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2024 · animation · fantasy · adventure · family

My Oni Girl

Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama1h 52m2024

ElsewhereIMDb6.02kRT63%

cosy
kinetic
gentle
inventive
redemptive
tender

Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

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.

Our read · My Oni Girl (2024) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · fantasy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast

Kensho Ono Miyu Tomita Shintaro Asanuma Aya Yamane Tomoko Shiota

Where the cast leads

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary

A Silent Voice: The Movie

Shintaro Asanuma thread

Shintaro Asanuma

adjacent

Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Game

actor path

A Silent Voice: The Movieadjacent Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuarynear DNA Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Gameadjacent

Miyu Tomita

actor path

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-adjacent Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilightnew register Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soulnew register

Shintaro Asanuma

actor path

Givenadjacent Fireworksadjacent Tatami Time Machine Bluesadjacent

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The shape of My Oni Girl

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a sweet anime tale of a shy boy pulled into magical summer adventure and growth.”

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — You dislike anime or want grounded serious drama.

If My Oni Girl is your film

Your Name (2016)

supernatural teen connection and journey

(more body-swap romance)

Spirited Away (2001)

young person in wondrous spirit world

(more Ghibli fantasy classic)

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

odd-couple growth through adventure

(more mentor and action)

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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