Although my good brother Stripey includes Mai HiME as one of top ten animes with botched endings, for a long time, his view was a much more considered and tempered one than mine. And he liked the series so much that he asked me to take advantage of RightStuf’s Twelve Days of Christmas sale and purchase the Mai HiME DVD bundle for him at USD 69.99 (works out to about SGD 18.50 a DVD, including S&H - what a bargain!).
I have to confess to being one of those who were bitterly disappointed by Mai HiME’s ending. But, at Stripey’s request (’Please check if the DVDs work, quality ok etc etc.’) I rewatched the series and have been converted to Mai HiME fanboyism. Just as that cunning eviiiiiil tanuki had foreseen! >_<