When i first heard about Vivy: FES i was wondering why nobody was talking about it. I mean, everybody said that it was an amazing show. Needless to say, i went into this show with big expectations.
STORY: 3/10
Before i get murdered i feel obliged to say that i do not enjoy "music" anime, like, in general. The most i could watch was K-on, anything more than that and i get bored. "B-But this show is much more than that!!" I hear you say. And i agree that after watching the 1st episode i was saying to myself: "WOW, this is amazing" but i also said: "Man i hope this doesn't just turn into a basic "saving the wold" kind of story" and it did. I like shows that i have a difficult time to explain to my friends. Shows that make me think. Vivy doesn't. Its literally robots saving the most world from robots. For people who have played Detroit: Become Human you know that this is the worst route in that game, so there you go. For me, it is very basic and the fact that we have seen almost the exact same story before, doesn't help it. The show has its originality, like the MC being an singer and the time-traveling stuff but it really isn't too much to make it a completely original story. The pacing is way too slow and the show has some glaring plot-holes that it just chooses to ignore.
ART: 9/10
Even if i do not like the story i have to it that this is the best looking show of this year (so far). The animation looks amazing, and it looks like the people who made it really loved what they were making. The action scenes flow well and the normal scenes have enough movement into them to keep you watching. The only issue i saw (which i have to dock a point for) is the SGI that is very hit and miss. Sometimes (like most of the scenes with the cube) it looks great but there are times where it looks plain awful.
SOUND: 5/10
This is where personal bias kicks in. I do not like Japanese music. That is way, when a show manages to get me to listen to an OP or ED or even a song from the show, its doing things great. Vivy hasnt done that. The song in the singing segments are so bad I skip and they try to play the music in important scenes, where its so loud and bombastic it distracts you from any semblance of interest you had in the lack-luster story. Tell me, what is your favorite anime fight scene of all time? Does it have the most basic ass J-POP song blaring over it? Probably not. Also, i have to say that even if i dont like the music, i am not fucking deaf, so i can tell that the voice-actress for Vivy has an amazing voice and did a really good job for what she was given, huge props to her.
CHARACTERS: 7/10
This is a department where Vivy does decently in. Vivy is a really great character and (as i said above) the voice-actress did an amazing job and Matsumoto is also a really great character. Other than that the show doesnt really have other characters. The other robots, whom are irrelevant and some guy. It does just enough to get a 7.
ENJOYMENT: 3/10
This is the biggest problem i had with this show. It just bored me to death. The 1st episode is amazing. It hooks you and just doesn't let you get your eyes of the screen. But after that, the pacing slows down to a crawl. Don't get me wrong, slow pacing isn't bad (Monogatari series is a prime example), but to do it right you have to tell me something interested, make me want to pay attention. Here they just repeat the same shit over and over again, wasting time. The action scenes are really good, and a saving grace but they are really far and between.
ENDING STATEMENT: I was highly disappointed with this one. I was expecting an amazing anime, but in the end i just got more and more bored, until the point where it felt like a chore to watch. The first episode was amazingly done but after that i think the show is really lack-luster. I recommend staying away from this one.
OVERALL: 5 (closer to a 6)
