Twin Engine has released a special collaboration PV trailer for the My Oni Girl anime film, featuring the insert song “Blues in the Closet” by Japanese rock group ZUTOMAYO. The anime film first began streaming on Netflix on May 24, 2024.
Tomotaka Shibayama (A Whisker Away co-director) is directing the anime film, with Yuuko Kakihara (The Apothecary Diaries, Blue Orchestra) as co-screenwriter along with Shibayama, and Nami Kubota as music composer. Studio Colorido is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff members include Masafumi Yokota (Shine on! Bakumatsu Bad Boys) as character designer, Sunao Chikaoka (Hakubo, Revisions original character designs) as character design assistant, Miho Tanaka (The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons) as color designer, Kunihiko Inaba (Meganebu!, Giovanni’s Island) as art director, Satoshi Machida as composting director, and Eriko Kimura (Penguin Highway) as sound director.
Meanwhile, the anime film’s voice cast includes:
- • Kensho Ono as Hiiragi Yatsuse
- • Miyu Tomita as Tsumugi
- • Aya Yamane as Mio Takahashi
- • Hisako Kyoda as Gozen
- • Mio Tanaka as Mikio Yatsuse
- • Mitsuho Kambe as Kaede Yatsuse
- • Noriko Hidaka as Shion
- • Satoshi Mikami as Izuru
- • Satsuki Yukino as Mikuri Yatsuse
- • Shintaro Asanuma as Ryūji Takahashi
- • Shiro Saito as Naoya Yamashita
- • Shouzo Sasaki as Yoichi Tanimoto
- • Tomoko Shiota as Shimako Yamashita
My Oni Girl is the second title in Colorido’s three-film partnership with Netflix, following 2022’s Drifting Home. Netflix also streamed A Whisker Away in 2020.
Netflix describes the synopsis of My Oni Girl as:
My Oni Girl tells the story of Hiiragi Yatsuse, a first-year high school student who struggles to make friends despite his efforts to please others. His life takes an unexpected turn when one summer day, he meets Tsumugi, an oni (demon) girl on a quest to find her mother in the human world. Snow mysteriously begins to fall… and their adventure begins.
Source: Studio Colorido Official Twitter, Twin Engine YouTube Channel
