YMMV / The Devil and Daniel Mouse

• Angst? What Angst?: Dan gets over Jan leaving him quickly, once she returns to him. Instead of being bitter over her becoming successful without him, he immediately focuses on trying to save her from B.L.
• Ass Pull: Dan's argument that "Music can save your soul, and a song from the heart beats the Devil every time" makes no freaking sense, and the fact that it actually works is unbelievable. Though this is admittedly very faithful to the story it is based on which had a similarly nonsensical climax.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Jan's soul is saved and she's reunited with Dan...but B.L. has openly threatened to stop playing by the rules in the future (making him harder to beat) and has a particular reason for developing a hate-on for the pair of them. Also, the newly-reformed jurors and Weez are probably suffering unspeakable torments for their little Heel–Face Turn.
• Evil Is Cool: Many viewers think B.L. is cool due to his unique design, brilliantly animated transformations, and smooth voice.
• Heartwarming Moments: Dan's song at the end is overwhelmingly passionate that it causes the sycophantic and slimy Weez to shed a tear out of joy and declare Jan innocent.
  • It also causes the jurors, noted by Dan to be corrupt owners of record companies, amoral business agents, and scornful- who have suitably warped appearances- to turn briefly into much more appealing appearances. The implication is that the song somehow reawoke the original passion they had for music before they let the dark side of business jade them. Which makes B.L.'s returning them to Hell all the more crueler and spiteful.
• Nightmare Fuel: B.L. is terrifying once he goes into a Villainous Breakdown as his already constant warping of his forms becomes significantly warped as he physically and emotionally loses control.
  • He's scary in general as he has a tendency to turn into demonic forms, especially out of nowhere complete with a Nightmare Face for good measure.
  • B.L.'s chase of Jan. He barges into her concert in the form of an owl, forcing her to flee for her life as he turns into a cat, piranha, and rhinoceros as she flees in terror. Given that B.L. already had a claim to her soul, ruining her concert and then attempting to kill her for no reason than a cat and mouse chase- literally at one point- other than to see her squirm.
• Tear Jerker: It has some very sad moments given the subject matter.
  • Just when Jan is experiencing a high in her career, B.L. chases out of her concert in the form of increasingly dangerous animals as she flees for her life. Just when she finds some relief in escaping, B.L. shows up and tells the already-shaken Jan that he owns her soul and that he'll take her to hell if she doesn't find someone to save her. When she attempts to find help from her band, they callously ditch her due to being behind in her payments.
  • The underlying cruelty of B.L.'s brief cat-and-mouse chase. He already had a claim to her soul but he decided it would be more fun to engage in nearly killing her while traumatizing her for no reason than his own personal, sick amusement.
  • During Dan's song, the jurors briefly turn back from the grotesque forms they acquired in Hell and through their corrupt lives and back to what is heavily implied to be their original idealistic selves when they had a genuine passion for their craft. B.L. then forces them back to Hell out of spite for losing.
  • "Can You Help Me Find My Song" is already sad, but if you consider that Jan might have written it about Daniel, it gets worse.
• Unintentional Period Piece: It just oozes the 70's.
• The Woobie: Jan. She starts as a failing musician until she is spotted by B.L. who tricks her into a contract where she experiences a period of immense success as a popular musician before he will claim her soul unbeknownst to her. Just as she is experiencing the highlight of her career, B.L. barges into her concert to chase her out of it in the forms of various animals that could kill her if given the chance for no real reason other than personal amusement, then states he owns her soul due to a statement he deliberately neglected to tell her and when she goes for help, her new band ditch her. She's a traumatized wreck by the time Dan gets to her.

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