My-HiME

Type: Anime & Manga

Status: Complete (26 episodes)

Premise: 12 girls have been selected as inheritors of amazing powers to control a personal beast to fight for them, these "children" battle all who oppose their masters the HiME. Now 300 years after the last HiME was chosen this new generation must decide the fate of the world.

Thoughts: This anime has a good premise with excellent character interaction and well balanced action, romance and heartbreak. The thing is this show was hamstrung by the writers, it fails in several places throughout the plot were the logical thing is completely ignored and the entire series of events seems forced and contrived. We have a good outline here but it lacks a cohesive plot to string it all together.

Prose: Excellent characters; this story runs on human emotion and the writers managed to convey this exceptionable well, this is taken to scary highs at certain points with some VARY messed up characters near the end but sometimes its just plain fun to watch someone self destruct isn't it?

Cons: Contrived plot; plain and simple this anime makes a few to many leaps of logic during its plot developments along with the "god complex" of the HiME powers it becomes difficult to take this story seriously even though it was meant to be a serious drama.

-Notes: This one was difficult to find, it is on neither of the sites I usually use and required some searching in order to find. The anime is completely dubbed with good picture quality. There is a spin off series to this named My-Otome, it uses all of the same characters in a radically redesigned setting in a distant future. It is rather interesting to watch the old characters interact in a completely new environmental and it is worth a watch due to it being at least as good as My-Hime.

6.5/10          (Aww... A happy ending... HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!)