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Overall, I don't get who this show is for, as someone who has not played the games, this did not make me want to go into them. And I can't imagine a fan of the games EVER finding this enjoyable with how rushed and the actual climax scenes (pun intended) looking like that. It's too bad to be enjoyable, and not that bad to be a hate watch or to enjoy drunk with friends, it's just a very rushed, mediocre show that's just extra bad because it looks like a draft of a 2000s CGI movie.

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First things first, I have not played the ... game, nor I know anything about it other than it exists, so I can't mention anything about how well adapted it is.

Now about the show itself it's in this weird spot where it's really not good but also not horrible, with a runtime of 7 eps (though they are longer than the average, so you can count it as 8-ish), it really didn't have much time to really go places, it felt like they took the opening and fitted it into an episode and half, and then the ending of the game for the last episode, and then threw in a bunch of random quests/events/missions/whatever the game has in the middle. It feels rushed, like MEGA rushed, characters just change, things just happen that are not explained whatsoever or not even adressed, the plot twist that you could guess from the very beginning, it just feels.... wasted. It's really not good experience as someone who has not played the game, but that makes me think, who is this show for ? It feels like they made it with the idea that you have some basic knowledge of the game and didn't bother wasting their time fleshing it out proper, or they just really flat out didn't care, it is a really meh experience for someone who doesn't know anything about the games, and I can't imagine anyone who has enjoyed the games to be happy to watch this clunky mess of animation, so really, what was the point ? with this random number of 7 episodes, it feels like they didn't have the money to do something decent, but with the animation quality, I can't imagine it costing them that much (though I must note, there were 2, about 1-3 min segments where there were 3-4 hand drawn characters, which made it look even worse as the CGI models were still either in the background or interacting with them).

The animation itself is really... questionable at times, it's very cartoony, like, dreamworks shrek villan cartoony at points, which 10 mins after gets completely swept by a bunch of people getting decapitated and a girl almost getting goblin slayer'd, it feels like a bunch of people tried to direct and they did not talk to each other whatsoever, or looked at the end product.

The sound was.. well despite me just finishing the show I can't really say anything about it so that means it was not good nor bad, just there, though I must note in the last episode, in the jap audio atleast there were these just random sounds, as if someone was breathing into a mic and they just accidently looped it over the whole episode instead of deleting it.

I'll start off by saying that this is my first review and that it's by no means a troll one.
So Ao Oni, even if you're not an Horror RPG fan you probably have heard of it, but what about the anime ? is it any good ? is it scary ?
well, it's a parody, and actually a very good one, they actually did it pretty well considering the length of the episodes (around a Minute and half if we don't count the opening and ending), they were seriously funny, so don't come here expecting something actually scary since I don't think it'd work at all ... if they tried to make it a horror anime, so I'm glad they decided to actually make a parody, and this also teaches you a valuable lesson, women are scarier than monsters.

Overall I enjoyed it, it was short and fun, not what I expected but I sure as hell don't regret watching it, sure I can see why some people might not like it, comedy is subjective, I can totally see why some people didn't like the jokes or expected an actually serious show, but if you have a darker sense of humor I couldn't recommend this show more..