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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:25 pm
I just finished watching Otome. I decided I liked the HiME arc better. Otome was cuter and not as dark. For plot, HiME wins. Anyone else?
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:27 am
Otome was a**. stressed
I can hardly believe Bandai's trying to license it.
For starters, Arika is a Mary Sue extraordinaire:
"Lalala, I just wandered out of the desert and got accepted into the most prestigious school in the world because ohbytheway my mommy was an Otome and I can seduce grown men and okwhat Gakuenchou's b***h since the only things I haven't got going for me are huge Mai-boobs the size of basketballs and a bearable personality."
Mashiro was no better. They should have left her in that wheelchair--Aoi could just let the brat crawl everywhere when she got too obnoxious.
Nina was actually fairly likeable at first. Then the daddy complex started wearing on me. Yeah, alright, she's in love with her foster father. That's cool with me. Love is love. Unfortunately, that is Nina's single driving trait, so we get beaten over the head with that fact just about every episode.
All the while, the old HiME cast and Erstin get screwed over. A lot of the promo art before Otome started featured our three heroines and then Shizuru&Natsuki off in the corner somewhere like the two might be important or something. Of course, our lovely duo gets lots of frivolous screen time and very little action of any sort. Erstin made a fine example of how Sunrise rewards their most popular characters, those bastards. Mai lends her name to the series, but shows up in how many episodes? The NatsukiNao fling development is about as generous as the show gets with the old cast.
See, HiME brought the drama and brought it well. Otome dealt with WTFtrue love and the power of friendship or whatever, while HiME dealt with a broader range of emotions people could feel for each other (id est: MaiTakumi, ShizuruNatsuki, HarukaShizuru, MikotoMai, HarukaYukino, ShihoTate, NunbunsIshigami, MaiTate, ShihoMai, NaoEveryone). HiME wove complexity; Otome just gave the sense that everyone was ******** up--and not in a particularly interesting way. Otome didn't make me care the way HiME did, which may be because Otome's plot partially hinged on the fate of the worldohno, whereas the HiME story felt far more private. HiME had more fights, too. God, Otome dragged on and on without action for too many episodes at a time.
All in all, Otome was a whole lot of eye candy and little else. a**, a**, a**.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:02 pm
Otome was a cheesy fluffy sequel, no content at all. People expected it to have some and it disappointed in that way. Hime was much better, despite the ending
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:08 pm
Well, I didn't finish Otome for how crappy it was, sooo... : D Much worse I am thinking.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:42 pm
Hime was better because
A) crazy pshycotic shizuru was pretty damn hot
I think I had more reasons, but I dont think I need to list them OHOHO
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:53 am
Materialising is super cool, that's a plus. But. Most of the Mai Otome's episodes were quite boring, HiME had only few. I liked Otome's ending, it was more realistic than HiME's "everyone comes back and now we're all happy again", but otherwise Otome's plot was a lot worse. And Otome was too much "magic school girl anime"-like and that's what I hate in it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:37 pm
Taking Otome without comparing it to Hime I didn't mind it that much. The first half was somewhat annoying but the second half it was interesting to see how they reacted once war was thrown into the picture. Alot lot of the characters were major extremes of different personalities.
But throwning in Hime to the comparasion then I still love Hime much more that Otome. Otome was never ment to be fully sequel so I'm not that mad at it. Seeing how Hime ends...its really hard to continue it without turning to a fully highschool drama show. They don't have powers in the end so what would the writers have to work with? not to mention people graduating and going around the world.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:30 pm
Mai Hime had a better plot over-all. But I did think the 'I love to do it with older men' part was a bit fun in Otome.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:21 pm
My-HiME for the win, please.
The "My-ZHiME!!!" was just... ugh. Hi, Otome? Yeah, Plot called, it wants a part in your series. neutral
Inconsistent animation quality + character cardboard box rape = bad.
Every time I watched an episode, I found myself sitting there thinking, "You know, just when I thought this couldn't get any stupider..." Such a disappointment.
The music was really the only awesome thing about that series.
But even then, it's just more worth it to get the OST, than to put yourself through the misery of watching that series.
And as far as that OMG My-ZHiME ZWEI!!!!! OVA s**t... I'm not exactly looking forward to it. I don't quite like raping my face with bad anime.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:06 pm
HiME was inarguambly better than Otomoe. It had a better story, better/more action, more interesting character, and more drama. The drama was one of the strong points of HiME, and Otome severely lacked this.
Also, Otome was more predictable than HiME. HiMe had some crazy twists and unexpected events. And even the music was better. I'll never forget the whole sequence when Takumi and Tate died; the expressions on Mai and other characters faces...Their emotions were so believable, it was great.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:03 am
Hana Hoshiko But throwning in Hime to the comparasion then I still love Hime much more that Otome. Otome was never ment to be fully sequel so I'm not that mad at it. Seeing how Hime ends...its really hard to continue it without turning to a fully highschool drama show. They don't have powers in the end so what would the writers have to work with? not to mention people graduating and going around the world. I agree. The rest of the series WAS pretty good.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:21 pm
:.:  :.: I think Tomoe's "Mama -sucks thumb-" won me over to Mai Otome.
Shizuru was emotionally un-stable. But Tomoe's the true psycho of the two shows.
xDD
Mai HiME's plot was better.
But I also liked Mai Otome hands-on fighting more than having a child/slave.
Plus it was nice to see how they tied in Mai HiME's present with Mai Otome's future.
They had equal action, completely different music, and pretty equal drama.
(Though, I'm sure we could all agree that no Mai HiME character would ask what 'Angst' means.)
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:29 pm
no the best thing is reading the mangas if you have because the mangas and the anime are two different things like in hime shizuru is just the person sitting out on the sidelines but in the anime she is fighting for...well we all know no point in me saying it but otomes was funny cause in the manga the himes come back and fight them and also Mashiro was actual a guy
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:56 pm
Clouddgr no the best thing is reading the mangas if you have because the mangas and the anime are two different things like in hime shizuru is just the person sitting out on the sidelines but in the anime she is fighting for...well we all know no point in me saying it but otomes was funny cause in the manga the himes come back and fight them and also Mashiro was actual a guy i found the "man-shiro" quite funny in the manga.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:08 am
oh it was more then funny counting all the parts that he almost died from blood lost
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