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Feb 23 2006

Categories: anime, episodic review, mai hime/otome, spoilers
Tagged: mai hime/otome

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Remember last week when I wondered about who would receive a gohobi next, Yuji or Matsumaru? Well, neither. Shizuru wins! I almost died laughing when Tomoe asks Shizuru if she gets a gohobi for “freeing” her. Casual lesbian sex 4tw.

Mai Otome continues to prod along, and it’s sadly so predictable now. Only the last ten episodes of GSD were more transparent.

Natsuki and Nao were actually captured by the Aries faction, which is good because Yukino and Haruka are two of their few allies. The bad, of course, is that Natsuki somehow repaired her pants. Weren’t they ripped to shreds? Natsuki pleads for help, but, predictably, Yukino turns her down. Wuss.

The distance between Mr. Wong and Nina continues to widen, and I think an Utada Hikaru insert song would kick ass here, but, alas.

Mr. Wong also reveals that he one had a six billion double dollars bounty on his head. Mr. Wong continues his search for this new fangled Evil Otome, and, predictably, Chie and her friends sign up. (Classic Sunrise spoiling the plot with their OP.)

Tomoe also rises up in the ranks and pulls some strings for Shizuru. All the evil otomes have nice asses and killer legs. (When I was doing my undergrad, my friends and I referred to sorority girls who dressed up in tight black pants, looked like hookers at a funeral, and acted bitchy all the time “black pantzers”.)

Arika and Mashiro are trapped inside the cave after they run into that sandworm at the end of the previous episode, and Mashiro is trying to convice Arika to become an otome and fight once again. Don’t worry, Mashiro-chan, a Sunrise-brand plot contrivance will do that for you!

“I didn’t know how horrible it is to become an otome… I’m a baka.” – Arika

“I’m a baka like you.” – Mashiro

“I’m a bigger baka.”

Then Arika goes on about being an otome, kinda like Shana did after Wilhelmina decreed that Reiji Maigo must die.

(Mashiro told Arika that Aoi was dead, Arika was shocked, said, “Aoi-san’s dead?” and went back to whining about how awful it is being an otome. See, they were still throwing Gekigangar parties in memory of Gai ten episodes after he died. Now? Aoi’s a footnote to Arika. As I said before, no one except Mashiro cared for Aoi. Everyone aboard Nadesico cared for Gai. BIIIIIIIIG difference. Gai is the Peyton Manning to Aoi’s Brooks Bollinger. And that’s the last I’ll say about this. Until Mai Otome 21.)

Anyway, Mashiro tries to reason, prod, and rape Arika, but it takes molten magma to spring the two to action. To escape the rising lava (seriously, Sunrise, I’ll write for you guys– I’ll even do it for free), Mashiro predicatably convinces Arika to go otome again as they are about to fall into the lava, and the two escape.

When the two return to the Black Valley, it is under attack by Cardair’s otome, who stole their GEM data while Midori and Reito were out celebrating her 17th birthday.

Predictably, Mashiro and Arika learn something from the tragedy… Mashiro looks up to Arika as a leader in charge, and Arika is slowly gaining back her will to fight.

Meanwhile, back at Gaulderobe, Tomoe is disrobing Shizuru, so predictable, I even predicated it in my Best of 2005 feature. I just loved how they spliced in a shot of Natsuki as Tomoe approaches Shizuru and those “tearing off of the clothes” sound effects after the camera pans away from the two smooching and onto the ceiling. Can we get an uncut DVD version? Anyway, I’m guessing Shizuru is just using Tomoe for luvin’ for finding a way out of there.

And, of course, it can’t be a Mai Otome episode without some shocker at the end. Nagi finally unearths the organ under Gaulderobe, but he also unearths Mikoto. The Mai Hime Mikoto.

Nina, DO YOUR BEST, deshou, when you fight her in 21, k?