YMMV / 16bit Sensation: Another Layer

• Adaptation Displacement: This anime is based on a trilogy of independently released manga and features a completely different plot at the center of it all, making the original work unrecognizable to the audience watching Another Layer.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The whole of Episode 8 could be considered one, if not for the fact that Konoha has met Echo before (their dog form in Episodes 1 and 3, and their young girl form in Episode 5). She meets them again in the finale, fully averting this.
• Heartwarming Moments: In the finale, Konoha and Mamoru’s Big Damn Reunion. Konoha tackle hugs Mamoru and the two decide to make video games together.
  • Also in the finale. Konoha and Mamoru's final plan to have Konoha's dream game still exist but also Japan to be the otaku mecca she remembers is successful. All of her beloved franchises exist again in a world where her beloved games are a worldwide sensation once more.
• Memetic Mutation: The Bland-Name Product of "Metal Gay Solid" took off because of its appropriateness. You can even buy it on Tee Shirts.
• Nightmare Fuel: Planet Games' secret complex beneath Akihabara Stadium contains a room filled with hundreds of people - mostly women - trapped in stasis and hooked up to the company's "Cybernetic Intelligence" system, using their combined imagination to guide its output. And if Konoha's kidnapping (which counts as Nightmare Fuel in its own right, especially with how sudden it is) is any indication, they're not there willingly.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Toya, while definitely changed from her more antagonistic self in the original 16bit Sensation, doesn't have much legroom to develop here. Her bond with Konoha is hardly explored, and while she states that she wants to be a competitor in game development, she doesn't get many opportunities to go up against Alcohol Soft.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Downplayed. The viewer is clearly meant to side with Konoha against her manager at Blue Bell, and agree with her complaints about his lack of passion, ambition, and open-mindedness. However, when he shoots down Konoha's proposal, he actually comes across as being very reasonable: he's perfectly willing to hear her out (contrary to Konoha's repeated claims that he never listens to her), and only cuts her off when he realises that the story is far too ambitious and long-winded for the studio to be able to afford to produce.