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Very very interesting. A complete 1/10 and a 10/10 at the same time so I'll balance it out and leave it with a 9/10.

Fujimoto got so meta with this one that it stopped amusing or really interesting me halfway through. Still I think it contains many great stories within, it's almost like an anthology where you can pick your favorite "movie" out of this one-shot and analyze it on your own and give it an individual review or score.

The panelling was simple yet bright assimilating a camera most of the time if not all depending on the perspective you choose to view. My ... favorite part of this was the many pages just with black panels clearly imitating a long film reel before the final act, efficiently speaking they are a lazy waste of pages probably to push the page count to the 200 mark but contextually it makes sense to the plot and its upcoming conlusion.

Fujimoto is a natural story boarder with all his previous works and now this one. He tells and shows stories like if they were put on film even when none of his manga has been animated yet. Satoshi Kon too had this natural talent where he drew all of his story boards in many note books.

Fujimoto should become a director of either animated or even live action films in my opinion, at this point he honestly may even quit being a manga artist to pursue different paths to satisfy his artistic mind, at the very least this is the advice the late Yasuo Ohtsuka would definitely give him, as he once did to Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

Great art and story, interesting characters and many paths to follow or envision. I can see this getting a live action movie in the way Solanin did.