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 Studio Colorido's My Oni Girl follows Hiiragi Yatsuse, a high school boy who struggles to form meaningful relationships despite his willingness to please people. Things come to a head for the young man after a chance encounter with an oni girl named Tsumugi when she asks him for help finding her mother in the human world. Throughout their journey, Tsumugi and Hiiragi face mini-oni (ghostly orbs born from humans who are afraid to express their feelings) and the calamity that comes when people let their emotions fester for too long. At first glance, My Oni Girl has all the hallmarks of a Studio Ghibli-inspired game. You've got a globe-trotting adventure with odd-couple protagonists, a myriad of gorgeously drawn vistas, deliciously glamorous titular shots of Japanese delicacies, cool mondo elders, and visionary monster designs to boot. Considering that the film's director, Tomotaka Shibayama, cut his teeth at Ghibli before coming to Studio Colorido, it's no surprise that ...