Onara Gorou

I will be straight up, this anime is amazing.

I have written many joke reviews in the past, some still serving their purpose, some are no longer alive. I have written so much that I have no idea if I am being true to myself or just messing around. But one thing is for sure. Onara Gorou is a great piece of work.

Humour can be interpreted in ways that make it the most inconsistent thing one could imagine. There is no one universally funny joke. So I will just say, for that one minority that loves random media that makes no sense, the kind of anime ... that people say "failed to be funny" (but it is funny in truth smh). Onara Gorou is for you.

Story? Sensei Onara Gorou teaches you how to prevail in life, yes, a fart does that. The very deep and philosophical themes are very deep and philosophical lies in the fact that there are no deep and philosophical themes, or maybe there is? Though, this is a shitpost, literally. Onara Gorou isn't supposed to be something serious as it is just a bruhmoment.jpg, in saying that though, some of the morals of the story do hit home, so there is that to consider. The characters rock the same boat too, pretty sure they were irrelevant and we only come here for the man himself Onara Gorou spitting about some really important life lessons, just not as cringe as some of those YouTube channels.

Audiovisuals? Kino. Mixed manga style with animation from none other than the likes of something like Inferno Cop. The two come hand in hand and whilst it may look like some odd animation, it fits everything about this anime 100%. The same is for audio, ED really catchy, OST not really much, but all the voice acting was pretty something else. Great work.

Enjoyment? Well, considering you have nothing against random entertainment or are very critical about your taste in jokes, this is pretty much very enjoyable. It is clear it doesn't take itself seriously, nor does it even care, but I suppose that what makes it even better. I like random, and Onara Gorou sure does check out in being great at random. Would recommend this for those looking for something that doesn't fit in with the bunch. 10/10.

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:

Elderly fart addresses a physiological problem and educates the viewers about human anatomy
Same thing as episode 1 but with another problem
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.

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 fely 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.

This is the anime equivalent of "The Room". Just because it gets a poor rating, doesn't mean I don't recommend it. I highly recommend it simply for its sheer stupidity.

Pros:

- Short (only about 40 minutes to watch the entire series)
- Great sense of humor
- Extremely catchy ending song
- Great for anybody who loves extremely bad "so bad they're good" shows and movies

Cons:
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- Artwork and animation are unexcusable
- The choice they went for for the final episode was an odd choice
- Requires an immature sense of humor for the viewer fully enjoy it

Concluding thoughts:

I highly recommend this. It's lighthearted and often quite hilarious. Definitely not your typical anime, but still good for a good laugh.