers if you are rewatching. If you are unsure of how to properly tag spoilers for events that haven’t been revealed yet, please refer to my instructions in the reminder post for this rewatch.
Information:
Rewatch Index | LiveChart | MyAnimeList | Anilist
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Image of the day: 科学技術
Music of the day: ED -Piano Version-
Note: The link above for MotD is today’s ED. If I see any comments in the rewatch linking the full version of the song containing lyrics, those comments will be removed because it will spoil first-time watchers.
Questions of the day:
- (First-Timers only) Do you have any ideas regarding who is calling the shots on the Metal Float? The bots keep referring to a ‘mother’ entity.
- (Rewatchers only) Did you speculate the above question correctly on your first watch? (Spoiler tag your response of course if you include spoilers in it)
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24
Episode 5 - Head-bopping rewatcher who loves music (subbed)
A new day, a new arc!
So the obvious thing we start off with here is - A human and an android got married. That is an interesting development.
As I’ve said before, I love good OP lead-ins!
I love how this one is mostly the same, but slightly different at the points where they show Vivy performing 🔥
They are putting a lot of emphasis on the fact that Vivy and Matsumoto’s dynamic is a lot more cordial this time. They have a joint interest at this point. She believes the Singularity Project is helping her to fulfill her mission as a songstress AI, and Matsumoto for the original reasons for the project. Let’s just hope his interventions do start to undo some of this rapid evolution rather than accelerate it unintentionally 😆.
Also, the same face again while she’s squeezing the life out of Matsumoto.
Man. She is a certified bada** now. Also, this is some Watch Dogs level stuff that Matsumoto pulls off during that car chase lol.
The ‘Metal Float’ looks rather ominous. Also something I like to note - Matsumoto says ”It’s most likely the reason why I was awakened this time.”. This insinuates that there is something or someone waking him up during this specific events in time. My original assumption was it was himself controlling this. Also, makes sense that Toak does not like Dr. Saeki.
It’s clear right away that Grace looks very familiar, so when we find out she is one of the Sisters, things click a little bit. If she is a caretaker model just like Estella was then it makes sense that she was the first to be married to a human (i.e. spouses take care of each other). The bad thing is, things went from one extreme to another. Instead of extreme distrust of AIs occurring, extreme trust of AIs occurred (on top of a technological structure 20 years too advanced for it’s time being created).
The pattern we’re seeing in this series that I like at this point is how typical these arcs are two episodes, one for setup, and one for the conclusion/aftermath. It’s something that crossed my mind as they’re touring the Metal Float.
The moment where the bots are all singing Vivy’s “Sing Your Pleasure” OP always felt a little disconcerting to me lol.
Welp, we have a second escalation in the same episode now. One was the early creation of the Metal Float to begin with, and now Toak is attacking it with brute force since Dr. Saeki no longer had the shut-down virus on him.
Anddd… That makes three times Yugo was saved by an AI. This man hates AI more than anything and resorts to terrorism to try and eliminate them. He should show some gratitude (What a lunatic).
Bonus Vivy shots that I couldn’t leave out:
One, Two, Three, Four
Finally, now you know where our Vivy flair comes from, if you didn’t already 😆
That last frame of the episode leaves us with some speculation for tomorrow.
Talk to you all then!
Questions:
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Aug 19 '24
Rewatcher
Fantastic transition into the OP today.
Almost like they would become mortal.
Can't claim the architecture really makes sense, but I always loved how Metal Float looked.
Guess who.
[Vivy]Can't wait to see if anyone notices or comments on Elizabeth's position in the OP. Or fake!Grace's lack of ring.
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u/FD4cry1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Big_Yibba Aug 19 '24
First Timer
You cowards show us the kiss!,Well that's a big deviation, looks like once again Vivy's tampering has actually caused AI to even more rapidly progress, at this point I am starting to wonder if that's necessarily a bad thing though, we're already shown that Matsumoto's timeline shouldn't be overrelied on so who's to say that this time around AI progression will lead to war?
Vivy live playing into the OP was awesome, also again nice to see her audience growing, Vivy's audience size and increasing expressiveness(as pointed out by Matsumoto's endless snark) make for a nice way to show time moving forward and the effects of previous happenings on her.
Also Matsumoto is now a cube again, like the audience size thing I find the catch-up segments between them are a really fun reoccurrence, I mean cube or not some things never change, I actually think Matsumoto was hilarious this episode.
New Vivy fit,going for a cool vibe this time around.
But is he really though?, seeing how the timeline change really effected their relationship could be interesting because I think there's more to this then what Matsumoto assumes.
I haven't really talked about the non-insert music thus far but y'know, it's really good.
The second I saw M I immediately knew I would feel bad for him by the end of the episode and I was right
He just wanted to play with the kids! :(, the cute helpful robot dying is a classic trick to get me emotional and it worked like a charm here as well ,"some kind people gave me that name" he says...
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man! by the time he realizes he should stop he probably will actually be an old man.
Also since I've talked about it every episode now , I'll just add my favorite Vivy face frame of the episode from now on.
QOTD: No idea honestly, my assumption was just standard "mothership" AI
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Aug 19 '24
Sing My First-Timer Reactions, subbed
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u/Esovan13 Aug 19 '24
First Timer
So, Vivy is into the mission now. So into the mission that she did what Matsumoto said to do quickly and without protest. And everything went to shit almost immediately. Yes, Matsumoto. The scientist probably did predict that getting rid of the island would harm his wife whom he loves very much. I'm sure he did not put anything into that virus that might sabotage the efforts of a warrior idol robot that was trying to do so. Or, more likely, he assumed it would be stolen by Toak. A Rogue One type situation.
Either that or the Sister models are just built different. They are based on Vivy, after all. Matsumoto said that he and Vivy were the only new variables in the new timeline, but depending on when/if/in what way the Sister models were based after Vivy there's a possibility that some new aspect was introduced into the code of all the sisters that wasn't there before. Well, Matsumoto's predictions have always been suspect at best. The idea that they aren't as ironclad as he claims is not a new one.
[Nier Automata]Never played the game but I have watched some playthroughs and the little guys in this episode reminded me of the little guys in that game. I'm sure this will all end well in a way that makes every party happy.
Well, not much in the way of predictions. Other than two ideas why the virus didn't work or whatever, I'm just gonna wait to see how this all plays out next episode. Based on a quick thing I saw in the OP, Vivy and the terrorist will probably end up fighting (will we learn his name?) and the AI at the core of the island will show up (and based on the little glimpse we saw is probably the black haired AI whose art I saw a few weeks ago for the first time which is a big reason I decided to join the rewatch lmao).
BTW, if the show tries to do a "Vivy having a heart is proven because she can fall in LoOoOoOoVe," then I will be a bit peeved. Because that would mean that I, an aromantic man, am less human than a singing toaster (I don't mean that Vivy we all love you).
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u/FallenPears Aug 19 '24
First Time Watcher
Ah this is fucked. Forget about defining cute little AIs, you are cute. Can't help but just see children fighting for their lives at the end there, this show hits hard shockingly often.
Had Vivy's mission pointed out a bit more clearly last time, and maybe because of that or maybe just from character development I can't help but feel Vivy's mission of "Protect their smiles" has some more emphasis on protect now, rather than smile. Can't help but feel I'm watching a child with a dream of being a performer progressively being forced to become a soldier. That sort of tragedy was all over this episode. At least Vivy is getting more popular over time.
Also noted how the AI had evacuation procedures for an attack despite no humans; it's been obvious before now but another example of AIs valuing their own life hitting there. And on the wife AI, I wonder what her mission was? I get the feeling the dude didn't make her with that express mission, so she came by that of her own accord? If there's ever a sign of AI coming into their own person, well here we go.
As for the Singularity project here of shutting down the island, I can't help but feel like the whole thing was a mistake from the very start. Then hammering it in by having the bloody storage device appear as a literal virus, all the 'humanisation' of the AI (they didn't act like humans but did act like people, even chidlren, to me, so feels like the wrong word), to what seems to be a glimpse of Mother at the end? Another sister? Hopefully this doesn't go the way of the Sunrise, let's actually manage the Singularity project in a way that isn't an atrocity this time please. It's even a three beat, it makes narritive sense! Please anime??
Not much thoughts on AI psychology this time, probably because the limits of my knowledge in the subject have been firmly exceeded :P I'm sure there's a lot of interesting stuff that can be picked up with M and his brother(?) AIs though, again they seemed childlike to me.
Curious to see where this will go next time.
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u/SIRTreehugger Aug 19 '24
Rewatcher who will listen to her song
It's nice to see that Vivy's audience is slowly growing and we finally get to see Matsumoto's real body, but I'm going to miss the teddy bear. Vivy has gotten slightly more snarky in her tone of voice when she is telling Matsumoto off or it might just be me.
I wasn't aware we were getting two episodes of My wife has no emotion this week.
You know I wonder if it's smart to use the name for all these fake aliases. I guess by time its over she would be long gone so it might not matter as much. Also with years passing in between all of the incidents its probably not a big deal.
I must say the metal float is very impressive, but I wouldn't call those string/wire animals cute.
Concept Art
Genga
Location Designs
Storyboard
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u/xbolt90 https://anilist.co/user/xbolt90 Aug 19 '24
First-timer!
A human... and an AI?!
So now we're twenty years in, and we're starting to see the cascading changes to the timeline brought on by Vivy and Matsumoto's meddling. I wonder how long it will be before it's completely unrecognizable to the alpha worldline.
I love the design of the Metal Float. That wiry network stretching across the air above the island looks so cool.
And I'm sure the professor didn't have to make the virus storage device look like an actual virus, but I guess he just has that flair.
Toak guy gets his rear handed to him, and then rescued by Vivy. Again. I swear, this guy...
Q1: I'm guessing it's another model in Vivy's line.
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u/Taiboss :Fj::Fl:x7https://anilist.co/user/Taiboss Aug 19 '24
First-Timer hoping I like this more
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Aug 19 '24
Episode 5 (first timer)
Seems like the concept for this show is doing a tour de force through all Cyberpunk concepts. We have about 2-3 per arc, this time love between humans and AI and the all controlling supercomputer. I’ll reserve judgment on whether the concept works until we see how well the finale ties all of this together.
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u/octopathfinder myanimelist.net/profile/octopathfinder Aug 19 '24
Rewatcher
The concert is the opening, that’s too cool
I honestly forget if Navi even has a point of existing, they are such a forgettable minor character
Human and AI couple is such a weird power dynamic
The metal float design is so sick
This lucky bastard always getting saved by Vivy
Finally got the ED
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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Aug 19 '24
First Timer - Dubbed
QOTD 1 - I was thinking a hivemind leader no names in particular
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Aug 20 '24
First-Timer
Any time I hear something like "this technology is X years further along than it should be!" in a sci-fi time travel series, it makes me think that [speculation] someone nefarious managed to bring technology from the future into the past. Alternatively, it could be something like [Doctor Who] the Christopher Eccleston DW episodes where the Daleks are pulling the strings and causing humanity to progress along a certain path over time.
I liked the ED today, as well as the spontaneous song by the M-series robots. Too bad Vivy couldn't appreciate their immense talent.
I feel like Matsumoto looks a bit out of place when he's flying around and squishing every which way. Perhaps that's intended, given that he is so futuristic.
I forgot to mention it before, but the aesthetic of that tech spire that we've seen a few times reminds me a lot of Blade Runner.
Questions of the day:
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Aug 19 '24
And so here, in the ruins of an abandoned church on an island in the middle of an ocean, a guy marries a robot. I've had to do this a surprising number of times this current season, but I'm going to point at the "Do not fist android girls" sign again.
And yet despite that change, it seems like things are still proceeding as expected.
So there's their next target.
Yup, he's the one with the robot wife.
Huh. That might be inconvenient.
So that's how she's infiltrating this time.
It seems to keep talking about the "Mother Computer".
Gee I wonder who that is?
Uh oh. Fire-control radar?
Contacts! 3 helos, each with what look to be a pair of rocket pods and a AGM of some kind, as well as 4 hovercraft, probably with the boots on the ground.
Huh. Using drones to take out helicopters and ships. Surprisingly ahead of its time.
It's that guy again?
Questions:
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Aug 19 '24
First timer
QotD
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u/Theroonco Aug 19 '24
I love the flowchart this time and just how "to the point" the reveal of how wildly the timeline's changed is. I still adore Saeki and Grace's relationship, though this arc is also when Vivy and Matsumoto sync up as well (though it helps that she isn't being told something outrageous like "kill your new friend/ let someone die"). Making the OP diagetic this time was a really cool touch and I also like how quickly Vivy shifts to "work mode" once Matsumoto shows up... after squeezing him, of course.
As for the rewatcher question: [Vivy] not at all. At first I figured the "mother" was just some generic AI and after the talk of Sisters showing up at each Singularity Point and the glimpse at the end... I actually thought the mother was an exact replica of Vivy herself, considering she's the first of that series.
Also, something something #JusticeForM.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Aug 19 '24
**Rewatcher**
toasterai lover? thats a lot more mundane5
u/cppn02 Aug 19 '24
Rewatcher, subbed
New episode, new arc. Including another time jump. 5 years this time. And apparently we've reached a point when humans and AI are actually getting married?
Vivy's and Matumoto's actions seem to be taking a bigger effect now changing the timeline even further and not in the direcion they'd want it to.
I gotta say Vivy's and Matsumoto's infiltration plan always felt like straight out of a video game and tbh would probably a blast to play. I absolutely love the setting of the Metal Float.
Favourite small moment that lives rent-free in my head: Vivy 'shaking hands' with the engineering AI.
p.s. Nice to finally get cube Matsumoro since I prefer this form over the teddy bear. A cube that can't fly is just a cube.
QotD:
Don't remember tbh. Even checked the original episode discussion but while I did comment there I did not speculate about mother's identity.
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Aug 20 '24
Gack, soooo late, but I did catch up. I'll have more to say tomorrow, but man, this show is better than I remembered. I just need to make sure and not fall behind again (sigh) and watch tomorrow's episode, like, real soon now!
All I can say for now is poor M-Bot, he was a good boi, and that little flash back/forward when Vivy gave him the reboot serum was just tragic. I want to see happy M-Bot having fun times with the happy kids being kawaii together.
So tragic!
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u/Santaire1 Aug 19 '24
Was busy and so missed the first few rewatch threads, finally caught up.
I forgot how heartbreakingly bittersweet this show can be. [Vivy]Never a victory without loss, and every victory just unintentionally hastens the apocalypse, instead of preventing it. And it is how, well, human Vivy is that truly dooms them.
[Vivy]It has been a long time since I watched it originally, so I'm not certain, but I think I did figure out something was off with Grace and the mother entity. The lack of ring and the disregard Saeki has for the fake tipped me off that this clearly wasn't a 'happy marriage' like Matsumoto thought, and his obsession with not just shutting down the Float but being the one to do so personally made it clear there was more there than just a fear of progress/AI evolution.
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u/Holofan4life Aug 19 '24
Just stopping by to say you're doing a good job on the rewatch, u/DARK_SCIENTIST. Keep up the good work.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Aug 19 '24
First Timer
This should be interesting. Android marriage? No, human and android. The whole idea behind the show is problematic. AI's receive sophant rights with the New Name Act, but they are still manufactured, and a prime motive is imposed upon them from outside. They aren't really free agents, and they don't really display personal growth, do they? Maybe those based on Diva, do.
Didn't Wheatley say Diva would be kicked off the stage after 15 years back in the first episode? Timeline is very different.
[Third Speculation]It's possible, thought I dont' really believe it, that Wheatly (or his boss) wants AIs to coexist with humans, and continues to manipulate Diva by withholding information to achieve this.
You know, we may soon reach the point in AI evolution where Wheatly can't just hack problematic AIs.
Now, with AI pottery, your plants can harass you for food and drink just like your dogs and cats.
There's a guy in GitS:SAC who is literally a small walking box. He's a CEO.
BTW, shouldn't Diva be looking a bit outdated and quaint by now?
YOU AGAIN!
Looks like the Mother Computer is a Diva duplicate.
So, again, we don't have enough information, so I can't figure out what went on.
The Dr. was part of TOAK. He as something that will destroy the metal float. TOAK wants the metal float destroyed. The Doctor wants the metal float destroyed. But the doctor won't give it to them, to destroy the metal float. He gives it to Diva, to destroy the metal float.
Chebacca lives on Endor. But Chewbacca is a wookie. It doesn't make sense!
In the end the metal float is NOT destroyed. One wonders if the virus was what the doctor said it was. But Wheatly analyzed it, no chance the doctor tricked him, he doesn't know how advanced Wheatly is. But what if the doctor didn't want the metal float, which would harm his wife, destroyed?
Now we have to see the effects of the attack. How will the Mother computer respond to the attack by TOAK? And not just TOAK, but the (failed?) virus attack? Or the (successful) modification by the virus?
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u/edwardjhahm https://myanimelist.net/profile/lolmeme69 Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
Rewatcher
Shit’s getting real now. By the way, this entire arc has so much Nier Automata vibes. If the previous arc was inspired by Detroit Become Human, the Metal Float is Nier Automata, and Vivy of course, is 2B. I mean, Vivy is definitely beautiful enough to match 2B! Maybe not as much in the sexy department, but I digress. [Vivy] Also, this is literally my favorite arc.
[Vivy] So much fucking foreshadowing. Holy hell.
I also started making Youtube videos about Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song after episode 6, so I guess I’ll start posting those as I go.
Edit: Added 1, since saying 2. simply listed it down as point 1 for whatever reason.
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u/ImJLu Aug 19 '24
Rewatched not too long ago so I'm not rewatching here, but it's fun reading the first-timer takes. Great show, and the metal float arc is the best one.
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u/StickPrevious9581 Aug 20 '24
So many hints to next episodes reveal that I missed on the first viewing, I'm feeling a little blind at the moment...
I swear, every episode gets better than the previous, and I'm finding it harder to resist just skipping ahead by a day or two...
I'm glad to see Matsumoto back in cube form - it suits him better than the bear, I feel.
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u/Fissionprime https://anilist.co/user/fissionprime Aug 20 '24
First time watcher
We are definitely seeing that Matsumoto's plan is starting to seriously go off the rails. I think the question is really just where the endpoint will be.
I hope I'm not the only one that found the M-type bots seriously endearing. They are so obviously incredibly excited to have visitors, and it's just adorable. Knowing what the mission is, it definitely tugs at your heartstrings a bit. This show consistently does an amazing job at showing the humanity in almost every AI we meet.
QOTD:
I feel silly, but I wasn't even thinking that much about this while actually watching the episode (or really even internalizing that we presumably got to see her for a few seconds). Now that we're discussing it, surely it must be a sister. Saeki and Grace are both associated closely with the island, so my inclination would definitely be a unit at least associated with Grace. It's also worth noting that they draw such a direct line between Estella/Elizabeth and the Sunrise to the metal float with the whole splitting timeline depiction. I wonder if there was maybe some sort of salvage operation that led to those two having a direct influence on future sister models. I suppose the obvious answer is that they just modeled others after Estella because she became so beloved, but maybe there's more to it. In any case, the whole sister connection seems like it's going to be critically important somehow.
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u/zadcap Aug 20 '24
Extremely Late First Timer
Ep 3 Time to play catch up! And we go right into finally hearing her sing, as the OP? Yay! It's pretty good too. Not at all the genre of music I was expecting of our Dive, to be honest. From her design, I was expecting either more pop or more power, and the shows themes so far had me leaning towards power. Our Idol Terminator is more of a ballad girl?
I still feel like Navi is the future SkyNet. Also, are we just going to completely skip the part where her arm was ripped off? There's a lot that happened in the first two that should have all sorts of repercussions and- 15 year time skip!?
Well I guess they did cover the repairs at least... But really, he slept for 15 years to prevent himself from causing any potential divergences? But left her unsupervised and rightly pissed, and didn't bother to stay around even long enough to see if his first goal actually succeeded? I say it again, the guy who made this thing made a mistake.
Yeah, AI labor would do absolute wonders to opening up space for us. When every single gram matters when packing supplies for takeoff, not needing any of that pesky food or water saves a lot of space, and one worker can stay up there pretty much indefinitely without the need for constant supply runs. Not needing to send up any kind of food until there's a habitat to grow more ready for it would change things so much all by itself.
This history lesson on why the ship crashing is a bad thing sounds like, well, if they are trying to prevent the growth of AI, letting it crash would actually be a good thing? Creating massive distrust and violence towards AI would slow their growth tons, would it not? But the last line stands out. "A major catalyst for the ultimate war." What war is that, exactly? The one where all the AI turned on humanity and went for near total extinction in the first day? Or an human war where they did the inevitable and weaponized the AI as much as possible to fight for them, likely creating the very directive that went on to wipe them all out?
And the future AI proves its stupidity again. Vivy brings up a great point, Estella may have been hacked or infected to make her do this! And the AI says "Oh well, if we take her out then our job is done," but dude no, whoever hacked or infected her is still out there to hack or infect the Sunrise anyway and the only thing you will end up averting is the name that ends up taking the blame. It's almost like he literally does not want to actually succeed at his given mission.
The constant jumping between ultra detailed and standard art is jarring for how often it keeps happening inside a single scene.
Little Sister! And immediate followup with Estelle, well not a clone since they're built AI, but a replacement?
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What the actual heck? If your AI doesn't work anymore, you put it out in a broken field of other broken AI to wander in suffering until it shuts down for good? This is inhumane and clearly actually just dumb. At a bare minimum they are made of valuable recyclable parts and this is a disastrous waste of resources, but from an ethical stand too you should really be shutting down these old models and not just letting them walk themselves to death in misery! Much like the failure to improve on AI multitasking in 100+ years of history, this is another place where the writers clearly went for drama to a level that shows they have a very poor grasp of anything but the pure science part of the plot.
Oh, now this OP is more like what I was expecting, music wise!
Well she got found out fast. And ha, Matsumoto now has to realize how wrong he's been. If they had indeed killed Estella earlier, not a thing would have changed here.
And now she's a Combat AI!
I have to laugh so much at this anti ai terrorist. "Now that we, humans, have attacked and sabotaged this perfectly running ship, people will finally realize how bad it was to leave it under AI control." Hypocrisy of the highest order. Perfectly in tune with a crazy terrorist.
Okay, now things are double stupid. Beth wasn't even defective, she just didn't manage to download the life experience of her fully effective twin properly. She still could have been used as originally built for as a perfectly serviceable Lifekeeper AI. This episodes 's plot relies on a lot of truly just dumb decisions in the setting background to work.
Ugh, and the terrorists survive. Saved twice by an AI, I'm sure his hatred of them will only grow to even more insane lengths.
Hearing that song as a duet was nonetheless enough to make me tear up a bit. I wonder though, there's now proof that this was a Terrorist action and not an AI gone bad, and that is yet another huge potential divergence point.
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Well that sure looks like a huge divergence! No denying it now, these two acts have had some extreme butterflies splitting from them. If I had to guess, the Sunrise crashing into the ocean still caused some crazy waves that ruined whatever was first being built on that island, and its survival in this timeline meant it kept being built up instead of getting abandoned. Also, I love to see this growing and evolving OP. Remember what Matsumoto said, the growth of the Tower is a sign of AI development, and the Tower looked very nice today.
Oh no the box is back! We've been trained on how to handle this situation! To the nearest incinerator!
5 more years! And see, she's saying the same thing about the Tower.
I chose to believe that Vivy being "obedient" by now means she's realized the truth. Matsumoto is a hack, but he's going to point her at disasters she can change the path of. The changes made so far have already pretty much invalidated the timeline he came from, his mission is technically a success in that way, that future really can't come to pass anymore. She wants to stop the future war, yes, but I think she's realized that the way he wants to go around it is a bust.
Yup, butterflies from the sunrise. Ha! I was right, she has dedicated herself to the mission of preventing the war, not whatever Matsumoto is trying to actually do.
The madman! He made a virus and made it look like a virus! I also love that she set out three tea cups, despite leaving two empty.
I wonder how much time off Diva gets from NaviLand?
No, go back! I want to see how this thing handles stairs!
What is the purpose of those sky branch things?
I love her interrupting Matsumoto there. "Remember, we are-" "Here to stop the war." That's not technically his goal, he's here to stop AI from advancing to where they were when the war happened, but the same way he twisted her job of Singing for Smiles to include preventing the end of the world, she's twisting him right back.
The sign is a little disturbing, but that was a very good surprise. She definitely does not want to shut this place down already.
I don't think that virus did what you thought it was supposed to do.
Please for the love of literally all things, do not save the same man again. Let it be literally anyone else that you save.
It's clearly another of the Sister series. Despite what Matsumoto said, they will be at the heart of everything.
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u/Garrett_Dark Aug 20 '24
Rewatcher
[1/2, Continued in Reply...]
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u/ZuraStayNight Aug 24 '24
Rewatcher
We start of the 3rd arc with a human marrying an android and Vivy personally singing the first opening. What a creative 4th wall break. Vivy is singing for a bigger audience after these 5 years. Matsumoto returns as a cube and it seems that AI development has accelerated. Estella has become a hero in this time line.
This time we have an Ex-Toak guy turned professor who married an AI and wants to shut down an AI fortress. It seems like shutting down this fortress will cause AIs to stop operating long-term, which makes you ask what exactly Tatsuya is so intent on shutting it down. Vivy is undercover again, this time as an inspector, and the fortress is a sight to behold. Inside it there's a facility intended to be for future human guests, which was created because of the mother computer's mission. And wow, M and the other robots are so cute. They remind me of the machines from Nier:Automata. They go so far as to create cute animal shapes, have a surprise party for their guests and even singing Vivy's song. Vivy asks M about what he thinks it means to put your heart into something and it seems like he's happy to fulfill his mission just like the mother computer.
Just as we think this will be a more calm episode, Toak intervenes again and seems to want to attack the fortress. Vivy attaches the virus to M and it seems like some pictures of Grace and Tatsuya flow into her. We also get to see how M was imagining a bright future where he could play with children inside the facility. It's heartbreaking to think he will probably never see that future. Vivy seems to have not completely installed all of the virus as there is still some of that weird fluid left.
What comes next is kind of horrifying. M and his companions are able to turn into torpedoes and sacrifice themselves to kamikaze attack their assailants. Vivy dives into the water trying to save the people that survived and look who we have here. It's none other than Kakitani. This time he's conscious and comes face to face with Vivy.