Soul Taker (anime)/YMMV


 * Awesome Music: "Happy Today" by The Kevin Danzig Band is actually pretty good.
 * Canon Sue: So, three men (counting the nerdy guy at the dance) essentially vie for the affections of writer/actress Schilling's character, Natalie, who gets lots of nice close-ups, and is the central character upon whom the whole movie hinges, in spite of not being particularly interesting.
 * She's also the rich daughter of the town's mayor, complete with a mansion and butler. So her accident and the subsequent drama about whether or not she should stay on life support make the evening news. How convenient.
 * Amazingly, she doesn't save the day. Her Hot Poor Boyfriend does.
 * Some of the riffing picks up on this, narrating supposed pages from the script of Schilling describing how beautiful her character is for no reason.
 * Ending Fatigue: Damn, that hospital climax just does not want to end. It even keeps cutting to a clock after the Cosmic Deadline passes. "The clock doesn't figure at all, stop showing the clock! You spent that nickel already!"
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: The riffers sure wanted to know more about the bus than the characters.
 * Fridge Logic: The Soultaker is Immune to Bullets... even though he can be visibly injured.
 * Maybe he can only cause the bullets to go through him when he can see it coming?
 * Ho Yay: "Is there a name for Mom's little sickness?" "Yeah, Lilith Faire-ism."
 * Narm: Done by a camera shot, interestingly. In the scene where Natalie is trapped in the elevator with the Estevez soultaker, the camera slowly rotates whenever she is on-screen. At first the viewer might think they're trying for a Dutch Angle effect, but it keeps turning and turning until eventually she's completely upside-down. It just ends up looking silly.
 * Squick: The Estevez reaper oogles at the undressed heroine while he's disguised as her mother.