Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ShionU27
I watched this as a joke because I'm familiar with the game, manga, and live action movie, not to mention the episodes are shorts, so you can finish watching the whole thing within an hour...... But WHY? Why does this exist? The animation is poor, the story tries to be funny but it comes off as cheap, and after about 3 episodes in the voice acting just sucks.
Save your time and eyes, once you've watched about 3 episodes you've seen all that this anime has to offer. The anime tries to make a joke of the game and characters by having them die in each episode in weird ways. It's supposed to be comical but comes off as cheesy. The animation honestly looks like something that can be done with a cell phone app.
I honestly want to know just how this anime came to be lol.
Read at the sourceslonkyguts
This is the weirdest way to interperate a horror game from the early 2000s, in the best way possible. The comedy is fast paced and the episodes are short. Perfect for any zoomer erectus, tiktok rotted brain. What if there was an alternate universe where Yume Nikki or Ib got a comedy anime like this? Anyway, this anime is fun, nerds will say it isn’t “faithful” to the source material. Personally, a world where we get strange genre flipping interpretations sounds way more fun than the same story over and over again. Like taking the story and making something new out of what it gives. Because the original source material is pretty straightforward. Just a bunch of teens stuck in a spooky manshion and a monster chases them. Most of the teens die, one lives. There we go, endless content farm. No…
Read at the sourceHideri_Poster
This was a complete subversion of expectations. If you’re looking for a horror-type thriller, this ain’t it. If you’re looking for a remotely serious show, you’re out of luck here. This all being said, this show made me laugh harder than almost any show I’ve watched in a long time. I went into it with the low ratings in mind thinking it would be a so-bad-it’s-good horror show, but I got a short and sweet comedy experience that leaves me with a smile on my face and wanting more.
Story - There isn’t much of a story. Every episode is only a couple of minutes. I appreciate the show being so similar in presentation to a video game, always ending in a “Game Over”. As a video game adaptation, it really trails off from the source material, but also plays with it in creative and funny ways. Anyway…
Read at the sourceBillScyther
This series of 3 minute Pop Team Epic style shorts is a hilarious take on the Ao Oni game series. You cannot treat it like you would regular anime. The humor isn't as universal, it's targeted more for the Japanese viewer. A lot of the jokes are just recreations of memes related to the game present only on the Japanese internet, done in typical Japanese comedy style. Those things might go over a western viewer's head.
The art style is not your every day anime. It looks more like a youtube animation, but it is executed well and is pleasant to the eye. I liked it.
It's a fun watch. Not for everyone. Definitely doesn't deserve such a low score.
Read at the sourceMoonSpider
Something brought me back to 2012 youtube with its rpgmaker horror craze, Ao Oni being probably one of the biggest names among them. When looking up the most recent version of the wiki, imagine my surprise that there are numerous new games, a couple of movies, novels, and anime based on it! So I recently gave this anime a watch.
Honestly I think people are being too harsh on the series overall. Most reviews I see either give it like a 10 or a 2. That's not to say that this style of comedic shorts are for everyone or that every joke hits the mark, but it's not horrible by any means. In fact, I found the silliness mixed with dark humor to be very enjoyable, and the short run of each episode meant that the jokes themselves largely didn't overstay their welcome. Overall, I had a really great…
Read at the sourcejadyjads
The team behind Ao Oni The Animation knows Ao Oni has this burlesque quality to it, loves it, and it shows. Do you like Ao Oni? Do you like sh*tposts? Then you'll enjoy this very short, silly anime.
It features the game's characters with more sterotypical personalities, but in the sense that it makes them easier to grasp in a short amount of time. There is no overarching story - this a series of jokes taking place in the Oni's mansion.
The ending theme is surprisingly catchy and the monsters are funny. Only downside was the intro, which was a little too long for something that is always the same except for its last line.
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I was pleasently surprised and disappointed by this series. It's kind of like a "Pop Team Epic" for horror. The characters seem to look and act like how they do in the game (even though Takuro is protrayed nicer than in the game) and are pretty spot on. Story-wise the shorts aren't always the best in quality. While some are genuinely funny, some are really bland and unfunny. The ending was surprisingly scary, and really came out of left field. It was a welcome surprise. The animation was well-done and super cute. It's not the best short "comedy" one-shot series out there, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't played the game, but it's a decent show.
Read at the sourceash0xff
Ao Oni...
few shows manage to impact my life in a meaningful way, and yet this masterpiece not only did that but it managed to change my life completely.
It's truly an emotional rollercoaster of ups and downs, filled to the brim with comedy, tension, drama, horror, romance, and characters who evolve and adapt throughout the narrative. By the end of the series you've seen every character grow, to a point where looking back to the start they're almost unrecognisable. I would best describe them each, as a block of marble who are masterfully sculpted into perfect pieces of art.
My personal favourite episodes are the 4th and 12th (with the 4th winning out over the 12th by a slim margin)
Episode 4 takes a deep dive into the "antagonist"'s mind (I use the term antagonist lightly here as he co…
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This opera is really underrated because of itscomplex structure. It looks like a dumb chibi funny anime, with no interest in developing the characters or making them progress like happened with the game. So you are probably wondering why I gave it a 10.
That's pretty simple, this opera contains one other anime, really deep and conscious. You have to analyze what happens and you will understand what I say. For eaxmple in every episode they die, but in the next episode there is no sign of change in their acting, but if you know stoics's philosophy it will gain one other layer. It represents the Doom or Logos, that no one can avoid and everything keeps repeating. Then we have the inverse episode, where the girl kills every monster alone. Again this is a great meaning, showing how you always…
Read at the sourcewitchyedgelord
So, I knew about the original game this anime was based off for years, having watched multiple let's plays of it and planning to do my own series on the game in the future. It's a pretty basic story, four friends going to try to solve an old mystery of their town in a way that basically makes it feel like a Scooby-Doo episode that has an ACTUAL monster rather than a disguised person, but has it's scary moments and has always been rememberable to me.
This anime, however, takes it in a more comedic route. And honestly, I'm perfectly okay with that, but I don't think it's for every fan of the game. It's basically putting the characters in these scenarios for crude humor, as multiple times they get killed in various comedic ways. Art is okay, not much to say on story as it's episodic and each…
Read at the sourceMerlinSam123
Episodes 4, 12, and 13 are the only ones worth watching. At my least critical, I might include episodes 5 and 11 with those on the account that they mildly amused me, though I will still likely forget them a week after I've written this review. If you've stumbled upon this series of comedy shorts because of the following the original freeware Ao Oni game has gained, that's really all you need to know. Those are the only episodes of this show that I might consider clever, and even then, not by much. Most of the humor in these shorts is very stale and predictable, and this problem can primarily be attributed to the characters, because they really aren't characters. They're each a single personality trait combined with a cluster of stereotypical horror character traits. In a freeware game whe…
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