Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako

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 ignore "you" for a body pillow, and then later gets a midnight snack thinking you are a ghost. Why would she "think" you're a ghost, unless...you are a ghost, and she doesn't want you to know that you're dead.

Really, if you think about it, that would explain everything. Why you don't have a physical body. Why you are in her bedroom despite her most certainly having parents that would object to a boy sleeping with her. Why only she can see you. Why you frightened her in the kitchen. Why you don't wake up at the alarm clock. Why you are able to teleport. Why she giggles every time she looks at you, and why when she's "kissing" you, the camera shows her kissing at nothing.

You are a god damned ghost. You're dead. And haunting her. She's your sister. She is happy to see you because she misses you. Give her a couple more years and she will run into a Shinigami and become a Faux Shinigami, you'll run away, and you will join them as an arrancar 100 episodes later. YOU are the final boss. YOU will end up killing the original Shinigami (her actual older sister) while the girl grows up to become Rukia Kuchiki, and Byakuya pretends to be her brother. Hinako IS Rukia Kuchiki. Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako is a prequel to Bleach, and it's possible that you get re-incarnated as Ichigo later on.

And then it turns into inception with not one, but TWO false awakenings.

It's a sequel to Inception, a prequel to Bleach, and the single greatest anime in existence. Ghost in the shell's got nothing on this...or DOES IT?

*BWOOOMMMMM*

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 should probably be called "napping with Hinako" instead because of the short sleeping intervals it "might" offer you, but then again im not sure how many of you are not too busy "fapping with Hinako" to actually get any decent rest. This is probably a fansubber's "dream" episode though *crickets*

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 the artistic movement of Existentialism: that life has no inherent meaning beyond that which you yourself give to it. Existentialism was already established in the 1800s by thinkers like Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, but really took off after WW1 shattered much of the idealism and optimistic beliefs of Europe concerning God, nation, war, and humanity. Unlike Warhol's movie "Sleep", the OVA "Sleeping with Hinako" isn't an attempt to lash out at the absurdity of life or challenge our view of the world. It is meant to help socially hopeless otaku... rub one out before going to sleep. Why you would ever want to masturbate to 45 minutes of an anime girl sleeping is completely beyond me!

If you want to watch "Avant Garde" or existential artistic anime that do a good job representing those movements, I would check out Tatami Galaxy, Mushishi, Ergo Proxy, or Serial Experiments Lain. If you want to masturbate before going to bed...just look up porn! Under no circumstance should you ever spend 45 minutes watching big boob moe girl sleep! There is simply no point!!!

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 prevalent through the late 2000s/early 2010s. Hinako brilliantly subverts the themes commonly explored in Slice of Life by portraying the events that occur generally in those anime in a realm which may seem normal in a regular anime, but contradicts the general elements and common sense once one thinks and analyses each scene through and through. It is the Campbell Soup Cans in an art gallery, it makes a mockery of those anime by making us, the viewer, witness and participate in the act of sleeping with the main heroine.

Te first half also evokes great works of yore such as Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker". You are not meant to know Hinako's thoughts as she is dreaming. These details are kept away from the audience in order for a more immersive experience in which the audience asks themselves as to what dream Hinako may be thinking of. However, ultimately it does not and may not matter what dream she thinks about, as it ultimately doesn't matter much, a dream is ultimately a dream, and her future actions, and by extension the viewers futures actions do not means much in terms of the future. Indeed, it poses the philosophical question of does choice ultimately matter in out lives, seeing as how insignificant each person is in the grand scheme of the Universe.

The fact that Hinako can be analysed and this gives the viewer a huge amount of interaction and freedom to interpret it to their own will is indeed innovative and unheard of in other more conventional anime. It reminds me of Metal Gear Solid 2 in a way, where the author deliberately set up false expectations for its viewers in order to deliver a separate message by subverting expectations of the viewer.

That was the first half, if it all ended there, then Hinako wod be a definite 10/10 anime from me, but alas, perhaps due to Executive Meddling, the second half is a complete reversal and betrayal of the first half so much that it completely destroys the experience.

The second half occurs as the viewer finally is able to peek into Hinako's mind and view her dream, the otherwise peaceful atmosphere is completely destroyed and a plot is finally established, ruining the multiple viewpoints and multiple interpretations outlook the first half was going for. The viewer is directly addressed more often, however, it becomes apparent that the viewer is also a canonical entity in the story. We can assume that the "viewer" referred to in the second half may be a poltergeist or some sort, an entity only Hinako can see, like elves or hedgehogs.

It also betrays the goal of the anime. The anime's title is "Sleeping with Hinako", however Hinako doesn't sleep in the second half much, she entices the viewer to perform innate vapid acts with her such as singing and trying to sleep (oh the irony), before falling asleep herself. It becomes apparent that free will is stripped entirely from the viewer, and the only way to win is to not watch the anime at all.

In conclusion, this anime is cruel and offensive to me, in which a cruel painful joke is played to the audience, where the punchline is wasted potential this anime could have offered.

I'm afraid this anime only deserves one of the very few 1/10 ratings I rarely give to anime.

You'd accomplish more by actually sleeping.

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 mind having the 50 minutes of my life back but whatever. wasnt too bad.

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.

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 making this with a veneer of story over it.

This may be the worst anime ever, but it's a must see for anyone wondering why some people hate anime. What they see is this, and the more I think about it, the more I wonder if they're really that far off.

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

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 the camera changing angles and her occasionaly moving then I turned on my TV and watched something else while watching so I wouldnt go raving insane from the bordedom... didnt help... in the end I started to almost slam my head in my desk while just asking god to make it end...

Overall... I actually think you will find more enjoyment from watching an hentai in everyway you can figure, this is just as it says 45 minutes of Hinako sleeping, talking to you, and dreaming. Then it seems that they have some sort of cut scenes so you can make this into a lot of diffrent morning wake up calls... And that is the only use I can ever see of this. Seriously... Don't watch this you will either fall asleep (Might actually be what is intended), go raving mad or write a review about it. And if you do decide to watch it, have something in hand to ease your boredom while she is just laying there while you see a lot of diffrent camera angles of her and for some reason, her desk.

I honestly do wonder about what goes through the minds of animators regardless of what they're animating. Obviously, they'd have to be into it to really do their jobs, and the “Isshoni” titles are no exception. Whether because of the budget or because it's cheap, there's not much that needed to be animated since anything could be put on loop and reused, or just be a screenshot that looked like it was finished in at least an hour. Would it be something they'd be proud of to put on a résumé because they enjoyed animating it? Were anything of them thinking it was the most ... boring thing they ever worked on, but at least it would pay the bills? Or if they knew it was the most boring thing they ever worked on, but it made them horny, so it was worth the hours to pay the bills? “Training with Hinako” was such a success they just had to make a spin-off/sequel chock-full of more limited animation than the first?

“Sleeping with Hinako” delivers exactly what it promises. For about 30 minutes—give or take a few—out of the 45 minutes of this OVA, you get to watch the titular character sleep. The previous installment was a 24-minute OVA about exercising as you watched her bounce and break out into a sweat each time she stretched and did push-ups. Supposedly, similar to the “Training with Hinako” OVA, this was a way for the viewer to “sleep” with the character after “exercising”. (I will be genuinely surprised if anyone has actually exercised with Hinako without getting aroused by a single frame of the anime.) Here, as she sleeps, she makes slight cute noises under her breath, and shifts around in bed while occasionally having odd dreams about her weight and confessing her love to the viewer, sometimes making faces doing so. Yes, she is confessing to you, sir or ma'am, who are watching this. All while we get close-up shots of various angles of her breasts, butt, and crotch—as she's sleeping. And apparently this is from the viewer's point-of-view. Because ogling a sleeping girl whom invited an uninvited guest to bed just to sleep is so charming and so not creepy. But she doesn't always sleep. Outside of the dreams, the couple of times she does wake up, she's either groggy (possibly delusional or still reeling from her dream love confession) or fully awake to get a midnight snack.

Just because anything can be put to paper does not mean it is a good idea. Under normal circumstances, an entire half-hour or so about a character sleeping is tiresome (pun intended). But is it possible for a plot about sleep to be interesting? Depends on how it is approached. How about delving into the character's dreams, for one thing? Sure, it's been done before, but like people, the character's dream can differ from every other dream sequence out there. It's true that we do enter Hinako's dreams, but the first one doesn't happen until the 26-minute mark. If the character doesn't dream, what if they suffer from night terrors? Or what if they sleepwalk? At the very least, something would be happening, but at the same time, we'd be getting to know the character more, especially on a psychological level (if needs be). Instead, the end result can be summarized in an alternative title: “Sleep Cute: The Fanservice Anime.” That's what it had been intended for, and at least it didn't disappoint in that regard. And unless they were to make a (non-stop motion) Sleeping Beauty anime or something, Hinako would most likely win the title of “Cute Anime Sleepers Who Sleep the Longest”.

It's not the worst anime I've seen, but it's certainly one of the most boring ones I've ever watched, even though I knew what I was expecting. If the entire OVA had been nothing but Hinako sleeping without “breaks”, the score would've been lower, but those interruptions and the soundtrack managed to bump it to a three in my book. I honestly do not recommend this to anyone lest for the sake of boring them to sleep (regardless of intent) or get them to further think I'm crazier than I already am, because who in their right mind would willingly watch a 45-minute anime about sleeping? However, possibly for the hardcore moe fans/otaku, it could be something they'd like to watch if at least just to see what it's like to watch a character sleep all cute-like for nearly an entire episode while taking in some eye-candy.

Oh, throwing this out here, but if you're planning to watch this strictly for the fanservice (well, it is ecchi, gotta watch that PLOT), keep in mind you're watching an animated, busty girl sleeping majority of the time. Unless watching girls sleep happens to be one of your fantasies, in which case you'll surely feel at home here. You'll just be judged silently from way over here from this corner of the Internet.

So in my retarded quest to watch the most retarded animes ever made, I found Sleeping With Hinako. Apparently, she was in a workout video and then one where you can watch her bathe, so this is the logical next step. Japan, you absolute mad lad.

Disclaimer: I am not a lonely young man who desires the attention of a moe girl character, so I am not the intended audience. I'm a grown-ass woman who is on a quest to watch retarded anime.

Back to the show. The fourth wall no longer exists. You are with Hinako now. What next?

Hinako tries to show us how to sleep, ... but she's actually pretty bad at it. Watch her have wacky misadventures such as: rolling over, blinking too much, holding your imaginary hand, falling off her bed twice, singing you a lullaby, rolling over and hugging a pillow, getting a midnight snack, brushing her teeth, having dreams about how she likes you, and even giving you a kiss. Despite that, the anime is boring af, unless you like staring at a sleeping girl's butt (covered by panties, calm down). I was uncomfortable, both as I thought about the intended audience, and generally feeling creepy for staring down this sleeping girl's shirt.

Boobs McKenzie---I mean, Hinako is a fascinating character who consists of boobs and a cutesy voice. Mostly boobs. The boobs always look like they're going to fall out of her tank top because one strap falls off her shoulder every 30 seconds, but they never escape. When Boobs was awake, I wished she'd go back to sleep so I wouldn't have to listen to her stupid, baby-sounding voice. Another thing: Hinako seems like your average vapid moe character, but is she really? Why is she so chill with having a boy crouched next to her bed, watching her sleep? (You don't sleep next to her till it's almost over, and there's no chair, so where were you?) Is she getting paid? Is this a reality show? The way she asks questions to you is reminiscent of a kid's show, so is this Dora the Explorer but for perverts?

Personally, I could see this edited into a Paranormal Activity-like short film, starring you, the viewer, as the demonic force watching her sleep. She does mistake you for a ghost at one point. Add in a few jumpscares and you've got Paranormal Activity: Electric Weeaboo.

Despite this anime embodying the reason people hate otaku, there was something comfy about watching Hinako sleep peacefully, like when you put on a looping video in the background while you study. It's like watching a cat sleep, except your cat probably doesn't have big jugs like Boobs McKenzie here. Then the camera switches to a close-up of her little white panties and I start feeling uncomfortable again.

There was a bit of excitement: around 19 minutes in, she stopped moving and got so quiet I couldn't hear her breathing. No panty shots either. What happened to Hinako? Is she okay? Turns out I'd accidentally paused the video for a few minutes. Phew, false alarm.

Why does Sleeping With Hinako exist, you may ask? In your heart, you know why. Moe money, moe problems. I think it accomplished its purpose, so I give it credit for that.

If you're into it, whatever. Who am I to tell you not to watch an animated girl sleep in her underwear for 45 minutes? It's your life! Plus you'll probably fall asleep yourself since it's so freaking boring.

Tune in next time for Eating Breakfast With Hinako, and Riding The Train With Hinako.

Technically, I did not watch this anime - the only reason I saw this anime was because someone else (The BlackCriticGuy) did a reaction video, and they played the video up in the top corner. However, I saw enough to have an opinion on it.

If I had to give Sleeping with Hinako credit for one thing, it's this: it literally has the most honest title of any anime. Mainly because for the most part, it's literally 40 minutes of a girl sleeping. Sure, there are some dream sequences every now and then, and there are a few moments where the pair of ... boobs named Hinako (seriously, the fact that she has big boobs is the only thing that I can remember about her) wakes up and does something (the one thing I remember was her getting a midnight snack - I'm pretty sure that there was something else she got up to do). But other than that, it's basically 40 minutes of her sleeping, and they show this with leering panty shots and fanservice-heavy shots.

This actually could've been clever if they had had the camera man start to get off and we saw Hinako's reaction - at least that would be funny. Or if it had just been a hentai, that would've at least been easy to explain to someone who walked in when I was "watching" it. How do you explain watching this?

The only areas that aren't 1s out of 10 are art and sound - but they were just mediocre.

Seriously, if you're looking for something to get off to, why would you watch this? Most harem anime will probably do a much better job of arousing you, and you could just watch a hentai if you want to get aroused. How can anyone justify watching this?

Alternative recommendations: That film that's basically a real-life version of this, Sekirei, Highschool DxD

Ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen I presume?)

we have before us a OVA that can be discribed with two words: fanservice and boring.

The fanservice part is rather obvious and doesn't really require any explanation, panty-shots, cleavage-shots and such.

Now for the boring part, this is because NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS!!!! I think I actually fell asleep during this so there you have it.

As for the only good thing I can say about this piece of shit is the art and sound: they suit their purposes rather well, though I don't care enough to explain.

All in all this is shit but you must see something like ... this if you really want to see just how dumb anime can get (not disliking anime in general but this is just nuts)

This Anime made me laugh so fricking hard!!!! Aye, If you wanna laugh towards the middle and end... watch this! She literally slept for 15 minutes or so and they reuse the same shots throughout xD. On top of that every time it's morning and she says "see you next time"! the cycle repeats and she shuts off the alarm hops on the scale and it's the same 2-minute video we just saw a second ago xD. This happens at least 4 times! xDDDd too funny!!! Don't expect the anime to be the best ecchi in the world just watch it for fun!

Didn't put me to sleep at all. 😔
This girl needs to go to an asylum with all of the ghosts she's been seeing, as shown in the fridge seen. Why does she see them? A sequel is needed to explain this??? Very curious?

Does she do this every night? I need answers! Are we a ghost? Sleep paralysis demon?

Groundhog day ending? How? Does she escape? Do we escape? Should we escape?? Why???



Very disappointing... 😔
... If you're looking to sleep, I'd recommend I heard crying yourself to sleep helps!

Ok, gonna go play genshin impact hope I get Mona, i've only been able to get men and I'm not gay like that so I'm wanting something epic

This is literally the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I honestly recommend it. Not in the "watch the entire thing way" Oh god no just like, skim it. It's a good laugh at the very least. If you laugh at it. I can't imagine why it actually exists. The "logical" assumption is that it was meant to fall asleep with but it's interrupted so many times that can't possibly be it. And even then I don't think it's long enough to be for sleeping either. It's talking directly to you but the camera angles don't really even support that idea. And why the ... panty shots....? I have so many questions. 10/10.