Download & Watch Full Movie: My Oni Girl
Director: Tomotaka Shibayama
Cast: Kenshô Ono, Miyu Tomita, Shintarô Asanuma
Review: My Oni Girl
New anime feature My Oni Girl (2024) is entertaining enough, but it stakes its position among a hugely crowded field of similar films. Standing out from the crowd seems reasonably unlikely, but devoted otaku will probably find it a pleasant diversion.
First-year high schooler Hiiragi (Kensho Ono) struggles to stand up for himself, allowing classmates to take advantage of his attempts to please others. When he meets the bold and sassy Tsumugi (Miyu Tomita), he immediately tries to pay her bus fare – only to discover she is an oni (a Japanese demon) on a mission.
If I had a dollar for every anime in which a meek, bookish boy shares a romance with a strong-willed, noisy dream girl with a brittle centre needing healing… while I could not necessarily afford a house out of it, I honestly do not think a small car would be out of the question. This heavily mined subject matter is not only aggressively over-represented in Japanese animation, it comes packed with some fairly dubious assumptions about women, young men, and wish fulfilment fantasies. In this specific case, Hiiragi does not seem interesting enough a character to headline his own movie. There’s a temptation to wish Tsumugi would drop him and embark on her quest all by herself.
Folkloric elements will be familiar to any long-term viewers of Japanese fantasy, with a variety of oni and yokai populating the action. There is an intriguing element where those with bottled-up emotions run risk of transforming into oni themselves – and Hiiragi is particularly buttoned-down in this regard – but with the character lacking much in the way of charm or resonance the film struggles to find any proper depth or urgency.
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