Featured image: “Mai-HiME” by limandao.
I just started watching My-HiME, which came out in , a signature year for magical-girl anime, seeing as how it also saw the release of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Pretty Cure. My-HiME did all right for itself, producing some spin-offs, though I don’t think it had quite the same impact as Nanoha or especially Pretty Cure, which became a commercial juggernaut.
All three of these shows upped the amount of violent action typical of the genre and did it for three different demographics: Pretty Cure was shoujo, Nanoha was seinen, and My-HiME was shounen.
The opening episode of My-HiME is certainly promising, with a creative action set-piece and some excellent animation.
In any case, I’ll talk about it when I finish it. It’s considerably longer than the last show I reviewed, and my current schedule does not give me a lot of extra time for TV, but I’ll do what I can.