He’s Expecting Review: A Fictional World Of Pregnant Men That Doesn’t Have To Be Based On Any Facts

Starring: Takumi Saitoh, Juri Ueno, Mariko Tsutsui

Directors: Yuko Hakota, Takeo Kikuchi

Streaming Platform: Netflix (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

He’s Expecting 8 episode Japanese Netflix series, tells the story of the hardships experienced by men becoming pregnant. In a society that has just begun to talk about it seriously.

He’s Expecting Review: The Story

Hiyama Kentaro (played by Takumi Saito), a free-spirited playboy working in the advertising industry where the life he had planned was thriving. But then he unexpectedly became pregnant. Presumably due to his relationship with writer Aki Seto (played by Juri Ueno), this pregnancy pits him against an unprecedented number of obstacles in his life that are going well.

He’s Expecting Review and Analysis

The series is based on the original manga, Hiyama Kentarou no Ninshin by Kodansha writer Eri Sakai, published in 2019-2020. There are 2 volumes in total, whose plot is imaginary and imaginary. Based on any theory, some pregnant men suddenly appeared lately. is normal The story is a fictional world to create a simulated story of what if a man could become pregnant in society. Therefore, viewers have to cut off all the unreasonable feelings first. The story will not explain anything scientifically about this matter at all. (For example, which way of giving birth? This one doesn’t have to be a question. Unlike before, there was a movie Junior, Why the man got pregnant, the 1994 movie by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This story is more based on scientific principles.

The main theme of the story is an attempt to tell men about the hardships of being pregnant with all the aspects that actually happen to women which the story puts various details In fact, let the audience see the development of pregnancy each month that passes But when turning into a man. Everything seems more difficult such as equipment, apparel, various uses made for women only or that society still sees men being pregnant as something strange and unacceptable. Compared to being gay, homo, in the view of Japanese conservative society that these things are not widely accepted and widely accepted. The story will have a countdown timer in each episode to see how many weeks until the baby is born.

Then tell about the development of the hero’s pregnancy along with dealing with all kinds of problems encountered around him both in terms of living a more difficult life with family problems arising from his not associating with Aki as a boyfriend Makes Aki like a woman who has to fall into a man who suddenly became a father Even though she decided to adopt a child together. Marriage was not in my head before Therefore, he became like a man who adopted a child but did not settle down with his mother. The way we see each other in a patriarchal society like the past. The story tells a story around the problems in the aspects that alternate roles, male-female, father-mother and husband-wife. The story is told with light drama, not stressful, a little bit of humor attached to the unconventional story that happened. But he is also serious about telling the audience the hardships of pregnancy.

Listen to the story, it may be basic not much but the plot has a secondary plot that makes the story bigger than just a pregnant man. (In a society that knows this already exists) by making the heroine become a necessary presenter of a clothing brand advertising company that is rebranding. Then became a famous talk of the town making his pregnancy become a national agenda that everyone is watching. This part of the story starts after the end of episode 3. Before that, the story was quite tense that it didn’t look like much fun. But when the story has a turning point like this, it immediately makes the story look fun with the fame that swept in. Therefore, the media dug into the hero’s past to sell news causing the protagonist to have to face the dramatic events that all influencers hit each other then the story draws the hero’s past to connect with the past.

Tells more stories about men who were pregnant in the past as representing the development of society in terms of accepting the diversity of people without sex any social status framed from the past. The series has 8 episodes, all 25 minutes each. The story ends like leaving the story to continue the story of raising children on a certain level. Which should be the content of the manga in volume 2 which should not be a problem to continue because the series that came out is fun enough with interesting stories. Or it will end with just one season as well.

He’s Expecting Review: The Last Words

A series that creates a fictional world about a man who can get pregnant normally without any explanation but to play about the difficulty of a woman’s pregnancy turning into a man is even more difficult. During the first 3 episodes, it may seem uncomfortable, as if forced into a forced pregnancy. But after that, the story looks fun and relaxed, with a bit of humour along with light drama. There are many problems that arise all around. This includes the problem of accidentally switching roles of a woman who becomes a father and reflect the development of society’s transition in regard to the acceptance of the changing gender role status in the series.