Mai Hime / My-Hime

[LynnieS]

Originally Posted by Crimsonmon

The staff who worked on GIRLS Bravo had nothing to do with the fog, Fuji TV added it due to their new censorship policies.

And Mai-HiME airs on TV Tokyo, so Fuji TV has nothing to do with the series.

Didn't think that I needed a " " tag there - with the "or something" and the " " one already - but okay. Will go back and edit that post afterwards.

Seen episode 4; have to love the way "flying halfway around the world" does to someone's sleep schedule.

I gave "Mai HiME" either a 8 or a 8.5, I think, earlier... somewhere. Whatever the score was, drop it down by 2 for me. I have no idea what direction this series is going, especially with it now being more that 25% over, and would guess that it's faithful to the manga because this episode, IMHO, was just silly.

OTOH, getting a look at the "monster" of this episode reminded me of "Gremlins"... Not really a good memory. Mai looks cute in her waitress outfit, their dorm building being turned into a... trap... of sorts, Shiho's behavior toward her "brother" is getting a bit old but is still funny, but for the most part, it's a Natsuki episode. Don't know yet if I'll continue to watch - or buy the DVDs when they come out, however. Still seems to be nothing more than the usual school kids series with mysterious powers and such.

Big whoop, IMHO.

[DrewGSR]

know episodes 2 and 3 have been out, but Akeep just released both of them

[apr]

Just watched episode 04 of Mai-HiME, which was better than the two previous episodes. It doesn't do anything with the storyline, but establishes a bit of a relationship between the main characters, in a humorous little sideshow about an underwear thief.

I'll make a spoiler thingie with screenshots from the episode.

Spoiler:

The episode starts out with giving us a pleasant surprise, showing us what the school's swimsuits look like.


In the ladies dressing room, we learn that all the undies have been stolen by someone, much to the horror of miss Kuga,


who in an accidental breeze shows off her stuff,


causing intense bloodloss for one of the male students.


The episode is finished off nicely with a tentacle scene.

[Muir Woods]

Originally Posted by apr

Spoiler:

who in an accidental breeze shows off her stuff,

Is it just me, or does it look like she's not wearing any panties... . Good (or bad, if you like) thing they cropped the essentials away...heh heh heh.

Anyways, I've been following the series, and everything is fine and dandy by me, except for one thing: Less mechas and more powers please. Mai having pyrokinesis sure is a major plus, but the spinning rings around her limbs just looks...queer. And Mai looks suprisingly developed when she's suppose to be only 15.

[USB500]

I think the animators were a bit rushed back there and tried to chase the airing schedule. And yeah, I noticed how well develop Mai is. Is that a nice thing of a bad thing?

Spoiler for something to be shared while killing time for Ep4:

animated gifs of Mai HiME.




These twos were made by me.

[sinistral]

Originally Posted by apr

Just watched episode 04 of Mai-HiME, which was better than the two previous episodes. It doesn't do anything with the storyline, but establishes a bit of a relationship between the main characters, in a humorous little sideshow about an underwear thief.

I'll make a spoiler thingie with screenshots from the episode.

Spoiler:

The episode starts out with giving us a pleasant surprise, showing us what the school's swimsuits look like.


In the ladies dressing room, we learn that all the undies have been stolen by someone, much to the horror of miss Kuga,


who in an accidental breeze shows off her stuff,


causing intense bloodloss for one of the male students.


The episode is finished off nicely with a tentacle scene.

now thats really a Ecchi Mai-HiME

[seiftis]

Originally Posted by Muir Woods

Is it just me, or does it look like she's not wearing any panties... . Good (or bad, if you like) thing they cropped the essentials away...heh heh heh.

It's not just you for sure, and what's with the tentacle monster...

[Rand]

Originally Posted by seiftis

It's not just you for sure, and what's with the tentacle monster...

he ? Hentai inspiration ? Let's see the plot now : magical powers, mystics and legends , schoolgirls, swords, panties and swinsuits...Where the Hell is this show going ?
Anyways, i'm going to follow it, i like this serie, action and a bit of fan service are a good combination for relaxing after a day of work...

[Tiamat's Disciple]

Originally Posted by Rand

he ? Hentai inspiration ? Let's see the plot now : magical powers, mystics and legends , schoolgirls, swords, panties and swinsuits...Where the Hell is this show going ?
Anyways, i'm going to follow it, i like this serie, action and a bit of fan service are a good combination for relaxing after a day of work...

You PERV!!!!!!

*goes back into the closet with his lap top* :P

It was bound to happen, a show like this was bound to have some fanservice in it, almost every show ot these days does for some reason. So long as it doesnt go over board ill be cool with i, its when it gets to much it gets on my nerves; like the teacher from dears. She really got on my nerves by the end of the series.

[Painless]

Can the people discussing episode 4 learn to use

Spoiler:

spoiler tags?

I'm afraid to read those posts.

[Burner of Anime]

Originally Posted by seiftis

It's not just you for sure, and what's with the tentacle monster...

They need love and compassion just like every other warm blooded mutant. They also need ppl to quit cutting off their appendages with razor sharp and double action blades.

Still, never expected ecchi of this level and quality from the producers

[Ialdaboth]

Originally Posted by Burner of Anime

Still, never expected ecchi of this level and quality from the producers

Yes.

Still haven't seen ep 4 (waiting for the subs), but it seems the producers wanted to put all the fan service they could think of in one big episode.
Funny, isn't it ?

[Yebyosh]

Well, I liked episode 4 a lot. Very funny.

Spoiler for Episode 4:

Poor Mikoto got her bust felt up and Mai got blamed instead for not teaching Mikoto on female apparel. Check out Mikoto's reaction as well on being blackmailed into helping on the pretext of cutting off her lunch supply Yep, Mikoto is very likely based on the catgirl design, especially with her sleeping so comfortably around with kitties.

We also learn Natsuki has an admirer in poor 'innocent' Takeda and that she has a hobby of lingerie collecting.

On the overall plot, Nagi with his finger counting indicates that there will be at least 3 more HiMEs to awaken in the future episodes.

It also seems that Nagi has some involvement in the letting loose of the Orphans.

[Sunni]

for me I will give 7/10...Medium....that have action and good main character...but I heard this will be only 13 episode.

[dkellis]

I haven't seen episode 4 yet (downloading raw now), but I do have a quick question:

Spoiler for Just in case:

Does the episode end in another cliffhanger like the one at the end of episode 2? It'll be a bit of a pain if they decide to do action scenes in double-episode packs.

EDIT: Never mind, I've watched it.

Best episode ever.

[Painless]

Originally Posted by Sunni

for me I will give 7/10...Medium....that have action and good main character...but I heard this will be only 13 episode.

There's some discussion about the amount of episodes on pages 4 and 5 of this thread. Someone mentioned reading the series' official page and seeing "Episode 15" and "episode 20" mentioned there. There was some other evidence for more than 13 eps there, too. AnimeNFO and AniDB have the episode count at 13, but they've been wrong before (and they may very well have the same source). The "How many episodes" thread still has Mai Hime as unknown.

[LynnieS]

Originally Posted by dkellis

I haven't seen episode 4 yet (downloading raw now), but I do have a quick question:

Spoiler for Just in case:

Does the episode end in another cliffhanger like the one at the end of episode 2? It'll be a bit of a pain if they decide to do action scenes in double-episode packs.

Spoiler tags for asking a question?

Spoiler for Answer:

No, #4's not a cliffhanger episode.

[seiftis]

omg... ep.4 was damn funny especially the first 7 minutes~ I can't even stop laughing

BTW, what's Nagi's actual role in the story anyway?

[dreamless]

lol ep4 must be heaven for male anime fans (and for that Kendo club guy ), suddenly I love Natsuki a lot more *drools*

Spoiler:

lol she has a hobby of collecting panties and bras And that tentacle monster transformation, tentacle RULEZ though I kinda wonder if this episode will turn off some female anime fans

[outlawed]

Originally Posted by dreamless

lol ep4 must be heaven for male anime fans
<SNIP>
though I kinda wonder if this episode will turn off some female anime fans [/spoiler]

Seeing as how this show was marketed to males to begin with... I don't think that's going to be an issue in JP. Now in American where a good amount of female anime fans liked Love Hina (which seems weird as far as I'm concered)....one can only wonder.

Anyone else find it interesting how there has been a lack of service/moe. Hell they even made a joke about it in the preview for ep2. I guess Sunrise will do a bishoujo show but they aren't going to go overboard with it. Nonetheless it has been enjoyable so far. I'm not a big fan of Mikoto's chara design at all. I do like Mai and Natsuki a lot though. Megami vol 54 had a nice pullout of Mai.