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While I'm not the biggest Hatsune Miku fan, I'd venture to say I'm "familiar" with the franchise. I've played several Project Diva games, listened to several Vocaloid songs, seen her live at various events, and even dabbled in music creation software a bit. If you're like me, I can safely say this isn't a movie made for you. Rather, COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Doesn't Sing is a movie made for one group of people: the players of the smartphone game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage. This movie doesn't linger over insignificant details like "explaining the setting" or "introducing the characters," which proves to be a problem in a film like this. It took me half the movie to decipher the basic conceit of the world: that several groups of young musical artists from different genres can enter their own secret realities, complete with their own versions of Miku and her friends. Even excluding the various variants of Vocaloid...