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Aug 12, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Alright, so Himegoto is a gender-bender anime, that detail is something that caught my attention before I even knew about this series given I'd seen images of the protagonist around the web a good bit. Once I'd given this anime a chance, I was mildly amused at the show for...around three episodes, but by the end of it I can't say I enjoyed it all that much given that it kinda played it's gimmick out by the last episode.

Alright, let's look at the plot
Episode 1: the plot starts off with the trap protagonist getting harassed by some guys because his parents supposedly travel all around building on debt, so with him being their son he is victim to harassment. But after an encounter with the oh-so generous student council, they decide to "protect their student" by paying off his parent's debt, but in turn make him join the student council to be their "toy". After this happens, the show just uses the whole "he has a penis" thing as much as it can. The student council almost forcefully gets him involved in a series of emasculating activities, one in particular being having him put on girl clothing most of the time & others being something that has to have him show off the fact...that he has a penis. And those things happen. For the rest of the show.

There was only one moment in this where it could've taken a small step somewhere, and that was near the end, where Hime is getting upright harassed & almost raped by two dudes and the student council sits there and watches up until the disciplinary committee stops it. At that moment Hime seemed to finally get the message that they were clearly just using him almost entirely for their own sake, but of course to end the show with a happy ending, everyone makes up after they save him from another perv in a park because now they apparently think they were friends the whole time without showing much sign of that, and happy ending. They at least make it look like the student council got the message to stop soloing on Hime and ease off on em in the end, but still, the show had almost no progression.

As for the art & the OST, there isn't anything to say, it's just basic stuff you'd find in your average anime: the art looks just fine and the OSt isn't supposed to have much of a role in this, being a short series of course.

The idea of humor in this show is to put a male in the position that girls in your average anime would or could end up in at some point: panty-shots, wearing skimpy clothing, that kind of stuff, but that felt like that was all this had going for it because nothing but moments of situations of such would occur.

Other than the student council, the others aren't much of a big deal. I mean, you learn that the supporting characters are also entirely a group of traps & they have this little rivalry with the student council, but that's it.
The student council members themselves also don't have much going on other than the fact that they're the only primary characters who are actually the gender they claim to be.
18 is the vice-president, and the one who is the most into the idea of playing with him,
Unko, is kinda just there, even though she is the president
And Albertina, the only one with at least something to go with her character is a popular manga author, but she only got one episode where they explore that.

And that's pretty much it. I don't think this show was particularly interesting, I mean it was a decent little series that maybe some will get a quick chuckle or two out of, but it isn't really something interesting enough for you to care about after you've sat through it all, as I'm sure you'll forget most of what you'd seen in it anyway other than the protagonist. I'd rate this show with maybe a high 5.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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