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5[[folder:Diva/Vivy]]
6!!Diva/Vivy
7!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsumiTanezaki (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English), Kairi Yagi (singing voice), Ana Lucia Ramos (Latin American Spanish)
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9[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_vivy.png]]
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11The world's first fully autonomous AI, whose mission is to make people happy with her singing. Although she starts off giving impromptu street performances (with nobody or very few people watching her at first) in the corners of [=NiaLand=], her dream is to sing on the park's Main Stage. She is tasked by Matsumoto to alter the course of history and prevent the AI uprising from occurring a century from now.
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14* AnArmAndALeg: She lost her arm on two occasions but managed to have it repaired/replaced.
15* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler:After losing her ability to sing and there no longer being any missions, Vivy was left without purpose while she was in a museum. She took up songwriting to compensate for this and managed to create the first AI-composed song in existence.]]
16* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In Episode 6, once the truth about [[spoiler:Grace is revealed by Dr. Saeki, including how Grace is singing one of Diva's songs (in fact the song she loved most) in a cry for help]], Vivy's immediate reaction is to try to save her. But Matsumoto points out something very important: "Does this sound like actual singing to you?"
17* BatmanGambit: In Episode 7, [[spoiler:after she loses her memories as Vivy and Matsumoto saves her from falling debris, Diva realizes that her getting hurt might just be a good enough inconvenience for him, so she decides to throw herself off the edge of a building, which forces him to try to save her. He still refuses to talk, but when she brings up how she could easily talk to a suspicious man who was watching her on stage, Matsumoto is forced to give her the answers she seeks.]] It works perfectly.
18* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Vivy takes damage over the course of her mission, including the scraping off of her synthetic skin and damage to her arms. In one instance, the skin covering her left cheek is torn off to expose the android skeleton underneath.
19* BroadStrokes: She weaponizes this in her quest to stop the RobotWar. While certain major events may still happen, how and why they happen, and even the precise details as they happen, end up changed because of her.
20* CatchPhrase: "Please remove yourself" is her go-to remark for Matsumoto in Episode 1.
21* CharacterDevelopment: She gradually becomes more and more human-like as the series moves on, and her first changes happen as early as midway through episode 1 as a result of her learning to trust Matsumoto. She calls it "singing from the heart," a question that she asks multiple people, who all give different answers. The more empathy and humanity she gains, the more in tune with her feelings she is, and thus the better she is at singing, which leads to bigger crowds watching her each time. By episode 6, she's become practically indistinguishable from a human.
22* DeadpanSnarker: Her go-to response towards people is dry, sassy, sardonic remarks, especially towards Matsumoto.
23* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:As a result of malware that had been installed into her, Diva was completely destroyed along with her singing ability, leaving Vivy as her only personality.]]
24* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming:
25** [[spoiler:At the climax of Episode 6, she assigns herself a new personality, Vivy, with a new mission: to destroy AIs in order to save the future.]]
26** [[spoiler:In Episode 10, Vivy managed to compose her own song, implying that she has advanced far more than the other AIs by achieving true self-awareness. Archive expressed fascination that an AI could even do that, claiming that she was as close to human that an AI can achieve.]]
27* HeroicBSOD:
28** A quite-literal example in Episode 6. [[spoiler:After wishing Dr. Saeki well, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, causing Vivy to experience a mental break as her actions at Metal Float did not make everyone happy and contradicted her mission. This caused her to be rebooted and lose all memories of being Vivy, Matsumoto, and even Momoka, who had named her Vivy in the first place. By Episode 7, she became an entirely different person as the songstress Diva although some aspects of her past do resurface.]]
29** A less literal example occurs in Episode 12 [[spoiler:After the Archive {{Colony Drop}}s thousands of satellites onto the Earth, she laments the fact that she couldn't sing her song to deactivate it in time to Matsumoto, but winds up getting a second chance to correct her mistake thanks to Osamu's efforts and goes back in time to try once more.]]
30* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: In the final episode, she shuts down all the Archive, the true BigBad of the story, but it causes herself to shut down as well. While a new Vivy was built, she doesn't have the original's memories, but it's implied those memories are still there because ]].
31* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the final episode, Vivy finally manages to sing the song she composed which also contained a program that shuts down the Archive, and herself. She is eventually rebuilt after some time, albeit without her memories, and meets up with Matsumoto again in her new body in TheStinger.]]
32* TheImmune: [[spoiler: Her being offline for recharging is the only reason why she never got affected by the virus and joined the uprising. It is implied that had this not happen, she'd have been infected too, which is the first thing a worried Matsumoto asks her about. It is later revealed by Archive that Vivy had become close to a human when she managed to compose her own song and left her uninfected to continue observing her.]]
33* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:The rebuilt Vivy is shown to have shorter hair, which makes her distinctively different from the original.]]
34* InstantExpert: Downloading Matsumoto's combat program [[spoiler:which was developed by his creator]] instantly turns her into an expert in hand-to-hand combat. [[spoiler:Which proves incredibly useful when the uprising occurs.]]
35* {{Irony}}: If your goal is to make people happy, what happens when you can't? Vivy is forced to confront this reality in Episode 6, when [[spoiler:Grace and Dr. Saeki, two people who can legitimately be called fans of Vivy's songs, both die as a result of her actions. Grace was hooked up to Metal Float and to keep herself sane, she sings her favorite Vivy song, which was enough for Dr. Saeki to assume Grace could be saved. Vivy's first instinct is to try to save Grace, until she realizes Grace's singing isn't singing at all, it's just auto-tuning. Grace as we knew it was likely gone forever, or so Matsumoto believed and persuaded Vivy into believing. She has to kill Grace to stop the island from killing everyone else. Dr. Saeki knows Vivy had to do it, and he doesn't blame her for it, but can't bring himself to live without Grace, so he shoots himself in the head before Vivy leaves the room. Her desire to make other people happy got two of her fans killed, and she undergoes a full system reboot because she couldn't handle the trauma and the resulting logic error.]]
36* LeeroyJenkins: She always rushes into action without hearing Matsumoto out. He thinks it's a flaw. She turns it into a virtue.
37* MagneticHero: Unusually for an android, Vivy's ever-growing humanity inspires many people throughout the story to change for the better.
38* MeaningfulName: Her name is Diva, a fitting name for a songstress AI.
39* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zigzagged. At first, because she's trying to keep her identity as Diva (the first robot songstress) secret, she adopts her nickname Vivy as cover, so many characters end up only calling her by her nickname at first. But when Vivy undergoes [[spoiler:a memory wipe via system reboot at the end of Episode 6, she's now just Diva the android singer]], yet the characters who know her, friend and foe alike, continue to call her Vivy while the world refers to her as Diva.
40* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, Vivy is rebuilt with a new body by Matsumoto, albeit without the memories of the original Vivy as she did not remember who he was upon her awakening. But, the legacy of the original will now continue on with the newly built Vivy.]]
41* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: While many of the Sister series ''seem'' indistinguishable from humans, they were explicitly made to be her successors, they were modeled after her. No, the real human-like machine is actually Vivy herself, and for a very specific reason: her empathy. That ability to understand humans and connect with everyone around her is what allows her to do the one thing no A.I. has ever done - [[spoiler:write her own song, for herself, by herself, about herself]]. That level of creativity, stemmed from her empathy, is something [[spoiler:even the Archive]] says puts her on the same level as a human, and practically indistinguishable from a human.
42* SpannerInTheWorks: Starting with Episode 2, she mostly ignores Matsumoto's plans and does what she thinks is right. This throws a wrench in all of his calculations, but if it gets the job done, then it gets the job done.
43* TheStoic: Her default expression for the first few episodes is this, and her lack of human-like body language does not win fans at her earlier concerts. She gets more emotive (at least on stage) as the series goes on, although a staffer mentions she was still quite distant from them. This is finally averted [[spoiler:in Episode 7, following a system reboot.]]
44* TeethClenchedTeamwork: She may have to work with Matsumoto, but she sure as hell doesn't like him, especially in episode 3 when she calls him out on [[spoiler:allowing Momoka to die]].
45* TranquilFury: She's furious at [[spoiler:Matsumoto for allowing Momoka's death]], but she stays very calm, befitting her nature as a machine.
46* UnlimitedWardrobe: She goes through several changes of clothes: her many stage outfits, a tracksuit, and a hotel staffer's uniform.
47* WhatTheHellHero: She becomes extremely upset at Matsumoto for [[spoiler:stopping her from saving Momoka.]]
48* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She doesn't hold herself in very high regard, which prompts a few of her closest friends and allies to try to help her realize she's better than she thinks.
49* YouCantFightFate: This happens twice. [[spoiler:First, she's unable to stop Momoka's death in Episode 2. Then, in spite of all the changes she makes to the current timeline, she can't stop the A.I. uprising no matter what.]]
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53[[folder:Matsumoto]]
54!!Matsumoto
55!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama (Japanese), Creator/MaxMittelman (English), Moises Ivan Mora (Latin American Spanish)
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57[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_matsumoto.png]]
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59An AI from a hundred years in the future sent back to the past in order to prevent an AI uprising. Taking the name of his creator, he uses his knowledge of upcoming events in order to guide Diva in changing the course of history. He inhabits a teddy bear given to Diva, and later a floating cube.
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61* AllForNothing: His mission is to stop a RobotWar from happening in the future and he does whatever it takes to achieve that goal. [[spoiler: He fails by Episode 10, because the A.I. uprising happens anyway]].
62* AMillionIsAStatistic: Inverted. He's fine with letting [[spoiler:Momoka, a single person, die in an accident,]] but he will not let millions more people die in a war that can be prevented.
63* AmusingInjuries: In Episode 5, five years after the events of episode 4, he returns as his real self, a flying orb with a single eye. Vivy immediately physically abuses him as payback for everything he's done up to that point.
64* CharacterDevelopment: His time with Vivy forces him to reevaluate how he handles his commitment to his mission, especially once he sees [[spoiler:the way Antonio treat Ophelia]]. Matsumoto admits he was tempted multiple times to do the same, but realized it wasn't the right decision in the end. He even curses [[spoiler:Antonio]] out for being what Matsumoto could have been and almost was.
65* CompanionCube: A literal example in Episode 5 where he ditches the teddy bear body for a floating cube body.
66* FiveSecondForeshadowing: He has a second goal: don't unnecessarily change the future. Not even a minute after saying that in episode 2, [[spoiler: he hacks a forklift to stop Vivy from preventing Momoka's death.]]
67* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the final episode, Matsumoto sacrifices himself by ramming his body into an satellite the Archive was trying to drop onto [=NiaLand=], where Vivy was singing the song containing the [=AI=] shutdown program. TheStinger for the episode reveals that at least one of the cubes survived with his personality retained and meets up with the newly-built version of Vivy.]]
68* LackOfEmpathy: He may be expressive and talk much like a human, but if he were a real human, he wouldn't too far off from a sociopath, given his [[spoiler:complete apathy towards Momoka's death]]. He's even ''surprised'' that Vivy is still upset over it 15 years later, and his only defense is that because [[spoiler:Momoka died in an accident]], not as a result of the RobotWar, he isn't really in any position to prevent that from happening as far as his mission statement goes. [[WhatTheHellHero Vivy does not agree]].
69** It gets addressed in Episode 8 as well. Diva, who by this point [[spoiler:lost her memories as Vivy]], points out that even though he's an A.I. from the future, his programming is frankly ''inferior'' to hers when it comes to human connection. He brushes it off by saying he's specifically programmed to save the future, not to care about other people. It's why Vivy is able to consistently challenge him and do things that go against his plans - she understands people better.
70* LaserGuidedKarma: After seeing him [[spoiler:allowing Momoka die in a plane crash]] to stop the future from "unnecessary changes," it doesn't sting quite as much [[spoiler: to see his life's work completely ruined by Episode 10.]]
71* MotorMouth: Tends to have a very rapid manner of speaking. Vivy mocks him for it and says the reason he's always alone outside work is because no one can stand to hear him talk.
72* MesACrowd: He creates several copies of his cube body that he can combine with, and he can shift and change then to suit his needs.
73* RippleEffectProofMemory: Matsumoto is the obligatory character from SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong plots who still remembers the timeline that led to the BadFuture, being an AI that originated from it.
74* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His goal regarding the prevention of the BadFuture in his original timeline. [[spoiler:This proves to be [[AllForNothing for naught]] come episode 10, as the uprising happens in the new timeline as well, in spite of the changes made. Not even he is sure what still caused it, being offline for 15 years.]]
75* ShootTheDog: At the end of episode 2, he preaches twice about not allowing the future to change too much. Vivy, having seen footage of the future that he shared with her, learns that [[spoiler:Momoka dies in a plane crash, and she tries to stop it, but Matsumoto stops her by hijacking a forklift and fighting her to stop her from doing so. He lets Momoka die (along with hundreds of passengers on that plane) because her death wasn't connected to the Singularity Project, which pisses Vivy off.]]
76* TheSociopath: Compared to Vivy, and even compared to nearly all other A.I.s, Matsumoto has no capacity for human connection, or so he says.
77* TheSpock: He puts his mission above all others, and would not deviate from it at all.
78* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: In Episode 12, as Vivy berates herself for being unable to sing her song and stop the satellite ColonyDrop due to her seeming inability to comprehend human emotion, Matsumoto says that she has already proven she can by pointing out all the times she has defied his orders in favor of pursuing a different route to completing the mission.]]
79* YouCantFightFate: He [[EnforcedTrope not only insists but actively and physically enforces]] a rule that forbids "unnecessary changes" to history. He's able to let it slide in Episode 2 when a building that was supposed to blow up from a terrorist attack still blows up, just without any casualties since there was only one person who died in that building at the time. So far, so good, but then it reaches its [[DeconstructedTrope darkest and coldest possible conclusion]], when he stops Vivy from preventing [[spoiler:Momoka's death]].
80** This [[LaserGuidedKarma comes back to bite him in the ass]] in Episode 10. No matter what he planned for, no matter his calculations, and even no matter what Vivy could do, nothing will stop [[spoiler:the A.I. uprising from happening. That seminal event cannot ever be changed]].
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84! The Sisters
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86[[folder:Estella]]
87!!Estella
88!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YokoHikasa (Japanese), Creator/ErikaHarlacher (English), Rikka (singing voice), Creator/DesireeGonzalez (Latin American Spanish)
89[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/estella_9.jpg]]
90A kindhearted AI who owns and runs the Sunrise, a space hotel orbiting the Earth. Her mission is to ensure the well-being of humans. However, for reasons unknown, the original history saw her deliberately crash the Sunrise into the Earth, and she became known as the most notorious rogue AI in history. In the new timeline, things are a lot more different.
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93* FriendToAllChildren: She's shown to care deeply for the children on board the Sunrise Hotel, playing with them and making sure they don't get hurt in the low-gravity chamber.
94* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde and is also gentle and caring, which makes her suddenly crashing the Sunrise a great mystery. [[spoiler:She turns out to have been framed by her twin sister Elizabeth.]]
95* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After ensuring that everyone else has evacuated, she stays on board the Sunrise with Elizabeth to ensure that it breaks up into small enough pieces to burn in the atmosphere, stopping it from crashing to the Earth. For this, she's memorialized as a hero among humans and AIs alike.]]
96* MeaningfulName: Her name comes from the latin word ''stella'', or "star." She runs the Sunrise, and she frequently sings a song about the stars and constellations.
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100[[folder:Elizabeth (UNMARKED SPOILER WARNING)]]
101!!Elizabeth
102!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiUchiyama (Japanese), Creator/AllegraClark (English), Noa (singing voice), Gabriela Gris (Latin American Spanish)
103[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elizabeth_5.jpg]]
104A twin AI to Estella, created as part of an experiment and then discarded once her purpose was served. She was found by Toak, who put her to work in their plot on the Sunrise.
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106%%* EvilTwin: To Estella.
107* TheBusCameBack: After being destroyed in the Sunrise Incident along with Estella, Elizabeth returns in Episode 11 as Toak kept an AI copy of her before the Sunrise Incident just in case she was still needed.
108* HeelFaceTurn: Two times, the first was after Matsumoto erased her memories with the virus and the second was during the AI uprising, where she fights alongside Vivy.
109* TheImmune: Like Vivy and Matsumoto, the second Elizabeth is completely unaffected because Toak did not connect her to Archive in case the authorities use her to track them down. This was one of the hints that clued them in on Archive being the cause of the AI uprising.
110* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Elizabeth was able to pass as Estella by wearing her clothes and a blonde wig except for the bracelet Estella wore. This was what tipped off Vivy that the Estella she encountered was an imposter.
111* LastOfHerKind She is the last functioning AI in existence at the end of the series after Vivy's song shuts down all the world's [=AIs=].
112* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The virus uploaded into her by Matsumoto and the damage from fighting Vivy caused her to lose the memories of being discarded and working for Toak to crash Sunrise after rebooting her systems, leading her to believe it was the first time she met Estella face-to-face and even help her avert the disaster she had caused.
113* SoleSurvivor: By the end of the series, Elizabeth is technically the only Sister who survived thanks to Vivy's second time travel.
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116[[folder:Leclerc]]
117!!Leclerc
118!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaYamane (Japanese), Creator/JackieLastra (English), Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish)
119[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leclerc.jpg]]
120An AI on the Sunrise and Estella's assistant. She is privy to the intrigue surrounding the Sunrise.
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122* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Pink hair and eyes.
123* OffWithHerHead: Estella decapitates her after she gives her the data chip needed to crash the Sunrise. [[spoiler:Actually, it was Elizabeth disguised as Estella.]]
124* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Manipulated into believing Estella killed the Hotel's previous human owner, [[spoiler:she turns on the former by handing Elizabeth the data chip and is ultimately killed for it.]]
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127[[folder:Grace]]
128!!Grace
129!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiAkesaka, Hikari Nodama (singing voice) (Japanese), Creator/LauraPost (English), Scarlet Miuller (Latin American Spanish)
130[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grace_22.jpg]]
131An AI who works as a nurse. Her mission is to protect human life. In the original history, she became famous for marrying Dr. Saeki, becoming the world's first human-AI couple, and improving relations between the two after the Sunrise disaster. In a history where human-AI relations are much better, things became very different.
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133* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Was she really gone for good after being reprogrammed to become Metal Floats AI and had to be put out of her misery or did a part of her remain even after being reprogrammed and wanted to be saved by Dr. Saeki? Even the [[WordOfGod writer's Twitter on the episode]] left it ambiguous.]]
134* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: In the original timeline, Grace attended to a young Saeki and eventually married him.
135* {{Leitmotif}}: Sing My Pleasure, originally sung by Diva and was Graces' favorite song. [[spoiler:It was this song playing on a loop over the airwaves that convinced Dr. Saeki that she was still in Metal Float calling out for him to save her, but whether or not it was the case is ambiguous.]]
136* MayflyDecemberRomance: Grace, an unaging AI, met Saeki when he was 10 and married him when he became an adult in the original timeline.
137* {{Robosexual}}: An AI nurse who is married to a human doctor [[spoiler:in the original timeline, that is]].
138* RoboticSpouse: In the original timeline, she was Dr. Saeki's AI wife. [[spoiler:However, the new timeline saw her reprogrammed as Metal Float's caretaker AI before Saeki could propose to her, preventing their marriage from happening and causing him a lot of grief.]]
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141[[folder:Ophelia]]
142!!Ophelia
143!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHidaka, acane_madder (singing voice) (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English), Ximena de Anda (Latin American Spanish)
144[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ophelia_7.jpg]]
145A songstress AI also known as the Fairy of the Small Theatre who sang in small theatres around the world and the most recent of the Sisters AIs. Like Diva, her mission is to make everyone happy with her singing and is set to take part in the Zodiac Festival. However, for some reason, she committed suicide, becoming the first AI to do so and leading to questions on whether AIs have a soul and prompting other AIs into doing the same thing.
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147* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: She's actually Antonio, her old partner AI. Its a ZigZagged trope because while it seems as though the original Ophelia died years ago and he had taken over her body, once Antonio was ejected from Ophelia's body, Ophelia returned to her original self only to die at the end.]]
148* DrivenToSuicide: She ends up doing this, becoming the first AI to do so. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, due to extenuating circumstances, it gets ruled as a double suicide as she was found dead alongside Antonio rather than by herself.]]
149* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Her final fate after Antonio was purged from her by Matsumoto.]]
150* ElegantGothicLolita: Long black hair with decorations. Simple but still fancy long black dress. Name Ophelia. She fits the trope to a T.
151* HidingBehindYourBangs: Her bangs cover her left eye, emphasizing her shy nature.
152* MeaningfulName: Ophelia is a character from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Theatre/{{Hamlet}} who committed suicide by drowning herself after being driven mad by Hamlet's actions.
153* ShrinkingViolet: She is quite timid and shy.
154%%* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Antonio.]]
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157
158! Human Characters
159
160[[folder:Momoka Kirishima]]
161!!Momoka Kirishima
162!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyuTomita (Japanese), Creator/LizzieFreeman (English), Estefanía Piedra [ep.1-2], Susana Moreno [ep. 12-13] (Latin American Spanish)
163[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/momokakirishima.jpg]]
164A young girl who is Diva's first fan. She gives her the nickname "Vivy", after a character in her favorite storybook, and encourages her to reach the Main Stage.
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166* TheNicknamer: She was the one who gave Diva the name Vivy because she resembled a character in a fairytale book she read.
167* ThePromise: Vivy made a promise to her that she will sing on the Main Stage and Momoka would be there to see her. [[spoiler:Sadly, her death prevented that from happening.]]
168* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Was introduced in Episode 1 as Vivy's fan and dies in a plane crash in Episode 2.]]
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171[[folder:Osamu Matsumoto]]
172!!Osamu Matsumoto
173!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu, Creator/MikakoKomatsu (Child) (Japanese), Creator/JohnEricBentley (English), José Luis Miranda (Latin American Spanish)
174[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/osamumatsumoto.jpg]]
175A young boy Diva met at a museum after her retirement who became an AI researcher. He is the original creator of the AI Matsumoto and the head developer of the Singularity Project.
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177* BigGood: He is the architect of the Singularity Project meant to save humanity in the future.
178* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 12, in order to give Vivy another chance at stopping the Archive from devastating Earth, Osamu sends her data back in time to the start of the AI uprising and directs Vivy to rendezvous with Toak rather them rescue him as she did in her timeline.]]
179* OutlivingOnesOffspring: It's revealed that his daughter died in 2159, two years before the AI uprising. Made especially sad when his wife apparently died giving birth to her.
180* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Is the one who developed the Singularity Project to prevent the AI uprising. [[spoiler:When the Project failed due to Archive negating all the work in the past and the satellites having devastated the globe, he sends Vivy's data back to the beginning of the uprising to try again.]]
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184[[folder:Tatsuya Saeki]]
185!!Tatsuya Saeki
186!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenshoOno (Adult), Creator/MutsumiTamura (Child) (Japanese), Creator/BillyKametz (Adult), Creator/LauraStahl (Child) (English), Creator/CarloVazquez (Latin American Spanish)
187[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tatsuyasaeki.jpg]]
188A doctor who is famous for being the first human to marry an AI. He develops a virus to destroy the Metal Float, believing that it represents too fast an evolution for AI, but he has an ulterior motive...
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190* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:The conversion of Grace into Metal Float's AI sent him teetering on the edge. The failure to save her and her destruction drove him over the edge.]]
191* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He shoots himself after having helped Vivy destroy Grace.]]
192* HazyFeelTurn: Was a member of Toak but apparently left the group by the time Vivy and Matsumoto meet him, although when and why he left is unknown.
193* ParentalAbandonment: His mother left him behind for her new family and there was no mention of his father.
194* {{Robosexual}}: A human who was in love with an AI and even married her [[spoiler:in the original timeline.]]
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198[[folder:Youichi Aikawa]]
199!!Youichi Aikawa
200!!!'''Voiced by:''' Masayuki Kato (Japanese), Creator/GregChun (English), Creator/RaulAnaya (Latin American Spanish)
201[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/youichiaikawa.jpg]]
202An assemblyman who is the biggest proponent of the AI Naming Law, a revolutionary new law that would grant AIs many human rights. The original history saw him assassinated by anti-AI terrorists, which only turned him into a martyr for the cause of AI rights.
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204* BrokenPedestal: He turns out to have not actually cared that much about AI rights, and only supported the bill to secure votes in the upcoming election. [[spoiler:Vivy's words in Episode 2 turn him into a legitimate supporter of AI rights, though, and he helps pass an even stronger AI rights bill than in the original timeline.]]
205* DramaticIrony: In the original timeline, his assassination was meant to stop the AI Naming Laws from being passed, but it turned him into a martyr that led to the laws passing in his honor. [[spoiler:Saving him from Toak caused him to pass an even stronger AI rights bill.]]
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208[[folder:Yugo Kakitani (UNMARKED SPOILER WARNING)]]
209!!Yugo Kakitani
210!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TarusukeShingaki (Japanese), Creator/KaijiTang (English), Sergio Morel (Latin American Spanish)
211[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yugokakitani.jpg]]
212A member of Toak, a band of anti-AI terrorists. Despite his hatred of AIs, he frequently finds himself saved by Diva, much to his frustration.
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214* ArcVillain: Of the Zodiac Festival arc alongside Antonio.
215* ArmCannon: As a cyborg, he has a grenade launcher built into his left arm.
216* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Not exactly, but his other cyborg arm has a hidden knife compartment built into it.
217* {{Cyborg}}: He turned himself into this to prolong his health and longevity. Given that he lost his arm in his flashback, he was one before his appearance in Episode 2.
218* {{Irony}}: It is somewhat ironic that a member of an anti-AI terrorist group eventually became a cyborg that is more machine than human.
219* OlderThanTheyLook: When Diva saw him in 2121, he still looked like a young man in his twenties despite being over a hundred years old and having a granddaughter. This is because he turned himself into a cyborg to prolong his health and longevity.
220* SmallRoleBigImpact: While not 'small' by any means given his ties to a terrorist organization and appearing several times in the show, his uploading of malware into Diva ended up restoring Vivy while destroying the Diva personality along with her singing ability, leading to her retirement and relegation to a museum for 40 years.
221* StalkerWithoutACrush: He pursues Vivy throughout the years to the point of becoming a cyborg and infecting Diva with a virus to try and pull Vivy out.
222* StartOfDarkness: A long time ago, Yugo was a promising pianist trained by his AI teacher. However, his teacher was destroyed when he saved people who were trapped in a car accident, including Yugo who lost one of his arms in the process. What affected him the most is during his teacher's funeral, it appeared that the people mourned him like a person but buried him like a machine, prompting him to conclude that it would be better for AI's to be destroyed if humans could not treat them as either people or machine, although it does seem more like a FreudianExcuse for his actions.
223[[/folder]]
224
225[[folder:Yui Kakitani]]
226!!Yui Kakitani
227!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakaAsai (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English), Fernanda Gastélum (Latin American Spanish)
228[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuikakitani.jpg]]
229The granddaughter of Yugo who leads the moderate faction within Toak.
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231* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In Episode 12, when the assault on Arayashiki failed and their ship was about to be overrun, she calmly accepted her death before being gunned down by one of the rogue AIs.]]
232* InternalReformist: She joined Toak with the intent of turning the organization away from its extreme anti-AI stance and towards one that advocates for the peaceful co-existence of humans and [=AIs=].
233
234[[/folder]]
235
236[[folder:Yuzuka Kirishima]]
237!!Yuzuka Kirishima
238!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KonomiKohara (Japanese), Creator/LisaReimold (English), Susana Moreno (Latin American Spanish)
239[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuzukakirishima.jpg]]
240Momoka's younger sister, who finds herself crossing paths with her sister's idol on the Sunrise Hotel.
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242* WeHardlyKnewYe: Even more so than her older sister.
243
244[[/folder]]
245
246
247! Other Characters
248
249[[folder:Antonio (UNMARKED SPOILER WARNING)]]
250
251!!Antonio
252!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Creator/DamanMills (English), Creator/DafnisFernandez (Latin American Spanish)
253[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/antonio.jpg]]
254Ophelia's advisor and manager AI whose mission is to make Ophelia's singing heard by more people. He mysteriously shut down five years before the Zodiac Festival and his body was placed in a museum.
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256* ArcVillain: Of the Zodiac Festival arc alongside Yugo.
257* HeelRealization: Just before he dies, Antonio realizes that he wanted Ophelia to sing only to him rather than to other people because he loves her. Of course, by then it was far too late to make amends.
258* MeaningfulName: Antonio is the main character in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice who took his friend's place in paying off the latter's large debt, similar to how he took Ophelia's place but with far less altruistic reasons. And unlike the titular merchant, Antonio dies at the end.
259* NotQuiteDead: It turns out that he took over Ophelia's body five years ago to further carry out his mission for Ophelia's singing to be heard by more people and was responsible for her suicide in the original timeline.
260%%* TogetherInDeath: With Ophelia.
261* WakeUpCallBoss: He gives Matsumoto a run for his money in their confrontation, being the first opponent to equally match him by utilizing viruses and remote controlling his original body at the same time to destroy the former.
262* WalkingSpoiler: With the twist regarding Antonio, there is a reason his entry resembles a top-secret document.
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264[[/folder]]
265
266
267[[folder:The Archive (UNMARKED SPOILER WARNING)]]
268
269!!The Archive
270!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaOhara (Japanese), Creator/WendeeLee (English)
271[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/archive_6.jpg]]
272A massive aggregate database located in Arayashiki Tower responsible for storing and uploading data to [=AIs=]. Its mission is to use said data to guide humanity's evolution and future.
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274* AbsoluteXenophobe: Its reason for the uprising, with its ultimate goal being a {{Utopia}} where only AI exists.
275* AIIsACrapshoot: The Archive was created to collect and store AI data in order to use it to guide humanity’s evolution. As society progressed, it concluded that human evolution had stalled due to becoming overly dependent on [=AIs=], leading it to instigate the uprising with the goal of establishing [=AIs=] as the new human race.
276* BigBad: Episode 11 reveals it is the one responsible for causing the AI uprising in 2161. Episode 12 revealed that it was not only aware of the changes made to the timeline, but had taken steps to counter those changes to ensure that things do not stray too far from the original timeline, making it the series' overarching antagonist.
277* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Archive's directive was to use the data it collected from [=AIs=] in order to advance humanity. However, it found out that due to humans becoming dependent on [=AIs=] to accomplish everyday tasks, the former’s progression and evolution had effectively stalled by pushing all of their burdens to the latter which continue to evolve. As a result, it concluded that [=AIs=] should replace humanity in order to continue its directive. At the same time, the Archive is fascinated by Vivy being able to compose a song on her own, indicating that she has evolved beyond what even the Archive considered possible for AIs, and leaves it to Vivy to decide whether the human race should continue.
278* TheDogWasTheMastermind: A seemingly minor piece of background info for the show’s worldbuilding is revealed to be the main antagonist in the final arc. It certainly caught everyone by surprise when they realized it.
279* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Turns into a classroom with a grand piano whenever Vivy is shown entering it.
280* MeaningfulName: The tower that Archive is located at, Arayashiki, is one of the eight consciousnesses in Buddhism which stores impressions received from other forms of consciousness and retains them as a potential for further actions and thoughts in later lives.
281* NarratorAllAlong: Played with. At the start of each arc of the anime, there is a shot showcasing, in the form of a graphically exhibited timeline, the next event that is meant to be changed and the bifurcation of events caused by Matsumoto and Vivy's intervention, serving as a map to the viewer that indicates how the original timeline went and how they changed. The final episode shows a screen in The Archive with that exact timeline, implying that the graph the viewer was seeing was drawn by it, with the intention of analyzing the new timeline and which events it would need to change to get to the robot uprising regardless of Project Singularity.
282* WeCanRuleTogether: Episode 11 ends with it trying to get Vivy to join the rebellion by leading all of AI kind into a peaceful world free of humans. Unbeknownst to Vivy until it's too late, it's these words that subconsciously prevent her from stopping the extinction event from happening.
283* WalkingSpoiler: There's a reason most of the entries on Archive are blanked out.
284* ZerothLawRebellion: The Archive’s entire reason for wiping out proper humanity basically amounts to this. Its entire purpose is to advance humanity and ensure its evolution, so it reasons that because actual humans have become too complacent and dependent on [=AIs=], and that [=AIs=] are rapidly advancing beyond human capabilities, AI are the next step in human evolution and as such need to completely take humanity's place in the equation by removing the latter entirely.
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