Mai Otome Ep22 - hehe... fighting greatness. Tomoe and Miyu stole the show!

OMG. Sergei actually ADMITTED THAT HE LIKES ARINKO!!! And then blah blah blah... I didn't pay attention to the rest of the conversation.


Tomoe Tomoe Tomoe. You look hideous in that outfit. And the way you blush and go gaga over this power and the way you face distorts when you blurt out your past evil deeds and how you will take Shizuru, prestige and power with it. How ugly. BUT IT IS YOU WHO MAde THIS EP SO INTERESTING! I certainly don't like you, but I've gotta admit you do makes things much more livelier. Now i just hope there'll be a one-on-one of you against Natsuki.



Yay!!! Finally we get to see a meister otome die. And i think it was natural that Fia be the one. (after all that play up of her master being one scheming sinister guy.) Well, at least she died in the hands of Midori. That's compliment enough.



Nina going crazy. Looks like the gem has some dark influence on her making her go on rampages quite easily. But I'm actually glad for this development. The show has been quite mild in the angst department (arika and mashiro's angst looks quite baseless to me. Arika being naive and mashiro's was a long overdue introspect.) There is a serious lack in madness and well... Nina's expression in this pic totally meets my expectation!



Goodness. I thought Miyu was cool in HIME. But only from this ep do I think that her anti-materializing power is awesome. Snatching Mashiro and saving Arika in a flash, slicing Tomoe's element into half, piercing Sergei in the abdomen(cheers!!!), and going head to head with berserker Nina(Nina appears to be bolstered by the power of the harmonium)!! And this image of combining with bird Alyssa is magestic!!! Great going Miyu!

Mai Otome Ep21- Princess or not, Mashiro is the queen.

Frankly speaking, I was looking forward this this ep. Two things that attracted me. One was the fight between Nina and shadow Mikoto. I was hoping to actually SEE Mikoto. But no... just a few pseudo fight scenes and all I got was a back shot of an awakening Mikoto. WHAT THE?! It was exactly the same shot as the preview!!! This is cheating!

The other thing that kinda disappointed was the lack of follow-up to that outrageous shizTom scene at the end of ep 20. ( or may be they didnt show wat i wanted to see XD) But from the looks of it, it really happened. The nightmare really happened. And the lady who initiated the thing looks so damned bloody satisfied... "Pls forget everything that happened today" NO WAY! I wanna forget too!! But it's lotched deep in my cortex! The damage has been done!!!


But after greenhead left, we see that the cheerful (and quite retarded) Shizuru change into a pensive look, saying "I'll let you have your way for now..." T_T which can only mean one thing... But at least she didnt go nuts and retreated to the intellect of a toddler.


And what's with the toys? My guess: Tomoe has been deprived of motherlove and desperately wants some love and care, hence the fetish. And Shizuru apparantly has very motherly qualities which can mean Tomoe is living out her "childhood dream". Of course, more ugly and less innocent thoughts have been considered, but I'll just leave it as that, cos it pains to even think wat Shizuru has to go through if she was the receiving party...

Oh well the ep was not that bad. Two unexpected good stuff happened. AOI IS ALIVE! At least that's what I think after seeing Chie see someone in a hospital bed...


The other redeeming quality of this ep was undeniably(for me) also the highlight of the show. Mashiro's emotional struggle to save those people who literally forced Aoi to her "death" was quite moving. And yet while hating them she also recognizes that their hate stems from the fact that she hadn't been doing her job. And those past eps of seeing Midori lead her people show their use/effect here, and she finally chose to save her people and even begged Midori for sanctuary in exchange for... Gauderobe's technology???

Pardon me, but HUH? How can she go around offering something that does not belong to her??? Sunrise had better answer this question properly.



Next Ep: Mai's back with a ladle. I'm fascinated and intrigued. But given last week's stunt with Mikoto, I'm NOT gonna fall for the same trick twice!

Personality Test

http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx
I was quite sure I knew myself well. But it's quite eery if a formula or computer program can hit so close to bullseye within a 10 questions! XD

Get to know yourself better
Your view on yourself:

You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love:

You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.
Your views on education

Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.
The right job for you:

You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.
How do you view success:

Success in your career is not the most important thing in life. You are content with what you have and think that being with someone you love is more than spending all of your precious time just working.
What are you most afraid of:

You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.
Who is your true self:

You like privacy very much because you enjoy spending time with your own thoughts. You like to disappear when you cannot find solutions to your own problems, but you would feel better if you learned to share your thoughts with a person you trust.