La gente de todo el mundo disfrutaba de un nuevo juego llamado Ordinal Scale, un ARMMORPG desarrollado exclusivamente para la Augma, una nueva consola portátil diseñada para juegos AR (realidad aumentada). Pero, los jugadores no tenían idea de que una pesadilla del mundo virtual estaba empezando a difundirse en realidad! A medida que sus compañeros se encuentran en peligro, el héroe es invocado una vez más.

Aunque las μ's, campeonas defensoras del torneo de ídolos de la escuela, planean disolver su grupo tras la graduación de sus miembros más veteranos, ¡reciben una noticia que las lleva a celebrar un concierto! Las 9 chicas siguen aprendiendo y creciendo en este nuevo y desconocido mundo. ¿Qué es lo último que pueden hacer estas chicas como idols de la escuela? Con el reloj corriendo, ¿Qué tipo de significado encontrarán las integrantes de μ al realizar la más emocionante actuación en vivo?

The movie is more or less a retelling of the first few episodes of the series that is not much more than a slightly padded director's cut. You do learn some interesting details such as where Yugi's dad is, a look at the flame haze who was in the city before Shana, and even a couple of new powers for the Reiji Maigo. The story is certainly fleshed out quite a bit more and the final 15 minutes of the film comprise a surprisingly powerful conclusion (worth the price of admission on its own), but I would have liked a more original story rather then a highly polished version of one that I've already enjoyed. In the end, spectacular visuals, great new music, and well thought out additions to the core story leave you feeling glad to have seen the film. On the other hand, the fact that anything new that was added obviously doesn't change the events that come later in the series means that established fans will likely leave the experience less than satisfied.

Four high school girls in uniforms walk silently on the barren earth. These girls are time travelers who had been sent 6000 years into the future, from their present in which the same day is endlessly repeated, in order to evade human extinction. They studied time travel in school, were examined by the aptitude test, and were sent to the future as told. What should they do now? They had no idea. The only thing they could take with them from the present was a light, toy-like cellphone. Of course, it receives no signal here. As the girls are walking, they see strange birds flying in the sky, and a discolored river in the distance. Then, one girl finds an abandoned house, and recognizes the name inscribed on the front gates. * A mixed-media project by Iruma Hitoma, who wrote the novel, created the story for the manga version, scripted the anime, and penned the lyrics for the music.