Joseph Luster
May 7, 2024 
Following 2022’s Drifting Home, My Oni Girl is the second of a three-picture deal between anime studio Colorido and Netflix. It’s currently set to hit Japanese cinemas and Netflix around the world on May 24, and we have some fresh footage thanks to a music video for the theme song, “Uso Janai” (“It’s No Lie”), by Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni (ZUTOMAYO).
The film is directed by Tomotaka Shibayama (A Whisker Away) and written by Shibayama and Yuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri.). It stars Kensho Ono as protagonist Hiiragi Yatsuse and Miyu Tomita as Tsumugi, the titular oni girl from another dimension.
Here’s how Netflix describes the film:
Yearning to get along with others and not be disliked, first-year high school student Hiiragi finds himself unable to say no whenever someone requests something of him. One summer day, while unsuccessfully carrying out yet another request, he encounters an oni girl named Tsumugi, who has come to the human world to search for her mother. She does whatever she pleases and is the complete opposite of Hiiragi. Studio Colorido presents this fantasy tale of youth that unfolds over one wintery summer.
