AniWorthOgre Slayer
Introduction
For decades, a strange man has wandered across Japan, known solely by the name of the sword he carries—Onikirimaru. Despite his human appearance, he is an ogre who has sworn to eliminate the rest of his kind, hoping to one day become fully human. As he walks this bloody path, he witnesses innumerable human tragedies and knows that he is the only one standing between the ogres and the total destruction of humanity.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.42/10 · 1306
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Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
Onikirimaru is your archetypal gory ultraviolent 90s OVA, complete with completely gratuitous scenes of death, tragedy, nudity, and overall chaos. However, putting all of that aside, one reveals a title with a unique visual style and a strong grasp on how to capture motion and color in a given scene to paint a tale of mythical revenge, one orgre's genocidal quest to wipe out his evil race in order to one day become a human being. The story is very straightforward, the four episodes at hand largely captured as monster-of-the-week type confrontations, with Onikirimaru, the ogre that looks just like a man, stumbling upon unholy activity and thus using his sacred sword to promptly kill the ogres at hand. That basically covers the story, with each episode rather predictably following that same…
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Note: the following comes from a video review, links on my profile page.
Onikirimaru creates a world where the personal of what is (likely) to be humans watching is contrasted by that which, externally at least, is perceived to be not human, except if only actions are considered both the familiar and ogres run parallel.
A Shinto kind of aura pervades the anime, where a spiritual type of barrier is able to prevent the 'hideous' sort of nature that ogres emanate, shields that only function on such creatures... but what if reality isn't as binary?
These oni tempt humans to a point where their desires and even will can be overcome, where instinct is rendered useless by curses. The four episodes contain tales that can be seen as exploring extremes, whether love or hate (less of the former),…
Read at the sourceWongSlong
Sorry this is my first review, and I am glad that this might be the first review for this series on MAL. Sorry for the spoilers.
Onikirimaru is about an "ogre" who looks exactly like a human. His duty on Earth is to slay all of his "ogre" brethren so that one day he may become a real human boy. This is the story of the JAPANESE PINOCCHIO except his nose doesn't grow longer when he lies, and he also carries a sword... Whatever let us continue with the review.
My experience with this OVA is pretty poor. Due to the fact that I do not speak or understand Japanese, I was force to watched Onikirmaru in subtitles. This was pathetic because the subtitles were pretty POOPY. For instance, in the subtitles they called the "ogres" ghost, which to me makes more sense than calling them "ogres". What w…
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