Onigiri

Onigiri. The short mmorpg battle anime that surrounds several girls that continue to fight against the supposedly evil Kamikui. In all honesty, before watching this anime, don't expect tons of intense battles, though there are a few. It's more like a random rpg style slice of life anime. Story 7/10: Not much really. There are several mini stories/arcs in the anime that usually last one episode. It's a slice of life anime with no plot (sort of like One Punch Man). Art 9/10: Average art. It wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad. I liked it, and the art style suits the anime for what it is. Sound 8/10:This anime has an opening, and a decent ost, but no ending. The opening song Hime wa Rankiryuu☆Goikkousama is cheerful and happy. It doesn't wow me, and the way the anime opening is done is rather simple. Flashing all the characters in front of your eyes with some simple battle scenes, special move, or flashback to cover the last episode. Characters 7/10: Not very unique, but likable. All the girls are cute, and there is a catgirl in the anime for anyone that likes those. Nyaa~ Enjoyment 8/10: This was an anime I didn't really look forward too every week, but it didn't make me bored either. It was fun while it lasted, and I enjoyed the anime even if it had no plot. Overall 7/10: This anime was good, but it didn't do an outstanding job. It had some comedy, a few battle scenes, and some fanservice that I enjoyed, but it's not worthy of being a masterpiece. Just another fun short anime to watch with not many expectations.

I went into this anime expecting a lot less than I walked away with. Don't let it's current low MAL score fool you as it initially fooled me, this anime may well be worth your time (the 50 minutes it would take to watch the entire series). Now I admit I am probably this show's exact target demographic, while I no longer play Onigiri, there was a time when I was quite active and really into the game. I really like the characters, art style & general tone of the show. The style of comedy they went for fits the game and it's characters sowell. I do have to dock some points for sound unfortunately as although I really liked the OP, I couldn't get over how they play these battle sound effects over it essentially drowning out their own quality OP and ruining the experience, it really used to grind my gears every watch. But that is my main and possibly only criticism of the series. I think past reviews have been far too harsh on this show and not simply judged it for what it is. There's no semblance of a cohesive story, but there doesn't need or try to be. What it sets out to do (provide fan service for existing fans, potentially attract more fans and generate interest in the game & entertain for a whopping 4 minutes at a time) it does very well. I had a very good time with the series and found myself having at least one good laugh per 4 minute episode, usually more. My favourite episodes were 8 & 9 so try to make it to at least there before making your mind up on the series, I've seen many people give up on this show early and I can easily see the OP sound blunder putting people off from the get go. I give this series a solid 8/10, a must watch for fans of the game, and worth a shot for everyone! With it's extremely low time investment, you can easily squeeze in eps wherever you have a spare 5 minutes. (let me know if you enjoyed my review, the first one I've ever written :P)

It's an anime advertisement for an MMO at best. They take the self awareness too far when they use it and then neglect it despite having perfect set ups for nice jokes. It's got some minor level of fanservice I guess, if you're here for that, the hotspring episode is probably as far as it goes? But it doesn't even include most of the characters so it seems failing even in that respect. It might be passable to watch since it only has 4 minute episodes (opening and credits take 30-40% of the run time) but honestly, there's no commitments made story wise to even consider this tohave niche appeal.

An anime short being meta about it being an anime adaptation from an Online MMO? Onigiri really follows a meta comedy with the main cast of Onigiri and changes genre alot at the same time. The comedy being meta is taken as either repetitive or funny for the most part, the repetitiveness comes from the character gags but where it is funny is when the comedy takes focus on the typical MMO gameplay and then brings in a punchline and those episodes were the best part of the comedy. Onigiri has a habit of changing genres from time to time, from typical romance, idols, tragic romance turnedshounen and heck MECHA!!!, the comedy with all these genre-changing actually does work albeit the comedy incorporates meta-gamplay. The characters however are stereotypical with just the one trait/running gag that they have. Besides the very bland character traits, if there was any characters LA liked was Shizuka Gozen voiced by Aina Suzuki, ONLY because she had the most screentime overall along with Ibaraki-douji voiced by Suzuko Mimori because of her distinct character design, on the other hand, Kijimuna voiced by Nozomi Kishita was just plain annoying. The animation done by Pierrot Plus, well LA kinda thought the animation was decent at best, from the bright character designs blending well rampantly chaotic battles to the 8bit animation style at times to some of the more quirkier moments, the animation is decent. LA was hoping that Onigiri would have been a full-fledge 23 minute anime instead of being an anime short as LA heard the MMO has a storyline over gameplay, however for what it Onigiri is as an anime short for what it is as a comedy anime short trying to advertise the MMO to us, it kinda did it's job.

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