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ONA ComedyKonnichiwa Onara Gorou

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  TheGruesomeGoblin

  1/100
  This show is a real breath of fresh air.

  

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  Introduc--fuck it here's the whole review

  Onara Gorou is a meme brought to us by the wonderful studio ICLA who you may or may not recognize as the creators of the acclaimed horror series, Yami Shibai, and the other meme they created, Sekai no Yami Zukan. One must ask themselves, why would a studio primarily known for their "horror" series ever one day just fucking do a show entirely about talking farts?

  But to pin the blame for Onara Gorou entirely on ICLA would be disingenuous indeed, and I try to be an impartial and fair reviewer, as you may know if you've read any of my previous Korean webtoon reviews. No, we have to look to Onara Gorou's acclaimed director, Takashi Taniguchi. Who is responsible for several creations that aren't even on Anilist and god help me, I refuse to be the one who adds them here.

  

  I personally choose to believe that just one day between Yami Shibai 3 and 4, this madman, Takashi Taniguchi just suddenly showed up one day at ICLA.

  You are the acclaimed creators of Yami Shibai, yes? I want you to help me create this very funny fart show. I will be the director. I have a gun. You're going to help me make this show about talking farts, and I have a gun, you better help me make this show happen. Or who knows, this gun may just accidentally happen to go off.

  

  They definitely didn't do it because they genuinely thought it was funny or for money. Yami Shibai is a wonderful series, and all five seasons are perfect, so I know ICLA is better than... than this.

  Really, I have to just underline how much of a psychopath one would have to be to really push for this show's creation. Thirteen episodes about talking farts. Even in the format of a TV short, it gets almost IMMEDIATELY old but yet... thirteen episodes!

  

  There was absolutely no reason for this to be anything more than yet another weird ONA of this Taniguchi guy. I have absolutely no fucking idea which side to blame for this. Did Taniguchi genuinely just want to do a collaboration with this studio that is primarily known for their horror series, with that collaboration ending up being this talking fart show? Did ICLA genuinely want to break out of horror and into the comedy genre? Like there is straight up a horror episode of this and that made me think, was this idea originally just a scrapped Yami Shibai idea?

  

  The farts are talking and living entities, and the people that they are sprouting from are just hollow shells that never once talk. The farts control them. They are hosts to their farts. Then their farts go on to marry other farts, and have families... of farts!

  At the end of the day, after all of the farts have subsided, I just have to ask myself. Did anybody involved in this show seriously have any faith in it? That it'd be found funny or received positively at all? And really... the answer I've come to is...

  

  ...Of fucking course not. I can't. I just can't. I refuse to believe otherwise. Literally none of it was funny outside of maybe the horror episode because of how hilariously well it would fit in an actual season of Yami Shibai. In addition, the show just straight up ends with the characters singing to all of the farts making repeated fart noises and a character of course lights a cigarette, and the school explodes and everyone dies. "Onara Gorou is now over, we're never speaking of this ever again as there'll never be a sequel, now we have to get to work on Yami Shibai 4."

  In my opinion, an awful show that was made with the express purpose of making an awful show is automatically worse than any terrible show whose creators actually tried to make a good show but they just horribly failed. So, I give Onara Gorou a 1 out of a 100.

  Now, let's never speak of this ever again and please downvote this review. And I'll see you again inevitably, when ICLA drops Yami Shibai 6.

  Did they fucking shoot this in an abandoned building??? I have so many questions for ICLA, it's ridiculous.

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  WallahSous

  50/100
  TV version of parody animations on Youtube with farts as the focus

  The first 4 episodes were extremely promising, but unfortunately they took a wrong turn.

  Given that every episode is 3 minutes, it made episodes 5-13 more bearable than they otherwise would have been.

  The show essentially follows this format:

  Highschoolers (divided into nerds and bullies) have a mundane problem. This mundane problem then becomes the core idea of a life lesson. In this case, an elderly gentleman, and eventually others including the school principle, shows up and summons a fart from his rectum. This fart is a deep-thinking philosopher who addresses the situation and helps the highschoolers out of it by instructing them and giving them a valuable lesson. The number of wise farts increases over time and advice is then given by multiple farts.

  The first 3 episodes started out this way:

  1. Elderly fart addresses a physiological problem and educates the viewers about human anatomy
  2. Same thing as episode 1 but with another problem
  3. A new female fart appears and corrects the elderly fart by suggesting that this time, the problem isn't physiological but psychological instead (the topic was love)

  Based on those 3 episodes, you would think that the show would use male-fart to teach the viewers about human anatomy/physiological processes and use female-fart to teach the viewers about human emotions/psychology.

  Unfortunately, it started diluting the stories, less lessons were offered to the viewer, more farts joined the show and started to become subjects in the show themselves, rather than being the ones who are wise. You started seeing the lives of these farts and live their little problems, which was honestly not very entertaining after having been shown once already.

  Art-wise, it's fairly detailed and has a pencil-strokes like style with static, low fps, paper animations. It has a style similar to what you'd except from one of those Youtube parody animations. It's very caricatural as you can imagine. The expressions are exagerated by either being overly stoic or being overly expressive, as seen below.

  

  They also have an odd music video outro with real people and a CGI version of the wise fart that made the whole thing feel more official than it originally felt like.

  

  The show is basically one whole parody/joke show taken to TV-level production.

  Overall, I can only rate this as a "short film"/"video" type of anime. The first 4 episodes were enjoyable, the rest went downhill very fast. Started out top echellon, but it's counter-balanced by the rest, so I'll give it an average rating of 5/10.

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