I really enjoyed the culture references, was fun to see all the songs. The story has resemblance to The End, the iconic last verses of it are referenced too.
Since I now play the game, it was nice to see characters and locations I know from there animated. Was wondering how entering SEKAI is actually supposed to look like, well now I know. Empty SEKAI is empty. Wonderland SEKAI vocaloids can jump up 20 meters, I expect no less.
The story is okay I guess. It could be better executed, but as I said, it has Miku in it, that makes up for everything.
I've seen people saying it is confusing if you don't know the game - since I now kinda know the game, I might be biased, but for years I basically have only known that the story is about random people getting personal vocaloid therapists in parallel universes, and I think with only that knowledge I would have been able to make sense of the movie. However, if someone doesn't know what even vocaloid is, I can see how it would be confusing - there is little to no effort made to introduce vocaloid, SEKAI, or the worst-case-56-best-case-26 characters. To be honest it would take a looot of screen time so I can see why they didn't do that.
There is a part of the movie where we see 6 songs from all the groups back to back, which felt a bit odd, I guess it just wasn't as integrated into the whole as I'd like.
I love the scene where the thing happens to Empty SEKAI Miku and everyone's reaction (including herself) is "ok". "It only took Miku." (lmao)
I am not an anime person, so I don't know if the animation is objectively good, but I liked it. There were a few weird moments where there was noticeable CGI (and obviously the best CGI is one you don't notice), also one particular moment where they used static images instead of animating the scene (idk maybe that is supposed to be referencing the story illustrations in the game, but I found it odd and immersion breaking).
The score was, of course, produced by famous vocaloid producers. It's good, as expected, some of the songs I like a lot, like そこに在る、光。 and FUN!!. I've actually heard a decent bit of these before the movie, the vocaloid versions that is, not the SEKAI ones, which are featured here.
So, the movie was fun. Still sad I didn't get to see it on the big screen.
