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== Anime ==
=== Why don't they just use condoms? ===
* Because you [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']].
* Besides, [[But We Used a Condom|condoms aren't 100% fail-safe.]]
* Do they even ''exist'' in [[The Verse]]? Maybe they have an ultra-conservative government that banned birth control.
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** True, but in some cases, the rich people in question do care. (* cough* Akane and Kazuya * cough* ... This one is ridiculous to the extreme. He's the king of his country, and he lets Mahya, a mere Column, control his own sex life?)
*** Mahya, as a Column, is extraterritoral with regards to her influence... sorta like a non-affiliated body with nuclear weapons that isn't allied with any one particular country. Plus this keeps Akane alive (as Mahya basically told the two that the punishment for running off was death for Akane). Besides, the [[Rule of Funny]] is in effect here.
*** A lot of fans [[Dude, Not Funny|did not find that one funny in the least]].
**** Do Akane and Kazuya really need to have sex for their relationship to be complete? Mahya may have been going a bit too far when she implied Kazuya only wanted Akane for her body, but having a chaste relationship is a potential compromise between love and Akane's Otome career (although they could follow Rosalie's suggestion and have Akane marry Kazuya while Shiho becomes his Otome).
 
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** Ironically, ''Mai-Otome'' qualifies for science fiction more strongly than, say, ''[[Star Wars]]'', even though the "science" behind it is complete bull -- because the main characteristic distinguishing SF from a [[Space Opera]] is exploration of how technology affects society, and to me, it's almost the entire point of ''Mai-Otome''. Minus the fanservice.
* ''Mai Otome'' is Science Fantasy. a fantasy plot with science fiction style elements but no serious attempt to make the science consistent or physically plausible. Just like Star Wars.
** The technology presented in ''Mai-Otome'', while completely implausible, is internally consistent in a [[Magic aA Is Magic A]] sense. Star Wars is space opera: its futuristic setting serves little purpose except as a backdrop for epic stories (although the [[Expanded Universe]] highly varies in this respect). Here, the Otome technology is a plot point, a rather obvious metaphor, and the series explores its effects on the society, both short-term and long-term.
* Whole serie revolves around technology. Nanomachines replace magic, altoughn they work same way (don't ask about slaves, there is no excuse for them). [[The Force]] of [[Star Wars]] works sameway, altough less consistent. So yeah, ''Mai-Otome'' is science fiction. It has science(major point of the serie) and it's fiction. Criterie filled. If they would say [[A Wizard Did It|MAGIG]] then it would be fantasy.
 
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=== Why didn't Nina or Chie do anything about Miya or Tomoe, respectively? ===
* At the end of Episode 5, Nina warns Miya that although she doesn't plan on telling anyone about her being responsible for the theft of Arika's uniform, she doesn't like "cowardly acts like that", and "if (Miya) does it again, (she) won't hold anything back". Chie similarly tells Tomoe in Episode 16 that "Shizuru [[Onee -Sama|Onee-sama]] will be sad as well. If she finds out you were making Miya-[[Japanese Honorifics|kun]] do all [[Murder the Hypotenuse|those]] [[Attempted Rape|things]]". If they were expecting Miya or Tomoe to stop what they were doing to Arika, without having to resort to reporting them, it clearly [[Ignored Epiphany|didn't work out]] (Tomoe tries to drop a vial of acid on Arika in ''the same episode'' as when Chie delivers her warning), so it's unclear why Nina didn't follow through with her threat or why Chie didn't charge Tomoe for her responsibility in the incidents, despite having the power and responsibility to do so.
 
=== Nina and Sergay after the final episode, after Sergay loses his memory. ===
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