My-HiME/My-Otome Image Thread (Wallpapers, Screen shots, Scans, etc.)

[Random Otaku]

Did I just catch a Marie Antoinette reference? o.O



("If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.")

That's what you get for watching the series at 4am I guess.

[Catgirls]

Originally Posted by Random Otaku

Did I just catch a Marie Antoinette reference? o.O

("If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.")

That's what you get for watching the series at 4am I guess.

-> http://ask.yahoo.com/20021122.html

We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette.

This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.

Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which essentially means "let them eat a type of egg-based bread" (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that "a great princess" told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.

But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it's highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor -- which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.

However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.

A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.

This came up before which is the only reason I'm posting it. Cheers.

[Tempest35]

Um, Catgirls, I know this is off topic but...why the Mucho Lucho?

[Catgirls]

Originally Posted by Tempest35

Um, Catgirls, I know this is off topic but...why the Mucho Lucho?

Hmmm..."Mucho Lucho"? ("a lot of fighting") I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

[Tempest35]

Nothing really, just that the avatar's wearing a luchador mask...and there's a silly cartoon called 'Mucho Lucho' that plays off of that. So I see silly man wearing luchador mask = I think 'Mucho Lucho' - I dunno, your avy just reminded me of it suddenly.

[Catgirls]

Originally Posted by Tempest35

Nothing really, just that the avatar's wearing a luchador mask...and there's a silly cartoon called 'Mucho Lucho' that plays off of that. So I see silly man wearing luchador mask = I think 'Mucho Lucho' - I dunno, your avy just reminded me of it suddenly.

Ahhh.. No, he's from the anime show Petopeto-san. He's kind of a alien-loli-lover guy and loves to grind his hips whenever he's around a couple of people.

I'm sure this has been posted before, but what the heck.


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[Tokkan]

New Mai image and Ein's robe.

[IchiKyo]

Originally Posted by Rob the Fox

New Mai image and Ein's robe.

Mai or the Same...
Bur Fia O_o
Great^^

[stillmissing]

[IchiKyo]

Man, she draw a lot
Look like the Next Episode, we see more Otome

[Sei-sama]

[Tokkan]

Originally Posted by stillmissing

I thought Rosalie retired. Why are we seeing a picture of her robe?

[Sageblink]

Originally Posted by Rob the Fox

I thought Rosalie retired. Why are we seeing a picture of her robe?

GOSH!! If this is really Rosalie, this mean that... Akane was suppose to wear that???



Ein's Robe is definitly my favorite.

[paTKany]

(Found here: http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h36866687)

[ando]

Originally Posted by DeFi

I did some page style and type analysis with the result, that the other images are probably from HobbyJapan(ホビージャパン), but I'm not sure, because none of the recent topic descriptions from that magazine I found, state anything about My-Otome related content.

You are right. I confirmed in a bookstore that they are from Monthly Hobby Japan. But I didn't buy it. Instead I bought ARIA(manga).

[Akuma-sama]

Originally Posted by paTKany

Hot damn!
I approve.
That's the mangaka's style... did he draw that?

[Jet_Maeden]

LOL Natsuki got pregnant!!



...And Shizzy is getting ready!!

[Diodati]

lol so that's why Shizuru has the baby toys....
*shakes head*
It's a dark time for being a ShizuruxNatsuki fan eheh.

Originally Posted by Jet_Maeden

Hmm...well, I'm ready...but no thanks! I wouldn't want that mold on me!

Ouch!
For you lady, the most evil-est Tomoe I've ever seen:


Someone went crazy with the eyeliner me thinks.

And:


Aww, another heartbreaker. :P

Originally Posted by Sageblink

GOSH!! If this is really Rosalie, this mean that... Akane was suppose to wear that???

LOL, it's the hair-thingie that does it. Snazzy fashion. Akane you made a lucky escape. And are we going to be seeing all these women in the last 5 episodes. Jesus. Talk about cramming.


For Preston:



*cough*

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Here's the link for the ''non-Tomoe'' ones - Triple Break I think - there are more there but it can get quite fanservice-y after a while so I thought I'd give a 'dose'.

[Kona]

Originally Posted by Diodati

lol so that's why Shizuru has the baby toys....
*shakes head*
It's a dark time for being a ShizuruxNatsuki fan eheh.




Ouch!
For you lady, the most evil-est Tomoe I've ever seen:


Someone went crazy with the eyeliner me thinks.

And:


Aww, another heartbreaker. :P



LOL, it's the hair-thingie that does it. Snazzy fashion. Akane you made a lucky escape. And are we going to be seeing all these women in the last 5 episodes. Jesus. Talk about cramming.


For Preston:



*cough*

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Here's the link for the ''non-Tomoe'' ones - Triple Break I think - there are more there but it can get quite fanservice-y after a while so I thought I'd give a 'dose'.

Good grace, that tomoe pic is going to haunt me . Every thing else mmm

[Sageblink]

Originally Posted by stillmissing

Hu hu, got a theory... Could this girl be one of the Coral?
Since one of them look like Rosalie (who has retired...)

And by looking her Robe, and after all others...
The metallic parts are gold. Like Nina or Arika.

All the confirmed Meinster are silver... and based on a certain model.