The Oni (Ao Oni)

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Articles About Ao Oni
Animated Works	Game - Ao Oni R - Anime
Live Action Works	2014 Film - 2015 Film - 2017 Film
Written Works	Light Novels

Background

The Oni, or Ao Oni, is the titular main antagonist of the Ao Oni series.

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The Oni is an enigmatic, mysterious creature that lives in the abandoned mansion on the outskirts of a town in Japan. Not much is known about the Oni, but it lives with many creatures that resemble it, and may have once been a human resident of the mansion. It is known to feed upon people that enter. In Version 6.23, it was shown that after the Oni kills, the victim becomes an Oni themselves. It seems to act like a virus - when the "virus" interacts with a sentient creature, it can turn them within moments into a horrific monstrosity, as with the pregnant cat in the original game.

General Information

Name: The Oni, Ao Oni

Origin: Ao Oni

Sex: Unknown

Age: Unknown

Classification: Mysterious Creature

Species: Oni

Occupation: None

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (The Oni merely runs around killing everyone within the mansion, showing great anger when Hiroshi was on an unreachable side of a gate)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 9-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Broke through a wooden floor. Instantly kills Hiroshi if he runs into him. Can swallow humans whole)

Durability: Wall level

Striking Strength: Wall Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Moved so fast that Hiroshi didn't even have time to turn around and close the door. Scribbled an entire room in the short timeframe Hiroshi was hiding)

Combat Speed: Superhuman

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: Superhuman (Spends its entire time in the mansion chasing after humans and trying to consume them whole, without showing any signs of tiring)

Range: Standard Melee Range

Intelligence: Unknown (The Oni possess some form of sentience and intelligence, using different parts of the mansion in order to surprise attack Hiroshi, along with setting up fake doors around the mansion to trick Hiroshi. Along with being able to tell when someone's hiding, and using their own hiding spots to trick them. They can even mimic and act like Hiroshi's deceased friends to trick him)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Stealth Mastery (Can sneak around different parts of the mansion to surprise attack Hiroshi. Hid silently in a darkened room and only attacked once the room was lit), Bloodlust (The Oni is shown to have a large bloodlust, being greatly angered when he cannot reach Hiroshi on the other side of the gate), Large Size (Supersize; The Oni dwarfs Hiroshi in size), Preparation (Uses different parts of the mansion in order to surprise attack Hiroshi, along with setting up fake doors around the mansion to trick Hiroshi), Enhanced Senses (Shown that The Oni has infared senses), Transformation (Shapeshifitng; The Oni's can take the appearance of humans), Transmutation (Those that the Oni has killed will also turn into an oni. It is further shown that one is to even die in its presencce, even through suicide, they will turn into an oni)

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Equipment

Nothing notable

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Notable Techniques

• Transmutation: Through Ao Oni being in one's presence or killing them, the deceased body will turn into an oni that helps The Oni in killing others.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Oni will attempt to attack and kill its pray, when its pray continues to escape it, The Oni will use more clever and prepared plans to trick and sneak attack the opponent.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Trivia

• At the end of the Ao Oni Ver. 2.0 trailer, a giant "Godzilla" sized Oni is seen leaning over the jailhouse and growling at the camera. It is unknown if this is the same enlarged Oni, or a totally different creature set to appear in the sequel.
• In the game, the Oni has infrared vision. However, in the 2014 movie adaptation, it is assumed that the Oni's vision is that of a human's.
• The Oni's voice is briefly heard in one of the versions, but as an unidentified whispering sound. In the movie, the Oni speaks in full Japanese and can also mimic the voices of others to fool its victims.
• The Oni's relationship with the other Oni creatures that appear is unknown, who may be either failed cloning experiments or relatives.
• The Oni can inject a virus that would turn anyone into Oni by touch. Hiroshi's friends are examples.
  • Oddly, Takeshi turned into an Oni despite the fact that he committed suicide.
• The Oni's intelligence is dubious.
  • Some of the ways in which it jumpscares Hiroshi are quite clever (jumping out from the closet, waiting for Hiroshi to come close to his hiding spot, etc), but it seems incapable of actually finding Hiroshi in a closet unless it actually sees him get in.
• It is still unknown if The Oni is the owner of the mansion, or if the owner of the mansion was killed by The Oni.
• According to an interview with noprops for the Ao Oni Official Guidebook, The Oni's head is actually a painting/illustration made by noprops.

Gallery

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  The oni's mansion.

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  Takeshi in the oni's infrared vision, the outline of the oni's eye can be seen

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  The oni on the other side of the jail cell.

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  The oni without teeth during the ending of Version 6.23.

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  A close up of the Oni's mouth..

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  The Oni with teeth.

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  The Oni as see in the movie adaptation.

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  A CGI model of the Oni as seen in the first movie adaptation.

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  The Oni as seen in the movie sequel, Ao Oni Ver.2.0.

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  The Oni looking at Hiroshi when he is eating Mika.

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