In the Kingdom of Windbloom, Arika Yumemiya enrolls at Garderobe Academy to become an Otome—a virgin girl who is able to use a HiME (Highly-advanced Materializing Equipment) that bestows destructive abilities. Arika also wishes to find her mother who was a Meister Otome, an Otome of the highest rank responsible for being the personal bodyguard and super weapon of the specific nation they are assigned to.
While attending the academy, Arika makes friends with Nina Wáng, a distinguished Otome student, and Mashiro Blan de Windbloom, the current princess of the kingdom. With them by her side, Arika quickly adjusts to the academy's environment as she spends her days eagerly training, navigating social relationships, and developing her skills as an Otome.
However, Arika soon realizes that the process of becoming an Otome is fraught with dangers and unsavory political dealings. Bombarded with numerous personal dilemmas, Arika must make many sacrifices if she truly wishes to achieve her goals.
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KaminaKai
First off, please don't flame me as this is my first review. As a guy familiar with Mai HiME, I expected myself to have no trouble adapting to Mai Otome. However, the first impression I got for Mai Otome was total confusion. This is largely due to all sorts of new names (both terminologies and characters). In fact, it was the characters at first that made me put the show ON HOLD! (That was after watching the first 3 episodes). I had some very hard time liking the main protagonist Arika at first. Maybe I was trying too hard to compare her with Mai (from HiME),but eventually I grew to liked Arika mainly for her "stupidity" ^.^
Mai Otome introduces some debatable relationships among the main characters. Such as Sergay X Arika or Sergay X Nina (both of which are considered to be father X daughter relations). I believe it is such relationhips that make the anime distinctly different from others (HiME also made good use of Natsuki X Shizuru to capture fans attention).
Since the anime is mainly about school girls saving the world, the creator thought that might be a bit dull, so they cleverly decided that adding some yuri content should keep the audience glued to the TV. I find them pretty good at it throughout most of the series (a great example would be episode 6).
The animation improved slightly from HiME and the overall character designs are much, MUCH more artistic (Otome materializing the robes are always a pleasure to watch). Superb custome design, excellent choice of sound track, great character development, tag along with intense battles all make up for the lacking "emo" content that was evident in the latter part of HiME. A great "sequel" for a great series that still got more to come. Definitely a must watch for all otaku!
Master10K
For those of you who've seen Mai-HiME would notice the obvious similarities between the shows. Even with all the similarities Mai-Otome still has a lot of great original material to be different from Mai-HiME. Allow me to apologize in advance because I will be referring to Mai-HiME a lot. ^_^ This time around the show follows the story of another redhead, Arika and her dreams to become one of the greatest Otome. Against all the odds she luckily manages to enroll at Garderobe (the academy for Otome) bringing her one step loser to her dream. The story follows the same trend as in Mai-HiME; starting ofas a fully-fledged comedy with hilarious moments. This light-hearted anime is later turned into something much more serious as the story goes on a major plot-twist. This adds a good sense of drama, plenty of action and character development.
Speaking of the characters, the main protagonist was just like Mai from Mai-HiME. Arika is an optimistic redhead, which dreams of becoming an Otome but is later confused by the whole thing. They both have the same little annoying tendencies but if you liked one of them you'll surely like the other. There are a lot of characters that were taken from Mai-HiME plus their personalities and relationships didn't really change during the transition, so expect to see some of the same yuri partnerships. ^_^
The animation was superb with great characters designs except for the over-the-top custom designs. At least one thing that wasn't over the top was the character's facial expressions, whereas in Mai-HiME they were overly emotional which made it seem disturbing at times. The animation as a whole was actually slightly improved from Mai-HiME however one thing that really improved was the action sequences, with a lot more fluid hand-hand and weapons combat. What went well with the action was the captivating orchestra music, making everything seem more dramatic. The really good music was only used during certain situations, making it more noticeably special when played.
Overall this was an amazing anime which had both its fun and sad moments. The story was decent and very easy to follow for those who've seen Mai-HiME first, which I recommend you do so. Even though the story pretty much followed the same trend as Mai-HiME there were a lot of differences in the way it did things. There was less (if any) tear jerking moments on the other hand more emphasis was put into the romance in the story and it even had a better ending. Personally I felt the series could have been better if more focus was put on a girl losing her right to be an Otome and the death of an Otome and her Master, unfortunately that didn't really come up, much.
Other than that this was a great anime series which I recommend for anyone who's open-minded but it did fail to the same amount of substance as Mai-HiME, in my opinion.
^_^
Uriel1988
My-Otome is nothing less than a total disaster as far as I'm concerned. This semi-sequel to 'Mai-Hime' is one of those shows that tries to combine many different genres such as comedy, action and drama into one; but it is a colossal failure in every way imaginable. The basic story is, like many aspects of the show, incredibly derivative. It's the tale of a young girl named Arika Yumemiya who wants to enter a highly prestigious school called Garderobe where girls are trained to become an Otome, unbelievably powerful warriors who serve as vanguards of a country's militia. It is through a series of bafflinglyoutrageous coincidences that our young heroine manages to enroll at the normally way out-of-her-league academy and from then on, the story kicks off.
Doesn't sound very original, does it? Well the rest of the plot is every bit as standard: Arika manages to make friends at Hogs- *cough*, I mean 'Garderobe' after a somewhat rough start, she is quickly confronted with all kinds of shady characters, ancient conspiracies are unveiled, hidden lineages are discovered, friends become enemies, enemies become friends and there may also be a love-triangle or two to complicate things along the way. Textbook definition of 'cookie-cutter'.
A complete lack of originality can be compensated for by an outstanding execution; but Mai-Otome falls flat in that area. Main offender is the atrocious plotting. Plot-points and characters are introduced only to get put on hold until several episodes later if not dropped entirely, characters 'die' only to turn up (relatively) unscathed later, things happen for no logical reason other than that they're supposed to happen for the plot to move in the direction the creators envisioned (a character even remarks in one of the later episodes that the way some previous events transpired doesn't make any sense) and well-meaning side characters hold back crucial information that may be of great help to the clueless protagonists only to have said protagonists befall some grave misfortune that could have been prevented if they had been better informed.
And this doesn't just happen once or twice. The series is LOADED with moments like this. Pretty much any scene scene that isn't filled with incredibly cheesy fanservice humor (a particular plot-device essentially serves as a setup for countless scenes of ecchi-humor involving girl-on-girl 'action') or third-rate soap-opera level angst about love and/or the duties and burdens of an Otome from some of the protagonists is how I just described.
It's clear by now that the story didn't keep me watching this; so maybe the action-sequences were able to offer some redeeming value? Sadly they weren't. The fight-scenes are incredibly unimaginative and poorly animated, most of them ending with an Otome obliterating an opponent with her strongest attack. And all of that is assuming that fight scenes do occur on-screen. I say this because the series is filled to the brim with moments where two characters are set up to fight, only to switch to other events just as the fight starts. All of this makes for a viewing-experience that is frustrating at worst and unfulfilling at most, even for the biggest of action-junkies.
Production-values are nothing to write home about. The art and animation are unremarkable at best though I will give the series credit for the catchy opening-tune as well as the fact that the many characters are all easy to distinguish from one another (even if a lot of them are recycled from Mai-Hime). Oh, and some of the attacks have effects that look pretty cool.
Between the awful story and largely unremarkable production-values there's really no reason I to check out this series. Even those who were fond of its predecessor, Mai-Hime (which I found to be entertaining though highly flawed), will find little to love. The new characters are nothing special, the action is less frequent and less impressive despite being much bigger in scope and the returning characters (even though they're actually 'alternate reality' versions) don't develop or contribute to the plot in any meaningful way. There's even one particular character whose personality and abilities are a complete 180 from the way she was in Mai-Hime and several who seem to be thrown in just so fans can point them out.
I could go on and on about the abysmal plotting (like how the main character is defeated by a powerful foe only to get launched to another dimension where she just so happens to meet a powerful figure mentioned earlier in the story who can help her get stronger), the paper-thin and highly archetypical characters (you KNOW there's a problem when the most interesting characters are ones that mostly got their characterization from the previous series), the constant skipping out on action-sequences and the complete lack of any creative ambition whatsoever; but I think I have already made my point very clear so I'll just wrap it up.
Whether you're a fan of Mai-Hime or are just looking for a fun-packed action-adventure series, Mai-Otome is totally derivative, awfully written, largely unfulfilling and completely frustrating series that reeks of being conceived for no other purpose other than to make a quick buck. It's not worth your time. Skip it.
slpless
Mai-Otome was the next series of the “My/Mai” franchise, with the first being My-Hime (which was an excellent anime IMO). However, Mai-Otome was almost completely different from My-Hime, with the exception of most of the secondary characters. Even with this in mind I had originally dropped Mai-Otome halfway through the 2nd episode when it was originally airing. Due to the incredible praise of many fans, well half of them, I decided to give it another try and do a marathon. I had originally dropped the series because of Arika. While it can be argued that both Mai (My-Hime) and Arikaare both optimistic and energetic characters, Arika took it too far. Coupled with a childish/naïve nature, Arika was an extremely annoying character. Her combined with Mashiro, the distinct opposite of her quiet self from My-Hime, was what forced me to drop it the first time around. However, it wasn’t just them that made me dislike the series, it was a combination of things, before that on to the rest of the characters. The other main character Nina, was an interesting enough character, but suffers from some out-of-character moments later in the series. Nevertheless, I found Nina to be a far better character than Arika and Mashiro combimed. Probably due to the fact that she didn’t annoy me and that she’s voiced by Ami Koshimizu :P The support characters are mainly from My-Hime and have similar personalities but take on different roles. This creates an interesting effect as it can be seen as constant cameos. Here, I already know and like these side characters, which can detract from the main characters, which I know very little about. For most of the series I was thinking “where’s Mikoto?”, “screw Arika and the gang where’s Mai?!” In the end I never really warmed up to the new characters and the beginning episodes where the characters are suppose to be introduced and fleshed out were mediocre.
Shows like Mai-Otome and My-Hime live and die on the strength of their characters. The beginning of the series serves to build up theses characters and the beginning of Mai-Otome just didn’t make me care and really understand their character. This is due to the fact that the beginning episodes being far too silly, light, and stupid for my taste. Also, I blame the fact that the well establish characters of My-Hime stole many of the scenes. Nina is the only major exception, as she gets plenty of time to flesh out her character. However, she does suffer some serious out-of-character moments in the 2nd half. I have to admit though; she’s not the only one that suffers from character inconsistency.
Throughout the series there are far too many illogical and contrived moments. This is characteristic of the middle part of Mai-Otome. People supposedly dying but somehow surviving were among the most illogical. The battles in space were equally eye roll worthy. I could go on and be more specific but I rather not get into too many spoilers. I already have to accept quite a few things from the beginning, such as the world itself. The second half was simply too much and my suspension of belief could only be held for so long.
So Mai-Otome had a weak beginning and illogical/contrived middle. However, it did have an exciting end that was enjoyable to watch, albeit a bit shallow. Also, it was actually a decent ending, unlike My-Hime’s infamous WTF ending. In terms of pure action the last few episodes were awesome and exciting to watch. Even throughout the series I have to admit there were some really enjoyable moments, sadly there wasn’t enough of them. Mai-Otome improved on its predecessor’s weakness by having a good ending. Also, Mai-Otome changed its OP/ED to reflect the more serious tone of the series.
Animation-wise it’s an improvement over My-Hime and for the most part pretty consistent. That is ignoring those disturbingly large bumps in a certain episode… The battles/fight scenes are also better, featuring more fluid movement and choreography. Art was equally good for the most part, my only major complain was the horrid designs of those uniforms. Music is also done by Yuki Kajiura so it should be as good. However, it just wasn’t as good as her other works, it was as if she didn’t put the same effort into the Mai-Otome ost.
Another thing that bothered me was the pandering with its maid-like uniforms and shoujo-ai undertones. Now that I think about it you really can’t really say Mai-Otome had shoujo-ai undertones/light innuendo…it was blatant shoujo-ai fanservice. Lets not forget the large amount normal fanservice, once again pointless, stupid, and worst of all annoying. My-Hime in contrast had fanservice but, it never detracted from the story/characters.
Mai-Otome features one of the most annoying character I have ever seen, as well as featuring a pretty boring and one-dimensional cast. Part of my dissatisfaction with the new character was due to the old My-Hime cast stealing the show. What makes it worst was the amount of character inconsistencies, especially with Nina. In addition, there were far too many contrived and illogical moments. The pandering via extensive fanservice and shoujo-ai tendencies were far too distracting and annoying. However, despite its weak beginning and contrived/illogical middle it does have some exciting moments and a decent ending. This ending is better than the infamous My-Hime ending and was actually quite exciting to watch. Finally, I find it funny that Mai-Otome improved on 2 of its predecessor’s weakness the ending and improper OP/ED but was inferior with respects to just about everything else.
no-thanks
This is sort’ve what I was looking for when I watched the original Mai-HiME...but something just wasn’t there again. I can’t put my finger on it...but it just wasn’t there. Well, at least it wasn’t laced with cliques again; it only had a sprinkling this time around. Mai-Otome is alright, not downright horrible. Story/Plot/Dev Mai-Otome is very, very different to Mai-HiME. It essentially just uses the same character models, and most character names, from Mai-HiME, but places them in a totally new universe. Think of it like getting every character from Harry Potter, wiping their memories and then placing them in space. Something akin to that, yeah... Mai-Otomefocuses on a new lead, Arika Yememiya, on the planet Earl. Earl, a planet colonised a long time ago by humans, is very much like a futuristic version of the Victorian era. It has royalty, armies and plenty of conflict. Now, that’s all very interesting...but does it have anything to do with Arika? Not really, no. Arika was merely a poor girl who happens on members of a much higher status. Hailing from an unknown kingdom with only the clothes on her back and a mysterious gem, she finally arrives at the Windbloom Kingdom, in search of her mother, her only clue that her mother was once a person known as an Otome.
Instead of focusing on chosen HiME, Mai-Otome focuses on the Otome of Garderobe Academy. You can think of Otome as pure female knights, knights who have had nanomachines injected into their bloodstream to aid them in battle. Admittedly, from my point of view, pure knights are a lot more enjoyable to watch than a bunch of teenagers wielding artefacts and having large freaking monsters help them fight. Yes, pure knights do come with a side order of transformations, but this is a passing case of that. Just hearing them say “Materialise!” is totally awesome.
Now, returning roles. Most of the characters from Mai-HiME return, showing homage to their original character designs in some shape or form. Characters who got a major bump up in status and role, like Haruka, Shizuru and Natsuki, all retain a piece of either their original HiME power or their personality. Other characters like Midori actually have retained their child. All in all, though, their roles have been severely altered. Well, except for Mai and Mikoto, who sort of become like Kira in Gundam SEED Destiny. Out of all the returning characters, only two of them seem to keep a major role, with only one being a main character. Mashiro, queen of Fuka Castle and Windbloom, gets a main role while Tate, now Sergay, has a major supporting role. I like to call Mai-Otome the “Side Characters Revenge” anime. Hell, it can even pass as “insert characters revenge”.
Just so I don’t drag this out too long, I will say that the ending was riding on average...however it was much better than the end of Mai-HiME. The final episode does raise a few questions as to if Mai-Otome does take place on the same timeline as HiME, due to returning character Miyu’s role (her entire role in Mai-Otome is questionable. She just reeks of being the bridging character between the two series).
Overall, an alright story. Not as good as it could have been, however.
Art/Animation/3DCG
The animation has definitely had a step up from Mai-HiME, however, not by much. It does incorporate some 3DCG, but for 2005, it’s still a poor effort. I know, I may be criticizing it a bit much, like I did for Mai-HiME, but still. I do have to give props to the fight scenes, however. It’s a lot more exciting, but due to how many battles are actually fought, well, they didn’t really use this to their advantage. I still can’t believe this was produced by Sunrise, it could have been so much better. No use brooding over could have’s, though.
Voice Actors and Music
The voice actor talent is very much the same as had been seen in Mai-HiME, so no real changes there. The music did get a bit of an improvement, as there are actually a few out-of-battle tracks that I did enjoy this time. One of them reminded me of the theme for Ghost in The Shell 2: Innocence. Not much else to say here, though. I mean, exciting battle BGMs are a given here.
Bad Points and Aspects
Despite being an anime very focused around war, there aren’t very many battle scenes. I think a majority of the battles in the first half of the series actually end after about a hit or two, seeing as the Otome are so over powered at that point. The good battles don’t really come in till about episode 16 or 17, when the Otome start really facing each other. The Otome are at least not tied to their loved ones, and only royalty. Yeah, a generic master-knight system, but it works wonders when you could care less who the master is. Too bad you don’t get to see the epic master-knight combos till a lot later.
Oh yeah, did I mention Tate is a paedophile now? I could say that they live in a time where age doesn’t seem to matter for that, but still...there is one point in the series where you go “Are you serious? Oh come on! No!”
Finale
Well, despite bringing over some traits of Mai-HiME, it’s still better than that its predecessor. Too bad the fans don’t seem to agree with me. It’s not all that better, but at least the story came out better. I like the type of fantasy where entire counties are on the line, more so than just their loved ones and selfish personalities that you, the viewer, could care less about. I’ll admit though, watching Mai-HiME beforehand did give Mai-Otome a much greater effect, since it involved the whole “And which old character will I see next?” thing. The symbolism was much better too, but now you’re going to ask me why I didn’t cover symbolism in either review...well, the review would be way too long if I did. Go Google the symbolism.
Saiyokuro
Haha second review! WARNING, there are spoilers in here so if you haven't watched this anime yet then read at your own risk! no but along with the review. Mai-Otome was quite an interesting anime to watch, when i started it out i was saying "what the heck?!" quite a little bit because it was interesting how it played out. Like with the yuri like moments and all of that. and with Arika' head turning into an ant head whenever Serge called her "Antsy". But even then i stuck with it and i'm happy to say that I had made a good choicewith sticking with it. The storyline for it was very good and the characters where put together quite nicely. The artwork was very nice and pretty crisp. and the enjoyment i got from this anime was high. But i'll start to go into the categories for how i rated it now.
Story: 9
I can understand the story very nicely and it was very good and interesting, albeit a little bit of an overused general theme, Girls in school saving the world. Yeah a lot of us otaku' have seen that before, but this anime had a lot more to it, the story was cliche but very unique. And I liked that and enjoyed that very much. I would have rated this a 10 if there where more episodes but since there are only 26 it's going to be a 9 for me.
Art: 7
The art was very nice and clean. It showed everything very nicely and there was some remarkable detail in a lot of things in this anime. Like with the gems and how they even had the text and that for when the Otomes transformed and used their special attacks. And Miyu' arm when it changed into the sword had a lot of detail too. But the thing that brought down my score for the art was when Arika' head turned into an ant head. It was funny and there was a lot of detail in that but it was just odd to see in an anime and brought my score down a little for it.
Sound: 9
The voices for the characters takes a couple episodes to get used to (like Shizuru' high voice) but after you get used to their voices you should like them a lot. I watched the dubbed version.
The op's for this anime where very nice, the 1st op for it took me a little while to get used to but thats because i was expecting something different at the time, and the ending for it also took me a little while to get used to but after that i very much enjoyed them. So i'm rating this a 9.
Characters: 10
I'm rating for the characters a 10 because each character has a very unique personality and a lot of them change in some way during the story. Like Arika who wanted nothing more but to be an Otome wanted to never transform again when they where in the Aswad camp. But after she was forced to transform so she could rescue herself and Mashiro she began to love being an Otome again after she started to figure things out. Nina also changed quite a bit throughout the story, hating Arika, then beginning to be her friend, Despising and hating her again, and then thinking of her as a friend again.
There is a lot more but i don't want to say too much. But again i'm rating the characters a 10.
Enjoyment: 10
This anime was very good, and i enjoyed it a lot. The fighting in it was very good and had me at the edge of my seat, and other moments had me very sad (like when Aoi jumped off of the cliff) and then some had me laughing so hard i was crying. But this anime is very enjoyable so i'm rating it a 10.
Overall i'm rating this anime a 10/10 because i personally feel like it deserves it. If you have any complaints or anything to say about my review then feel free to comment on my profile here on mal or PM me but if you like my review then please rate it up ^_^
ddrcrono
Though it's not necessary, I recommend watching Mai Hime first. (Besides, it's better by at least a full point, in my opinion) This is not a true sequel from the character point of view, as only one character is *actually* the same person, with the same memories. (Everyone else looks the same, and may even have the same personality, but they have no memories of their Mai Hime self) If you've watched Mai Hime, you can probably bump the overall score of this from 7, to 8 just based on how much you'll giggle at/appreciate the ridiculous amount of subtle (and not-so-subtle) references. The characters are, forthe most part, very convincing and the plot is half-decent, but I found the way it ended especially to be underwhelming. (Kind of like Mai Hime, but worse IMO) I don't want to spoil anything, but I'll just say that it felt like the good guys had it far, far too easy, and the main bad guy, who previously had been devious and very good at predicting his opponents' moves sort of...was disappointing. If you're expecting the level of "HOLY @#$#@" you get from Mai Hime at certain points, this one doesn't quite give you the same good level of shock.
Still, worth watching, but not OMGAWESOMECRAZY 10/10.
yma981
Mai Otome is one of my favorite Anime. The Story is wonderful but lacking, many substories are missing and not mentioned in the series but the good thing is that they are releasing/released prequel (Mai Otome 0~sfir) and Sequel (Mai Otome Zwei) where the story becomes clearer as more and more details are revealed. The art is good, the costumes are exotic but not often found in the series maybe due to the civil environment. Vibrant colours though. The sound tracks used are great some are memorable especially the ending theme but sometimes you need to concentrate more on slower tempo tracks which reflects the mood ofthe scene.
2 Mai Otome characters got a in my character Fav.
Arika Yumemia, well this character can easily top your characters favorites (it already hit the top spot in my charac fav). The first 13 episodes are fascinating where you can see Arika's wonderful personality. The Overall character development is very good actually especially with characters such as Nagy and shizuru (Spot in the charac Fav).
Enjoyment: The first time i've seen it I was really absorbed to the max for a month, you won't believe that (this might sound eccentric) I had dreams about Mai Otome and Couldn't wait to see the next episode (at that time I forced a 1 Episode/day limit on Anime in order to enjoy them the most).
Overall I recommend all of you to enjoy this series which is filled with excitement, fun, pain, action, real life lessons, deepness , principles and values
(A Must See Anime Rank: Masterpiece)
aburame
One of my top series. This and its other series (Mai-Hime, Mai-Otome: Zwei and Mai Otome 0: S.ifr) has one the best stories I have watched ever. At first it may seem like another modernized/hi-tech sailor moon anime because of all the girls, but it isn't and it really packs in so much in the total of 50-60 episodes?? The characters bring out so many emotions, so many real world problems to light and they all fit so well into the story. The story is amazing. The connected-ness between Mai-Hime and Mai:Otome is so mind-blowing to be honest, they really did the sequence story well. Sodifferent but at the same time SO connected. The spin-off OVA's don't add too much to the main story, but are very interesting to watch either way.
You have to watch the main series twice at least to capture all the small subtle things that you don't pick up the first time watching through, you'll discover so many things when you re-watch the two main series.
bearvarine
Crazy exciting and dramatic action adventure! Mai Otome (is also known as Mai HiME Z [z for zwei which is German for 2]). This is a 26 episode spinoff of the original Mai HiME series. The storyline begins in the far future, hundreds of years beyond the time of the original Mai HiME story. In it we find a curious mix of characters who are similar to, but not the same as, the original Mai HiME cast. Our hero in the Mai Otome series is the young Arika Yumemiya, who was an infant of a famous Otome (guardian valkyrie maiden) who was miraculously saved from being killedby assassins in a war waged during the time of her birth. She comes as a refugee to the land of Windbloom, hoping to enroll in the Garderobe Otome school to become an Otome herself.
The plot is complex and as in the Mai HiME series, as war threatens to break out the Otomes are forced to fight each other. They all seem to be pawns of Nagi's twisted master plan to destroy all the Otomes and let the world fall back into chaos.
I really enjoyed this series quite a bit, to the point where I was watching 6 episodes at a sitting to find out how it all ended. Even though the worst part of the story was when all the Otomes were turning against each other and fighting, this story has a better, somewhat happier ending than the Mai HiME series did. Also it was nice to see cameos of the original Mai HiME characters towards the end of the story. I give this series 5 for storytelling drama, but perhaps 4 for the plot which was beyond far-fetched. The main characters are likable and the villains are really evil. It is hard to not get completely sucked into the story. Final rating: 10/10.
Yooko_T
Perfect character development. It's so hard to find another anime that has similar features as Otome. Two youthful and sour heroines coming-of-age story that doesn't need a boy to save them, robots, henshin scenes, battles, master-and-"maid". I am a woman and I enjoyed this very much. I love watching stories like this where the heroine develops. The romance fuels her growth, but it's not the end of the story. She gradually goes through a variety of adventures to discover what she wants to do and what she wants to get out of it. The only ones I can think of in the same genre are probably"Slayers" and "Chihayafuru".
Also, I found that this wasn't a very mainstream story, that's why the production group of Sunrise threw themselves into the Idolmaster series after finishing this series.
HelloiLoveYou
A snappy review... This anime is an absolute classic in it's genre. The story, the art (which grows on you).... everything about this anime was outstanding. The characters in particular were captivating. There's a bit of everything in Mai Otome... action, adventure, romance, friendship, and betrayal. I cried many times while watching this anime. I also laughed my head off too. Nothing could have been added to the story to make it any better. The only room for improvement in this series would be in the art and sound. A very moving addition to Mai Hime and in my opinion iteven outshines it. If you loved Mai Hime, then you will love Mai Otome.
islandman
Having watched Mai-Hime, Mai-Otome & Mai- Otome-S.ifr. Just to update the anime information. Mai- Otome is a sequel to Mai-Hime set in the future. Watching the Otome series will give the references needed to see this. so this is not a alternaive universe setting.
Veertjah
Things I want to clarify: -Mai-HIME ends with them wanting to change the world, so if I'm not mistaken, this universe is what they changed it into. -Most, but not all of the characters from the season before are in here. And no, Akira is not Mai, she's a look a like of Mikoto. -Episode 17 only exsists in English DUB so prepare for hell. I found the story of this season a lot stronger then Hime's story. Instead of killing of all the characters you just met, you actually see them evolve. Not just physically but also mentally. Everything is also explained instead of just calling itmagic.
The art is also better, I disliked many expressions from Mai in Hime, but it got a lot better in this season.
Overall I recommend this anime, you can watch it without having seen Hime and it's more fun.
Also, I think Nagi remembers the other world and wanted to change it back so he could enjoy letting Himes fight again.
nprimemin
I found this anime interesting because I saw the prequel. I'm glad it was different and set in a parallel world. It reminded me of Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari beause they select female champions to fight for different countries. It also answered some questions about what happened to the previous winners of the carnival. The Main characters were more immature though which was somewhat of a let down. All in all it was good to see the sequel.
