Introduction
A teenage boy has now moved in the home of his mother's friend, because she had died a while back. It just so happens that the Yakuza family has four beautiful daughters, but one daughter, Hibari, who is more beautiful than the rest of the daughters, is actually male. Hibari just can't keep her hands off our hero and so their crazy yet happy lives go on.
(Source: ANN, edited)
Audience reviews
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Napostriouf
Probably the story that I saw with the most quantity of subtle, serious sub-subjects while still going all out on a "comedy" running gag show! Which (the "comedy" running gag show) is obviously a materialization of the two main characters trying to cure themselves from inner frustations of the rejection of what they are, but that are stuck in facing the crude reality that people around are stuck in repressive stereotypes that don't want to evolve and care around. So why would they care about living along the decorum while everybody are being socially decided to be worst?! I think this the message of this very descriptive masterpiece series! Insanely great from the start until the last of the 35 episodes as even the musics are real bangers.
Read at the sourceHomuraAkem1
As a trans lady living in 2021, when I heard about Stop Hibari-kun, I had to watch. Not gonna lie, this series is one of the more complicated (for me) animes I've watched yet. It was equal parts awesome and dreadful.
As far as characters go, Hibari-chan is amazing. She's everything a trans girl aspires to be and more. She reminded me so much of our generation today. My character rating for this review is ONLY of Hibari. Every other character deserves a 3 or below.
Literally everyone else in the series was either passively transphobic or outright racist (including Hibari's father and the family bodyguard). I was not expecting to see the racism and that was very hard to look past when looking at the series as a whole. Also, I kept hoping I'd see a payoff in the final episode of her family…
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Stop!! Hibari-kun! has an interesting and unique premise, and an acceptable approach to it, for 1982. The comedy is absurd and full of references to pop-culture, similar to other gag-manga of the time, which would be cool if it didn't overwhelm the show, overshadowing the possibilities of developing *anything* of the relationship between the protagonist and Hibari, which stays limited to funny skits until the last episode. Which is especially bad since this anime has the average-length of 35 episodes.
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Stop!! Hibari-kun!'s premise is quite cool (considering this is the 80's in Japan): the main character suddenly has to live in the house of a (comical) Yakuza boss that lives with his 4 daughters: however, one of them, Hibari, the most beautiful one, is actually a boy.
Hiba…
Read at the sourceJanJohansen
Very dated.
Allthough I liked the animation and the characters a lot (very 1990), and some of the humor is pretty well written, the main premise would be a disgrace these days.
This isn't a spoiler, but the main running joke is transphobia. Allthough the crossdressing boy (trans girl) is treated as a hero with basically no flaws (she's awesome!), what goes for funny in every episode is how people are scared/think it's weird/diislike that part of her, and that's kind of hard to swollow these days, unless you're on the wrong side of history and decency.
The other jokes are good, though, it's not a barf fest, but treat what I wrote as a trigger warning if you have a hard time with that kind of thing.
If Hibari wasn't awesome, I'd give this a 1, but because she is, I give it a 5.
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When i first starting watching this anime. I had my doubts about the art seeing as it was made quite a while ago but i gave it a shot and wasn't disappointed.
The story was great though i didn't feel as though it had a real plot maybe a collection of episodes instead. It revolves around a teenaged Kohsuka who has now moved in the home of his mother's friend, because she had died a while back. Its just so happens that the Yakuza family has four beautiful daughters, but the one daughter, Hibari, thats more beautiful than the rest is actually a boy. Hibari just can't keep his hands off Kohsuka and so their crazy yet happy lives go on.
Art was good nothing spectacular or anything but back then it was considered great.If this show was to get a makeover to 2009 artist redoing the character de…
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