Audience reviews
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PlasticDolli
I loved Onimai! I just wish I could share it with other people without looking like a peedo, especially considering that in the manga (which admittedly I've yet to start reading at the time of writing this) the sexualization of the characters doesn't seem nearly as bad as it is in the show. ;-;
It has been a bit since I've actually watched the series, I was binging it as it was coming out LOL. But I remember how happy it made me, It was a really fun watch. Besides my initial problem with how the younger characters of the show are depicted, I would totally recommend it if you're looking for a different kind of "Slice of Life" anime! -u-
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Onimai is best described as cute girls doing cute things, delivered with a cozy tone and strong production values. At its core, the show highlights the warmth of everyday friendships while exploring a light theme of personal growth.
The premise is intentionally absurd: the protagonist is drugged by his sister and turned into a girl as part of a science experiment. The show never asks the viewer to take this setup seriously. Instead, it functions as a device that allows a slovenly NEET to gradually grow into a more self-caring and sociable person. What begins as a “secret male infiltrator” scenario slowly shifts into the protagonist becoming a genuine member of a group of friends.
The story itself is simple and episodic. There are no major arcs or dramatic twists, and the series deliberat…
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In the beginning I was worried if sex change motive will be annoying or boring for me - so after watching through the entire season - his sex change is only a hook and it lost it's importance after first few episodes. Mahiro is bona fide 100% girl in both looks and character that has zero behaviours that would even indicate her history as a male. At first I tried to explain how skittish she was by her being a NEET, but the longer the season went, the more obvious it became, that it is not the case.
So if we ignore sex change, what did we got in the end? A pretty good CGDCT anime in which one of the characters is new to the "Girl Things". If we look at it in this category, then I really can't complain about anything. It has all that makes anime in this genre successful:
- Beautiful and pl…
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I am trans now, she/her please :3
This show is both, wacky, questionable, and wholesome. I can't say that it is an amazing show by any means, but if you look past the first episode, and watch it as a non gender bender anime, then it really gets much better to watch through.
This show is both, wacky, questionable, and wholesome. I can't say that it is an amazing show by any means, but if you look past the first episode, and watch it as a non gender bender anime, then it really gets much better to watch through.
This show is both, wacky, questionable, and wholesome. I can't say that it is an amazing show by any means, but if you look past the first episode, and watch it as a non gender bender anime, then it really gets much better to watch through.
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The premise is from the get-go that a man (older brother, true gamer nerd/enthusiast, recluse but ultimately harmless) wakes up having been turned into what looks like a pre-teen girl by his "mad scientist" sister, via a drug. In her room she has a manual on her desk which deetails how she wants to turn him into her little sister, meaning this is entirely deliberate with an agenda.
It SOUNDS like this should be a hilarious comedy to give a guy what he deserves in order to appreciate what being a girl or a woman is like, as punishment.
That's not at all what it is. This is entirely about a selfish wish from the sister's side to get rid of her nerd brother and gain a cute little sister that she can dress up and take care of and the brother-turned-sister just goes along with it for no good…
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I must admit that I cannot understand why someone could enjoy an anime like this one.
This anime doesn't work for any audience. For example, if you are a fan of the Sex Shift genre or a fan of CGDCT stories, I can assume that you are part of a female audience that will hate the dose of fan service of this anime.
On the other hand, if you enjoy the fan service, I assume you are a male audience that won't enjoy the homo reference of the Sex Shift genre and that you don't enjoy the CGDCT anime.
Additionally, this anime won't contribute to anything in your life. It is simply a boring story of people doing everyday things. I cannot understand why someone should dedicate his free time to watching a cartoon without exciting emotions. There are only fictional characters doing ordinary things i…
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This show is both, wacky, questionable, and wholesome. I can't say that it is an amazing show by any means, but if you look past the first episode, and watch it as a non gender bender anime, then it really gets much better to watch through.
The plot is really mixed, the plot of the MC basically being a sheltered discord moderator male that gets changed into an awkward female. Then doesn't realize you can't do male things as a woman without being looked at weirdly (kinda reminds me of “Bocchi The Rock” in some ways of awkwardness of the MC). The bad part about this is by the first month of becoming a female, it seems quite dumb to be made into a trope of going and doing obviously stupid things, such as — Small Spoiler — going into a men's restroom as a female, then realizing, when you shou…
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Interesting premise, disappointing execution.
Sometimes you watch a series and the choices the characters make don't feel like they are made because it makes sense but because that is how the writer has decided that things will go. I started this series with high hopes but finished with this thought in my head.
Mahiro may be one of the most passive protagonists I've ever encountered. Almost nothing that happens in this series is the result of his/her own choices and is instead forced upon him/her by someone else and is just accepted with only a token resistance.
"Brother, I drastically altered your age and biology without your knowledge or consent!" "Oh ok."
"You have to wear a dress now!" "I don't want to." "You have to." "Oh ok."
"We're gonna give you a makeover!" "I don't want to." "…
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I watched this anime because I enjoyed some gender bender eroge, so maybe this would be like that. It's not.
Onimai is an innocent anime that plays it safe. The uncensored cut is age-appropriate for middle schoolers. American middle schoolers, even. The characters are totemo kawaii to the point where the shonen art style borders on chibi. Onimai is a show about youthful friendship from the perspective of an introvert with a layer of sugar. Remove the sugar and you've got Watamote; add too much you've got Precure. Onimai sits right in the middle with a thousand other moe slice-of-life anime, the difference here being the protagonist's sex change. None of the girls are full lesbo (probably), especially the protag since he's nominally a guy.
The hero isn't horny enough, which might be an au…
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So, Onimai finally ended and so I decided to write a review for this. Because, to be fair, this isn't an easy anime to recommend, due to its subject matter and execution. But let's get this started.
For starters, Onimai is not for you if you cannot look beaond the basic premise of the story. Mahiro, who is a shut-in unemployed male adult gets drugged and transformed into an underage girl by his little sister and now gets to live middle schooler girl life. If the forceful transformation is a dealbreaker (a legit reservation to have), stop right here, this anime is not for you. If not, then I go into what this story is, why I recomend it and why it isn't just some degenerate garbage.
Onimai is basically the story of a young adult man who has given up on society and partly even life, living…
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‟wtf why did Bind picked this anime they are down so bad in degeneracy” -maybe someone on Twitter
And that's exactly what's good about it ! Thank you Studio Bind for bringing us Onimai on our screens, big boobas have never looked that good ! To be more serious, let's start off the review for real. What's Onimai ? It's just your average young adult unemployed dude and eroge vn lover getting drugged by her mad scientist (hi s;g) little sisters into a (legal ? please no definitively don't post that on Twitter) loli and how Mahiro as our protagonist needs to survive in the hard task and wasteland that it is to be a high school female student. What does this premise actually makes with the content of this anime, why would this weird story work ? After watching it fully, I see the genius ideas…
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Studio Bind has given birth to an anime like no other: a magical sex shift anime with cgdct stuff. If my parents were to walk in on me while I was watching this show, I would quickly switch to a porn tab, how would one explain a loli girl moaning? But let’s get to the real point, is it worth watching? If one is able to look past the initial shock factor of episode 1 then the show has a lot to offer. A fanservice episode doesn’t necessarily mean its the end of the world.
The story starts off like any other simplistic gender-benders. An otaku ero-gamer, room temperature IQ, socially inept brother got transformed into a young loli girl by his little sister. This is not the typical fanservice-laden anime, it is just another wholesome slice of life show like Kobayashi. This is a mixed review w…
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Whether you like it or hate it due to the themes it has, Studio Bind has crafted another masterpiece of animation in their relatively new hands as an studio even if not really fully new animators, giving us animation so good that would put MAPPA, Cloverworks and A-1 Pictures to shame in every single episode. Filled with “questionable” scenes that I couldn’t give less of a fuck if people complain about them or not, the series is about the NEET Mahiro who one day finds himself waking up as a girl due to a experiment from her sister who has been very worried about him, as she is basically searching for him to stop being a NEET, and what better way to do it than making him girl? There’s obviously no better way, right? Well the series won’t bother to answer you that question, but it will show y…
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Onimai will go down as one of the best anime of 2023. Sadly, it’s also one of the misunderstood shows. It’s faced constant backlash and slander from people who based their entire judgement of the series on a few small scenes or a character design. This is not lolicon bait, CP bait, whatever you want to call it. Onimai is a genuinely well written and wholesome story about self-acceptance, growth and developing interpersonal relationships.
Studio Bind’s second anime project could not be more different from Mushoku Tensei, yet it retains the same attention to detail, directorial prowess and film like artistic quality we’ve come to expect from the studio. The series follows Mahiro, a shut in Neet who has nothing really going for him other than his video game skills. He’s turned into a middle…
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DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU:
-Don't like Gender Bender, Cross-Dressing or Trans works
-Don't like satire about sexuality and gender
-Are sensitive to fanservice and find it in all its forms disgusting
-Are a NEET who has been living under the tutelage of your younger sister for 2 years and does not wish to be represented on this show
-An idiot who doesn't get jokes
This is WRONG, absolutely WRONG. But in a discreet and provocative way, firstly uncomfortably funny and later cutely funny, but it's a story about getting another chance at life.
Okay, so the story is that after two years of living a hikikomori life, Mahiro Oyama, an eroge-loving NEET, wakes up one day as a girl. All this coming from a drug made by her younger sister, Mihari, through an unethical experiment. Without his consent,…
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The only reason why I decided to give this anime a shot is because of the fact it was going to be animated by Studio Bind. Therefore, I thought... "Why not? Looks interesting to me. A gender-bender anime about a failure in life who became a loli by his or should we say 'HER' now to give HER a second chance in life." Now I know what you're thinking, if you look into this out of context, it's essentially a story about a fully grown man who's living alongside middle schoolers who don't have the slightest idea of this PERSON's past, yet it's treating it as if the main character was never a grown man, to begin with. This review is here to give you the judgment needed whether this anime is worthy of your time.
This anime gives off a similar feeling to Maid Dragon, in terms of its environment, a…
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Well, well, looks like somebody broke their promise of being an exclusive entity just for producing one of the all-time modern greats in the AniManga scene! Haha, just kidding. But seriously, WOW, Studio Bind, you're the studio that can do no wrong, until you can do an extra wrong, and it elevates just about everything that you live as an entity developing deep into the fetish-dom.
The Mushoku Tensei-based studio branching out to more or less the same sexual fetish that it was birthed from, and somehow that caught the eye from one particular person: debut director Shingo Fujii, whose works are known in one of the longest kids-based franchise of PreCure as its key animator. So, it must be said that if Shingo Fujii has a knack for kids looking for some action and Studio Bind being the paedo…
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Like many, I was impressed with the debut of Studio Bind and their highly-anticipated, highly-praised, highly-controversial anime adaptation for Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, and like so many more, I was already getting excited for its second season as soon as its first came to a close. However, also like many, I proceeded to be half-disappointed, half-confused when I saw the announcement for Oniichan wa Oshimai! with the name of Studio Bind—the studio which I thought was created for the sole purpose of adapting Mushoku Tensei—so proudly attached. A veteran animator like Shingo Fuji making a directorial debut at a studio I can actually trust to produce something competent is always something to be excited about in my book, but would some goofy gender-bender manga adaptation really…
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Studio Bind, you guys adapt the most polarizing things, but boy, does this studio animate things well! From the studio who adapted Mushoku Tensei, one of the greatest isekai adaptations ever, to Onimai, a gender-bending, mind-boggling show, that somehow ended up being a very wholesome CGDCT anime. Without a doubt, this show will be uncomfortable to many, and even as wholesome as it is, the initial premise does sadly bring my enjoyment down a little. Did this show have to be so fanservice heavy at the beginning? However, I will admit that as the episodes went along, they did end up very wholesome and at points, even quite hilarious. I will say though that if a different studio did this show with lower quality animation, I would not have enjoyed it as much as I did. Studio Bind, you saved an…
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Onimai has finally Oshimai...
Onimai has got to be one of the best success stories this generation. I remembered reading the original when it was still a Pixiv manga all those years back, and seeing it animated with such high quality animation is simply stunning.
I knew I was in for a treat when the OP first played. Such fluid animation that blows everything else from this decade out of the water, with a flair you haven't seen since the 2000s ended, all wrapped up in a beautifully directed package by the always great Watanabe Akio. No rotoscoping, no 3DCG, no cheap stills, what you see is what you get. And this high level of quality continues on with the rest of the show.
Indeed, Onimai, despite the manga being from 2017, feels like a long lost series from the good old days of 2007, wh…
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