Oni: Légendes du tonnerre

The story is beautifully written, with great meaning for everyone (child or grown up).

So great to see quite a few references to other wonderful anime films! A must-see for any anime/studio Ghibli fan!

It's beautifully directed and acted. I don't want to give away any spoilers but the ending was quite emotional for me. There is a beautiful lesson, as you would find in any Japanese tale.

Highly recommended viewing. You must watch all four episodes at once, you will not be able to leave the mini series without getting to the end.

Enjoy this beautiful story with stunning animation. I can't wait to see more productions from this studio!

This is such a lovely story of self discovery and dealing with internalized feelings of fear and self doubt. I appreciate the art style and mix of tradition with modernism. Please watch this while you still can. It's a great series for the family to enjoy and a bit of a tear jerker towards then.

The character development and pace is great. Nothing is shown to fast, they don't leave questioned unanswered. Just simple sweet and wholesome. I love the diversity of this film between human struggles and the struggles of the mythical creatures.

This is one of Netflix's gems that comes along every so often.

Part stop motion, part animation, the style of this short 4 episode mini-series was fantastic and the story was adorable to boot. A bit predictable, but it is of course mainly for kids. Following Onari, a young girl being raised by her magical father in the land of the Kami who must prepare for the coming blood moon when the evil Oni will attack. The frame rate of the stop motion suffers in certain scenes and feels a bit stiff, but generally the animation is fantastic and each of the characters is cute in its own way. I had a lot of fun and I could certainly see how kids would like it. I did, was good.

It's short, it's cute, and visually appealing!

A beautifully stop-motion animated 4-episode story with decent messaging for kids! Like the dangers of trampling over tradition, not taking care of nature, fear against things that are different, and losing one self to emotions and the enemy being within ourselves.. or something. Still, it is energetic enough to distract younger audiences (target demographic)!

I've seen this done better in other places, which makes it hard to stand-out, even with a Japanese Yokai theme. The choppy framerate certainly gives it personality and style.. but also made it very distracting, and hard to enjoy. And overall, doesn't overstay its welcome, but doesn't linger enough to be memorable or recommendable.

I started the series for the adorable visual style, it's cute but not simplistic, there's great sophistication of details and texture. The slow frame rate makes it a little choppy (I assume budget limitations? Maybe if it gets enough viewers they'll go back and fill in frames?), but the overall aesthetics make up for it.

I stayed with the series for the story, which seems simplistic at first but then takes quite a deep turn at the end, and is quite moving. I won't give any spoilers, but it's a lesson that much of the world needs now, in our polarized fractured age.

All in all, amazing film! (I guess long film or short series.)