Audience reviews
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undamoth
Regrets come in many forms. One may anticipate something that would never come, some anguish on things that have been done, some still wallow over opportunities lost, and if you are like me, finished Mai-Hime.
Mai-Hime is one of the best magical shows ever made but I am someone who wholeheartedly cannot recommend it for a simple enough reason: IT HAS ONE OF THE SHITTIEST ENDINGS FOR AN ANIME EVER.
I do not wish to spoil it to anyone but it felt like eating on a table, when promised a full-course meal of a lifetime and there you are consuming wonderful meals that kept surprising you with every succession but then the dessert comes in the form of a gelatin filled with the kitchen's leftovers from the lavatory drain.
To keep it short, this show was a SUNRISE production which I respected…
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One major problem I have with many of these classic anime (like with this, Utena, Simoun, Kannazuki no Miko etc etc) is that they have far too many filler episodes and can easily be trimmed down to half the length easily. The thing is, older anime can't do slice of life that good, which is what most of the filler tends to be.
Plotwise it does go to interesting places I give it that. But it's clear they didn't have it in them to really go all the way for a depressing ending. I really don't care much about the characters to be perfectly honest. I did like Midori and Suzushiro for their antics but any time the plot calls for something serious I just can't take anyone seriously anymore. With the exception of Miyu and Alyssa. They did their relationship right. Cheesy yes, but it still hits th…
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So, i watched this one because friends told me it was a good one. Maybe tastes are different but i really hated it.
The story was non-excictent, just some girls fighting and at the end there is still everybody alive.
Sound and art where ok.
Chars, there are no chars. Non of them where improving over the whole show, they just stay dumb as they where at the start.
Overall: There where just so many flaws i don't know where to start. If the chars would actually get some development i could give this one a better rating, but they're not only dumb, they're immune to learn.
Try fit comedy/school life/abit ecci/SoL and drama together, MAYBE could work, but not here.It get's so pathetic i almost ragequitted it.
That's all before i'm spoiling more story (asif).
Read at the sourceHatul
Mai-Hime is an edgy magical girl show that contains fan-service, yuri overtones, violence and plot twists... No, Madoka is not the first to do that and actually, neither is Mai-Hime (I refer you to a 90s OVA known as "Shamanic Princess").
This is a spoiler free review.
*Story*
The story revolves around a certain academy that collects girls who have special abilities to summon these monster thingies and fight alongside them using magic. They collect these girls in order to fight off weird looking creatures known as "orphans" and for some other questionable reasons..
This set up does give the series quite a bit to work with. What are these "orphans" after? Why is the academy collecting these girls? How come they can summon creatures? And these ingredients are used fairly well, but it doe…
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The scenic art just wasn't enough to save this anime from its 2 dimensional characters, cliched events, and forced humor. Far to many anime stereotypes all shoved in together makes for boring watching as you know what everyone's reaction is going to be. If you're into obvious character development and pairing offs, and don't really want to think about plot or witty banter, then you would probably enjoy this. But this is possibly because I'm personally not in the tweens demographic, so take this review with a pinch of salt.
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Mai-Hime is an average show. The first 13 episodes are especially boring and pointless. They are probably supposed to introduce and develop the characters. Indeed in almost every episode a new “Hime” girl appears… but there is no real character development. There are no flashbacks, important dialogue or meaningful interaction between the characters, which would reveal their personality and motives. They will just keep introducing new characters, while you will keep forgetting the already existing ones.
I don’t mind watching high school themed anime. However, Mai-Hime doesn’t show interesting themes, like growing up and making friends. It shows clichéd themes and settings (school festivals, beach episode, cooking exam, maid outfits) and clichéd characters (sick younger brother/sister, psyc…
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I'll always remember "Mai-HIME" for what it represented - the worst anime in a lineup that was, in my opinion, the worst ever assembled by my local anime society. It's a series that was surprisingly popular back in the day, but now it's rapidly fading into the obscurity it thoroughly deserves. With its gratuitous fanservice, cheap melodrama, and the much used formula of kids with monsters that made it feel like it was trying to make up for missing the pokemon bandwagon that was all the rage a few years before, just about the only thing "Mai-HIME" has going for it is its high production values.
Just the first few episodes should be enough to alert you to the kind of show this is. The anime wastes no time in introducing its bullshit "HiME" concept. In case you're wondering, "HiME" stands f…
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Mai-HiME...ok, I know what you're probably thinking. "Who wants to watch a show that's considered a shonen with the word 'princess' in the title?" My thoughts exactly when a friend of mine recommended this anime to me. Just looking at this show at a glance, I was very skeptical. However, I highly recommend that any of you with this opinion reconsider your perception of this anime.
I eventually did reconsider, mostly for the sake of my friend, and I decided to give it a shot. After watching just the first episode, I was already curious to find out more about the story. Mai-HiME picks up speed as it goes along, which kept me wanting to watch more. By the time I was finished, I was completely blown away! I found that it was easily one of the best I'd ever watched.
Let me break it down for…
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I have managed, in complete fruitless productivity of my time, to sit down and watch this series repeatedly, approximately 5 times, excluding the very first time I watched it. I had seen a small article in Anime Insider on series' that were slowly becoming growingly popular, and decided that after seeing many dedications of fanfiction and fanart made toward this series, that I'd give it a shot. It takes a lot to get me to sit down and risk any possibility of wasted time watching television, but I was certainly not disappointed.
At first, it seemed to me that I was getting dragged into another magical-girl-super-happy-fun-time-shoujo-drama bit. But after about episode 3, I realized that there was something...else, a mechanic that seemed to me as cryptically subliminal. I thought, "angst, p…
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Please keep in mind that this is my first review. So, if make any mistakes or the review is not detailed enough; please message me and i'll correct my mistakes.
Mai Hime
Every once in a while, as an anime viewer, you happen to watch a show that surprises you. A show you watch because you really have nothing better to do,and your probably not really expecting much. You don't expect the show to touch you, to actually make you care about what happens on the screen.
Mai-Hime was exactly this kind of show for me. I happened to run across it several months ago and, while I thought the first episode was good, I didn't really care about the prospect of watching High school girls fight each other with giant monsters. I just wasn't into that kind of thing, at the time.
Then I picked the show back…
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If i should shortly describe Mai Hime, I'd quickly say that this anime is really more than what it seems.
After watching the first two episode I was most likely to drop it, for real...and, well, now Mai Hime is probably my favourite anime.
Why's that?
Well...I'm not even questioning if I should start from bad or good points, because even if I overthink I can't find Mai Hime bad sides...
I should probably make a short analysis...
Let's just say that it's possible that this shows has the best characters ever.
I've never watched before an anime (but a movie too) where all, and when I say all I mean all, the characters, including secondary ones, are depicted in such an accurate way. Their characterisation is part of what makes Mai Hime great as it is.
Not one character is anonymous or lacks…
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What started as a rather average-looking show turned into one of the best things I’ve ever stumbled upon. I first started watching with little to no expectations, and nothing about the first two episodes really struck me as special. I changed my mind.
The plot is amazingly well-done, thought-out, and has just enough twists and revelations to keep you interested without confusing or frustrating you, since the viewer does know more about what’s going on that most of the characters. Only qualm I have with the plot is how it’s kind of divided into two arcs, but in the end the story development turned out to really flow. This second part is introduced with a plot device that sounds too obviously like a plot device, but that’s forgivable because it worked and because at…
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"An overlooked masterpiece that deserves a lot more attention."
I watched Mai HiME long before joining MAL so I didn't know what to say when I first saw the overall rating to be so low. Thus I decided to re-watch the show this past week to refresh my memory and to prepare for this review. If there is one thing my opinion changed about this anime since my first time watching it a few years back, it is the quality of the animation which we will get to in a moment. One short recommendation before we begin the review, get lots of tissue paper when you watch the latter half of the anime, you'll need it.
Story:
Extremely outstanding. Although the first half was somewhat slow to begin with, but the second half just throw you out the window. But without the character introductions and developmen…
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Story (8.3)- The story is interesting. It has romance, action, some comedy, some suspense also, important aspects needed to a good story.
During the anime, it progresses quite well, and with important details revealed in the right moments.
An 8 in this aspect.
Art (8.8) - Art is pretty good. The design itself is very nice, the animations are great and very well done, background details are also nicely done.
Sound (9.3) - Sound is fantastic. Opening and ed are good, and the background music fits very well every situation. The timing of thebackground music is very good, you can easily distinguish between happy moments and sad moments. The quality of the sound is also impressive, much better in my opinion than many other anime.
The voices are also nicely done and so i give a 9 here.
C…
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Mai-HiME, from animation studio Sunrise, is a moderately successful anime series which spawned multiple sequel series and manga adaptations and has assembled a pretty dedicated fanbase over the years. In Mai-HiME the viewer follows the daily activities of a girl named Tokiha Mai, who just recently entered a particularly wealthy private high school (despite being an orphan and having to financially support her younger brother who is terminally ill). One day Mai finds out she possesses extraordinary powers and she comes into contact with other "HiMEs", girls who wield the same power she does. As you can already see, the story is surprisingly reminiscent of Sailor Moon's, though Sunrise definitely tried to make Mai-HiME more than a generic Magical Girl anime. At this point however, I am still…
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I had watched a trailer for My-Hime a few months before its original airing. From the trailer I had concluded that My-Hime would be a school life fanservicy anime with plenty of action. Well things didn’t work out as planed, the fanservice was extremely toned down and more focus on the action/drama. I suspect that was due to it airing on “TV-Tokyo,” a public channel. Thankfully it did as I fear My-Hime may have turned out to be just another fanservice anime instead of an excellent title, which I often refer to as a “battle royal done right.”
The beginning of My-Hime was quite fun to watch, featuring extremely likeable characters and well choreographed action sequences. In particular, the first episode had amazing action sequences and was quite a good way to s…
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My-Hime to me is an absolute MUST SEE it will make you laugh,cry,argue with the way a character is handling something(me being one of these people)and possibly even discovering things about yourself.
Story:
The story line is great but personally the reason why I didn't give this show a perfect score was because of the main character, Mai. Even though the show is still basically a masterpiece she really got on my nerves. She's a good person and I'd probably be very good friends with her in real life but she acted as if everything was her fault and that no one else could ever possibly understand(like her own brother)Personally I think the story could have been better if Nao(in the beginning I really didn't like her but as the series went on I came to really get to understand her character sh…
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[Spoiler Warning]
This anime will take you on an emotional rollercoaster; it will make you laugh till you wet yourself and even make you cry till you run out of tissues. It is truly an amazing show that has it all: Romance, Action, Drama and plenty of Fanservice. ^_^
This anime is about girls who are able to see a strange red star. These girls are known as HiME (Highly-advanced Materializing Equipment) and they each have special abilities to materialize elements to use in combat. From the beginning of this amazing series it may be hard to see why so many people love Mai-Hime however the first half dedicates itself to light-hearted humour and character developments. The comedy aspect of the series mixes well with the fanservice, to create something that is entertaining to watch and the ch…
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Mai HiME takes a minute to get off the ground, but after a while, you'll find yourself being sucked into its storyline. It's uninhibited, filled with good comedy, compelling drama, and symbolism - some with surprising adherence. The premise of the story is very interesting and original. The only negative point I give here is that there were a few moments I found difficult to take seriously. I actually laughed once - at a part that was by no means supposed to be funny. The animation isn't the best, but I gave it a seven because it seems to get better after the first few episodes. That, or you get used to it. The music is mostly pretty good - edgy, quite fitting to the story. If there is one thing Mai HiME definitely has going for it, it's strong characterization. You will find it easy to co…
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Mai-HiME sports the story of Tokiha Mai and her brother Takumi as they enter the prestigious Fuuka Gakuen. As the viewer, you're introduced in the first episode to several "HiME's" - girls with the power to materialize their own individual equipment.
Characters include the 13 HiME's, each with a distinct personality and Child - a sort of mecha guardian. Each HiME also has one special person, very important in her life. That makes a main cast of 39 (or 26 if you don't include Childs). From here, there's several more main characters related to the plot as well as quite a few sub-characters. Sounds confusing, right? Sunrise does an amazing job of maintaining this large cast - main character names will always remain with you (or at the very least, their faces will be memorable) while the few…
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