It spends an hour lulling you into thinking you're watching a pretty music piece, then detonates. This is the Bamboo Cutter tale rebuilt inside Tsukuyomi, a virtual realm staged like a live concert, and Yamashita's 3D camerawork treats the performance space as something you're standing inside rather than watching. The character animation is the flex here: fluid, expressive, vibrant to the point where you'll rewind purely to watch a body move. The sapphic romance isn't decoration bolted onto a myth retelling, it's the engine, built out of small unforced moments of two people getting comfortable with each other, and it earns the emotional gut punch that fans of Oshi no Ko will recognize. Be warned, the structure is a mess, slow burn then sudden frenzy, like a series compressed with a hammer. Sit through it anyway. The last stretch is worth the whiplash.

Iroha Sakayori is a 17-year-old Tokyo high schooler juggling part-time jobs and schoolwork. She unwinds in Tsukuyomi, a virtual world run by her favorite streamer, Yachiyo Runami, where she also plays battle games for extra cash. One day a shining telephone pole produces a baby, and the child Iroha brings home quickly grows into a girl her own age: Kaguya. Kaguya turns out to be rather self-indulgent and insists on streaming in Tsukuyomi, so Iroha becomes her producer and songwriter while Kaguya sings. As they grow closer, forces are waiting to take Kaguya back to the moon. The film retells the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter as a music-driven sci-fi fantasy mixing comedy, action and drama.