VIVANT Producer Ties Season 2 AI To Human Emotion
Iida is describing the season's AI device as a contrast engine for the drama rather than a plot gimmick, which tells you how the show plans to keep its human relationships at the center.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Kazutaka Iida, producer of the TBS Sunday Theater drama VIVANT, looked back on Episode 17, which aired on the 6th, and explained why AI was brought into Season 2. He said AI now appears in the story, including the AI Hayato run by Betsuhan, because it makes the characters' emotions stand out more. Masato Sakai plays protagonist Nogi Yusuke.
Episode 17 aired on the 6th and put Nogi Yusuke, played by Masato Sakai, at a turning point. The Self-Defense Forces' unofficial organization Betsuhan and the Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau worked together to flush out a traitor inside the Public Security Bureau, while word surfaced that Public Security officer Nozaki Mamoru, played by Hiroshi Abe, had been investigating undercover inside Shinshii, described as China's Betsuhan. Betsuhan command headquarters abandoned the rescue of five people, including the captured Kurosu Shun, played by Tori Matsuzaka. Nogi refused that decision and moved toward a mission with his comrades. Iida said the episode depicted love for comrades and friends.
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Sources
- Cinema Today 「VIVANT」続編からAIを導入した理由 プロデューサーが明かす“大きな狙い”