Do you want a Friend? Well, how about *sleeping* with a friend, instead? This anime is made to be slept with!
Sure, there are many people who "watch" anime in background, but this goes a step further, the anime itself is made such as you can go to bed with Hinako and have her waking you in the morning.
You may think "how? that's just 49 minutes long, I sleep longer than that", but you are slightly mistaken, fella, 49 minutes is just the animated minute count, is what you get if you rip the DVD, that's not the real anime duration. Check the website: you can watch this anime from 6 hours to 8 hours, also having options for modes that can further customized to fit your sleeping habits.
Well, why would someone animate an anime like that? Why going to the work of making a DVD with variable-duration just for to be slept with? Some said it's to aid those with insomnia, but I guess people are just horny and want to sleep with a barely clothed 2D girl.
You EVEN have options to choose how she is going to sleep! Like, do you want her to wake you up in the middle of the night, you can. You just want to sleep with her? That's fine too. Surely, that's nowhere as close as the real thing, but if there are people willing to pay a lot to talk with an AI, why not give Hinako a chance to aid them with their loneliness?
Surely an anime that breaks conventions: conventions on how to watch an anime, conventions on what's the duration of an episode, one that can be customized and adapt to one's needs. Surely, most people who ever watched this anime probably never bought the DVD and never knew about those extra features, but, if nowadays are still people trying to sell solutions from loneliness using non existent characters, like our friend Hinako, maybe this anime was more than just a boring anime about watching a girl sleep. Many people may have watched her because of her boobs, but she is more than her looks, she, at least in her website, was born to help those with insomnia, and, that's great!
I watched it twice, first time out of curiosity, without knowing her history. The second time, on the other hand, was to give her a chance to do her job, of sleeping with those who need her, for those who probably only knew her from her looks. I spent hours working on that, properly translating things people felt unnecessary because "is just some ecchi anime" and allowing her to sleep soundly and properly.
Will Hinako be remembered from just her looks or from the friend she was meant to be? Not an AI spying on you but a companion to sleep alongside those who just want some company. And why not a pretty one, right? Time will tell.
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