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I love it. So upfront.

i know excatly wat u mean. i hope that the next mai hime series doesn't reduce
them to fanservice. smile

It's a look you don't see often? Unrequited best-friend love is probably the most common cliche of yuri anime and manga. XD:;

For example, Tomoyo/Sakura in CCS, and in THIS anime which I don't remember the name of.... lol, if I had more time I could come up with a very long list. That's not even counting all the one-shot stories and doujinshi that use that theme. I don't know why, but people adore this one-sided best friend love thing. Personally, I think it's getting old, and I'd like to see something more original. (Like a happy end? Where they actually get together and the fans don't have to invent all these excuses to get them to sleep together?? OH MY GOD.)

That was cute and tragic with Tomoyo X Sakura in CCS. That is one of the very few series where the relationship was never abused for comic effect. Tomoyo's love felt genuine. If I had to pick one instance where I thought this type of relationship was well done, it would be Tomoyo/Sakura. (Even though I was really miffed by the ending)

Shizuru/Natsuki feels much more shallow to me. What Shizuru shows isn't really true love, but true obsession. Not saying that that doesn't make for a cool story element, but all the same it doesn't exactly set up an ideal relationship either. Especially since it seems pretty obvious that Natsuki is completely asexual. =P And I hate how we never got to see Shizuru's descent into CRAZYTIME, which would have been awesome to see over the course of the series.

But most of all, I hate how this relationship had the potential to be really developed and explored in interesting ways, but instead was watered down into a slew of cliche, completely out-of-character fanservice, which the fans are just gobbling up.

As for whether then next Mai Hime series will milk the shiznat cow for more fanservice, you can bet they will. Seeing as shiznat seems to be the only reason half the fans are still sticking with the series, I can't see how Sunrise would be foolish enough to go through the trouble of making a real story where they actually act in-character. I hate to be so pessimistic about it, but that's my two cents. =P

you guys are right but i still have a love for this tragic and almost odd pairing. biggrin

Hmm, I dunno. I still felt like it was a little different. More on Natsuki's end than anything else, like she deeply cared and was really sorry that she couldn't love her back. Then again, I haven't seen that many shoujo ai series that flat out are obvious that way. Hinted, sure, but not flat out saying they're lesbian. I didn't see much of CCS, so I can't say much about that, other than omg, 12 year olds, there shouldn't be sexual s**t going on there D: lulz, anime.

I don't know about the true love thing either. There was definitely obsession going on there, but I still like to think the HiME stuff had a role in that. She started crying and was normal again when she was reincarnated, sooo... I dunno. I've always just thought there were extra forces at work there. Which would also explain the lack of crazy time descent. And even if it was just flat out obsession, it can still be love. Just an unhealthy kind XD;



Concured. Maybe that's what I meant by unique, is what it had the possibility to be. But nooo, Sunrise went "What?! This is anime! Depth? NEVER! GO TITTY SEX POWER!" D: s**t me. I also agree that they're going to continue this bullshittery ):

I totally didn't think anything of the groping. Ask my best friend, srsly. Way normal. ninja

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