Mai Otome 9-10

[cerusee]

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MIDORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.



WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.


I want Takumi and Akira and Mai and I want them now. ;_;



P.S. Hey, m00nface, in ep. 9, we finally got malletspace.

Comments

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

Personally? I rather liked Midori's appearance. She was kicking butt! Plus, I squee'd when she blocked Shizuru and then...

"Come out...the steel fang..... GAKUTENOU!"

However... Midori's prowess notwithstanding? Shizuru was about to END that fight. She dragged Gakutenou in a direction away from everyone else and then was set to put them both down.

Also? Rado? SO terrified of Natsuki.

Episode 11: Oooh! Takumi! And Akira won't be far behind, I bet. Which means.... Mai! YAY!

[m00nface.livejournal.com]

>_< That does it. I am SO getting my connection fixed this Christmas, if only to catch up on Mai-Otome. This whole not-seeing-it thing SUCKS. (Although Fantastic Children rewatching is doing a good job soothing my pain.)

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Lemme know when you can, and I can upload for your viewing pleasure. ^0^

(Fantastic Children is very involving. It'd be hard to concentrate on both at once anyway. I refuse to rewatch Futakoi Alternative on any night I watch something else, because I want to throw myself completely into it, and not be distracted by trying to trace the plot in Otome. I have notes for Futakoi Alt. Incoherent, badly spelled notes.)

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Well, I was happy to see her, although I'd already been pretty sure, but...waaaah. This is quite a twist on her function in HiME, I must say.

Shizuru is the most badass of ther badass in Otome--even more badass than Haruka.

Ep. 11: If Akira is not far behind Takumi, I will the cry sad, angsty tears of where is my OTP? But I don't think we'll see Mai any time soon--I think that we'll find out what the deal is with Mai no sooner that the last third of the show--and she and Takumi might not even be siblings in this universe. As heartbreakingly sad as that would be.

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

I don't think that Takumi is not Mai's sibling in this universe. Watch the promo for 11 and notice the insignia on the left side of his outfit(well, right in the picture, but left for him). If that doesn't indicate a STRONG tie to Mai, I don't know what does.

As for Akira.... I'd bet we'll find that Takumi is a diplomat, and Akira his Otome, who is constantly chastising him for being a weakling and trying to make him not one. And Mai... well... I think we'll get some more implied bits about Mai. I truly don't think she's going to be entirely on the side of the angels, though. I mean... The Otome as a group are rather overpowered at present. She may not be a part of Aswald or the Shibaratsu, but... I think she'll probably be at cross purposes to everyone else. Mai's primary interests have ALWAYS been to herself and her family.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I don't think that he's not--I'm just preparing myself for potential disappointment. (The sibling relationship in Mai-HiME is one of the great joys of the show for me, so I'm going to feel strongly about whatever they end up doing with it here.) You're probably right, though--the cast of characters is fairly tightly interwoven, so I'm sure there's a way for Mai and Takumi to be related and not be in each other's presence.

This possible take on a Takumi/Akira relationship rocks my socks, and I hope it is so.

I think she'll probably be at cross purposes to everyone else.

Yeah. I strongly suspect that Mai's plot function is going to be more akin to "wild card" than "tragic loss." In the original show she was, practically speaking, a pacifist. Since most of the characters' essential personality elements have been preserved, if in some cases redirected--Mashiro is the notable exception--I'm curious to know if the Mai who attended an elite fighting school is also a pacifist.

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

Mai's going to be somewhere between Shizuru & Haruka, I bet. But I'd wager money on her changes being more along the style of Midori's alterations than anyone else.