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It's a shonen-action school romcom. Except none of the attempts at humor were funny, the "romance" as always goes nowhere and was especially cliched virgin cringe dialogue/overacting, and the story itself went nowhere beyond an excuse for battle of the week shonen action that was well animated but boring without any stakes, just watching the canonically plot armored main characters get slammed through concrete without any consequence before casually smacking their enemies out of existence.
The show lacks focus on anything like it has ADHD, whipping between slapped together emotional melodrama and slapstick potty/sex jokes only a child could find funny.
Plus it ends in the middle ... of nothing without any attempt at any meaningful season finale, so anticlimactic the whole season's nonstory is a waste of time.

It's juvenile and terrible and yet the bar of other anime during its season is so low that it's still one of the better ones coming out at the time.

Pointless filler anime with no plot and carboard ideas of characters.
It baited marketing itself as similar to the Call of the Night, even ripping off that vampire's outfit, but those aspects were shallow at best and immediately dropped as a bait and switch.
Blue haired Fu bizarrely has roughly the same appearance + behavior and lack of character as Grey from Black Clover, even the same VA phoning it in by just copying herself I think. Deja vu.
Even the details of the punch drama that started the story are never actually explored/explained.
The vampire vtuber aspect gets immediately cut because that would've been more interesting and resolved ... the filler plot in 2 episodes, so instead they start grinding out boring slop to pad the runtime for the rest of the season. The 1million subscribers goal is just a mcguffin excuse for filler vtuber mass-produced SoL slop blindly promoting quantity over quality with zero self-awareness to make any commentary on the subject... because clearly the kind of people making this slop anime are self-inserting hard.
The ending was really dumb.
I can't think of any redeeming qualities to this serialized vtuber brainrot.

To give a broad, spoiler free overview: This manga is about RJ, a famous African Blues musician from Depression Era America, wanting to pursue blues (for no reason), selling his soul to the devil for the skills to play the blues (again, for no reason. The fantastical elements are deliberately depicted as potentially merely mundane misunderstandings, though not really since everyone can see his bedeviled hand (I've looked up RJ's music, it's quite slow paced so I've no idea why there are historical claims he played fast enough for 2 people)), struggling with racism and being unable to safely refuse the orders of the white ... gangster thief Clyde (of the famous Bonnie & Clyde), spent on the run from racists trying to catch them. Occasional extremely repetitive images of man holding guitar to show blues is being played. That's all.

A visual medium is the worst possible choice for depicting a story about music. The mangaka should've known better. Instead that music mostly falls into incidental background for the actual plot which is mostly a horror-lite display of racism/immorality in an action/drama of very little action or substance and a whole lot of closeups of faces and filler dialogue for masturbatory edging anything actually happening as mostly nothing happens until a bunch of nobodies die and/or the plot armor pair run off in story-long chase sequences interspersed with breaks.

Very slow paced, RJ's introductory premise stretches what should be the 1st ch into 4 chs with vapid, self-indulgent, artistically boring/pointless/repetitive panels to waste everyone's time. Then continues onto ch 5 with a main character introduction through pointless flashforward to the death of a main character betrayed by RJ removing any suspense about where the entire story so far will go for the only 2 main characters (hello plot armor, and the flashforward does nothing to demonstrate artistic skill since it's just the most predictable ending based on what everyone who knows anything of Bonnie & Clyde already knows), who aside from the occasional cartoonishly evil villain are the only actual characters of any consequence/stay-time in the entire story so far.

The mood is also bizarrely all over the place from extremely pretentiously artsy, to childishly tropey slapstick (humorless) comedy (the author is very good at comedy/ecchi however there's none of that here). It is nonetheless surprisingly an accurate enough representation of the unsightly ignorant consequences of systematic racism of America at the time, especially for a modern Japanese individual's depiction, and of course the mangaka is quite skilled at drawing art.

I really don't recommend this boring manga, 3/10 (where 5/10 is average).

It's not a bad movie, but it is a bit boring, and barely qualifies as horror, far far more of a drama.
The commentary/exploration of idols/idolization-obsession/parasocial relationships/performance industries/(s)exploitation, oneself/one's persona/other's perception of you, delusion/reality/fiction, mental health, etc. was decent aside from embracing lookism of beauty=good, ugly=evil. Though some of it did seem a bit surface level.
The story itself involved a lot of empty fluff scenes, and overall very little of interest happens other than in proximity to some dancing, SA, and a few scenes of violence.
The plot itself is kinda predictable as only 3 or so options are presented for the narrative antagonisms and most end ... up being shown as such, and an unreliable narrative means most any of the other possibilities could conceivably be true as well.
It was much more cohesive than the similar Paprika, though less visually interesting. I liked this marginally more.

(There's also a hilarious plot hole where the character she's acting as within the meta-show starts off as a non-character sister after the murders are already happening, and the writer guy is stuck on who to make the killer while the show airing, then he decides to have her SAd as justification for her becoming the killer... so the only possibility would be that they did a flashback to setup this random sister as a SA survivor which would be hilariously terrible storytelling in a murder mystery to retcon her character, and kinda makes the meta narrative surrounding that tv show fall apart.)

Largely poorly ripped off the "inspiration" source The Book of Lost Things. The only Ghibli movie I've seen that they seemingly just did not license to use the work they adapt. Pretty much the entire movie, every causeless/illogical thing that happens (of which there are more than not) can be explained through understanding that it was haphazardly pulled from The Book of Lost Things, Miyazaki's life, or the other book inspiration source 'How Do You Live?'.
There's little purpose in this story beyond a brief authorial self insert for Miyazaki to exposit dialogue on the woe of a creator of worlds/movies trying to pass on his ... torch to his successor of heredity like Goro/grandchildren. Pretty much the entire rest of the story is just nonsensical contrivances that go nowhere.
So much of the depth of tons of fairytale character references from the source book like with his mother being Snow White was almost completely dropped leaving nonsensical scatterings without a point.
Sad given this is broadly more or less just like Spirited Away being ripped-off by Deep Sea, but instead done to a horror story that was trying to subvert fairytales stories much like Alice and Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz. frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the source material, TBookoLT, drew inspiration from Spirited Away too.
It's absurdly high-budget art/animation though (which they had to license out their movies for additional funding to dig themselves out of the hole of debt they spent working on this).

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Send this poor, mentally ill/schizophrenic child to a non-quack doctor. That was genuinely what I was thinking for much of the movie, all the more by the end of it.

This movie barely goes anywhere and is almost completely SoL filler aside from a single exposition dump dialogue scene. The plot, beyond irrelevant specifics, is extremely predictable and boring, relying on unearned heartstring pulling. No justice for boat guy's irrelevance to the movie. No point to random fat-shamed character. No point to random exposition dump art-lady. The plot of this movie is summarized in one minute of exposition dialogue and spends the entire rest of the ... movie insincerely baiting a shallow romance while tipping its hand on a pointless mystery that is hard to care about as they present it in the most excessively saccharine way.

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This movie has a shallow plot about a SoL coming-of-age child's story which thrusts all the worst possible things together. It also presents shallow and cringey kiddy romance to pointlessly parallel the shallow excuse of romance that the mc falls into as an adult. Of course neither plot actually goes anywhere. The lack of plot makes it hard to find any of it interesting, ad even the art/music is unremarkable.
In actuality, the movie is an excuse for preaching of city bad, farming good. Follow traditionalism, be good worker, get married, be a stay at home mother like everyone tells you to, etc.
This is among the ... worst Studio Ghibli movies in my opinion.

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A poorly written story of filler character drama to convey the very basic concept of escapism.
Meanwhile, the memetic concept of Lil-Slugger and Maromi is maybe only in people's heads but also maybe real, while completely overlooking that the entire conflict of the entire story affecting the entirety of the city gets resolved immediately after fmc arbitrarily faces her trauma instead of resorting to escapism immediately after being confronted with it, and this one act immediately solves the entire memetic problem for everyone else, completely destroying the argument that it isn't a real entity.
Pointless 2D character plotlines that go nowhere and haphazardly thrown in ideas and ... plot contrivances because it's just so cool that random old man is a plot contrivance doing math for no reason and random otaku exists and their dolls are maybe an autonomous ai program plot contrivance to have the police assistant to save the day and then become like the old man doing math for no reason and trust me the author says, this story is very deep because it pointlessly started with the empty ending scene of random escapism-inducing society stuff.

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