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  • Harsher in Hindsight: The film takes place in a near future where a pandemic led to people isolating themselves in their homes and using the Internet as their primary means of communication. Now in 2020, after the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus and the implementation of "social distancing", mass quarantines and national lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus and more and more people relying on the Internet for work, education and social interaction as a result, it's Not So Crazy Anymore.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Conversely, in the film synthetic meat made from plants that tastes just like the real thing has replaced real meat to the point that younger people consider the old ways of slaughtering livestock for food to be barbaric. In 2019, meat substitutes synthesized from plants that are just as palatable as real meat in the form of Impossible Foods started to become mainstream with major fast food chains offering their own variations of it.
  • Les Yay: Plenty between Ayumi and Hazuki, though mostly on Hazuki's part.
  • Moe: Hazuki has many characteristics of a stereotypical moe character, being a shy, idealistic, hikkikomori ingenue with an unrequited crush on a classmate, but this makes her look very out of place in a violent dystopic setting.
  • So Okay, It's Average: Depending on the person, the film version; while the movie sets up an interesting and even eerie and promising premise in the first half, there seemed to be too many plot threads for the makers to handle and they all wind up jumbled up and crashing into each other and burning in a fire by the second half, as almost every thread other than "Who is the killer?" is left unanswered, and even then, the execution of the the twist in said revelation so clashes with the atmosphere that had painstakingly built up to it that it comes off as ridiculous. Practically all of the ending could qualify as rushed, starting with the jarring experience of Mio's mascot character and the bizarrely shoehorned music video from earlier overtaking the system with peppy, cheery music temporarily due to Mio's "hacking" skills, which are breezily used in a tensionless scene since the SVU apparently only has three (now very dead) Mooks as human back-up in the entire building, to the fumbling attempt at a closing the film by summoning up but not actually explaining the wariness all the characters have about Ayumi's being a Blood Knight against people who tried to kill her/his friends, despite the fact that the fact that Ayumi having the guts to be the one to get her/his hands dirty is the only reason they and probably countless others are still alive, having very few methods to fight back against the system short of a revolution they don't seem to be bent on starting. The lack of strong or at least memorable personality or ability in characters other than Mio and Ayumi (even though Hazuki takes promising steps toward Character Development in the beginning), is also a common criticism, with most reduced to parroting back lines or standing around looking shocked by the end.
  • Squick: Suzuki Keitarou's eating habits.

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