I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

Hibiki Amawa needs a job badly, so with the aid of his gun-toting grenade-throwing electrical-engineering paragliding midget biker landlady he disguises himself as a woman to gain employment at a nearby girls school staffed by rabid man haters, on pain of his beloved pet being turned into Inu-Nabe (Dog Stew).

The first four episodes of this OVA had us almost falling on the floor in hysterics, some parts because they are brilliantly funny, others because they are so truly abysmal to be painfully hilarious.

Some of the humour is a little suspect by Western standards, including a pair of comedy peeping toms who spy on the young girls while they are in their underwear and a rather ham fistedly executed crush that one of the girls has on Amawa. By far the most ridiculous though is episode 3 'Selfish Blush Magic', where most of the plot revolves around Amawa's attemps to get the girls to wear buruma (tight gym shorts). This is obviously some sort of cultural fetish and is played quite blatently, ad nausium to the point of sheer excruciation, with none of the characters seemingly able to speak one line without buruma being in it. Some may find this tedious, in our case we were utterly groaning with laughter at the sheer lack of subtlety and trembling with fearful anticipation of the B word, and as one character observes at the end of the episode "It's all thanks to the buruma!"

While I,My,Me Strawberry Eggs has it's faults, I must confess that I haven't laughed so much all year...

When I watched the preview of this series on my Chobits DVD,I gotta say it reminds of that movie Mrs.Doubtfire,I had to see it for myself,and that is what I did. When I bought the complete collection,I was right about it. I gotta say that it was pretty funny that Hibiki dressed up as a woman in order to get a job as a gym teacher. But however,it was the best,and truly funny. But what this series kinda tells us is anybody can get a job,and it doesn't matter if they are male or female. But I do believe that Hibiki has learned a valuable lesson about being a gym teacher. But I really want to say about this show,it very funny. And I also want to say that the creator of Hand Maid May has done a good job making this show. So if you want to see something good and funny,then see this series. It truly is the best.

Yet another 13 episode anime from BS WOWOW which I saw way back in 2001, a nice story too. It's about some guy who needs a job. He applies at the Seitou Sannomiya school, he learns that the current principal will only hire female teachers and is turning the school into an all-girls academy. Enraged by the principal's attitude that males cannot be good teachers, Hibiki decides to cross dress in order to get a job at the school and prove her wrong. It soon becomes apparent that pretending to be a female teacher won't be as easy as Hibiki had initially thought. It had great moments, but for me they were short and predictable, but I believe the characters were interesting, I even found the land lady, the principal and vice principal interesting as well! But the problem with this, is that it was a bit predictable, and it ended too fast without character development, personally I wanted an episode that would give more of the history or reason why the principal and vice principal hated men, were they harassed? We may never know. The last episode did not give enough, it wasn't very satisfying, I wish they would make another, a continuation, one which would focus on the principal and vice principal, like, how they would change themselves and make reparations for what they did, because maybe, I say maybe, some of the male characters are sore at them, it should be more of a story of redemption, but that's only wishful thanking.

I'm not that sentimental about things, but I bought the DVD (2 disk set) and watched all 13 episodes in one sitting. The teacher applies for a job at a school, but the principle and coordinator detest men. They basically throw him out and his landlord is hounding him for rent money. She suggests he dress like a woman and helps him make the changes he needs to get the job. He succeeds and makes a great impression on his students. One in particular takes a shine to him. There is a bit of a love triangle that develops towards the middle of the 2nd disk. At first I thought the story was just silly and entertaining, but towards the end it gets more serious and started to strike chords with me with the 'love triangle' and un-obtainable as I once went through it. I just wish the movie was in English and not subtitled. Other than that this series of episodes is exceptionally done. The artistry is incredible. Kudos to the artists!