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I wonder if the will revive the game series... and/or make more ports of the sequels possible.

WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!

I'm sorry, I mean...

WHAT?!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-09-25/takashi-miike-directs-anime-of-onimusha-game-series/.190147

Famed director Takashi Miike (live-action Ichi the Killer, Blade of the Immortal, Crows Zero, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Terraformars) will serve as the chief director of the series at Sublimation. Shin'ya Sugai (Dragon's Dogma, Shikizakura) is directing the series.

Wait........................... Does that mean we might get anime Jean Reno in the future?! D:

Firstly, I didn't get to play games but I really like the artwork and concept of the original game. And maybe this set in or covers another part of the lore, but I was expecting an epic story of a lone samurai fighting his way through an army of oni and fighting his way through a Japanese castle full of oni. However, from what I saw in the trailer, we don't get the content I was expecting, and I feel a bit underwhelmed by the trailer. It feels more like Dororo than what Onimusha is supposed to be but like I've said I've not played the games, so I can't quite fully back that statement, and someone who is a fan of the games can maybe verify if this is the case or not.

The CG is a surprise though and manages to get close to 2D but I think a better cel-shaded approach would have been better. It looks like a 2D anime-style texture was applied over the top of the model, rather than a cel-shaded rendering.

From the trailer, it just doesn't make me want to watch this, and there'll probably be better anime releasing in winter that fill my time.

I... like the look. It's still not what you expect from typical anime, but you know what?
It's roughly like what 3D games with an anime look like could look like, painted 3D models, with light and some celshading.

So why not.

The mood and style is great at least.

Personally its just, do I need it now?
I haven't played any of those games so far after all.

The irony of Ootsuka voicing the protagonist, when he was the main antagonist for the trilogy (Oda Nobunaga).

But it does make me wonder if this was one of the reasons he didn't voice Nobunaga in the Oni 1 remaster redub. Although, only Samanosuke remained the same, everyone else was recast.
However, that was probably just because they would've had to change his face as well (since the voice and likeness was Kaneshiro Takeshi), which wouldn't have gone well with fans.

Point is... Game revival imminent?


It's true that that you only kill genma (monsters) in the games, and you're primarily in dungeon-esque locations. The only time we've ever seen a protagonist fight regular ass humans (excluding other story characters) was in the opening cinematic of Oni 1, and even then, Samanosuke only used a wooden stick, and didn't actually kill anyone. At least on screen.

But yes, the style and tone of this anime seems to differ from that of the games. But as a hardcore fan of the games, who continues to pray every year for a new entry in the series (or at the very least remasters of 2-4, since they're all stuck on PS2, after Oni 3 was delisted on Steam), I'm just hopeful this will eventually lead to an actual resurrection of the games.

Changing the formula that made the original successful will only alienate the fans imao. Judging from the trailer, this attempt at an Onimusha-style story looks weak and isn't going to gain a new fanbase. So, why try to launch a new game off the back of a weak anime? You'd want a strong performance so people will buy a newly launched game and make sequel game(s).

Well, it will get released anyway, but my point is that there's so much potential with a successful name in Onimusha, and they should be doing a better job. It makes me wonder if Japan can produce decent writers(not writers outside the animation industry) in the animation industry to create original animation story content. With such an industry as big as anime, you'd think they'd hire more decent writers. It's just continuing the suffering of the anime industry from the lack of original content unless it's adapted from a Manga, and this is a prime example.

big shame this turned out to be cg
when will we ever get any decently good samurai anime again
fuck you shitflix

This came out together with Blue Eye Samurai and I was sure to watch Blue eye samurai first because I thought there is no way it will end up better or hell even good. Turns out it was exactly the opposite. Blue eye samurai was way better, sadly. To bad, I was kinda hyped about this because I liked the games back in the day a lot.

Hard to believe animation this bad still exists. Quite literally a PS2 ingame cutscene, it even have has the same frame drops.