[Mai Otome] ...huh | Other Media (2025)

Huh. Hearing all this makes me a little sad. The first episode seemed solid enough. Too bad.

Yeah, I'll totally talk about my impressions (probably won't make it a full WIW, because I Never actually finish those ). And I don't think I Have any of the DVD specials. I Just have whatever the "usual methods" is giving me.

Well, at least I now know that the cock laser isn't contextless.

Jhiday said:

You may have to eat those words later on. Well, not so much the fanservice (which ain't that bad), but the creepiness certainly ramps up a lot over the course of the series. Laser cock is only the beginning.

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I do want to say, I didn't find the cock laser creepy. Just strange. I mean, tentacles I could have dealt with. Fanservice I nearly expected. But...cock laser? Really? What the hell kind of fetish was taht even servicing!? Is there a porn.alt.cock.laser group that I haven't been told about?

Mai Otome is.... yeah, huh, there's no good way to put it. It has lots of shiny stuff. It has lots of stuff you'll laugh about as a sci-fi nerd. And it has...

You know what? I'm just going to SBlock all the creepy stuff I remember from Mai Otome for easy reference. Contains some spoilers.

Cruton said:

Mai Otome is.... yeah, huh, there's no good way to put it. It has lots of shiny stuff. It has lots of stuff you'll laugh about as a sci-fi nerd. And it has...

You know what? I'm just going to SBlock all the creepy stuff I remember from Mai Otome for easy reference. Contains some spoilers.

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...huh.

And not even a hint of *any* of that in the first episode.

Mai Otome feels like rather dodgy Mai Hime fan-fic, where someone has shoved the Mai Hime cast into a fantasy setting, but with some modern tech, and more of a focus on the fights. But the story is kludgy, quite a few of the plot twists come out of nowhere, go nowhere and no-one really cares, there's some stuff that's just plain wierd

and the fight scenes aren't as good as they could be. It has the potential to be quite good - the basic world building and set-up is decent, the character designs and some of the setpieces are kinda cool, but it just doesn't really go anywhere.

The sequel (Zwei) and prequel (Sifr) aren't fantastic either - Zwei I seem to recall had a magic psychic dolphin with an earring, and Sifr has some OK fight scenes, but it otherwise a bit meh. The manga is into full-on skeevy territory - there's one part where a character makes one of the Hime's beg to be spanked, in a way that feels more fucked up than actual hentai. It still holds together better than the Mai Hime manga, but that's because Mai Hime manga was just bad.

Katsue said:

The best thing about Mai Otome is definitely the pun in the title.

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what's the pun?

remial said:

what's the pun?

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Like all the best puns, it's multilingual. Otome is roughly the Japanese word for maid (meaning a young or virginal woman), and the Otome on the show are, essentially, maids (in the Mahoromatic sense rather than the real world sense.

Katsue said:

In fairness, I'm pretty sure they're not preteens. They're pretty young, though.

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Yeah, they are about 14-15, I think, but that doesn't make it any less skeevy. Especially given that the majority of them are drawn very young. I suppose the show is one of those that I enjoy more when I'm watching it, but when I try to give it any serious analaysis those flaws become pretty big. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I'd enjoy it all the more without the fan service.