Audience reviews
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DKNs
A Solid and Charming Experience
The Hook & Concept
The core premise of this anime is its strongest asset. It presents an interesting and engaging concept that immediately hooks you. While it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, it executes its unique hook with enough personality to stand out from other shows of its genre.
Production Values (Visuals & Sound)
For its time, the animation and character designs are surprisingly well-executed. The art style has a certain "grit" or charm (depending on the era) that modern digital animation sometimes lacks. It’s clear that effort went into the linework and consistency.
Complementing the visuals is a solid soundtrack. The music fits the atmosphere perfectly, and both the OP and ED are catchy enough to remain memorable long after the show ends.
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The anime is simultaneously very cute and wholesome, and also features a terrible, unnecessary teacher/student romance plot.
It has some of my favorite moments of growth for students; their friendships and relationships are beautifully written, and it's a wonderful depiction of school life.
You get very beautiful moments of growth, even from background characters, who feel very real throughout the show.
However, it's just impossible to overlook the main 'romance' being between a 14 year old student, and a teacher is out of college so at least 20. Especially since the teacher reciprocating those feelings is NOT essential to the plot, and it should have been left as a student crush as there is at least one other instance of unrequited student crush and it's fine.
It's also full of unneces…
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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 o…
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this is the type of anime you could binge watch in one night or two at most. there's 13 episodes and all of them seem pretty wholesome. it's one of those animes that you can really relate to in terms of crushing on someone, getting your hopes up and being let down. i can almost feel what the characters are feeling since they are very practical.
i think this is a great anime as it shows how people get mistreated based off gender and how gay people get mistreated and made fun of. this anime is full of cold, hard truths about society. i think it's the realistic factors of this anime that makes it all worth watching.
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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 for the 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 whil…
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Strawberry Eggs stings. It stings despite the excess of comedy. It stings despite the mediocre quality. It stings despite its stupidity. This anime was a wild ride, I can say. It's probably one of the best 6 stars I've ever seen in my life. I My Me! Strawberry Eggs is more than a Yuri bait anime. It's a masterpiece.
I started this anime because I wanted some more Yuri. Yes, I consider cross-dressing as a form of Yuri as well as it is technically Yuri bait. However as I progressed through the show I began to overlook all the Yuris and focus on the story instead. The story about a man who is determined to teach and change an extremely feminist school, so determined that he was even willing to cross-dress.
The ending of this anime was a big sting as its unexpectedly realistic as hell and I…
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im late to the show, just finished it and 3 days later im still emotional wreck after the last episode, i really wish this had a full OVA or is given a second chance, i think with the current climate of gender discussion and the rise of streaming services it would do extremely well
the whole season is a roller coaster of emotion,
you can see that hibiki struggles with their gender identity all the way through the season, at first taking on the mentor role, then a motherly role and finally lover, the statement that hibiki was going away to figure themselves out is a massive trans precursor for trans story line, the fact that they admit to enjoying time with the girls and feminine past times. i think the undercurrent from bachan shows that as a trans woman herself she could see it in hibi…
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Short review tiiiiime!~
I went into this anime because I like genderbender. TRUE genderbender, not crossdressing. But even then, if they fall in line with my tastes they can still be pretty good like Ouran High School.
At first I didn't want to see this anime because the MC on the front cover had the skin tone men usually have in anime, and he didn't look like he would fit the "female" role. Luckily he looks 3x better in the anime and pulls it off perfectly.
The story was fun and sweet and they didn't overplay filler type sequences to where it got annoying. It had a bittersweet ending in my opinion that makes me long for a season two, but this was made in 16 years ago so R.I.P. my hopes and dreams.
The art was pretty good for 2001 anime so it isn't unbearable to watch.
Same with the sound…
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The show is silly just as its title sounds. I won't get into story details because most of people have written about it - a man starts crossdressing to get a job in a school to become a good teacher and make sexist female superiors realise that everyone deserves to be treated equally.
Topics such as men-women relations, prejudices, sexuality and love are unwrapped in these 13 episodes. Even though the number of episodes wasn't enough to cover the topics, they were developed in both silly and serious way. Watchers are entertained and provoked a bit at the same time, to relate events to real world situations. I'm sure you frequently encounter topics about gender pay gap in media or discussions, this anime is an artificial laboratory where such things are experimented and boosted to make big…
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First of all this anime is quite under-rated. It really disappoints me seeing the score below 7 on MAL. Anyways a darn good anime. You may question the art style but you'll get used to it but those ears... They creeped me out.
The story overall is good .... Your every day cross dressing hum teacher who teaches at a school where men are despised ..... Hmmm seems good xD.
Sounds and sync of the show was a little disappointing .... But the characters were brilliant .... You could see an average class with average student each different from each other ..... The characters seemed they were taken from a real story
Over all i give this anime 7 at least if not more and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes highschool drama and romance..
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I thoroughly enjoyed this anime from start to finish.
The characters were likable from episode one and the unique story kept me watching.
I loved the concept of a cross dressing girl/boy relationship and was
interested how they would go about doing it.
I was worried that the concept wouldn't work well for the romance between the main characters, but it was executed beautifully and left no doubt in my mind that this series deserved a 10/10.
I was concerned when thinking about watching this because it was made in 2001 and the art style didn't look amazing but I definitely have to say im glad I did watch this.
Overall I highly recommend this to anyone who likes the romance genre or if you like Yuri to watch this series.
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In relation to art and sound aspect, it is close to a 10 by taking into account of the technology available at that point of time.
The story is an 8 simply because there were hiccups in various moments in the anime but the concept of a cross-dressing teacher definitely did not award it anywhere lower.
The characters showed great promise, they really do. But the lack of episodes couldn't allow greater depth to be developed. As it stands, it is an 8.
From the above criteria, it brings to wonder why on the whole it is a 10, because I enjoyed it.
I just simply love how forbidden concepts like a cross-dresser, teacher X student love and concept homosexuality came into play. In the minds of junior high students who are around the age of 14-16, what is their concept of love? This anime takes…
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Alright, so Strawberry eggs probably doesn't resonate with everyone. It touches subjects such as cross dressing, hebephilia and rabid feminism, which aren't exactly uncontroversial in the west (or I suppose in Japan). Even if you approach this series with an open mind, you'll still have to get past the whacky story, the wierd jokes, the fanservice... All I can say is that Strawberry eggs hits a perfect wavelength for me personally.
Graphically it actually looks really good, especially for a high school anime, and even more especially considering it was made in 2001. Vivid animation, nice lighting effects and above decent character design.
The voice acting is good enough, the OP and ED have both been in my "good anime music" folder for over 10 years and the background music is varied and…
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I watched this series and really enjoyed it. The story begins with Hibiki Amawa trying to get a job at the Seito Sannomiya Private School, but the administrator laughs him out of the office since the school does not accept male teachers. So with the help of his landlady, he learns how to dress and look like a female teacher and goes back and gets the job.
As the school's new gym teacher, Hibiki then proceeds to get immersed in one uncomfortable and comical situation after another. But the plot thickens when one of his female students Fuko Kuzuha bonds with him (as her female teacher and mentor) and the situation begins to get out of hand. Classic Japanese train wreck ending, which I always deduct 1 point for.
Lots of laughs and more than a little fan service; I'd give it a PG rating and…
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Just finish watching I my me strawberry eggs and it was a great experience for me.
At first glance at the poster you may thought this anime is just your typical anime about teacher x student relationship with a lots of comedy and parody yeah..at first few episode it was like that but when you
get in the mid end this anime is becoming more on a drama and you will
realize that ..this anime is serious as sh*t... i'm just a little bit over reacting about that :-)
The Story
About a guy needs to pay his rent and so he cross-dress so that he can be accepted in the school were female teacher's only being accepted.
The Characters are great specially Baa-chan she's is always saving the day.
I also like the supporting cast love story and if you watch this you will see a lot of
love triangles
Th…
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Though you may be thrown off at first by the pantie shots this is a great anime that is worth sticking to through out. It has comedy, emotion, character building. The art is very nice though sometimes the characters will look a little off due to less detail (common for anime of this age) the characters are well fleshed out and the story though done before is very well done. I was very invested in this anime all the way through.
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I My Me Strawberry eggs is about a new educated boy who wants to be a teacher, but the nearest school employees are not men as teachers, only women.
Since Hibiki Amawa which is the new educated the boy, desperately need money to pay rent, clothe himself like a woman to get the job.
Fuko Kuzuha, which is one of the students in the class of Hibiki, has had some problems with various things, such that she can not run very far before she falls. As a teacher takes Hibiki responsibility to help Fuko, and it is not only this, he helps her.
Not only that Hibiki must keep their secret, always try to show the principal to find evidence that Hibiki is a man, not a woman. This is then part of the excitement.
As Hibiki Fuko help with various things, they begin slowly to get feelings for each other,…
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Being a future educator myself, this story really warmed my heart. I admit, the story is a little bit stupid and, yes, VERY far-fetched. However, you have to be willing to keep an open mind and look deeper, because the truth is, this story is about love, gender equality, and acceptance of others and of the self. Specifically, though, it is about the equal treatment of MEN. I enjoyed that they focused on this, because these days everything is usually about women being mistreated.
The art is nothing special, and neither is the soundtrack. It's like any other school kid drama in that aspect. I wish I had more to say about that.
Let me just get this out of the way: (without giving too much away) YES, the main relationship between two characters is unrealistic and inappropriate under all circ…
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Good question! wot does the title of this Anime Have anything to do with the story itself? Your guess is as good as mine.
At first when i saw this Anime just by reading the title it didn't sound to appealing to me. i thought it was going to be some "kid" type anime...little magical girls in funky type costumes. then after watching the first episode i was shocked! O_O a cross-dressing teach, a gender bias school principle...and ah, oh well also the normal stuff like perverted old men, and a pushy old lady...which is surprising agile like James Bond. you can pretty much say that this is NOT your everyday middle school.
The Art work is great not too over exaggerated like other "school" like anime. the character's features aren't blow up out of proportion, if you know wot i mean. ^_^ altho…
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I My Me! Strawberry Eggs was a good series, it would have gotten a 10 in my book but there were some things towards the end that kind of bugged me.
The story, as soon as you know what it's about has that "Oh my... Got to see how this goes over" reaction. First episode and I was hooked. VERY funny and the awkward situations made it funnier. But unfortunately, the further and further the series went the more serious it became... That's what I didn't like about the series. Realistically though, what all happened in the series happened just as it would in real life.
Art was typical, it was good art, but not bad. Though there were some parts in the series that they could have left some details out...
Characters were weird... At least the main characters. True, they didn't have much of a bac…
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