My-HiME/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Alyssa's death. She's too cute to die, and too covertly evil to let get away, but it's still so damn ''sad'' to watch her go.}}

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Some suspect that Shizuru was [[Not Himself|not herself]] during her [[Psycho Lesbian]] phase, especially considering that immediately after {{spoiler|being resurrected}}, she [[Tears of Remorse|breaks down crying]], [[My God, What Have I Done?|begging for Natsuki's forgiveness]].

* [[Base Breaker]]: Shizuru. She has many fans, but people who are fans of her victims often hate her. It's hard to find anyone who's indifferent.

* [[Broken Base]]: The second half of the show, particularly the outbreak of violence between the HiMEs, some specific characters' actions and personality shifts, and the ending are controversial.

* [[Crack Pairing]]: In-series (well, in-series-''extra'') example -- the [[Omake]] for episode 21 seems to be [[Ship Tease|suggesting]] ''[[Teacher-Student Romance|Mai/Midori]]''!

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Midori's [[Establishing Character Moment|first appearance...]] in both versions.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]

** Nao is quite popular, despite luring in and robbing men via [[Enjo Kosai]] as a means of getting revenge, and {{spoiler|kidnapping Takumi, indirectly leading to his death, and later attacking Natsuki a few times in revenge for her eye being put out}}.

* [[Ending Aversion]] / [[Broken Base]]: Opinions vary on the ending. {{spoiler|Is it the happy ending that the characters deserve after everything they went through, or is it a betrayal of the series' tone?}}

** Or was the show's attempt to be [[Darker and Edgier]] a betrayal of the [[Power of Friendship]] and [[Team Spirit]] tone set up in the Searrs arc? In that case, it's an Ending ''Re''version.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Of the side characters, Shizuru is the most popular, despite some of her transgressions in the last few episodes of the anime series.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Reito jokes about it being "dangerous" to leave Shizuru to tend to a sick Natsuki by herself in the audio dramas. Shizuru later kisses Natsuki while she's asleep (and might have gone further slightly before that), and also [[Gayngst|angsts]] quite a bit about her feelings being improper, which at least one other person (Haruka) also agrees with. One could see it as a case of Reito being more on the mark than he might have realized, and/or that the joke helps reinforce Shizuru's belief that it's wrong for her to love Natsuki.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: Arguably the eighth episode.

* [[Les Yay]]: Mikoto's behavior toward Mai, naturally giving way to plenty of [[Ship Tease]] moments between the two. {{spoiler|In reality, Mai feels more comfortable being Mikoto's [[Cool Big Sis]], though it's rather blatantly implied that Mikoto wants more than that.}}

** Especially notable when Shiho [[The Glomp|glomps]] Mai:

** Not only does Shizuru have her very close friendship with and romantic feelings for Natuski, but in one of the sound dramas, "Lingerie Rhapsody," she's ''very'' pleased to check Mai's [[Boobs of Steel|bra size]] (including even putting the bra on her), and notes that she's quite attractive. Natsuki implies that Mai is inwardly enjoying it all.

* Moe: Mikoto, she's extremely cute and her childish behavior makes her even cuter, notable examples include a scene where she grabs onto Mai and clings to her for the better part of a day, and Mai isn't even particularly bothered by it, having apparently gotten used to her acting this way by that point in the series.

* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: Fans have accused Akira of [[Chickification]] for wearing girlier clothes towards the end of the story (in the manga, there's a scene in the ending in which she's trying on a girl's middle school uniform). Not only it ignores that several of the HiMe are actually rather feminine girls (Shizuru is a [[Lady of War]], Natsuki is a Gunslinger who wears her hair very long and loves collecting lingerie, ''Mai'' herself is kinda motherly and a [[Supreme Chef]], etc.), but also "forget" that the main reason Akira dressed up as a guy is that she was trying to hide the fact that she was a HiMe in the first place, thus she started wearing skirts ''only'' when her mission was over and she had no real reason to hide her gender. [[Girliness Upgrade]], yeah; [[Chickification]], uhm, no.

** Interestingly enough, Akira is still using the highly masculine "ore" to refer to herself.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Two of them, to varying degrees: Yuuichi ([[Non-Action Guy]] and [[Die for Our Ship]] effects) and Shiho ([[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who wants to take Yuuichi away from Mai, and even {{spoiler|kills Takumi}} out of spite).

* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Some viewers see Natsuki's pursuit of Yuuichi in the manga despite having no interest in boys in the anime as an example of this.

* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Some fans are critical of the ending for {{spoiler|undoing the deaths and character traumas}}.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: Yuuichi. {{spoiler|His attraction to Mai becomes increasingly obvious halfway through the story, and while his desire to help is commendable, he breaks his promises to Shiho twice in doing so, eventually leading her to attack Mai after Nagi manipulates her some more.}}

** Akane, especially considering her mental breakdown after {{spoiler|the death of her boyfriend, Kazuya}}.

** Mai. She blames herself for a childhood tragedy in which her mother died and her brother's heart was weakened. She's forced to fight against her friends in the Carnival, and {{spoiler|loses two of her most important people}}. The toll these tragedies take on her becomes increasingly evident over time.

** Considering he was {{spoiler|a corpse}} when Obsidian Lord assimilated him, it's not like he had much of a choice in the matter.