Foreword This is not Mai-Otome as you saw it onscreen (and for that you must be thankful); this is Mai-Otome as it should have been, and hence much has been liberally changed whilst retaining the essence of the original. OTOME An Otome is classified as any woman injected with self-replicating internal nanomachines that enable her to materialise a [...]
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I have to admit that I have been terribly wrong about Mai-Otome. How could I, holder of a degree in physics, possibly understand its depth and complexity as well as the random grammatically challenged flamers who came to my blog to comment? Indeed, I totally failed to grasp the deeper implications and cutting social commentary [...]
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Ceterum censeo scrapers esse delendam.
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It’s every day we got some new Kajiura stuff :) and after watching the last OAV (with finally some good Juliet battle ^^ (Materialize!)) I discovered the 3d ED, composed by Yuki Kajiura, and sung by yukana (the Mashiro-chan voice actress). Nothing amazing really… it’s some childish song, with a voice I’m not really fan with… [...]
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Warning: Nudity!
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Let's get the good things out of the way. I really like the soundtrack which seems to be middle-eastern inspired. The track that plays while the Otome Delta team are about to attack the bus is a good example of this. The same thing can be said about the ED theme. As far as technical aspect goes, the animation and character design are pretty good and look consistent. But Sunrise rarely do a bad job in animation and character design, unless they're really strapped for money. What Sunrise never seems to have in spades is decent script writer. This OVA, just like the one that preceeded it, is pretty sparse in plot and has a slow pacing. The action itself is decent but it doesn't really get exciting until the last 5 minutes of the episode. It's quite clear now that the writers will just cram everything in the last 2 OVAs.
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I really enjoyed this episode. Psycho Tomoe is always a pleasure to watch. Also nice how Chie got a big role (and the most number of WTF facial expressions); not surprisingly, she has a fan club of screaming fangirls! I wonder what Aoi would say. :P
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Before I go on with my Mai Otome fanboying, allow me to rant about the ending- OMFG WHY MUST YOU SHOW NINA-CHAN AT THE END AND CLIFF-HANGERIZE IT??!!111ONEONE FUCK YOU SUNRISE FUCK YOU. AND NOW I CAN’T SLEEP ANYMORE. … alright. I’m back to normal now. By now, everyone should know I love Mai-HiME/Otome with such great [...]
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I think this is by far the best looking anime series I’ve ever seen. Yes, I know this is an OVA episode but even if you look at the TV series, the animation quality is still top notch. The characters are well designed, soundtracks are great and the battle scenes are remarkably [...]
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Rating: 9.3/10 Impressions: Being a big fan of Mai Hime and Mai Otome, and a bigger fan of the Mai Otome manga, I, like many others I presume, have been eagerly anticipating the second episode in the Zwei OAV series. Overall, this second episode is actually a bit of a disappointment. Although not lacking in action and [...]
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Wouhou ^^ I was watching the Mai Otome 2 the other day, besides a great episode, with a mix of Hime/Otome during the episode, I was surprised by the ending song. The first notes began, on a clavecimbel, with those “christmas” bells, and that kajiuran feeling. Then the voice began, it was Nina Wàng! Well euhm, [...]
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Made of Rie Tanaka, Haruka-chan(oh god she has huge boobs) and win. It actually had me on the edge of my seat (bed, in this case) literally. Also had me laughing my ass off. This is what Mai Otome should have been. I have to admit this is really good. Speaking of which, Chie’s Otome [...]
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Chie tries pulling a plot out of her magical hat. A lot has happened over the last three months, but I’m sure most will agree that events worldwide, personal and anime-related must all pale in comparison to the release we’ve all been waiting for- the second episode of Mai-Otome Zwei. In episode one, a mysterious Shadow [...]
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Bandai Entertainment announced in a press release that it has now licensed both My-Otome and Tide-Line Blue for english distribution. Otome is pretty obvious, since My-Hime is now done and finished. Let’s see if people can stomach the crapfest of a story that was Otome. And I’m still waiting for that second episode of My-Otome [...]
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Before the age of such innovations as Wordpress, editorials and readers, Mai Otome was something resembling the focus of this blog. As the series faltered and stumbled through an inability to gather all its possible plot elements together, opinion of the series changed from addiction to fatal attraction, and by the final episode it was [...]
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For my last few Otome articles, I’ve repeatedly said that I don’t have much more to say about the franchise. Now seems as good a time as any to admit that that never seems to be the case; until the day when I can play as Mikoto in my own isometric battle game, there will [...]
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Pure Win Now that I’m done with Mai-Otome, I think I can confidently say I like the manga more than the anime. Yeah, I know the manga is cliche riddened and stuffed with fanservice, but then again wasn’t the anime the same? At least I enjoyed the fanservice in the manga, especially all the Hime stuff [...]
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I’ve never been stuck for things to write about Mai-Otome- indeed, some might even venture to claim that I have already said enough about it. Nonetheless, such claims are not enough to deter me, and so the time has come to turn my sights to the recently completed Otome manga. As I wrote in an earlier [...]
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