My Little Goat is an 11 minute short movie, from the director behind the beloved series Pui Pui Molcar and the director of Inaka Isha. My Little Goat has a wonderful look to it, while managing to be gruesome, almost horrify even for older audiences. Before going further with the review if you haven't seen the film, be warned that the film has concepts of sexual assault/abuse of children. My Little Goat has a very simplistic story that turns very horrific. After a wolf eats her children, a goat mother tries to save her children from death via being devoured. After saving almost all of the children,the mother is unable to find one, Toruku. After these events, the mother finds "Toruku" and brings him home after being lost in the woods for a long time.

My Little Goat has a touch of innocence to it, while still managing to be very realistic and very dark. With how the film pans out, it links childhood innocence and fantasy with the horrifying truth that some children, that some parents have to deal with in the real world.

*spoilers ahead, be warned*
What made this more real for me was when Toruku is found by, what I can interpret, his brother. The more fearful Toruku gets, the more that we see that to him, his brother is the wolf in his life, and is the same person who assaults him. While this is seen in two instances, when he reveals his scars, and when Toruku is actually attacked, this becomes very surreal and just generally hard to watch until you know there is a good ending.
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The characters play off of each other significantly well. Albeit, there is not much depth to the goat siblings except for the sister goat Toruku gives his shawl to, but the rest of the characters play very significant roles and profundity in background.
The story itself was nice and somewhat pleasing, but some aspects of the film will confuse viewers unless you watch the film a couple of times more. There are certain aspects of the film that I feel like not many people will pick up on or understand until there is a second viewing or even a third.
The art for this film is very lovely. I'm very profound of when directors use different media, clay, paint, etc., in their films. Tomoki is known for his needle-point works in him films and I feel like with this film using this kind of material, it adds more of a specialty to it and refines it as notable because it is animated this way.

Overall, I fairly enjoyed this short films. I originally found the origins of this through a video edit, I liked how the art looked and watching this, this felt very enjoyable and worth showing to people who peak interest in horror.