Audience reviews
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Raikou239
The great country of Japan has truly blessed mankind with this. This anime is maybe the most atmospheric piece of visual media I have ever seen.
You can truly feel as if you are lying right there beside Hinako, who is perhaps one the most well-developed female characters in anime. The creators effort shows in presentation filling her with the charm and giving her guise required to be fully lost in this 40+ minute long roller coaster.
Story (10/10): A perfect full circle. It's very relatable and its something you will think back to time and again. That's about all that needs to be said. The story isn't without your typical tropes of the genre, but it is presented magnificently and paced so well.
Art (10/10): Jesus, what beautiful artwork we have here, the color palate is very soothing…
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Story 10
The story was about a female protagonis who was in love with a hotdog salesman. The love is mutual and one they the man goes to the house of the protagonis, then they decide to sleep together and eat sauseges untill the night is over.
Art 10
The art was amazing. from the cracks in the wall to all the diffrent kind of sauseges.
Sound 10
I especially like the sound that came from all the sausage eating, in the bed.
But all the sound in general was amazing. Character 10
My favorite character was ofcourse the hotdog salesman, which is the case because my favorite food is sauseges.
All his diffrent lines were just trully amazing.
Enjoyment 10
My enjoyment was at the max level from start to finish it was amazing, even though the ending was really hard on my heart, I will not spoil th…
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"...without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a ‘triumph of contemplative cinema.'"
--Gene Youngblood, L.A. Free Press
Highly recommended for fans of Warhol's seminal works of structural film, "Sleeping" and "Taylor Mead's Ass."
Obviously for the uninitiated, this will just seem like academic wankery. Which is a shame because the film really says something very important about cinema and the way we consume film.
In a very self-referential way, the film explores voyeurism. For example,…
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In this anime, you get to watch a overly-enthusiastic school girl sleep with you while acting like a 5-year-old. Making nasily "ehee" noises with this face: =^_^=.
Thus begins a 50-minute mystery journey that ends with a stunning revelation: Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako is a prequel to Bleach, and a sequel to the movie Inception.
Hear me out...
First of all, you can, and DO, teleport. Very often. Maybe you're a camera wearing a human disguise, maybe you're a wizard! Who wouldn't want to sleep with a wizard!? Maybe that's why she thinks she's five, you put a spell on her, you dirty old man, you!
This then goes into random dreams while she shows just how unhealthy her sleeping is by waking up every five minutes. Then she gets 3AM-horny and wants to kiss you, proceeds to ignor…
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This review contains minor plot spoilers. View at your own discretion.
Post modernism is an art movement that seeks to deconstruct and subvert existing pre-cognitions of modern art. I feel that the first half of Sleeping with Hinako is a post-modernist masterpiece. While the second half of Hinako is an offense to the viewer as much as it is a complete betrayal and reconstruction of the theme it tried so hard to explore and critiqued. In fact, it wouldn't surprised me if both halves were written by different people.
For post modernism to exist, it has to be compared to a modernist work. For Hinako, this means that in order to properly judge and review it, one must compare it to a modernist work that Hinako was made in response to, this being of course the Slice of Life Genre of anime prev…
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Overview:
Back in the year 1963, the famous Avant Garde artist Andy Warhol decided to make a movie that was nothing but 6 straight hours of a man sleeping. Fans of the Dada movement, which often embraced absurdly stupid and pretentious art, thought it was a masterpiece. In the year 2010, the blockheads at Primastea studios produced "Sleeping with Hinako", which is 45 minutes of watching a moe girl with big boobs sleeping. However, there is a bit of a difference between the 2.
In defense of Andy Warhol, he was making a film unlike any other that had been made to that point. The purpose of Dada after WW1, was to embrace the notion of absurdism, that life has no meaning and we are all stuck in a fundamentally insane and totally absurd world. Both Dada and Absurdism were born in part from th…
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This review is going to perform the function of an analysis more so than a review, because you probably already know everything you need to know about the content from the synopsis and other reviews.
However, I am writing this because I feel that Issho ni Sleeping is a very misunderstood OVA. At first glance, it is a complete waste of 20 minutes that is focused solely on fanservice. However, I believe that rather than having the goal of providing entertainment to its audience, Issho ni Sleeping's true intention is to convey a deeper message to viewers: Issho ni Sleeping is primarily a critique on the anime industry as a whole and some of the characteristics that have sadly become all too common in anime nowadays.
Did you get the feeling that nothing was really happening as you were watc…
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Have you ever had that feeling that you were being watched? Hinako does, in fact she is being closely watched... BY YOU! Yes, for about 45 minutes you stare at this klutzy girl snoozing and you have never seen anything more magnificent. From the constant camera switches to show off Hinako's better sides to the dream sequences, you would never guess that this was a plot to troll the biggest anime fans. The best way to watch this time waster is to riff on it MST3K style. Without that, you may just doze off yourself, a fate far better than watching this anime.
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Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako is, by far, the best thing to ever grace my eyes and bless us all by bringing light to our dark basements through our computer screens.
In Isshoni Training Hinako helped us get up from our fat NEET asses and start losing some weight by showing us how to do pushups and offering suggestive shots of her cleavage. The prequel of Isshoni Sleeping was absolutely great, but it didn't even get close to the masterpiece that the second instalment of the series: the character development, art, sound design and everything else far surpass its predecessor and every other second grade anime that has ever aired.
Let's talk about the protagonist. Now you might be thinking that the voluptuous heavy-breathing high school girl was the protagonist of this 49 minutes won…
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No.
OK seriously, this series is emblematic of exactly why I got out of anime for years. It's basically a waifu simulator. A generic moe girl dresses sexy, acts like a toddler, and addresses the audience directly, allowing you to live out what the animators thought was your fantasy. And sadly, given that it was successful enough to have a sequel, it really is the fantasy of a lot of horrible otaku. It really brings to the forefront all of the terrible subtext that's far too common in anime, laying bare the things many of us have tried to pretend aren't there or aren't important. It's almost like this show was a dadaist experiment to try to unmake anime. And honestly, it may have worked. There's no way I could watch something trying to be moe without thinking that they were basically maki…
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Oh wow. . . Never in my life have I seen an anime so perfectly put together. I don't know where to start. I guess I'll just go down the list.
Character: The character development was masterfully played through the entire OVA. To the untrained eye there seems to be little to no development, but in fact they use development through observation and not through action or spoken word. The constant shots of Hinako's panties show how innocent she is through the plain white non-slutty panties with the bow. An innocent pair of panties that is obviously seen by the guy she is having sleep over. Also, the shots of the room tell us more about Hinako's hobbies and interests such as the animal plush and the mecha anime poster over her board; this shows us that she is an animal lover and into mecha anim…
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Sleeping with hinako was one of the worst sleeping aids I have ever attempted. The brightness of my screen while I tried to sleep definitely didn't help and neither was all the noise coming from this show. Even worse was the fact that they didn't even show me how to sleep properly or anything and halfway through the protagonist started having drams and waking up which waked me up. This anime isn't even long enough to have a good nap. If you're looking for a sleeping aid I suggest you avoid watching this.
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((Same as Issho ni Training: Training with Hinako and Issho ni Training Ofuro: Bathtime with Hinako & Hiyoko))
Well, this is one of the perverted shows that sometimes come from Japan. It’s not hentai… although it really should be. The only real people who would be buying this would probably be very, very lonely men with much to much time on there hands who will wack off to cute little girls that look a bit to young.
The artwork and camera angles are only to show these strange little angles for a ‘better view of the training’… ya right. No girl in their right mind would let the camera get these angles if it was not to turn the viewer on. Now on a lighter note, yes… the artwork is beautiful, just used highly to sexualize her is all.
Her voice is annoying as well, the cutesy little high p…
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Wow, Hinako sure has a lot of problems. In this episode, where we yet again get a slice of her life, Hinako isn't suffering from being a couch potato, she's suffering from FREAKING SCHIZOPHRENIA. Don't believe me? Look at the times after she talks to the camera, where the camera angle switches to a bird's-eye view. She's not holding anyone's hand, nor is there anyone for her to talk to. She just stares at freaking empty space, holding her hand out awkwardly, as the camera resumes its eye-rape.
This anime is seriously the scariest I've ever seen, for it's subtlety in showing Hinako's insanity. It is High Octane Nightmare Fuel cranked up to eleven, and it achieves this just with Fridge Horror. However, there were boobs, so her complete insanity is instantly forgiven.
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The Hinako series has been an insult to the intelligence of its viewers.
Believe it or not, yes...
...you and I have just wasted 49 minutes of our lives watching a girl...sleep.
Once that has settled into your brain, reflect upon your mistake and think of the many different things you could have done with those precious 49 minutes well wasted.
That is all.
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So I actually watched it. And I see what they did there.
The OVA is incredibly good for what it's meant for, which is not plot or depth, I felt like Hinako and I were pressed up next to each other in my bed. I felt incredibly at peace and warm, like I would drift away any minute, that is not to say it was boring. If I had to compare it to something it would be a soothing lullaby that even though the song may be beautiful fatigue still creeps up and takes you over! But that's what it's suppose to do! Make you fall asleep, the only reason it's nearly 50 minutes long is because first it's suppose to excite you and then give you enough time to rub one out, so that, tired from your exercise, you could fall into a good rest. Hinako and I will be having another sleep over in the future, that's f…
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Lets see lets see...
Well to begin with I don't recommend this to anyone... this is just 45 minutes of watching a big breasted semi naked girl sleep with the occasional dream or other "event"
The story is non existent this is just for otakus that want to fawn over panty shots and similiar camera angles, just go watch any ecchi anime you can find and repeat some scene and you will get as much enjoyment story wise...
The art is just art, nothing bad but nothing good
Same with the sound guess they could add some music or something but well..
Character... She is just an clumsy a bit stupid girl that I guess am supposed to make otakus love her and go yelling "moe moe!" but if you ask me she is just irritating... just like the thing itself
Enjoyment... I watched 10 minutes of her sleeping t…
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In the past year, we’ve seen a phenomenal glut of anime made almost exclusively for the sake of pandering. One of those titles was “Isshoni Training”, a lucrative fanservice anime with the premise of convincing anime fans to get off their butts and exercise, when in reality, it’s an excuse for the trainer to give the viewer a lot of T&A. It was a silly but profitable venture, and so it was hard to be surprised when a sequel was announced. Now here we have “Isshoni Sleeping” which takes the pandering of “Isshoni Training” to a whole new level, one that your humble reviewer is both impressed and frightened at the implications this new level of pandering brings us to.
Capitalizing off its successor, “Isshoni Sleeping” continues with its nonexistence of a fourth wall. Hinako has returned in c…
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hahahahahahaha oh wow
So when they said "Sleeping with Hinako" they really meant it! I would say about 70% of the 49 minute video is still shots that continuously loop of Hinako sleeping, of course the camera angles are oh so perfectly aligned to help its otaku audience "sleep" as well.
Actually even for sleeping this seemed like a rather short episode, since around the 20-30 minute mark Hinako starts to have different dreams, thinking of how much shes fallen for you? (maybe seeing you doing so many awesome pushups last episode) and later she even goes get something to eat...while I appreciate the fact that this is NOT just 49 minutes of still shots....BITCH NEEDS TO STOP MAKING SO MUCH NOISE IM TRYING TO SLEEP HERE DAMMIT!!!
I cant say I was able to get a good sleep out of this, this s…
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Well after you're finished Training with Hinako you are certainly bound to get a little tired, so what better a followup than sleeping with her. Based on the titile you might think ooh sounds like fun, but instead we are just going to watch her sleep and talk to herself for 50 minutes, which in itself is a tad creepy. dialogue is mediocre at best, i mean what can you honestly expect from somebody who is sleeping.
Story: We are watching a girl sleep...
Art: alright but nothing over the top, nothing really special, a lot of frames get reused.
Sound: Nothing special, seiyuu kind of grows on you after a while tho.
Character: Well Theres the ditzy yet somewhat cute character Hinako. thats about it.
Enjoyment: Honestly speaking i got kind of bored about 4 minutes in.
Overall: I wouldnt m…
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