Mai Otome vs. Mai Hime...sorta

yours_truly · Post by **yours_truly** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:16 am

I like Mai Hime, however I didn't love it, but I do feel that after seeing a part of the first eps. of Mai Otome[my download didn't finish, Azureus started being mean after 96% of the download itself was completed T_T evil..], I got confused.
1. When, how, and why was Mikoto a CAT? a cute, yet fat cat.
2. why was the princess from Mai Hime somehow reincarnated or whatever?
3. Who's Nina? She looks like Mikoto only scarier

Another complaint,
I did NOT like how they drew Arika. Her eyes are too wide apart for my taste and I didn't like the voice either. Oh well.

But I did like how a couple of the original characters were put in... but still, I'm confused.

sjabbie · Post by **sjabbie** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:22 am

You shouldn't think of Mai Otome as a sequel. More like a different story with the same people from Mai Hime and with a couple of new characters who play the main roles.

goldenb · Post by **goldenb** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:34 am

you should watch mai otome (I mean the whole series) because it's really a

great anime, but then again I had already liked mai hime. Mai Otome is not a

sequel however you can relate this "new world" to the one of my hime

through some of the caracters like Mikoto (not the cat, the real one who

appears somewhere in the middle of the series) and Miyu. It's really a great

show better than Mai Hime, just watch it from the beggining to the end,

albinosqrl · Post by **albinosqrl** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:37 pm

Otome is an alternative universe/time setting. There are some clues near the end of the series about the relationship between Hime and Otome.

IMNSHO, Hime was a wonderful series that could have been a mindfuck on the level of EOE if the designers hadn't pussied out at the end. Otome took out most of the points that made Hime excellent (real romance, mindfuckery, characters dying, emotion) and was much more bland as a result. Wasn't BAD, just not as good.

goldenb · Post by **goldenb** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:24 am

yeh you're kind of right but even so I'd put them on two totally different

categories because even though there are a lot of similarities they're so very

different. I guess I feel tempted to compare them but I don't think any result

of that comparison can lessen the quality of any of the "Mai series" cause on

purpose or not the anime style differs so much.

In the end, and talking just about personal preferences, if you ask me I also

prefer the "EOE style".