Mai Otome (Series Review)

If you’re not familiar with Mai Otome: it is a show about lesbians endowed with amazingly obscene amounts of firepower and charged with the duty of protecting their masters. So, basically, it’s got maids, high-powered combat, lesbians, swords, and, um, lesbians. This show’s universe runs on the rule of “every problem can be solved given sufficient violence and/or lesbian sex”.

Its more action packed episodes (i.e., the last few episodes) are also great Exalted source material. The final episodes did Exalted vs. extra mass combat rather well.

Anyway, I squealed throughout the last two episodes, and here is why, with a ton of spoilers.

First of all, I did not take any screenshots. Why? Because Anime On My Mind has about 100 screenshots of the last two episodes of Mai Otome, complete with awesome commentary. Seriously, that blog’s got all the great moments of the last 40 minutes of the show in a nice little slideshow format. Go read if you want a humorous review.

As for me, I’ll just make a list of all the things that make me happy.

Note that Mai Otome is the sort of sequel to Mai Hime. It is essentially 26 episodes of fanservice. The last two episodes are essentially the most fanservice-like fanservice ever.

• Lesbians.
• Incest, with an underage girl.
• Natsuki kicking ass with a motorcycle and a pistol.
• Flashback of Shizuru and Tomoe having lesbian sex involving pacifiers and baby rattles.
• Random forbidden land of the ancients actually being a sandship and showing up with the main characters to save the day. It’s a giant rock, and it moves, like a ship.
• Mai showing up and obliterating an army of extras in two seconds.
• Natsuki showing off her special attack: a beautiful giant cannon, and activating it with “load silver cartridge”.
• New characters being introduced and old characters brought back every five seconds as “deus ex machina to save the protagonist until she obtains ultimate power”.
• Naked incestous lesbian embrace which gives the main character her ultimate power: a better haircut.
• Every. Single. Character. In. The. Show. Facing. Off. A. Giant. Tornado.
• Utterly random and plot-holed filled deus ex machinas that I don’t mind because they reference the previous show (Mai Hime).
• Shiho (pictured above) getting an armor that has a skull on her crotch.
• Once again seeing Shizuru use a double-bladed chain-katana. Yes, a chain-polearm for her in the last show wasn’t enough. She now has two swords, both of which are katanas, and chain-swords. (Her weapons make my panties moist, and I’m not wearing any.)
• Akane returns… with CATGIRL ARMOR.
• The old woman transforming into a hot, young blonde with… two swords. Seriously: nanomachines do not only make you awesome and sword-wieldy, but they make you young and hot too.
• The two main characters having a final showdown in space, despite their lack of space-breathing appratus. Maybe they are Batman?
• The final showdown being settled by giant fucking swords and then a embrace between fellow lesbians, naked, upon reentry of a planet’s atmosphere. Because the extreme heat melts armor but not skin.
• Incest taboo problem solved! Daddy has amnesia! Daughter does not need to stay a virgin so she can wield ultimate power (semem, you see, dissolve nanomachines) can now fuck him all she wants!

Seriously, I love this show so much. So very much.