Otakuism

Pure Win

Now that I’m done with Mai-Otome, I think I can confidently say I like the manga more than the anime. Yeah, I know the manga is cliche riddened and stuffed with fanservice, but then again wasn’t the anime the same? At least I enjoyed the fanservice in the manga, especially all the Hime stuff at the end. I’ve alway’s thought Hime was miles above Otome, so any nod to Hime is great to me. I liked how all the dark Hime’s were hedonistic lesbians. That was great ;). If you accept Mai-Otome as a tongue in cheek manga adaptation, than it’s really not too bad. The action could of been better than the ” my attack beats your attack! But I have this attack! ” and having a character block a fatal attack every chapter, just to still live. Actually that’s how the action in the anime went also, didn’t it? I’m happy Erusu-chan got to live in the manga though. One of the worse things the anime got wrong.

You know what else made the manga great? Manshiro, the most fucking badass trap EVAR! He’s a trap and GAR! He’s a GARTRAP! If all the women were extremely busty in Otome, which they were, than all the men were extremely gar. Nagi was a brat, but he died gar. The same with Rad. Sergey had some great evil gar moments. Even Tate, a dream fragment, was gar! Haven’t seen this high a density of gar since Fate/stay night. The only problem with the manga was proabably the slow part in the beginning. But once you get to around volume 3, it’s just straight awesome onto the end. Just don’t expect anything serious. That can definately kill your enjoyment.

And finally, eyepatch wearin’, gothloli Midori is hawt. That’s all.