Ao Oni The Animation (Movie)

Monsters only appear if you believe them - Nakano, best boy (2017-2017)

Story (10/10)

The movie story is very original, much better than the game as it only relies on shock value. This movie has no plot holes and has excellent foreshadowing to boot.

Art (6/10)

I did not like the CG used in this, it reminded me of SIMS. It was ok but it could have been hand drawn instead.

... Sound (8/10)

The music was not that good. It was nice for a horror game anime. It was forgettable at best.

Characters (10/10)

Instead of the GOAT cast of Takeshi and co, we have Manabe and co who are much better and feel more real. I actually cared about them this time, well fleshed out as well.

Enjoyment (10/10)

I hated spamming the control button in the game just to exit the door. The anime is better in that regard.

I would recommend this show as I loved it. Contender for best animu of 2017!

Many fans would love to see a good horror-movie based on the game 'Ao Oni' but instead they get this...

Sadly, it has very little to do with the game. It has the monster, the chase music, and they talk about 'Ao Oni' being a video-game. That's basically all it has in common with the source material. The plot isn't terrible but the execution is very poor. The pacing is slow and awkward. Every scene feels like it was slowed down. The characters aren't likeable or interesting. They had plenty of time to make them likeable before the threat comes into play but nope. The characters ... are very forgettable.

It's 3D animated and looks very cheap. It's very choppy making it unpleasant to look at. Most of the time it has an average of about seven frames per second. In most 3D animation software, tweening is very easy and automatic. They must have decided to render it out with a lower frame-rate to make it appear more like traditional 2D animation. The animation itself is awkward and looks very unnatural. The characters move like robots. With this kind of animation and choppiness, you would fail a 3D animation course.

The music isn't good except for the music during the end-credits which is actually alright. Overall, it's awkward, cheap-looking, and boring. I don't recommend this to anyone. If you're an Ao Oni fan and you're really curious, then maybe watch it.

If you thought the Ao Oni comedy shorts were bad, wait until you see this - it's even worse. The comedy shorts are a masterpiece compared to this tripe.

Story: This is apparently a story based off the game; too bad there is no story. The majority of the hour long movie is the characters sitting around talking and nothing happening. It takes place in a school, not in the usual mansion. There is a story there somewhere, but it's lost in the boring, awkward telling.

Animation: Studio Deen, who brought us such animation fail classics like Axis Powers Hetalia and Higurashi, are the animators of this. ... I was hardly surprised when I found out they were responsible. Needless to say, Studio Deen have kept up their trope of animating badly, leaving the series looking like a slightly updated version of MMD. The expressions of the character are poor and almost ridiculous even by anime standards and the characters move slow and stiff like machinery. And the animation of the monster is just terrible. It's also in 3D, not that watching it in 3D makes it any better or easier to get through.

Sound: The voice acting is pretty decent but not great. The music is irritating and drove me to despair. I had to pause every few minutes just to take a break. Honestly I wonder whether the voice actors will have careers after this.

Characters: The characters in this movie aren't Hiroshi & co, but a bunch of new characters. There's zero character development, the characters are one-dimensional, boring and have the personality of a gnat. There's no way you can form connections with the characters or even like them. I don't even remember their names.

Enjoyment: I hate every single second. I get more enjoyment from watching paint dry. There's no horror, no nothing.

Overall: 0/10. This is the worst thing I've ever seen and if I could give myself amnesia so I could forget this, I would. Avoid this and the comedy shorts, watch something better.