YMMV / Black Fox

• Anvilicious: Black Fox is decidedly a little too old school when trying to convey the moral that "Killing is Bad".
• Cliché Storm: The movie's set up feels it wanted to be an episodic series... from the 1990s. A Kid Detective working under her hopeless superior at a detective agency? A girl who's secretly a vigilante at night? A rivalry with what is essentially a Dark Magical Girl? Animal robot companions? An untouchable Greater-Scope Villain looming in the background and causing trouble? Thou Shalt Not Kill in full force? So on and so forth.
• Les Yay: Rikka and Mia befriend each other very quickly, and are quick to protect each other from Lauren. And of course, there's the incredibly interpretable Declaration of Protection Rikka gives near the end...
  Rikka: My friends... My family... And Mia's heart! I'm going to do what I think is right, and protect it all! Nothing is getting destroyed!
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Given the production constraints it was under, it's a shame Black Fox doesn't get enough time to develop the points it touches upon. It could have developed the Dramatic Irony of Rikka and Mia's being simultaneously friends and enemies, or Rikka's investigation, while other characters were clearly designed to more present in an episodic series, like Harold Berkley or the fact Melissa was obviously intended to be a MacGuffin Girl, etc. It's a story that clearly needs a sequel, at the least. Besides that, more than a few viewers had hoped the plot of "high-tech ninja out for revenge" would have bloodily played out like it sounded, rather than becoming what is essentially a superhero origin story.

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