My Otome

[dreiser]

All right. For at least over a year I've heard people gush about My HiME and My Otome but it's only been within the past week that I've watched all of both series. Well, that's a lie. I haven't watched the My Otome prequel My Otome​ S.ifr yet but it just finished downloading so I'll do that today.

Anyway!



Like most people who enjoy yuri romance in anime my favorite thing in My HiME was the overwhelming angst and bad ass nature of the Shizuru/Natsuki relationship although that came way late in the series. They are truly awesome in My Otome and in particular Meister Otome Shizuru Viola the 3rd Column of Garderobe Academy and the Bewitching Smile Amethyst is shown to be greatly awesome. I mean, just look at the huge ass title she has! lol. That amuses me for some reason. Poor Natsuki doesn't get nearly as many fight scenes as Shizuru to show off her coolness I'm afraid.

But as much as I love them as a couple my favorite pairing, which had less screentime than Shizuru/Natsuki I'm afraid, had to be Brigadier General Haruka Armitage the Meister Otome of Aries and the Continental Orb Topaz and President Yukino Chrysant. I think the romantic nature of their relationship got one upped as Shizuru/Natsuki's did in My Otome. It's more subtle in My Otome but Shizuru/Natsuki are a confirmed couple and Haruka/Yukino seem much the same to me. Though they don't have drama cds backing them up. Haruka is used a lot in the anime as a comedic figure but she's a genuine character and whenever those two show up they never failed to make me laugh or just make me happy. They're hands down my favorite pairing for the series and I'm thinking of writing a fanfic for them which explains the development of their relationship in My Otome. Somehow there's an extra classical element of romance to the fact that Haruka is Yukino's Otome who is charged with protecting her and if Haruka gets hurt in battle so does Yukino and if one dies so does the other.

I refuse to read the manga for either series as what I've ascertained from it they fuck both storylines from the anime, which I quite enjoyed, completely to hell. Plus there's the fucked up crossover between both universes which is lame to me. I don't need to see two versions of the same character interacting with each other. That's just creepy and stupid. Keep the universes separate, imho.

Part of the reason I liked both series, and My Otome in particular, were the fight sequences. Both series reminded me of Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha in how great the fight sequences were and I think both My HiME and My Otome are part of this great new trend of well done and different magical girl series. I like how the new series in this genre are thinking out of the box with how they develop the magical girl powers.

The fights are made more bad ass by the music. The song Materialise plays during a quite a bit of fight sequences and I think it's quite kick ass. Another song I love isn't from the actual My Otome series but rather from the PS2 game. Though it is played in the background of two episodes. That's the song Valkyrja. The music really adds another depth to the fight sequences and the series in general. Overall the music for both My HiME and My Otome is really epic and brilliant.

So! That's the end of my ramble. I still need to finish my fanfic for The Tudors with Jane Seymour/Mary Tudor but I really want to write a fanfic of decent length, at least fifteen chapters, for Haruka and Yukino in My Otome. I love them that much.

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

*claps*

Yup, Mai Otome is pretty damn cool. It practically gushes yuri for most of the main cast, and Haruka and Yukino are some of my faves too.

The only reason to read the Mai Hime manga, IMHO, is that Haruka and Yukino appear to be canon. Otherwise it kinda bites.

[deglorath.livejournal.com]

I agree with Shane, I would absolutely love to see a fan fic on them from you. :) Have you seen Mai-Otome Zwei? Haruka gets some very awesome scenes for herself in there. :) Sifr was fun I thought, not very great but some of the fights were on the epic scale.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

*grabs Valkyrja*

Oooh, neat! Thanks.

[allaine77.livejournal.com]

I will love you forever if you write that. Don't get me wrong, Shiznat is great, but there's SO much devoted to them in the online community that the pairing now has zero novelty.

Whereas I love Haruka most of all, and I love her with Yukino (in either series). And not enough people write about them! (Biblia is probably the best, imho.)

I think I found Otome to be more entertaining (Miyu, especially, was much more fun than in HiME - and Chie got so much more screen time!) and exciting, but I like HiME for the greater emotional impact as the season wound to a halt. Plus there was no relationship in HiME that squicked me like Arika/Sergey/Nina.

The pairings I tend to be most interested in are Haruka/Yukino, Chie/Aoi, and Natsuki/Shizuru.