2024 · animation · fantasy · adventure
My Oni Girl
Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama1h 52m2024
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.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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