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A.k.a. Onara Gorou
Director: Takashi Taniguchi
Viewed in Japanese with English Subtitles
Synopsis: The tale of a sentient
fart, Onara Goro, who helps people with sage advice.
With a premise about a fart in
the shape of a man, coming out of another man, who helps people in their lives,
you'd think alongside its limited animation anime lets any bizarre premise
through the planning stage. You'd be right, but with some of the vocal performances
clearly wooden on purpose to the ear, Onara
Goro is in on the joke. Another factor to consider is that this is a
creator of an independent creator named Takashi
Taniguchi, who had already created this project (alongside Onara Goro
appearing in merchandise and promotional material including his own underwear)
before he was giving the chance to make this anime, even setting up a crowd
funding campaign on the Japanese site Makuake
which was successful. Regardless of the absurdity of the project, which is
clearly in the premise, this is a creator outside the industry who managed to
have a show shown in Japan and globally streamed on Crunchyroll, which is an accomplishment with the added advantage
like all these odd micro projects that they allow new voices to appear. He has
made work before this, and has afterwards, including Yo! Daitouryou Trap-kun (2017) whose lead character suspiciously
looks like Donald Trump, so he could
eventually become a cult figure in his own right if titles like Onara Goro catch on. Screenshots of his
work suggest that the aesthetic appearance of this series is a trademark of his
already.
Consisting of twelve plus three
minute episodes, Onara Goro gets
tired of its premise quite soon into itself and introduces other humanoid farts
along the way, parodying various genres too like horror (I smelt what you did
last summer?) or high school romantic drama in which a romantic love triangle
is decided on a penalty kick out, all the ordinary human characters replicated
by humanoid replicas made by fart gas attached by the rectum through clothing
and going through the drama instead of their human counterparts. Looking like
the denizens of a Ghostbusters
cartoon in their rotund shape, these characters are deliberately silly - Onara
Goro becomes Dr. Goro in one episode, able to cure anything by gas related
supernatural healing but believing an ordinary person's life is as precious as
a major political figure's.
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The limited animation plays to the deadpan nature, highly detailed visuals (with an etched drawn look) but with minimal movement. The absurdity is compounded by the automatic presumption of it being just another bizarre production from the anime industry, a joke reaching a madder point as the end credits is always a live action dance sequence between a five woman idol group and a life sized, plastic replica of Onara Goro himself, asking one to have psychic powers and be able to wonder what the idols were thinking having to do a choreographed dance sequence with a fart.
Like many of these micro series, Onara Goro is digestible and easy to
finish quickly to the point of danger that they are entirely disposable; even
if that was the original case, you look at one of the first of them to make a
name, Gdgd Fairies (2011-13), and I
am amazed (as someone who was already a fan of both its seasons) how that micro
series has grown for me in quality, in comparison to all these I binge, and how
many don't reach the point that one did, in how it managed with its second
season to go beyond the original joke and get legitimately creative and even
weirder for the better. This is not a detraction to Onara Goro, as it's clearly the work of a creator who can easily
jump to another peculiar premise just through looking through a list of his of
his creation. But in this case, it definitely feels like it was stuck at the
moment it was either stretching the gag as far as it could go until it could go
no further, or a fart humanoid dimension and becoming an action fantasy
advantage would be the other way to have ended it....which it does for one of
its final episodes, showing the possibility if this got a second season.
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