
Ao Oni The Animation
Seen it?2017 | 60 min | Horror, Animation
Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a box office flop and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- A natural pick for anyone curious about anime and people who like to watch through their fingers. It's anime, with all the big emotions and big action that comes with it.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Builds dread steadily, at 1 hr. An easy one to fit in on a school night.
- What might put you off
- No age rating on record, so check it first for young kids.
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Skip it if you scare easily or watch alone at night.
Based on the horror game Ao Oni by noprops. Five members of the cultural anthropology club at an old western-style school are trying to come up with ideas for their presentation at the school's culture festival, when they find a collection of folk tales gathered by a student in their club 40 years ago. They realize that the mysterious Bellflower Oni that appears in the folk tales may be the basis for the popular free game Ao Oni, and decide to make that their theme. They manage to make contact with the author of the Ao Oni game, but he dies mysteriously soon afterward. The club members become suspicious at the author's death and began to investigate on their own, but encounter a secret they never should have touched: a secret underground prison in the school. For some reason all the fire doors at the school are locked, and they are trapped in the school. The sound of the strange footsteps they hear soon turn to their screams...A new tragedy of the Ao Oni is about to begin.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerWeak
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
Not enough engagement data yet
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Cast & crew
Directed by Toshirou Hamamura
- Shuta MorishimaShou Konaka
- Ryota OsakaKouji Manabe
- Ayane SakuraKarin Minazuki
- Takahiro MizushimaShouichirou Murakami
- Eri KitamuraJunko Takashiro
- Hiroki TouchiKaoru Fujimoto
- Yoko HikasaMifuyu Hatano
- Kenji NojimaFumihiko Tachibana