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'The Night is Short, Walk on Girl' comes with simple episodic plots delivered with bold exaggerations, mostly in hallucinatory fantasies that tackles many random, but important social issues like social relations and social isolation, with romance as a major element, but not its focus.

I was all smiles as I watched this film from start to end. It melts my heart and weakens my knees out of sheer delight, not just because it is an enjoyable watch, but also because I could relate, in an incredibly personal level, with the characters' sentiments about their relationship with the people around them, their dreams and passion, their confidence ... and self-doubt in achieving them, and many more randomness that I couldn't possibly recall all at once. And the more random it gets, the more relatable it becomes. It gives an incredibly familiar air that makes me wish, so bad, to jump right in and be a part of everything.

'The Night is Short, Walk on Girl' offers an unconventional experience with its prolific adventures detailed with the randomness of normal life occurrences mixed with traditional and modern Japanese cultures, that can sometimes be overwhelming as it comes in magnitude, but is overall charming, warm, and fresh.

* On a less significant but useful note: the film took references, with recurring characters, from Tatami Galaxy, the animated series, delivered in the same style (with themes concentrated more on individual adversaries) by the same director, Yuasa Masaaki. While it can be watched and understood all on its own, watching the series will definitely maximize the fun and excitement in experiencing the film.