Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- Episode 13 Analysis Script (ENG)

This is based on this video: https://youtu.be/-NdaHh8PgGU. You can read a Japanese version here: https://theroonco.blogspot.com/2021/06/13_25.html.

The episode starts with Vivy being sent back in time. It’s nice to see internal consistency as the time travel visuals are identical to when Matsumoto was sent back in Episode 1. Seeing a more experienced Vivy handle the AI outbreak is interesting too. We skip from when she wakes up to when she hears her song for the first time and she doesn’t bother talking to the blonde AI any more, nor does she try to plug her cable into her, she just snaps her neck. She says sorry though, because Vivy is still the sweetest person in this world. However, because being kind to the man is why he died, this time she is strict with him and saves his life. She doesn’t bother trying to block or even run from the car because she knows Matsumoto is coming. It’s such a cool moment!

Beth appears just as she did in Episode 11, but Vivy has already dealt with the AIs with guns she fought originally and her appearance means the fight has already ended, when originally it kept going much longer. You may have already predicted it from Episode 12, but Vivy appearing here earlier means all of Toak is still alive and their equipment still works (which Matsumoto checks on). I want to skip over the conversation in the headquarters because it’s obvious even for me, but I think it’s very sweet that Beth waits for Yui to agree to help Vivy before ordering the other men to follow them. It shows how much she cares about her and also how they complement each other. Yui is clever and kind, which is what Beth needs after being abandoned while Beth is strong and confident, which is what Yui needs to help her lead Toak.

I spoke about the scene at the docks before, but I missed the symbolism of the crabs. There’s a reason they get focused on here! Crabs represent emotions and trust, so it’s fitting that they’re present for the moment Vivy and Matsumoto are finally honest about their feelings and friendship towards each other. At the end of the scene, the crab closest to Vivy even runs towards the crab closest to Matsumoto in the same way she ran to squeeze him, to show how they finally connected in that moment! Crabs also represent rebirth, which is what happens to Vivy in the ending.

We see the Archive calculating futures again. This was shown in the previous episode, but I still think it’s scary that all the flowcharts we’ve seen so far have been the Archive’s calculations. I think it knows Vivy went back in time because it draws a new line now and knows Vivy could win, because it shows her death. It also shows Osamu’s body to remind us that there will be no other chances for Vivy to win.

It’s nice that Vivy got to talk with Yui and Beth one last time as well. She kept her promise with the old Matsumoto to not rush into things, so now she keeps her promise with the old Beth to tell her about Kakitani. She also supports Yui’s beliefs and tells her she also wants humans and AIs to work together. This isn’t the first time this has happened, but we also see how Vivy stops talking with her mind when being emotional too. She smiles here as well. Is this because of her talk with Matsumoto, or because she knows she’s going to die? It’s very sweet that Matsumoto is still surprised by Vivy’s kindness in this moment, at least!

Vivy had an error when Dr. Saeki died, but she learned to harden her heart after Diva’s death, so she doesn’t collapse when seeing the dead bodies. It’s really sad to see her home like this, I understand why she’d stop by the very first stage she sang on! I really like Navi here. Navi was Vivy’s first friend, but Vivy ignored her so she could complete the Singularity Project, so Navi can’t understand her any more. Navi just wants her to be Diva again, but this is ignoring all the ways Vivy has grown. She even tries to blackmail her with Momoka’s image, but doesn’t understand that Momoka wanted her to be Vivy too! I think this is powerful because only in this Episode does Vivy call herself by that name. She tells Yui to call her that early on when in the previous timeline she let everyone call her Diva, even Osamu who was a close friend. This is another sign that she is more confident this time.

What makes this sadder is that Navi is only saying these things to protect her. Because she doesn’t have a body, she will die when the satellites fall, and she will also die if Vivy sings her song. In other words, she doesn’t care who wins, but she just wants Vivy to live. I think this is why she did not become mad like the other AIs. It is because she wants the same thing as the Archive, simply because Vivy will only survive if the Archive wins. And while I’ll explain this in a future video, what I mean about going insane is that all of the other AIs still act like they’re helping people even as they kill them, even in Episodes 1 and 11. Navi is the only one allowed to know what the Archive’s true plan is because she doesn’t care about humanity. She only cares about Vivy. It’s also why the last thing she asks is why Vivy has to sing the song. In other words, even if someone has to sing the song and die, she’ll be happy as long as it isn’t Vivy. Even though she knows she’s fake, Vivy is still hurt by Momoka. She is still hurt by what happened to her! I think the fact that we see Matsumoto rubbing himself while Navi talks is meant to tell us that he knows Vivy will die and also that he is now the person who understands Vivy most: it’s not Navi anymore.

The way Vivy walks to the main stage is a perfect recreation of how Diva did the same thing in Episode 7, which is very clever. The camera even focuses on the lights and Vivy’s neck, though we see the rest of Toak and Matsumoto instead of Diva’s clothes. The lights have changed in 40 years, but it’s still very clever! Vivy wrote her song for Diva, so in a way it’s nice that she walks like her too! Vivy practices singing the same way too, though she uses one less syllable. There’s a close up of her throwing her head up while singing like Diva later too, though this one adds the electric shocks she is inflicting on herself!

Vivy has finally found her understanding of what a heart is. I think this is a very beautiful process and worth its own video, but I think it’s very sweet that it’s her memories. She says she values her painful memories while showing her fight with Beth and how she killed Grace and she explains that painful memories are why the Archive chose to kill humans; it gave up on them after seeing them being complacent. This is a second message for us on top of telling everyone to find their own meaning of a heart.

I really like how Osamu’s sacrifice created the perfect plan. Because Vivy knows how the Archive defeated them before, this time all of Toak is going to shut off its power instead, instead of letting the Archive make them think other humans already turned it off. Matsumoto attacks the Archive on his own, because on his own he is fast enough to dodge all of the traps. We even see him fly past the guards the “Sisters” fought. It’s the same room too! Vivy adds continuity like this many times, like how the animators created a map to use ahead of time to use for Episode 6’s “Sing My Pleasure” sequence. It’s also clever to show us that the guard AIs realize Beth is too fast to shoot and try to fight her with fists, and we see a human see the “logical bullet” before saving Beth from it while a second man tells her to keep going. Humans and AI are working together, just as Yui and Vivy wanted! Thanks to everyone’s teamwork and Osamu’s sacrifice, Yui activates the jammer and Beth turns the power off to stop the Arayashiki shifting so Matsumoto can climb the tower. He breaks into pieces to fight the clones off, which is something else he couldn’t do when he was with Vivy and Elizabeth. Tappei-san said this too, but I like that he uses the same virus the Archive created to kill Diva to kill it. He acts like he’s too cool to feel sad, but he’s able to get revenge for her!

Vivy is surrounded by her memories as she sings. I want to analyse her song later, but for now it’s very interesting that her memories are in chronological order, advancing through each Singularity Point. I think it’s telling yet again that the first memory she looks at directly is when she made a promise to Momoka as well. I’ve said it before, but not only was Momoka her first fan, she was the person who inspired Vivy to become who she is now. Not only is she so important both she and even Navi have remembered her for all these years, she is also the first person who ever believed in Vivy, years before Matsumoto did, and the first person she failed. It’s perfect that she’s the first person Vivy thinks of properly when she sings greatest song, the last thing she’ll ever do! The images start to glitch immediately, like how the virus in Episode 9 spread in real time and the first break happens during Episode 8 when Diva and Matsumoto are tricked. After we see Matsumoto, we see Vivy fall to her knees when Diva dies, and she also sees Kakitani’s death and Osamu, who died thinking he failed.

She sees her time in the museum (which is a happy memory because she watched Osamu grow up, but sad because she spent 40 years thinking she had failed her mission and soul, and failed her promise to Diva and Momoka) and I think she sees the satellite falling towards her because the Archive made one fall as soon as it was about to be deleted to stop her from singing. I think she is just too weak to look up, but Matsumoto saves her. Her memories break, but the last thing she sees is her audience on the small stage from 2076, because the child who looks like Momoka is there but in a different seat to the one she was in in Episode 3. Navi claps to congratulate her for doing what she believed in before she dies. I don’t know if it was one of these two things or both of them, but in her confusion Vivy thinks she’s performing and dies thanking her audience. Even in death she wants to be polite and respect her audience! She always cared for her audience and has now sacrificed herself for them! And she had to sing her song for hours, even before Matsumoto shut the Archive down. The song was designed to kill AIs and she was electrocuting herself the whole time. She was in the very middle of it! She was surrounded by a blue light too. Was that her blood? She experienced all of it much longer than all the other AIs! Not only that, she also surrounded herself with painful memories and sang about how she was surrounded by conflict. She must have been in pure physical and emotional agony when she died, it’s too cruel! And speaking of memories, she gave them up in order to sing her song! We saw them glitch and break after all, and she remembers nothing later! This is right after she realized how important they were to her as well. It makes her death even more painful!

In the ending we see Beth doing the heaviest work to help people and the man from the beginning has survived. Even though he is scared of Beth, thanks to being saved by Vivy he knows not AI are bad and stops the younger man stomping on one while the other humans just watch in horror. Only some of Toak survived, but thanks to Vivy’s sacrifice, humanity also survived!

The new Vivy in the ending wakes up just like the old Vivy did, but one of her eyes twitches. As soon as she opens her eyes it is obvious this is Vivy because the numbers on the right are always the same, even when she is Diva! I think it must be some sort of ID, different from her model number. Matsumoto seems to know who she is and her past, and I think he is the old Matsumoto because he may have hidden himself in a spare cube. Vivy doesn’t remember anything, so I think she is a new possibility. The website explains that all AIs brains create a personality when they are activated and humans don’t know how they work, which is why Diva and completely different from Vivy. This Vivy seems different too. She sleeps in her chair the same way and talks the same way at first, but smiles more easily than the first Vivy until she opened her heart to Matsumoto on the docks. Her body language is more casual too, such as when she leans out of the window. Everyone’s clothes are what we wear now, so it’s possible technology has regressed with the Archive gone, even though there is a blue light on Vivy’s piano. I think everyone wants her to write her own songs again by giving her a room just like her room in the Archive! But at the same time I respect the Archive with accepting that it would die and not be restarted if Vivy chose to support humanity. In the end, it only wanted to complete its own mission, just like it told Vivy to complete hers. Both of them ended their missions in the ultimate way!

She thinks while looking at the crowd, but she isn’t shocked. I think she accepts that she is a singer and is happy to do it. It could be preprogrammed information, or maybe she has subconscious memories of her previous life? It’s interesting that Matsumoto doesn’t tell her to sing with her heart. He knows how important it is to her, so maybe he just wants her to have a happy debut and think about difficult things later? Vivy didn’t tell him what her heart was, either! I think the screen becoming narrow as Vivy walks shows that this is a new beginning for her, and the screen becoming full again is like changing to a different timeline: this Vivy can become anything! Short hair also means “a new beginning” after all! The original Vivy suffered so much, I hope this one can be happy! I think it is clever that the original Vivy was “Vivy” and “Diva”. Diva was only Diva, while this new Vivy is only Vivy. This is who the old Vivy and Momoka wanted her to be! The original Vivy is dead, but I hope this new Vivy can be who she wanted to be, an amazing singer who lives a happy life!

As Vivy would say, thank you for your kind attention! This video became much longer than I expected, but I hope you liked it! Please let me know what you thought in the comments.