舞-乙HiME (Mai-Otome)

[Squeek]

13: =D

Seriously, that episode was awesometacular.

Yet, just like in M-H, she leaves the show never to be seen again way before it gets "good"...

~Squeek

[jamuko]

Hehehehe, that episode was cute even though there was a little cheesiness there a bit.


*Kinda spoilery stuff following*

I always liked those two for some reason, and I practically screamed at the monitor when Kazu-kun died so early last series. XD I'm glad they got a happier story this time.

[Squeek]

14.

It's really getting serious now. This is when this show takes off and becomes glorious if it's anything like its predecessor.

~Squeek

[jamuko]

Heh, we even got a bit of Nagi "this is where the fun begins" talk... reminiscent of last time.

Should be interesting.

[YungYung]

I think one of the keyparts to 14 was when Arika's friend snook up behind Shizuru, and when she left they showed her foot light up for like a split second.

Or maybe I'm just over-analyzing e verything. That, or she's an otome too.

[Squeek]

15 IS OUT ASDF

WAY AHEAD OF YOU PUNKS

~Squeek

PS - It was good. I was hoping it would go another direction.

[YungYung]

WTF I went to bed last night at 1 and I checked for it before I went to bed.

I wake up now and you tell me you've already watched the episode, jeeebus Squeek is obsessed XD

[Squeek]

I choose not to do any computer-related activities around 6:00PM on Saturdays now thanks to this show.

I was playing Baten Kaitos returning to Animesuki every half hour or so.

~Squeek

[Kefit]

This show needs to get moving, and fast.

It started out promising, but it is dragging pretty badly now. Stuff needs to happen, and the show needs to decide which characters are important. Character focus has been so inconsistent for everyone aside from Arika/Nina/Mashiro/Sergey that I have no idea anymore who is significant to this story, and who isn't.

I've heard rumors that, based on the episode title, episode 18 is going to be an OH FUCK episode, but I hope the kick this show needs comes sooner than that.

[buuuh]

This episode was like

oh man TENSION BETWEEN (what seem to be) KEY CHARACTERS IS GOING TO ERUPT

then it was like nm fooled you

[YungYung]

So they DIDN'T make out.


Aw poo. rofl.

[jamuko]

Just moments ago the sub for ep. 16 was released!

Gogogogogogogogogo~!

[YungYung]

Haha I win. I just finished watching it. I beat squeek.

New opening theme. Lots of clues. Including..

Arika goes badass with the sapphire of the azure sky
Nina either becomes a meister, or something else happens to her
Same as above with Nao and Shiho

and... ZOMG IT'S MAII!!

You see Tomoe standing with the Aswald people.

I won't get into the episode's content aswell, but I can definitely say the series is about to really pick up. I can't wait for 17 now.

[buuuh]

Yay something is finally going to happen in the next episode.

[Kefit]

Yay, stuff is finally happening!

The pacing of this show is one of my biggest gripes with it. HiME took until episode 15 for the subclimax to hit, and that was also quite late (HiME is saved in my eyes for having far better character balance and focus in its first half). It looks like the subclimax in this show is going to be in 17 or 18, which is really stretching it. I'm certain the show will be excellent from here on until the end, but I think it took a few too many episodes to get here.

And the new OP is layl. The song doesn't do much for me, and I think the video footage used for it has been created to mislead us as much as possible. I will say that most of the new meister robe designs shown in it are absolutely wretched >_>