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My Oni Girl

My Oni Girl

Animation · Fantasy · Adventure · 2024

A shy teenage boy's inability to say no is tested when a headstrong girl drags him on a mystical journey amid summer snow to find her missing mom.

Movie details

My Oni Girl

2024 Animation · Fantasy · Adventure 1h 52m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.2 / 10

Community rating

A shy teenage boy's inability to say no is tested when a headstrong girl drags him on a mystical journey amid summer snow to find her missing mom.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over My Oni Girl?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tomotaka Shibayama

Written by

Tomotaka Shibayama · Yuko Kakihara

Kensho Ono

Kensho Ono

Hiiragi Yatsuse (voice)

Miyu Tomita

Miyu Tomita

Tsumugi (voice)

Shintaro Asanuma

Shintaro Asanuma

Ryūji Takahashi (voice)

Aya Yamane

Aya Yamane

Mio Takahashi (voice)

Tomoko Shiota

Tomoko Shiota

Shimako Yamashita (voice)

Shirou Saitou

Shirou Saitou

Naoya Yamashita (voice)

Miou Tanaka

Miou Tanaka

Mikio Yatsuse (voice)

Court is in session

Put My Oni Girl on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.