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Originally Posted by Atlantis_Lux
Also, Nagi knew that Mashiro wasn't the real princess, still seemed to disregard that fact that she was the carbon copy of the former ruler of Artai (possibly his father). As everyone else, Miyu included, who just claimed that she was just some unknown girl.
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I always thought that Miyu's vague reference to Fumi's master was supposed to be a hint/foreshadowing that Mashiro was possibly descended from her. But it's so vague and since it's not too likely that they'll make more Otome with Arika/Mashiro's time (I wish they would, because I like the both of them, Mashiro especially), this probably won't ever be answered. Knowing Sunrise, Mashiro won't just be some girl picked up off the street by the minister, but whether she's Nagi's half sister or what probably won't ever be known.
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His possible brother included who, instead of gaining her trust did just everything to piss her off. Considering this, and the fact that Schwartz didn't do anything with her either, there's no evidence in Otome that Mashiro was part of the plot from the start, as Sifr seems to suggest. 
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Yeah, this is another inconsistency that struck me. Originally, Nagi's supposed to be romancing Mashiro so she'll marry him and he can get ahold of the sealed technology more easily, but his very first sentence to her when they meet for the first time references the one thing that Mashiro can't stand to hear: the idea that she's the fake princess.
Though, I think Sunrise intends for Nagi to be seen as a sort of being who brings chaos/disorder with him, so it's not that huge of a problem.
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Originally Posted by White night selenite
So during the raid of Windbloom, Aswad were satisfied with what they have done. "Our revenge was done successfully. Oh, the baby princess is gone, but do we really care? Schwartz are the masterminds, they will find her for sure."
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I don't know...correct me if I'm wrong because I don't have access to the episodes right now, but didn't Rad and Midori, when they were telling Mashiro and Arika what happened fifteen years ago, basically state that the final straw for the alliance between Schwartz and Aswad was not Aswad killing Bruce and Sifr or losing Nina, but Schwartz stealing Rena's body? It sounded to me like the alliance before that was basically upheld, and Schwarz was the one really calling the shots between the two.
Plus, I can't see Schwartz not bloodily retaliating against Aswad for annihilating the people they most needed--they'd spent years trying to get ahold of the Harmonium, after all.
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Originally Posted by dunames
with Rena personality, she would rather died then sacrifice the life of her daughter and the princess so just so she can live.
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But that's thing: Rena
did sacrifice Arika's life for Nina, or intended to, at least. She's shown clearly hesitating on giving Arika away, but in the end, she hands off her own child to a lady-in-waiting who won't be able to defend her against the attackers (and in fact doesn't, because we know from Miyu that the woman died and it was sheer luck that Miyu found Arika still alive) in order to bring the princess to possible safety. Rena puts Nina's life ahead of Arika's, even though she's no longer the official Windbloom Otome.
(This, btw, is another reason I have a problem with the theory that Shiro is Arika's father + Rena's MVP, and his death caused her to lose her CHILD/her CHILD died and so did he--if love for Shiro made the immensely dutiful Rena turn her back on her masters and duty to go away with him, and he died because of this love, then
why in the seven naked hells does Rena then leave the child of this great love behind to die? Apparently at that point, she's resumed the viewpoint that her masters are the most important thing, but, gee, you'd think that Rena would be a little less willing to leave the last living bit of Shiro, her great love, to die while she protects the child of the people she turned her back on so she could be together with Shiro. DOES NOT COMPUTE. AGAIN.)
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Originally Posted by Keroko
On the subject of plotholes... they really don't bother me that much. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm so used to watching series with plotholes -cause there are many many series with plotholes. Even the so prized HiME probably has one or two I can find if I try- that I automatically either come up with an explanation or ignore them.
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I wish I could be that way, but unfortunately, I'm an incredible nitpicker, and IMO, many of the inconsistencies in Otome are too giant for me to ignore.
Also, the plotholes in Otome bug me more than usual because I honestly think that if Sunrise was a little more careful with the plot, Otome could have been a good-to-great series, instead of a okay one with occasionally awesome moments and a lot of
They're damned lucky I really like the characters and some of the background concepts, that's all I can say.
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Originally Posted by ViewtifulAlchemist
Even if Shiro brings up some issues with how Akira's father was handle in original Otome I think they wanted you to believe he ended up being the father especially with the whole "grandmother" line he said.
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Well, considering that the only other plausible candidate in the series for Arika's father is Shiro's brother, all that could easily be explained by Arika taking after her uncle, not her father.
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