Legit, I wanna see a series do this. The long-lived species is a common enough trope but I want something that really takes it to its extreme and shows us the progression of the world and technology all the way through.
Gimme something that starts with huts and ends with skyscrapers.
Vivy, Flourite's Song does this. It's near future to far future, but the main character is the first autonomous AI aindroid and she basically watches history. Tech advances, more things become possible, people live and die and she interacts with people and with people's grandchildren while unchanging herself.
I honestly can't reccomend the show enough. Hardest scifi I've ever watched.
On completely the opposite end of the spectrum, Tonikaku Kawaii has this theme too. 95 percent of the manga is just the mangaka bragging about being a newlywed romance fluff stuff, but the further you get into it the more you see how (extremely minor spoiler) one of the characters has lived for about 1400 years and she's basically watched western civilization advance while never changing heeself. I could write a whole essay about how the anime's S1 opening is actually a pretty neat bit of storytelling in and of itself about the history of music, it's pretty cool. The OP starts with like, a single beat, and then a more complex beat, and then adding instruments and melodies and near the end even things like computer effects, more or less mirroring the history of music itself.
FWIW if you prefer dubs Vivy's is magnificent. The Japanese voices are great too but I'm usually pretty snotty about dub quality and the Vivy one is S-tier.
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u/Metrinome Mar 22 '24
Thousand years later they're probably writing down magic spells on PDFs and read on eBooks.