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Hisayuki Hirokazu
Ohara Masakazu
Mai-HiME does several things, and it does most of them well. It is a bishoujo series that handles romance, action, comedy, drama, and occasionally ecchi (less ecchi than you might expect, th... Home Twitter
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29.11.2007 09:44 - rs5452)
Rating
| Average |
7.66 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
6 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
Mai-HiME does several things, and it does most of them well. It is a bishoujo series that handles romance, action, comedy, drama, and occasionally ecchi (less ecchi than you might expect, though).
Animation:
The animation quality is quite high, everything looks good and moves well.
The character designs are less great. There's not a great deal of variety in the characters, although this is somewhat understandle with the size of the cast, and it's not enough to causes difficulties in regonition. What could be considered more of a problem (if you're interested in it as a bishoujo series, anyway) is that not all of the characters are exactly attractive.
On the other hand, the weapon and monster designs are great. The weapons are suitably big and cool, and the Childs are a fascinating mix of the technological and the organic (like an Evangelion, not a cyborg).
Sound:
The soundtrack is good, as is the voice acting.
Story:
The story mostly just acts to set up the scenario that the characters play out, which I'll go into in the next section. Unfortunately, it didn't quite manage to avoid plot holes even with so little to do.
As far as pacing goes, it's a fairly standard two-arc plot. It starts arc fairly dark and serious, then immediately becomes much more light-hearted. The first half of the series is mostly comedy with some light drama and romance, although it becomes somewhat serious towards the end. After the first half has it's mini-climax, the series quickly becomes much darker, and largely better (unless you liked the comedy).
Character:
While the large amount of characters did prevent all of the characters from getting as much time as one might like, all of the major characters do get developed.
To a certain extent, it seems like Sunrise used the standard practice of putting having enough different types of bishoujo do appeal to every type of otaku as a way to come up with the various weird things that happen in the second half. Which is to say, as long as you don't dislike the dark tone, there's probably something that'll appeal to you.
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