A object show with a bad ending that brought me down into tears.
ONE (also referred to informally as "hfjONE") is yet another Object Show created by Cheesy Hfj (the same
guy who made the joke show called Battle for Circle) that premiered on June 11th,
2020 and ended on August
21,
2022. It has a group of objects competing for the chance of a wish for
anything their
heart desires.
However, things
get complicated because this isn't a typical contest: the objects came from different parallel universes. All contestants have been suddenly and forcibly teleported to the Plane (a non-descriptive grass field which spreads vastly over god-knows-where) by Airy, an invisible host lackluster in both personality and ideas, in order to compete against their will in his ill-prepared, simple competition.
ONE is best described as a full-on Genre Deconstruction of the typical Object Show format. Throughout its two seasons, both inside and
outside the competition, it explores conventions such as simple names, featureless planes,
easy reincarnations, and the Planet of Hats that gives rise to objects with
human personalities - as well as how those personalities fall apart over the course of a manufactured game show.
The show originally started out with an economy-sized cast of six before Airy kept adding more and more contestants every episode until there are
18 players as of current.