Issho ni Training: Training with Hinako

Other bad anime is mentally painful, emotionally taxing. None can compare to what this affront to God does to you. After the beast was through with my mortal body, I lacked the the strength, no, the ability to move. All I could do was helplessly lie there as that demon wearing animated skin stared, proud of Its work. The only reason I still draw breath is due to the creature falling into a deep slumber, no doubt bloated on human suffering.

I am permanently scarred by that monster. A twelve count causes me to lose all ability to function. In my nightmares, It starts the ... thirteenth push-up and my screams finally wake me up.

You think you know fear. You haven't trained with Hinako.

Normally I'd find this funny but I have to ask what where they thinking when they made this. The ending credits where more enjoyable.

Training with Hinako is basically just the same ten frames of this big-chested teenager doing push-ups in her underwear and counting aloud while crazy-ass Initial D music plays. If you like jerking off to girls doing push-ups and/or eurobeat music, this is the show for you. Hell, it's not even a bad way to learn to count in Japanese, honestly. If you want to actually get fit, though, I don't think this will really help you. That is, unless you can touch yourself and do push-ups simultaneously, in which case you're probably already in pretty good shape.

STORY: Totally non-otaku girl ... watching anime and eating chips gets sucked into her TV. You turn on your TV, she sees you, you make friends, she takes off her clothes and teaches you how not to be fat. Stupid? Yes. Ridiculously stupid? Yes. Original? Definitely. At least, if it's not, somebody ought to link me to whatever did it first. I'll give it a 5 for being so awesomely stupid.

ART: Well, the art's not bad. It's not good, but it's pretty average. Personally, I don't like shows with "average" art. It reminds me of Squid Girl (yeah, this came first, whatever), and the art is one of the many things I don't like about Squid Girl. Anyway, I'd give it a 5 for being average, except that they reuse the same frames OVER and OVER and OVER again. The whole time she's counting to 30 and doing push-ups/sit-ups/whatever, they just use the same few frames for every single rep. Then they do it again, but she's in her underwear. Then she's in her gym clothes. It's ridiculous. I bet it takes longer to watch this thing than it took to animate it. 2 points because it's still better than some of the garbage that's out there.

SOUND: I mentioned crazy-ass Initial D music earlier, and there's definitely a good amount of the stuff in here. There's also a lot of less cool, somehow goofier stuff. None of it's exactly memorable, but it's kind of fun. I'll give it a 4, for below average, because with most shows I can at least remember what the OP/ED sounded like after hearing them 5 times in one half hour.

CHARACTER: The characters were Hinako and myself. I love being included, so two points just for that, and one more point for Hinako's tits. The personality behind said tits can basically be summed up as "tits." There's really nothing else to say about her. If you like tits, you'll like Hinako, but you probably won't like her as much as most other anime girls who have interesting lives and personalities as well as equally nice tits. 3 points.

ENJOYMENT: It was mildly amusing for a while, but it got old after about 10 minutes due to it being the same exact thing over and over. I'll give it a 4, because frankly, even though more than half the anime was boring and redundant, I still made it to the end, and I still kind of want to watch it again sometime (or at least a few minutes of it) just for how ridiculous and goofy it is.

OVERALL: 5 + 2 + 4 + 3 + 4 = 18, 18/5 = 3.6 ~ 4. 4/10

((Same as Issho ni Training Ofuro: Bathtime with Hinako & Hiyoko and Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako))

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 pitch squeak. I really could not stand most of this.

I won't sugarcoat it: this is the worst anime, possibly the worst video ever, that I have ever watched.

Story-1/10
Training With Hinako is basically twenty minutes of watching the character's boobs bounce. So there isn't even a story anyway. Plus, this ONA is just repeated scenes of Hinako doing excersizes and the camera always shows her boobs or butt.

Art-3/10
The only reason I did not give a 1/10 for art is because all you pervs on this site might actually enjoy it. But, the only part of the art that the animator put effort in was the jiggly of her boobies. Anyway, most of the scenes ... are repeated but with different outfits.

Sound-1/10
The character has this high pitched voice that is even worse than Justin Bieber. It is sooo sugary, and my ears were like bleeding. Then, half the time you hear her horrific voice slowly counting from one to twentyfour as she does push-ups and squats. It is so incredibly dull, boring and torturous.

Character-1/10
I didn't know it was physically possible to have only one character, but somehow they pulled it off. Probably because there is no plot. Anyway, Hinako is basically made for weebs to fap to. As I said, her voice is horrible. They put no effort into creating her other than her clevage and dat ass.

Enjoyment-0/10
I know there is no 0 option for ratings, but this anime was literally that bad. There is literally nothing in the world that is more unenjoyable than this. Please, heed my warning: UNLESS YOU ARE A TOTAL WEEB THAT PLEASURES IN WATCHING ANIME GIRLS' JIGGLY BEWBS (which most of you are) THEN NEVER, EVER WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!! EVER!

( This is my first review >w< also, sorry for my bad english )

Isshoni Training... this anime scarred me for life..

The anime revolves around a 16-year-old girl named Hinako who was once human until she was transformed into an anime character when she was in middle school. Now she stars in an exercise video that teaches the audience how to perform push-ups, sit-ups, and squats cause she basically thinks you're too fat.

It started out pretty normal, Hinako starts exercising the first few minutes, while her boobs almost fall out of her clothes. This repeats for almost 16 minutes, the same animation keeps ... showing, but sometimes she changes clothes, or takes off some clothes. The same goes for the looped background music, which only changes 1 time during the anime.

But then it happens.. something breaks inside of Hinako, she transforms..into something different.
For some reason she just stands there only bouncing her boobs...after that she just lies down on her bed.. counting... what is she counting for? when will she stop counting?!! while you question your existence, Hinako keeps staring into your soul..just counting... and the video basically ends with that.

In the end i really enjoyed it, i havent laughed at something so much in a while.

OKAY- BEFORE YOU THINK THAT THE RATINGS ARE ODD- Listen to what I have to say.
I really love the "Hinako" character. The character. That's it. I kinda enjoyed the anime, but that's because I'm stupid, and enjoy stupid things. :D
Story: Too bad there's no 0 for rating, or that's what I'd rate it as. Really, it's just Hinako excersizing. Well, she talks for afew, but afew the first 5 or 10 minutes, she stops talking and just excersizes.
Art: I gave it a 7 because I like the style, but the animation part of it was really repetitive. D:
Sound: There wasn't alot of background music or ... anything, but Hinako's voice was cute. But mostly she was just counting while excersizing.
Character: As I stated before, I actually do like the Hinako character. So I did give her a 10.
Enjoyment: 7. Would have been lower if I wasn't so stupid as to actually somewhat enjoy this even though it doesn't make sense.
Overall: 4. It was okay, but really, don't waste your time unless you can't find a good anime.

Training with Hinako is obviously some kind of ecchi anime, thus I went into it with really low expectations, but to my surprise, it actually starts off somewhat unoffensive.

The story starts off with our main character Hinako, getting sucked into a TV, and then breaking the fourth wall by talking to all of the viewers, which came off super charming. However, it quickly devolves into what it really is, an ecchi tape disguised as a workout video. We are soon treated to clips of Hinako working out, and counting reps. Meanwhile, the camera is, naturally, focused on her boobs & butt.

The way they present these ... exercise routines in terms of the story is pretty decent in the first half, having a little dialogue before & after the workout. However, eventually this just becomes a collection of bonus footage of Hinako counting reps and wearing different outfits without any dialogue in-between. This became painfully mind-numbing, and was really difficult to sit through.

Anyway, Hinako is a very generic anime character. Even if they do have the conceit of her being somebody who was sucked into a TV, she still acts like the majority of empty-headed, ditzy, cute anime girls out there, and doesn't have any kind of defining personality traits, leaving her as a very standard and forgettable character.

As for the art and animation, it's passable, as is the sound design and the music, but all of it comes off as kind of sub-par, and once again... generic.

Overall, there isn't much originality to anything in this OVA, aside from the initial premise. However, the creators also fail to capitalize on that initial set-up, and thus the whole thing ends up feeling kind of unfulfilling and empty. Then, after they abandon the story, they give you 15 minutes of bonus footage, that I ended up sitting through, hoping that perhaps there was more at the end. There wasn't.

This wasn't very enjoyable as a whole, but the beginning is kind of funny, even if it's still not very good at all. However, If anybody wants to watch this out of curiosity, I recommend you only watch it for the first 10 minutes or so and then just shut it off, the rest is not only bland, but absolutely pointless.

Okay, what the f*** did I even watch? And why the hell should I write my first MAL review about this one? Well, maybe to encourage and embrace the idea behind this OVA.

So first the good point, as intimated: The idea. I like it when anime is also used as a medium for education or some other useful stuff. So giving some instructions on basic muscle training is a really good idea and I must say, as someone who does also work out, that the way Hinako did her training is quite accurate, for example how you do sit ups correct (don't use everything ... else than your stomach muscles!) and holding the head straight while doing push ups.

But well, thats it ... unfortunately, the focus often lies on some secondary sexual characteristics rather than on more details about the training techniques itself. So one has to say that ecchi uses literally too much space in this show. Sometimes, only cute girls aren't enough, so mark my words, future sports anime creators!

Okay, thats it, but as I said, I really embrace the idea and hope for more serious approaches of this concept in future. But even Hinakos training may be enough to motivate some lazy otakus out there to work out and do something for the own health.

So for this reasons, I'll give this show a really good meant 4/10.

Thank me later for one of the few serious reviews about "Training with Hinako".

Since I reviewed the infamous Sleeping with Hinako, I figured I might as well review the other Hinako OVA that I've seen, Training with Hinako, just so I never have to think about it again.

Now, whereas in Sleeping with Hinako, I only saw that because I watched a reaction video to it, this one I only watched because I had heard it was really bad. While this isn't the worst thing I've seen...it definitely is one of the stupidest.

This is basically an anime version of one of those exercise videos you see - you know, one that your mom or dad has. ... Except it's most likely for a different "type" of exercise for certain anime fans. It's basically Hinako doing push-ups, pull-ups, etc. I actually kind of understand the existance of this, because of games like Wii Fit, Kinect Sports, etc., but that doesn't change the fact that it's stupid.

Animation and sound are passable - they aren't terrible, but they aren't good, either. Nothing really stands out, so I can't talk about them.

The only character in this OVA is Hinako - well, technically, the viewer is a character as well, since this is from someone's perspective. However, Hinako has no personality - she's literally a ditzy pair of boobs. I'm not kidding.

Obviously I didn't enjoy this, and, to be honest, I don't understand why anyone would want to watch this. This obviously isn't meant to be a serious exercise video, since they choose to make every shot extremely fanservicey, so it can't be meant to replace an exercise video. And there are tons of better shows out there that offer just as much, if not more, fanservice than this, so there's no real audience for this show.

Alternative recommendations: Playing the Wii Fit video games, joining a gym

Man, this will make you work. I watch this quite frequently to get in some exercise in during the quarantine and let me tell you, I have seen some major improvements! I have went from 320 to 316 in a month!

But that is besides the point, the slight moaning when she works out really motivates me to keep going. The boob physics are A+ some of the best I have seen honestly, It just keeps my eyes glued to the screen the entire time.

I heavily recommend this if you want to lose some weight but can't keep you're eyes away from Anime for ... more than 3 minutes :D

Thanks to Akidearest who mentioned this anime, I managed to watch this properly
afterwards.

Honestly I've seen way better fitness anime than this utter crap and it even doesn't have to be in the late 2000s to have such crap dialogue involving a shrieking voice of an anime girl. No offense to Mai Kadowaki who voiced the character, I honestly think she shouldn't have played a young girl in this. I know it's not her fault for being part of this but whoever was more involved in creating the anime, didn't have their heads screwed on with realistic creativity. They could've at least tried to add ... other characters other than Hinako because then it mightve changed people's perceptives. Same time it might not have not made any difference, it's just rubbish anyways...

Yeah just don't watch this anime if you're gonna be easily irritated like I was while watching it...

I'm guessing this was made to encourage shut-in viewers that physically let go of themselves over time. While at most this seemed to be a decent idea as inspiration for those people, over time I came to witness the unrelenting persistence and unwavering passion to lose weight that Hinako had possessed. At first, it seemed great, we even had decent angles to encourage us even more as we went through this adventure with Hinako, but as time passed it seemed Hinako's stamina was far beyond what I had imagined, even having the ability to switch her clothes in a short amount of time and keep ... going made me rethink everything I ever thought about my body weight and mindset. The ED was kind of confusing and seemed unrelated to the OVA as a whole.
At the very least this OVA is a revelation, and if needed, could motivate with your exercise if you desire to do so, although previous preparation and stamina training would be highly recommended from me.