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On Mai-HiME/Otome (very long with SPOILERS).

About the My-Hime/My-Otome timeline:

My-Otome takes place around A.R. 330, A.R. being a fictional calendar used in the My-Otome setting. A.R. 0 should be keyed to some significant event. Because this is a calendar used by the people of My-Otome, the event be one that they recognize as significant. The most obvious choices are the alleged start of the immigration era and the arrival on the planet.

Let's suppose that A.R. 0 was in fact keyed to the end of the My-Hime Hime Carnival and see where that supposition takes us. In episode 3 of My-Otome 0, Miyu refers to the Blue Sky Sapphire as a super meister gem from the immigration era. The immigration era would be around A.R. 0 as the My-Otome inhabitants believe. This means that the Blue Sky Sapphire existed around My-Hime time. In the My-Hime time, Alyssa Searrs was the only artificial Hime, and the gem that binds her to the Searrs Foundation leader is red (see episode 15 of My-Hime). The Blue Sky Sapphire did not exist at this time. Thus, the immigration era, circa A.R. 0, is after My-Hime. Thus, A.R. 0 is not keyed to the end of the My-Hime Hime Carnival. My-Otome occurs more than 330 years after My-Hime.

BlackJaded, do I understand you correctly? You believe that everybody posting in this thread is wrong, except you, and that your unique qualification for this point is that you are a fanfic writer?

I have nothing much to say to this except to break out in gales of derisive laughter.

- abunai
I have never yet seen a fanfic writer who could muster even a semblance of legible English.

Well yeah my grammar sucks, but I have interesting mind on these good fanfics I've done.

Even a five would do better on an AU series, too bad you guys wasted on your whole potential on making this thread.

BlackJaded wrote:

Well yeah my grammar sucks, but I have interesting mind on these good fanfics I've done.

Um, yeah, your grammar sucks bad. So bad in fact, that I'm really unsure of what you're trying to say. If you want people to take your argument seriously, I suggest to aim for clarity. I am in no way a grammar nazi, but seriously, your posts are quite difficult to decipher. And I used to correct English essays written by non-English speakers back in high school. Also, as an aspiring fiction writer myself, I would never even consider taking a look at any of your works just based on the display of your (lack of) writing skills in these posts of yours.

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Even a five would do better on an AU series, too bad you guys wasted on your whole potential on making this thread.

Okay, from what I can gather here, you're being a condescending A-hole. I take it you mean to say "even a five-year old(?) would do better"? Well now I'm laughing as well, for... obvious reasons...

Hmm. After just having watched My-Otome, I'll chime in with my thoughts. Note I have not watched Zwei or 0.

I think there are only two characters in My-Otome that are the same as in My-Hime: Miyu and Mikoto. That's it.

Miyu's general comments and knowledge imply she's the original Miyu, but the strongest proof is when she says she is a 'Multiple Intelligencial Yggdrasil Unit', but that she was given the name Miyu by someone she cared about. This implies a personal relationship with Alyssa Searrs. She also seems very familiar with Mikoto. Yes, this is not absolute proof, but it is strong enough for me to accept that the Miyu of My-Otome is Miyu of My-Hime.

As for Mikoto: others in this thread have given pretty certain proof that she's the same person. I don't see any reason to go over it again.

As for Nagi, as has been said, there are places in My-Otome where he appears younger in flashbacks. More importantly, it would be obvious if he didn't age and people didn't treat him as someone who was unaging; they treated him as a powerful noble.

More generally, while I commend the OP, I think the writers/creators had little interest in internal consistancy between My-Hime and My-Otome. Most of their decisions on people and events seems based on fan service instead. The way Mai was treated is, IMO, the most obvious example of this...

Although the Mai in My-Otome looks and sounds like Mai from My-Hime, they're NOT the same person. In fact, Mai even cooks for Mikoto (and is a good cook) and has the same element as Mai from My-Hime... and yet they're NOT the same. You see examples of this all over the place, often with role-reversals and allusions to the My-Hime character the Otome character was based on, such as when Natsuki jumped the motorcycle over the bad guys and dismounted with aplomb.

The reason I bring this up is that I think it's problematic to try to reason out the worldsetting of My-Otome too much. I don't think the writers paid much attention to trying to be consistant, and so there are a lot of things that wont make a lot of sense, or will be regulated to conjecture no matter how much effort you put in to analyzing things.

Speaking for myself, I would've enjoyed My-Otome a lot more if they'd refrained from trying to shoehorn the whole cast from My-Hime into a totally different setting that takes place 300+ years after My-Hime. I know that the whole reincarnation thing is big in the East, but really, this is more than a little excessive. I guess there's no such thing as excessive in the name of fanservice.