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Mea Culpa on Mai HiME

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 … Continue reading

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Shizuru GET Pretty Girl

"She’s definitely getting a pretty girl right now," was my favourite line from Mai Otome Zwei Ep 1. Gal’s knowing comment about Shizuru’s wandering ways and Natsuki’s annoyed response was pure winnage. While Shizuru Fujino’s psychotic obsession with Natsuki Kuga, … Continue reading

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ShizNats Mai HiME Specials 4, 23, 25

MH Special #4 is from Shizuru Fujino’s POV, relating that she was captivated by Natsuki Kuga’s defiant yet lonely stare (love at first sight!); that she gradually got Natsuki to open up to her; that she has many things (being … Continue reading

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Mai HiME Special 13

Other than symmetrical docking, another possible event in the Anime Fanservice Olympics might be breasts diving (girl on girl only please!) as demonstrated in the ED of Mai HiME and yet again (see above) by potential medallist team of Mai … Continue reading

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Mai HiME: On Devotion

Spoilerific! Ok, huge spoiler. Miyu Glea is a robot built by the Illuminati-like Searrs Foundation and has got the unique ability to neutralise the materialising power of the HiMEs. Miyu is really M.I.Y.U. – Multiple Intelligential Yggdrasil Unit – thus … Continue reading

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Mai HiME: Nuts About Natsuki

Spoilerific! What I immediately noticed about Shizuru Fujino was her Kyoto accent. A lot of animes have a character from Kansai but they are usually Osaka-ben speakers e.g. Ayumu Kasuga (Osaka) of Azumanga Daioh, Kero of Cardcaptor Sakura, Mitsune Konno … Continue reading

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Mai-HiME: Nao’s Tangled Web

Nao Yuuki (voiced by Yuuka Nanri, vocalist for Chariot of Dawn) is one of my three favourite characters (besides Shizuru and Miyu) from the very entertaining Mai HiME so this post is a bit of a character shrine. Short note … Continue reading

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