I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

::QUICK REVIEW:: Story: 5 (Typical funny trap situations) Art: 3 (I cant forgive uneven fingers and ugly ears) Sound: 6 (voice actors are pretty good but nothing else) Character: 6 (cute as hell but still drawn poorly) Enjoyment: 4 (Traps and perverted old men running gags) Overall: 24/50 = 4.8 = ~5.0 (A really mediocre SoL comedy) This is quite a confusing anime since it almost feels like it's trying to pull both male and female audiences using unorthodox means. First off, its a typical ecchi-harem anime and i use the word harem pretty loosely. Because after episode one the main character will be a trap. YES a trap (man dressing upas a woman). If you don't feel comfortable watching that sort of thing please feel free to drop it. Because you're not missing much. Don't worry, everything will set itself out in episode one. Including the perverted old men trying to sneak ecchi pics of school girls as a running gag. All this stuff is all fine and dandy, but I thought traps usually gear toward a more female or FYG-type audience. Once the story layout is exposed, it's all downhill from here. Every episode has been done in other school SoL (slice of life) anime. And they're not even done very well in this show. But for what it's worth the girls are pretty cute and moe and it does a fairly decent chemistry between Hibiki and his/her students. You'll also pretty much guess how the ending will be from the start as well. But the path from start to finish, despite it being very cliche with a trap twist, isn't all THAT bad but it fairly decent at best. Another thing that's lacking in this show is the art quality. Which is kind of important in an ecchi/comedy/SoL/school/drama/romance show. You can tell it has a mediocre style artwork to it with over accentuating character outlines and very VERY simplistic school outfits. Its one of the worst school outfits i have ever seen in ANY show, period. It's a weird tank top/skirt compilation with this HUGE white sailor collar covering their shoulders. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be that huge. One thing this show does have going for itself is definitely the school girl characters. They're all cute and moe in their own way. And you actually feel sorry for some of their slice of life situations. It still doesn't help the fact that this show is very mediocre and and a lot of times just wrong (in 'funny' ways of course). Its obvious this show is drawing a male audience with all the ecchi, but at the same time its pulling a female audience by how a man has to adjust himself to a women's lifestyle. If that sounds like something you want to see give it a shot. But if you don't like mediocrity in your story or art work stay far away from this one. There are a lot of better ones out there.

I started watching I My Me! Strawberry Eggs four years ago. It was one of my first forays into anime tinged with yuri and crossdressing, both elements that have become more popular in the years since. Now revisiting and finishing it, I feel a very strong appreciation for a show that tackles rarely handled topics such as reverse sexism and above all, what really matters when you fall in love with someone. Admittedly, Strawberry Eggs fails spectacularly as a comedy. The jokes are stale, the timing is terrible, and the visual gags are just lame. Its only existence in comedy seems to be to keep theseries light-hearted, because when it dives into drama, it tends to dive deep. No surprise given the premise involves a man who crossdresses to teach at a school that only allows women to teach falling in love with one of his female students. Barriers invoking melodrama include age, gender, and sexual orientation, as well as the negative stereotypes that men typically have to bear. These issues are handled quite delicately while both the teacher and his students, both operating under entirely wholesome premises, attempt to understand each other in an environment that breeds discrimination on unwholesome assumptions. The way these issues are tackled and resolved are Strawberry Eggs's true strength and with great fortune, is what it blossoms toward, especially in its incredibly impressive final stretch. The characters are also a mixed breed. No one really stands out besides Hibiki and Kuzuha, but everyone is a well-rounded character and no one is entirely a cliche. The characters, despite their lack of discernible personalities, never come across as fake... well, except the apartment patrons. They're a joke and have no real puprose or need for existence within the series. The art is decent, not necessarily pretty but certainly not ugly. I suppose "tolerable" would be the right word which is coincidentally (or not) appropriate for this series given its message. The voice work is impressive and passionate, especially Yuki Masuda as the female voice of Hibiki. However, the BGM and OP/ED accompaniments are beyond bland. In short, though looking rather uninspired and bland, Strawberry Eggs ultimately blossoms into something strong, thoughtful, and sincere. A real treat for series of this nature that proves in many ways that looks are not only deceiving, but also not what really matters. Overall, I give I My Me! Strawberry Eggs a 7 out of 10.

Okay I hate to admit this and I really hate to admit this because I'm a guy but this was a damn good series story wise, if it was redrawn and remade I sure as hell would enjoy it about a thousand times more as I'm sure most people will think as well. So without any further ado let us review. Story- Like I said the story in this was great, the ending was a real heart jerker, and the laughs I enjoyed were pretty genuine. The only thing that prevented it from getting a ten was some lack of substance and how short the serieswas. Art- Okay yeah this series definitely lost points with me here mostly because everything was not well drawn. I understand that this series is kind of old but I have to draw a line somewhere. Sound- Okay I liked the voice actors in japanese and the voices really did match the characters; in terms of sound effects they did a decent job there too so yay good job. Character- Well for the important characters yes there was some development but there were sometimes where I just felt uneasy as to what a character was like...what I mean to say is either the character was as easy to read as a book or about as readable as Latin is speakable Enjoyment- I liked this series a lot it wasn't my first experience watching an anime that was at least roughly based around school life but it was definitely one of my more enjoyable experiences; it actually makes me expect great things from school life based animes unlike some series which will remain un-named cough cough super gals cough cough. Overall- If you like a heart warming kind of story and enjoy a little bit of drama here and there I suggest this series if not I'm not sure why else you would pick it up unless the aspect of a man cross dressing to get a job as a teacher is just your thing...

Strong kombucha girl vibes on this. The series has certain foibles inherent in the premise. Ultimately, the character isn't ~*~actually~*~ trans, so a lot of what it has to say about trans people is oblique at best. It came off like they hadn't actually talked to a trans person before. Of course, ""this is a product of the time"" to a degree and perhaps that is to be expected. I got similar vibes from the yuri element, which plays second-fiddle to the straight romances for most of the run and goes in uncomfortable directions by the end. No, I am not going to root forthe teacher and student to get together in a real world scenario, so please do not bother. Especially the premise requires a deferred anvil drop when she finds out the teacher is actually a man. I dreaded that day all the while I spent watching this and it was not great when it happened. But, nevertheless, I found myself enjoying it in the middle there. As awkward as the queer representation is, there are some moments that are really cool. I like depictions of the liminal space where a girl hasn't realized she's a lesbian yet, and some of that was good. There was a great scene where the teacher realized he was performing the mannerisms of a woman off-the-clock and the old lady affirms that that's OK. A lot of the middle is about how he's realizing that he actually likes the experience of being a woman and, just barely short of the text, is wondering if he is a transwoman. I liked all of that. The show should have been building up to that. But, unrelated to these matters, the "this was written by men" anvil drops. You see, another part of the premise is that the people who run the school are extreme parodies of radical feminists who hate all men. As a man who doesn't feel put out by people expressing their frustration at a horrific system like that, the vast majority of what they did with these characters were bad takes. They treat the boys at the school as if they are second class citizens, and if the joke is supposed to be that this is how girls are treated in real life, then it REALLY does not work. It comes off less tongue-in-cheek than it does as a straight-faced critique of "the world women really want" written by men where men are the victims. No. No, no, no. Start over. Cut it out. Please go back to the transwoman idea. ...And then the second half of the series deals with the boys' plight almost more than the trans teacher or the lesbian... Sigh. Oh, and the series's running antagonist is a woman who suspects the teacher is secretly a man, and so she spends the whole show trying to out her co-worker. If this was a trans-positive commentary on why policing gender is bad, there are possibilities in a sideplot like this. But what it actually ended up being was naive representation for TERFs. And she succeeds. And the transwoman is exiled. The TERF doesn't face any comeuppance. The most balance to this that we get is the fact that she's just a bad person in general, but that's portrayed as a consequence of her man-hating nature and, therefore, her feminism. Token reference to the fact that the art is from the early digital period and is shabby most of the time. There are positives to it, but it just doesn't work. If you're pointed to this show by clips of the good trans scenes buried in this, enjoy those. Don't bother watching it.

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