They range in many colors, but the Red Oni represents the Sun, Fire, and Sky and is usually accented with Gold, meaning fortune. PS.An Oni is a creature that instills fear and danger from their appearance, their wild and strange, sometimes playful behaviors, and dangerous powers.Īlthough Oni have been told as frightening creatures, they have become tamer in modern culture as people tell less scary stories. Who knows? You might enjoy it more than I did! The art, animation and sounds - everything is average.

And before you tell me to “laugh it off”, let me know how you’d feel if, for example, you’re a religious American who sees Jesus calling all Americans fat, ugly and stupid? Same for the negative stereotype “the water is dirty” comment for India – it wasn’t really funny, it was outright offensive, something that would *never* be uttered by Buddh for his motherland. Speaking of, Buddhism was all about peace and ahinsa, so the concept of wearing silk shirts (leave alone decorating them) would have been out of the question for Buddh, so the animators fuked up there. And if I didn’t get them, then how is it those people who gave this anime such a high rating, get them? Did they study Buddhism in college or something? I mean, I’m someone who has a fair amount of knowledge about Christianity, and unlike most other people, I know quite a lot about Buddhism (seeing how Gautam Buddh was born in my country) so I was surprised at how many references I didn’t understand. children, although if I’m being honest, a lot of jokes went over my head. It’s a nice and sweet comedy, suitable even for The setting is quite unique, of course, and more power to animators who can go through concepts on anime without involving high school children, nudity or violence.

The reason I gave it a 6 (and nothing lower) is because even though I didn’t like the anime, I didn’t dislike it either – it was pretty average. There’s not much to write about an anime with just 2 short episodes, so I’ll keep my review brief. I really wanted to like this anime, but sadly, the comedy mostly fell flat and the VAs didn’t do a great job. Welp, looks like I just made my first ever review, lol. So enjoy this nice addition to this season's to be watched anime, and at the end of the day, you'll be wondering if Joan Osbourne's song influenced the author into writing this funny piece of a series. That said, this light-hearted anime should not be taken seriously and in all honesty, parodying the daily lives of religious figures is quite novel in itself, if not daring. Hilarity ensues when she scolds them afterwards! Like Jesus' unintentional miracles (levitating much?) and Buddha's godly charisma (it literally glows!).

Its understandable, because since they boarded there, strange things have happened. Even more funnier is the fact that two of the most revered religious figures in history are scared shitless of her! The scenes usually shift from Matsuda-san's perspective to the two 'foreign men', but usually most of the screentime is allocated to Matsuda-san, who in all honesty, suspects the two as anything but ordinary foreigners renting and sharing a room. Funny thing is, they are roommates in an apartment managed by Matsuda-san the strict landlady. In fact, this anime basically answers: What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us, Just a stranger on the bus, Trying to make His way ho - er, damn, I just sang that song. Well, sorry for them, but this anime preaches nothing but pure fun and hilarity. And upon seeing this OVA (2 episodes, one episode for now), it made me laugh so hard and said to myself, those religious zealots screaming blasphemy will be having a field day upon seeing these, and that could be annoying. Kinda sounds like a scene coming from the song One of Us by Joan Osborne if Well, Saint☆Onii-san is pretty similar to HM, only that instead of a demon lord, we've got religious icons living their daily lives in the human world (disguising as ordinary citizens as part of their two-month vacation from their holy duty), and those figures are Jesus and Buddha. Ok, so pretty much everyone here knows or even heard of Hataraku Maou-sama right? The one where the Demon Lord is transported the the human world and forced to live among the society of humans.

Oni san