Review | Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song – Chapter 4

This review of Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song Chapter 3 contains spoilers. If you don’t want to have a bad time, it is better that you watch this episode and then enjoy this review.

Chapter 4: The Polaris Ensemble – Our Promise

In this second part of the previous episode, Diva manages to complete her new mission, but it was even more difficult than the previous one. Estella, Diva believed, had nothing to do with the Sunrise accident. The terrorists, old acquaintances by the way, brought Estella’s younger sister to life, who was part of an experiment in which they wanted to prove that one AI could be identical to another if it had the exact dates of all the experiences of her “twin”. The mission was successful when Estella’s sister Elizabeth regained her identity and helped her sister save the hotel, the ending was an icon and gave us a nostalgic soundtrack.

Estella, what does it mean to you to put your heart in something?

Vivy again: Fluorite Eye’s left us open-mouthed and heartbroken. Estella’s response made sense when she decided to sacrifice herself to save those she wanted to make happy. When we ask ourselves about the meaning of life, we want to believe that we are clear about it and, even more, that we are on the right track. But we almost always act so contradictingly that we see that our life has no meaning. We can live for anything; do not die. We are seldom aware of our finiteness, we fear dying and we only prolong a life without end.

The reason we are so shocked by Estella’s death is because we understand why it is necessary that she no longer exist. Happiness, like other emotions, is not black or white, it has nuances and sacrifices that make it possible. To serve a mission, not only must one be alive, but also die, which one should do, and die to defend what one believes in. From the beginning of this chapter, the soundtrack prepared us for sadness and loss, but it also showed that loss is a necessary step in the end to being happy.

We wrongly think that the meaning of life is to live. Putting your heart into what you do is true happiness. Instincts can convince and make us cry when a bird dies, but reason will tell us that the only thing we have left is a smile. as the saying goes: “bad weather, good face.” Who we are and what we should do are issues we are unsure of, but if this anime turns out to be a gem of the season, it is because it reflects us as humans. It doesn’t answer these questions, but it does provide convenience.

identity

One of the most interesting things about this episode is the appearance of Elizabeth, Estella’s younger sister. This AI was created with the intention of experimenting with identity. Scientists believed that if you passed all the data from one AI to another that looked physically the same as the first, they could reproduce the exact movements and thoughts of their “twin” because they had the same experiences and emotions. The experiment was a failure because, as we understand, Elizabeth is not the same as her sister Estella, she has a special and autonomous personality.

Elizabeth is led by a terrorist whom Diva saved in previous chapters. She doesn’t even have an exact mission, so Yugo gives her a mission that will kill her and her sister, but that will be a failure. Elizabeth must assume the identity of Estella and crash the sunrise with Earth to cause an accident that shows why the AI ​​shouldn’t be controlling some human problems. Estella manages to prevent this from happening, and Elizabeth gives up this mission, which was also not hers. If we are wrong and entrust our lives to those who don’t understand what life is about, we will surely die.

It’s hard to imagine how the AIs manage to turn their experiences into emotions that prevent them or that lead them to commit crimes. Both sisters are the opposite of the other and both have made decisions according to their differences, but there is always a feeling involved in every decision. Here we return to the problem of humanism and advanced intelligence; What it means to be human and technology. There is no doubt that we still do not understand life, language and emotions sufficiently, a little less the arts.

Vivy’s final takeaways: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song Every chapter leaves deaths that can only lead us to predict a fatal outcome. This anime positions itself among this season’s jewels and it sure will be. The animation is fantastic, even more so with the soundtrack. We listened to each chapter with different openings, and each seems to be how the episode tries to portray it. This ability to make art couldn’t have been better chosen for this anime. Diva is an AI that was created to make people happy with their singing. With every delivery we learn with her that happiness has nothing to do with smiling and that you only have to feel it in order to sing with your heart. and that meaning is in all the pain we can live.

The problems we ponder are not far from human life. I would say that we are well reflected in the AIs and also in the people of the anime. I am sure that every weekend we will be there with open mouths and rising expectations. This is not a predictable anime, you can’t really see what will become of it and what’s next. The ending feels so far away and although every chapter as we approach the mystery that this work is done with entertains us thinking about what we are and what we are feeling.

I invite you to follow this anime closely. I promise I will try to go deeper without losing my sense of what a review should be. It was hard to keep everything I think out of what I have to write, but this one with Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s song I find it hard not to feel identified and overwhelmed. See you next week in anticipation of another incredible Chapter 5.