Today, watched the last episode of Mai Otome.

To sum up, its a pretty nice animation except that when compared to its ‘precessor’ - Mai Hime, it lack of touching moments and plot. I definitely think that Mai Hime is so much nicer and interesting and touching than Mai Otome.

SPOILER!

I was pretty disappointed that Sergey lost his memory in the ending. Then Nina stayed beside him. Well, its actually quite a sensible plot. I mean if nina didnt die and arika didnt too, then they might fight each other for Sergey’s love. Actually i am pretty much for Sergey to be with Arika, but well this ending sort of minimise conflicts and promotes that peace is attained.

The most interesting part of Mai Otome is being the use of the same characters, some of which the names are the same (mostly) from Mai Hime.

Overall, I will highly recommend Mai Hime, it remains my most preferred anime till now, probably even more than Fushigi Yuugi (being nice, but kind of lengthy). Mai Hime has the normal 26 episodes but contained sufficient ups and downs for the plot to be very ‘hooking’.

Even though Mai Otome isn’t as good as Mai Hime, maybe because only 1 person died. I will still recommend Mai Otome for a watch since it is somehow related to Mai Otome.