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REVIEW: My-HiME DVD 7 Special Edition

The Obsidian Prince uses his tools Nagi and Midori to manipulate the battles according to his game plan...

...while a bonus image of Mai, Natsuki, and Midori graces the back

The first two episodes in this volumes were awesome, but I didn't like how the spoiler[crystal hime just brought everyone back to life without giving a logical explanation and how Alyssa's existence as a hime though she was a fake one had an effect on the outcome ]and though the ending was a lighthearted one and I enjoyed Mai's speech about love at the end, the whole thing felt a bit shoddy and uninspired.

Theron Martin wrote:

The Obsidian Prince uses his tools Nagi and Midori to manipulate the battles according to his game plan... ...while a bonus image of Mai, Natsuki, and Midori graces the back

Erm...I think you mean Mikoto, not Midori.

Oops! Corrected. (Read through that 4-5 times and never caught that one. . .)

spoiler[The dead stay dead and they don't come back to life, everyone doesn't live happily ever after, and relationships are forevor changed. ]

So is the original artbox just crap or something?

The ending was the worst part for me. I should mention that Mai-Otome while overall not quite as good has a more satisfying ending IMO. Then again I loved the more sci-fi'ish theme in Mai Otome.

Cheap thin cardboard and a shirt. I didn't mind the shirt though. It's black and says "Fuka Academy" on it.

Key wrote:

Oops! Corrected. (Read through that 4-5 times and never caught that one. . .)

I still see a "Midori" in the part about the Special Edition box...

Brians9824 wrote:

spoiler[The dead stay dead and they don't come back to life, everyone doesn't live happily ever after, and relationships are forevor changed. ]

You know...

spoiler[Only one person of any significance dies. Then there's Midori's cyborg friends. Can't remember which die, but it's obvious in Zwei that Gal is alive. Tomoe doesn't even die from her "fatal" fall. Sergay lives as well.

Everyone does live happily ever after. Nina and Arika are on good terms again. The Slave-controllers help out Mai and Mikoto in the Black Valley. Nagi doesn't at all seem unhappy. Tomoe is as nuts as ever. Akane and Kazuya are the only ones who never get their true happily ever after. Well, at least they're still together.

As for changed relationships. Which ones? If you mean between Midori's people and Windbloom, then I suppose that's a change.]

Not saying that I dislike the endings of either series. I like both of them.

Asrialys wrote:

Key wrote: Oops! Corrected. (Read through that 4-5 times and never caught that one. . .) I still see a "Midori" in the part about the Special Edition box... Brians9824 wrote: spoiler[The dead stay dead and they don't come back to life, everyone doesn't live happily ever after, and relationships are forevor changed. ] You know... spoiler[Only one person of any significance dies. Then there's Midori's cyborg friends. Can't remember which die, but it's obvious in Zwei that Gal is alive. Tomoe doesn't even die from her "fatal" fall. Sergay lives as well. Everyone does live happily ever after. Nina and Arika are on good terms again. The Slave-controllers help out Mai and Mikoto in the Black Valley. Nagi doesn't at all seem unhappy. Tomoe is as nuts as ever. Akane and Kazuya are the only ones who never get their true happily ever after. Well, at least they're still together. As for changed relationships. Which ones? If you mean between Midori's people and Windbloom, then I suppose that's a change.] Not saying that I dislike the endings of either series. I like both of them.

I have to watch it again but

spoiler[Arika and Nina aren't really friends anymore. They aren't togethor at all in the OVA sequel. Sergey never gets his memory back and as a result he completely forgets about Arika even though he had feelings for her and Arika can't be with him since she had feelings for him too.

Nina and Sergey go off togethor so Nina can try to be with him resulting in both of them disapearing from the OVA sequel.

I can't remember the names but I believe one of the kids die towards the end when Arika and Mashiro were kidnapped by the Oswald? The one arika tried to save.]

Well, for a series constructed as it was in the middle, I can't see in any way how it would be able to end on a depressing note. spoiler[And it's not like the dead died by any normal means. They just disappeared along with the Child of the person that cared for them.]

Well, for a series constructed as it was in the middle, I can't see in any way how it would be able to end on a depressing note. spoiler[And it's not like the dead died by any normal means. They just disappeared along with the Child of the person that cared for them.]

spoiler[It has nothing to do with how they died; but how they came back to life -because the crystal hime broke out of her crystal cage? ]

Just like when Mai spoiler[fought Alyssa and came back when everyone was sure that she died without bothering to explain to the viewers and the creator seemed that he was underestimating the viewers attention span and intelligence when he thought that distracting them with Mai's boobs is gonna get him to dodge the question ]