Reviews

This show is rather awful. I decided to give it a go because the premise was so outlandish I figured the show would at least be a bit of raunchy fun, but after a few episode's worth of Midori's never-ending Seiji-worship I had to call it quits. Does this girl even have a life or identity outside of Seiji? Every aspect of her character is devoted to either serving Seiji or talking about her crush on Seiji. It's the sort of regressive crap that gives anime such a bad reputation in regards to women's representation, and on top of that it's just boring to watch. That's really the most disappointing aspect of this show - just how utterly beige it is, both in the animation and in the story. This is billed a comedy, but the laughs run thin. It's rated R+, but that's another lost opportunity. If anything I wanted to see the writers take the lonely teenager with a girl on his hand to the obvious raunchy conclusion, and go all the way *there*, or otherwise make some other bold choices, but it doesn't happen. Rather they waste our time with this tedious mystery of why Midori is comatose, and when the rest of the show is already so dry, it's a bit hard to care about any of it. Outside of Seiji and some of the rough and tumble guys he hangs around, the characters are all too polite for their own good, or are otherwise just cut-and-paste anime stereotypes. I would have loved to see some truly off the wall characters - something like FLCL that takes an outrageous idea and runs with it. In that sense, Midori no Hibi could have been great had it capitalized on the crazy idea that forms the basis of this show, but sadly the creativity just isn't there to take it anywhere interesting.