Vivy prototype [Licensed by Seven Seas]
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Title: Vivy prototype
Publisher: Mag Garden
Books released: 1
Original release: April 30, 2021
Manga adaptation?: Yes (Vol. 1, September 2021 in Japan)
Anime adaptation?: YesSynopsis: NiaLand is an AI theme park that blends dreams with hope and science. Vivy was created as the world's first autonomous humanoid AI to work as a cast member in the theme park. She gets on stage every day to sing, but she is not very popular.
"I want my singing to bring happiness to everyone."
Vivy continues singing in hopes of achieving her goal of bringing her heartfelt performances to the theme park's main stage.
One day, an AI that calls himself Matsumoto appears to her.
Matsumoto claims that he is an AI from one hundred years in the future, and that his mission is to rewrite history with Vivy in order to stop the war between AI and humans that will happen a century later.
How will the meeting of these two AIs with such different missions change the course of the future?
This is a story of I(Vivi) destroying I(AI)...
The one hundred-year journey of an AI songstress named Vivy starts now.
Thoughts: Since it just released in Japan, there isn't much publicity behind it other than being what Tappei Nagatsuki, author of "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World", and Eiji Umehara, scriptwriter of the anime adaptation of Re:Zero and Chaos;Child, have produced for the anime "Vivy -Flourite Eye's Song-".
The anime is awesome and I have generally liked the source materials even moreso, just like with Re:Zero, Overlord, Bookworm and Mushoku Tensei. It's not an isekai and that makes it refreshing to watch, as much as I would imagine it would be to read and the plot is very interesting, only the first six episodes of the anime have aired as of this point.
Vivy prototype 1 published on April 30, 2021 and Vivy prototype 2 is set to publish on May 31, 2021.
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I have generally liked the source materials even moreso, just like with Re:Zero, Overlord, Bookworm and Mushoku Tensei.
Weren’t those all published well before their anime versions aired? I don’t know the time lag between print and animated versions, but I know that at least for Bookworm many books had already been released.
Vivy prototype 1 published on April 30, 2021 and Vivy prototype 2 is set to publish on May 31, 2021.
Are these books really the source materials, is the anime, or are they parallel creations based upon the same outline? I’m enjoying the anime so far (I’ve watched through episode 4), and might be interested in the books, if they add more to the story.
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@ingraman There was an article on ANN about Vivy's development. After they broke the main plot, they had Nagatsuki write a novel version, and used that as reference when developing the TV scripts. So it's in a weird grey area where it's an anime original, but also has a source novel.
(Volumes three and four are out in June and July, which is a lot of novel for a one-cour show.)
Translator for Discommunication and Last and First Idol. (Not Bookworm.)
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@doceirias I mean, the first cour of Bookworm covered the first 3 Bookworm novels.
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@ingraman said in Vivy prototype:
Are these books really the source materials, is the anime, or are they parallel creations based upon the same outline? I’m enjoying the anime so far (I’ve watched through episode 4), and might be interested in the books, if they add more to the story.
Here is the round table discussion from the official English site of Vivy where it’s about "writing a novel as the original concept for the anime". So it’s an original anime that was first brought into being in 2016, finishing the novels in 2018, leading up to now four years later with both the LN and anime at same time. That round table is worth reading too.
Nagatsuki: That's why the novel was only used as the initial concept, and when we started working on the anime, we had many meetings with the director and producer to make big changes to the story. In fact, the characters' personalities, the events of the story, and even the narrative arc that leads to the ending are different. Even if you know the story of the novel or anime beforehand, you can enjoy the other as a fresh experience
This alone makes it worth looking at getting the light novel. A different route.
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@ryanmakise the Prototype moniker makes a lot of sense then. It is literally the Prototype that ended up becoming the anime after many changes.
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The anime just ended but the light novel Vivy prototype Vol. 3 is set to release 6/30 and Vol. 4 for July. Although I doubt there will be movement on this as it is fairly new, I’m interested in wherever the anime and light novel parted ways since the anime is wrapped up. That show was amazing all the way through to the end credits of episode 13.
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Licensed by Seven Seas for an August 2022 release.
