I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

Amawa Hibiki is a young man just out of college, with an education to be an athletics teacher. He's been having a hard time finding a job since he graduated, so all his money has gone towards living expenses. When his landlady demands his first payment to live in her living establishment upfront, he heads to the local middle school to get hired as a teacher. However, the principal refuses to hire him without hesitation. She will not hire men as teachers and makes it clear that she hates all men, saying they put no love into their ions and work. Amawa does not give up and with the help of his landlady, he crossdresses as a woman without a second thought, and gets hired, so he can earn money and also prove the principal wrong. Now, he has to keep his real gender a secret, and avoid strange situations, including the affections of his students (from both genders).

(Source: ANN)

Amawa, Hibiki Main

Kishi, Yuuji Japanese

Kuzuha, Fuko Main

Watanabe, Akeno Japanese

Sanjo, Lulu Main

Kujira Japanese

Tofukuji, Tofu ing

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Aoki, Kyosuke ing

Yamaguchi, Takayuki Japanese

Fukae, Akira ing

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Ashiya, Haruko ing

Orikasa, Naomi Japanese

Umeda, Mother ing

Takamori, Nao Japanese

Kuzuha, Toko ing

Shimamoto, Sumi Japanese

Manase, Akane ing

Omae, Akane Japanese

Matsuda, Akio Producer

Yamaguchi, Yuuji Director, Storyboard

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

Fujimoto, Yoshitaka Episode Director

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Dec 3, 2007

Nayelianne

Recommended

It puzzles me why no one had reviewed this yet. Which hyped me up even more to let people know about this anime.

Art
You might be looking at the preview image right now thinking "Ahh... It doesn't look that appealing".
Well, to be honest, I'm not that fond of that drawing style, but don't let it discourage you! You'll get used to it, I promise.

Keep reading!


Story and Enjoyment
... If you're looking for a 'super developed' plot on how the world suddenly became and apple and how humans must find a way to turn it back, forget it.
This is a very lighthearted Anime, it won't confuse you with its scientific theories and plot twists that make you go "huh?".

It made me cheer up from "Ahh, why all my anime suddenly feel so boring?" to laughing by the end of the very first episode.

Now, don't get me wrong about the plot twists. They exist! They're quite good at holding the mystery for the right amount of time and unleashing it into a laugher bomb of amusement.

I don't think they exaggerated or forced on either comedy, drama or romance. To me it was well quite balanced.
And I liked the ending too, so yay!


Sound
Quite simple:
Before watching, just ask yourself if you must you fall in love with every Opening and Ending Theme you see. I usually skip them unless I do, anyway. (And so I did, in I My Me! Strawberry-Eggs). I guess you can figure.

Characters
I know some people just skipped the whole review to read about the characters. But if you did, I'm sorry to disappoint you, I won't get into much detail for the fear or ruining the surprise.
They do develop along the series. Those very subtle changes in the characters' personalities really made me fall in love with them.

And, must I say, I had quite a few good surprises as the anime was reaching its end!




Final Thoughts on I My Me! Strawberry-Eggs
As I said, a very lighthearted anime that will probably lift up your mood. It'll make you laugh, and who knows; even might make you cry. It'll amuse and surprise just when you thought it couldn't, and you'll slowly understand what makes it so good.

I completely recommend it!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 27, 2008

Ranivus

Mixed Feelings

::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 dres ... as 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 20, 2022

carefuls2zebra51

Not Recommended

The story is kind of interesting. A cross dressing teacher at a sexist school could maybe provide interesting commentary. But it doesn't bother and instead just has the most basic messages that could've been done. Even by 2001 standards it's downright primitive.

Also that stuff takes a backseat in the mess of a love square that eventually ties back into another message about true love or something. The romantic subplot also has hilariously little interesting things to say despite trying it's hardest to be inspirational.

The art was not very pleasant to look at. It almost gave a cursed feeling. I don't know how many ... songs in the ost there are because I was hearing the same song over and over again.

The characters are flat and Kuzuha's essentially a perfect angel. The mc has the level of personality of your average harem protagonist. It's not funny and very disorienting to watch. There's not even anything to make fun of, which would be a saving grace.

Also I reeeaaally wasn't into the whole teacher-student romantic relationship it was pirating so hard. It was more creepy and disturbing more than anything else. Surprised very little reviews mentioned it.

This show isn't a masterpiece. It's a strange, almost pretentious mess that wasted my time. I was disgusted, confused, annoyed, but I never smiled. How in the lord did I make it through this I don't even know.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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