My Oni Girl – Speak your mind and don’t grow horns (FAP-365)

Producers: Netflix Twin Engine
Studio: Studio Colorido
Source: Original
Aired: May 2024 to May 2024
Genres: Adventure Supernatural
Number of Episodes: 1
Jack's Score: 8 / 10
Rick's Score: 8 / 10

This week we talk about “My Oni Girl” and honestly we spend most of this episode just bouncing theories off of each other. We talk about our initial reactions, and unpack some specific visuals that we agreed on but also disagree on, and then we finally venture off into the “rules of the world” debate about who can see what, what repression means in that world, and how the snow gods work in this movie. Which finally leads into some spoiler territory, but we admit the movie has some big plot holes, but it is still an enjoyable movie nonetheless. There was a lot more that we did talk about like the father and everything that was going on with him.

My Oni Girl follows Hiiragi, a painfully shy high school kid who has spent most of his life trying to please everyone so much so that he has basically forgotten how to say what he really wants to say. Till one day his quiet routine gets thrown out the window when he meets Tsumugi, a very brash oni girl who basically becomes an important part of his life all while she is searching for her missing mother in the human world. Due to certain events that have happened, the two of them run away from home and head out on a strange summer road trip along the way they run into a variety of individuals all of whom basically have important life lessons to teach Hiiragi all while dodging the snow gods, and and getting tangled up in plenty of messy human emotions. And while all that is happening, Tsumugi’s blunt honesty and Hiiragi’s bottled up feelings keep clashing, forcing both of them to confront family baggage, what it means to actually be honest with yourself, and whether you are living for everyone else or finally starting to live for you.