Introduction
Ancient Japan is under attack by powerful beings called "Kamikui," and it is up to the "Oni" and his band of eight beautiful female warriors to stop them. Each of these girls have unique skills, abilities, and personalities. They partner themselves with the Oni, Jin, to stop the miasma of darkness sweeping across Japan. Onigiri follows the escapades of Jin and his merry companions as they strengthen their bonds and fend off the demonic invasion.
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Audience reviews
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AniStrawberry
I wasn’t surprised I wouldn’t like this. I was curious to see how good this would be due to the cute art and title, but boy I was wrong.
STORY: 3/10
Basically nonexistent. Random, inconsistent scenarios that never match up with the previous episode, except for a few episodes.
ART: 8/10
The art was the best thing about this show. The designs matched the character personalities and the colors were contrasted just right. But it’s very generic and you see this everywhere. Nevertheless still good
CHARACTERS: 6/10
You don’t see these characters develop and we only get a few shorts with them. And they are all played out cliche tropes ENJOYMENT: 3/10
This anime was very boring. While watching this I found something else to distract myself with as I just couldn’t keep my eyes on the screen. So…
Read at the sourceJVskunkape
I went into this anime expecting a lot less than I walked away with. Don't let it's current low MAL score fool you as it initially fooled me, this anime may well be worth your time (the 50 minutes it would take to watch the entire series).
Now I admit I am probably this show's exact target demographic, while I no longer play Onigiri, there was a time when I was quite active and really into the game. I really like the characters, art style & general tone of the show. The style of comedy they went for fits the game and it's characters so well.
I do have to dock some points for sound unfortunately as although I really liked the OP, I couldn't get over how they play these battle sound effects over it essentially drowning out their own quality OP and ruining the experience, it really used to…
Read at the sourceSaacool
It's an anime advertisement for an MMO at best.
They take the self awareness too far when they use it and then neglect it despite having perfect set ups for nice jokes.
It's got some minor level of fanservice I guess, if you're here for that, the hotspring episode is probably as far as it goes? But it doesn't even include most of the characters so it seems failing even in that respect.
It might be passable to watch since it only has 4 minute episodes (opening and credits take 30-40% of the run time) but honestly, there's no commitments made story wise to even consider this to have niche appeal.
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 5
English Dubbed
Story
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, that anime came to mind while watching this show. Mostly because of its use of comedy in odd fashions with the additional feature of narrator input on current character and time functions. For those that haven't seen that anime that kind of narrator is quite funny. For not only does one see a scripted play to some regard but the idea of narrative interaction kind of feels like the play has been change midway. Making what seems predictable to slightly unpredictable. I am not saying that for example a bungee trip will magically turn into a man hunt but may turn into a scuba diving adventure. In other words not a radical change but a minor one.
Given how short each episode was and how each episode presented itself made me think that this wasn…
Read at the sourceVictoren
Not big stuff, each episode is about 4 minutes long with about 1 minute being the opening, but I did laugh at some points.
-The story is almost non-existent, there's the universe (based on the game, which I enjoy a lot may I say), and not much more than that. One thing that I didn't like about it was the lack of direction, because it seems like the story could go somewhere, but they shoot it to random places, so you feel lost and just "what is happening and why?". Other bad thing is that is TOO rushed, but I won't judge that since it's an 3 minutes long anime.
-Characters have their charm, but don't develop or show much personality in the anime, so here they're kinda forgettable. Though they're pretty cool in the game, the anime doesn't explore even a bit of them. Thing that I hate is th…
Read at the sourceAquamarineKyber
I'm pretty hardcore about anime, especially ones based on video games. Because of this, I try to give just about every anime I find a chance, including this. I've never played the game, so perhaps I'm not being entirely fair with this review, but these are just my honest opinions with the anime which may or may not change over time.
First thing you need to know is that these episodes are only about 3-4 minutes long, so you can knock all of the episodes out in about an hour. May or may not be for the best in this case.
The art style and characters were actually pretty charming, though due to the shortness of each episode, they can't and don't use much time to flesh the character development out, instead just adding more characters we know even less about. In turn, we know very little abou…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
An anime short being meta about it being an anime adaptation from an Online MMO?
Onigiri really follows a meta comedy with the main cast of Onigiri and changes genre alot at the same time.
The comedy being meta is taken as either repetitive or funny for the most part, the repetitiveness comes from the character gags but where it is funny is when the comedy takes focus on the typical MMO gameplay and then brings in a punchline and those episodes were the best part of the comedy.
Onigiri has a habit of changing genres from time to time, from typical romance, idols, tragic romance turned shounen and heck MECHA!!!, the comedy with all these genre-changing actually does work albeit the comedy incorporates meta-gamplay.
The characters however are stereotypical with just the one trait/runnin…
Read at the sourceLoliNya
Onigiri. The short mmorpg battle anime that surrounds several girls that continue to fight against the supposedly evil Kamikui. In all honesty, before watching this anime, don't expect tons of intense battles, though there are a few. It's more like a random rpg style slice of life anime.
Story 7/10: Not much really. There are several mini stories/arcs in the anime that usually last one episode. It's a slice of life anime with no plot (sort of like One Punch Man).
Art 9/10: Average art. It wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad. I liked it, and the art style suits the anime for what it is.
Sound 8/10: This anime has an opening, and a decent ost, but no ending. The opening song Hime wa Rankiryuu☆Goikkousama is cheerful and happy. It doesn't wow me, and the way the anime opening is done is rath…
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