In this section we'll take a look at the strong and the weak sides of an anime we're covering to help you decide wither to watch it too or not! Every anime we'll cover will contain not only the standalone series but also OVAs, specials and sequels.
Sometimes it's hard to write a review for every show you watch, a good review that is. But you can always make a list of things you liked and disliked about the show!
I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
This review will be a different from the others, because I got busy while writing it and lost the original structure. For that reason, I have to improvise and give you something that wasn't planned.
I hope you'll still be able to make a decision based on this little review.
Quick summary:
Hibiki Amawa has a dream - he wants to be a good PE teacher and give hi students love and hope. Being a teacher is important for him, so when Seito Sannomiya Private School's director refuses to hire him because of his gender, Hibiki doesn't hesitate and dresses up as a woman to make her dream come true!
As a teacher, she touches the heart of everyone, but mainly she touches the fragile heart of Fuko Kuzuha, who isn't ready for the change HIbiki brings to her life...
Genres: Comedy - Drama - Romance - Slice of Life
Studio: TNK
Season: Summer 2001
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Commentary:
This anime was weird. From the first scene to the last, it was incredibly weird and feelings mixed inside of me - not having idea whether I enjoyed it or not.
It's a slice of life comedy anime that was great in it's time but fails to capture a bigger audience nowadays. It's fun to know that the Japanese used the sex-change trope in 2001 right. I am very conflicted about this anime though.
The art can be really cute, the jokes can be really funny. Some characters designs are amazing some aren't such pleasure to look at.
As someone who is studying to be a teacher, I liked the trope of wanting to be a good teacher and I liked the aspect of our MC doing everything to help his students.
The character of "Baa-chan" is typical for old comedy anime, and it worked great in this show as well. Overall, the anime did a great job at presenting the story they tried to cover, so I can't really say anything bad about that.
There is a homoerotic (wait no, since Hibiki is a man it isn't) tension between Hibiki and Fuko, which was fun to watch but then you realize how annoying Fuko is. I disliked her for many many episodes.
Another plus is how Hibiki became accustomed to being a female. It was so fun to watch him come to realization that he likes certain things and how he had a date with his students and bought himself "girly" stuff.
| [If they can be respectful, so can we.] |
Episode 7 didn't make a good impression. Calling gays "dirty" and even using the term "fruitcake" is funny when you translate is a as a sarcasm... but that's all I can say about it. Points down for something so unnecessary.
ALSO, great job at showing how dangerous sexism is. I am a woman, still I appreciated the way this anime addressed boys having hard time around women in power. I had the displeasure of seeing it happen in person, but the way Hibiki is defending her male students is really great and speaks volumes. This anime has a strong tone of gender rights... But then the mixed feelings come back as they had to push Fuko falling in love with Hibiki forward. It was not necessary, it was awkward and Jesus, why?! And they even made it a plot twist...
We got a romance out of the blue that got the key focus - and that was a weird shift. And it was a unhappy love triangle as well. In the end the gay jokes had no business being there since Fuko thought she was in love with a girl.
Conclusion: absolutely mixed feelings 💫
