Mai-Hime music (Upd: TV anime “Mai-HiME” / “Mai-Otome” 20th anniversary event with YK & FJ & Hanae on Sept 20, 2025)

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george1234 said:
@CloisteredFlame you definetely need to watch the works Kajiura made music for its the best way to understand why it was made like this and will make you appeeciate the lives even more.
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After watching Madoka, I began to understand the Kalafina ladies' mannerisms during their lives, where they really put effort into the choreography and staging/lighting.
 
CloisteredFlame said:
After watching Madoka, I began to understand the Kalafina ladies' mannerisms during their lives, where they really put effort into the choreography and staging/lighting.
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Nah, I feel that's just the stage director slash choreographer that worked with them on every tour.

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Oh I saw Madoka last year after seeing all the YouTube comments talking about Mami and speaking about the characters instead of the music. They were also raving about how the anime looked deceptively cute, but episode 3 was earth-shattering, and with "Magia" playing at that scene. I was too intrigued to let it go, since I was really into "Magia" (and Hikaru's MV performance of course).
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Yeaa, that's kinda the thing with shows that have twists and turns. They just either get spoiled or people hype up certain episodes so you know something's going to go down.
 
Already watching... Maybe a few episodes tonight.

First impressions...

Everyone's here right in the intro!!! 🙀
A little bit of Moses vibes from the beginning scene (Mai?) and a whole 14-year time skip too!
Sounds like Yuuka Nanri singing the intro...Hmmm. 🤔
 
CloisteredFlame said:
Sounds like Yuuka Nanri singing the intro...Hmmm. 🤔
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Kay, OP started. It's Minami Kuribayashi. She did My-HiME opening too. XD

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*snicker*Nina Wang. I am 12 and what is this. (crap I messed up the meme, lol)
lol that ant head
Mmm Sir Gay Wang. *snicker* insert meme again
hell yea "Gokigenyo"!
jfc Nina's head looked huge compared to Arika's when they left the port station
buuuueh~ eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek~
damn that's sum selfdefence
ekeheheh Mikoto
you know they are doing a pretty nice job setting up this new world
lol that fanfare ("prologue")
action lets go~
politics in my HiME mmmm
"MATERIALISE" lets go~
I don't know, this entire action sequence is technically so simple but also so visually clean that it's impressive.
hohoho blue sapphire huh
dat Meister Shizuru landing, iconic

I'm so ready for this schlock XD
 
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So Mai is the country bumpkin in this one but not feral like Mikoto 🤣 (different names in Otome, yes Mikoto is a cat here 🙀). I appreciated the change to a European-style location, more elaborate and differentiated costuming and character designs, including a royal aspect to .

At the first battle scene - protecting the princess from the slave, I started to hear Yuri Kasahara's voice singing that dissonant tune "Materialize" (yeah?) with her powerful voice (even at low volume the resonance was strong)!
 
ep2 here I go
Major Wang, lolol. I can't. I'm so immature. (I know it's just a translation and but still.)
oh Shizuru... such a tease...
I know "Gokigenyo" is going to get overplayed lol but I like the track so much.
hey new characters, voiced by Minami Kuribayashi and Rie Tanaka fyi.
the way they stress Missss Maria makes me shiver.
Oh wow, subtitles kinda spoilery, I'm not sure the audience was supposed to understand all that...
I forgot what a brat Mashiro was in this series lol
(had to pause for a minute or two)
that fanfare makes me laugh so much XD
headsplat
oh god forgot about Yukariko from HiME, iconic Kikuko Inoue
lol Shiho nyaknyaknyak makimakiakamaki
damn they are really hamming up the yuri theatrics, after hime's reception I guess
lol Nao what a troll; holy shit, forgot her first name was Juliet in this one, it kind of hits differently after going back to Seiya lol
yooooooooooooooo Nagi, troublemaker as always XD
Arika vs Nina lets go

ep suri
Nagi za troll
nanomachines huh
ohohoho more flashbacks to lil Sir Gay with Rena Sayers
cant with the ant XD
lady fia grosse's character design (maybe not the outfit) has something in it. I can't remember if she actually has any role in the show though, lol. guess I'll find out.
dang, yap, those elite otome designs have something in em
yoooo kazukun! I wish thee luck~
ohohoho, the princess plot thicknzzzz
mikoto's outfit and the fanfare again. yes. XD
this fight does not necessarily seem like the sequence to use "materialise" on but whatevs
schwartz and then black valley is something else okay I better remember, nice spin
kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa meeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa meeeeeeee...
and more nina sirgay flashbacks
oh boy those headshots flying across the screen XD

ep quatro
I has ZA POWAAAAAAaaaaaa
Ah yes, another obligatory stripping sequence ;p
Harukaaaaaaaaaaa~
guts!!!!!! ding
welcome to skool.
lul dat face >8-[
Ah yes... the good old virgin/sexual abstinence plot...
Gokigenyo~~~~~~
proper Erstin introduction hi
and here we go, not everyone graduates as an otome.
"that girl" heh
hi Irina
yo lilie yayoi miya
hi Tomoe~ aren't you a proper lady, classrep
Freedom Nation uhhh so many factions. dang politics.
ass crack
lol SirGay just encouraging chibiNina's obsession with her papa
oh you little conniving...

ep5
lol nice little twist
man, akira ishida is such a good troll as nagi
:3
oh bruh I'm starting remembering the makimaki BGM being a lot in this series, moreso than "onaka hetta" in HiME
photo drop
dang those evil otaku!!!
gee I wonder who this mystery sponsor is HMMMMmmmm
I don't remember how long this bullying arc lasts, hope not too long. I don't need the sadness now.
oh would you look at that, everyone believes and wants to help~ mood++++
moar kazukun screentime
dohohohohohohohohohoho
oh you little conniving...

SiX
Oh is this going to be the extra fanservice episode like HiME#4
Oh yes it is...
Gokigenyo~~~~
lol@Mikoto in that getup
Dem curves on everyone
Oh I remember... I remember this... fanservice...
I want to say that even as a wee lad I thought this one was too much... but I don't remember how I felt about it back in 2005.
But at least it's also the first time we get Yuriko's lullaby.
So we've been getting lots of faction/nation names but this might be the first time they drop the "W" word?
Did they mention she was adopted before? Did I look away? Or is this the first time? (Edit: I double checked. They said it in ep#2.)
And they drop all that inbetween this fanservice... lol.
Oh you little conniving...
Oboi... Here we go...
Cute transition to the ED. Kind of makes it seem like it's a happy ending to an arc.

seBun
time to bring down Mashiro a notch
lol not Mashiro blushing at Nagi
nisemono no ohime plot thicknz and trauma
lol nao got her this job?
black letter :(
spider-ant
:(
hmmm... I be darned... this I did not see coming. Peculiar version of the lullaby... (Edit: I think I figured it out. Post below.)
proposal all of a sudden??
oh my, Nagi...
Mmm, lore. Hi Fumi statue.
Oh wow, I forgot they introduced this so early in the show.
Yoooo Miyu. In Vampire Hunter D getup, lul.
Awww. Rip jewelry.
Hi shadowy Mikoto.
Nice looking Pokemon.
MATERIALISE!
rip random man from construction site
same transition to ED again, interesting

achT
Everyone knows! Oh noes!
lore
Everyone knows! Oh noes!
dats some floor scrubber lol
lol Arika... never change... never change...
yo miyu
wat a tweest
Oh Arika... XD
what a weird BGM choice for this open sardine scene.
oh, I think we're getting the komoriuta soon. I remember always thinking the version on OST would be longer. It is what it is...
tombs :(
sad reality for Otomes. :(
bustedddddddddd
"A w* isn't going to break out." Surely not... the writers are only foreshadowing it for funsies. XD
A familiar voice, heh. Another faction, Aswald. Oh nevermind, they're from the Black Valley.

The fanservice episode was maybe too much but I'm having a lot of fun rewatching the anime so far. Surprisingly, I remember quite a bit from the show, both in detail and in general, just not necessarily when exactly something happens. Like I really didn't remember Harmonium being introduced this early.

One thing I wish they did in this show was have some kind of map with nation names at the start of every other episode - maybe some kind of narrated prologue before the OP or something like that, just to keep track of all the nation names and maybe even rulers. Most characters aren't too bad since you should be familiar with a lot of them from HiME but all those other names unghhhhh...
 
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So it was only Yuriko that provided chorus in the original release!

Wow! When Yuri went up to the highest note towards the end... Man what a voice. I would really like to hear it live now. I can imagine Yuriko (and Joelle for the head voice range) going as operatic as possible with Yuriko on the chorus.
 
Azokad said:
as well as Hoshi ga Kanaderu Monogatari.
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So I'm rewatching Otome... Had to stop in the middle of episode7 'cause they were clearly playing Kajiura's instrumental under the seiyuu lyrics and I had to do a double take.

For a second I thought it's an original arrange and I'd have to eat my words but I don't think so. The instrumental playing appears to be the guitar & percussion from the first half of OST1's Komoriuta, except it's sped up about 114% and pitched down about 4 semitones. Took me a moment. The 2nd time it loops it might have some creative editing - it's bloody difficult to be sure with the og strings blasting and different mix. I'm relatively certain in most parts of the second loop that it's still the first half of the Komoriuta though, including the ending.
 
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grunty said:
So I'm rewatching Otome... Had to stop in the middle of episode7 'cause they were clearly playing Kajiura's instrumental under the seiyuu lyrics and I had to do a double take.

For a second I thought it's an original arrange and I'd have to eat my words but I don't think so. The instrumental playing appears to be the guitar & percussion from the first half of OST1's Komoriuta, except it's sped up about 114% and pitched down about 4 semitones. Took me a moment. The 2nd time it loops it might have some creative editing - it's bloody difficult to be sure with the og strings blasting and different mix. I'm relatively certain in most parts of the second loop that it's still the first half of the Komoriuta though, including the ending.
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I'm gonna have to go back to that. (I'm already in episode 19!)

Ep 4
Beautiful singing by Nina and the string instrumental of the same song.
That's a lovely acappella song that was also sung by Mai (Arika).

It's a beautiful recurring theme and I wonder who wrote the track and if there's a live version.
 
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