Scheduled to premiere on May 24th on NetflixThe Twin Engine put this AMV of the anime film online My Oni Girl (Suki Demo Kirai na Amanojaku) where we can hear the theme from the film “Uso Janai” (It’s No Lie) by Zutto Mayonaka by Iinoni (ZUTOMAYO). The video shows the relationship between the two main characters of the story.
Chieh Huang directed and edited AMV in Studio Coloridowith supervision of Yuki Igarashi.
With animation by Studio Colorido (A Whisker Away, Penguin Highway), the direction is Tomotaka Shibayama (A Whisker Away), the script is by Yūko Kakihara (2022 Urusei Yatsura, Digimon Adventure tri., Heaven’s Lost Property) and the character design is by Masafumi Yokota (A Whisker Away, Shine on! Bakumatsu Bad Boys) with assistance from Sunao Chikaoka (Wake Up, Girls!, Abnormal Physiology Seminar). Music is the responsibility of Kubota Mine (A Whisker Away, Kaleido Star, Macross Delta).
- Main color artist: Miho Tanaka
- Art Direction: Kunihiko Inaba
- CG direction: Tsukasa Saito
- Cinematography Composition Direction: Kei Machida
- Editing: Ryota Kinami
- Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
- Distribution: Twin Engine, Giggly Box
- Planning: Twin Engine
In the cast we have:
- Kenshō Ono as Hiiragi Yatsuse
- Miyu Tomita like Tsumugi.
- Shintarō Asanuma as Ryūji Takahashi
- Aya Yamane as Mio Takahashi
- Tomoko Shiota as Shimako Yamashita
- Shirō Saitō as Naoya Yamashita
- Miō Tanaka as Mikio Yatsuse
- Satsuki Yukino as Mikuri Yatsuse
- Shouzou Sasaki as Yōichi Tanimoto
- Noriko Hidaka as Shion
- Satoshi Mikami as Izuru
- Hisako Kyouda as Gozen
- Mitsuho Kambe as Kaede Yatsuse
After Netflix stream the movie A Whisker Away from Studio Colorido in 2020, the two companies announced a multi-year film co-production agreement for three anime films in 2022. The first film was Drifting Home in 2022, and Studio Colorido announced the deal with a teaser of what would become My Oni Girl.
In the description of My Oni Girl we can read:
Wanting to get along with others and not be disliked, first-year high school student Hiiragi finds himself unable to say no whenever someone asks him for something.
One summer day, while fulfilling another unsuccessful request, he encounters an oni girl named Tsumugi, who came to the human world looking for her mother.
She does what she wants and is the opposite of Hiiragi.
