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When Mai Tokiha and her little brother Takumi take up residence at Fuuka Gakuen, their new boarding school, Mai discovers that the prestigious academy is the center of some very disturbing paranormal events. Mai also discovers that she is a HiME -- supernaturally gifted with the ability to summon her "Element" (a set of strange artifacts that grant her great powers) and also bonded to a strange mecha-like creature called a CHILD. Mai realizes instinctively that the price of her new power is [[Comes Great Responsibility|responsibility]] -- but there's an additional, far more terrible price as well.
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At least she's not alone -- a [[The Men in Black|secret organization]] called the First District has been gathering HiMEs to Fuuka Gakuen, at least nine of them; it seems the HiMEs are part of an ancient myth with a special destiny the First District wants to make sure comes to pass. But a powerful conspiracy based in America thinks it deserves to control their powers, and takes steps to make the HiMEs its own. And just when the HiMEs seem poised to become a unified force for good, an even deeper, darker secret about their purpose is revealed, completely and irrevocably altering the burgeoning connections between the girls.
One of the better anime to appear on Japanese television in the 2004-2005 season, '''''Mai-HiME''''' is well-written and is lushly and beautifully animated. Like ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'', it seems intent on bringing a [[Post Modernism|Post Modern]] sensibility to the aging [[Magical Girl]] trope. This it does with a sly misdirection, by first presenting what appears to be an "ordinary" [[Magical Girl]] show stripped of some of the trope's more "fairy tale" characteristics. (There are no fancy costumes or over-the-top speeches, no real transformation sequences, surprisingly few pieces of [[Stock Footage]], and from the beginning, matters are significantly darker than the genre normally allows them to get.)
But once you've settled in to what appears to be just an unusual Magical Girl show, the tables are abruptly turned and everything you expected is changed. The true purpose of the HiMEs, the role of the Orphans, the very reason for their powers and what they have to do with them -- is nothing like what you expected. And unlike so many other Magical Girls, the HiME and what they do are not [[Invisible to Normals]]; some are in fact being influenced or manipulated by agents of the "mundane" organizations around them.
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''Mai-HiME'' was conceived as a multimedia project, spanning anime, manga and video game editions, all produced independently of each other with each one following a different continuity. The anime turned out to be by far the most popular imagining, but the [[Mai-HiME (
Followed in the 2005-2006 season by ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', a completely separate series which still contains connections back to ''Mai-HiME''. Another disparate series is ''Mai-HiME Destiny'' light novel series, which not only shifts the action to Hokkaido, but replaces Mai with a shiny new protagonist named Mayo Kagura and the HiME with MiKOs -- so, strictly speaking, it's neither "Mai" nor "HiME"...
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Originally available in the US via bittorrented [[Fan Sub|fansubs]], but in late spring 2005 it was licensed for release in North America. As of summer 2006, it can be found in retail outlets in the US under the title ''My-HiME''.
For more information on the characters within the series, check out the [[
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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: It's explicitly stated that ''they'', not the director, Mashiro, run the school.
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* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: what Midori ''wants'' to be, and {{spoiler|who her "most important person" ''is''.}}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: A considerable amount of information about characters' backstories can be found in their specials, the audio dramas and "Natsuki no Prelude," a story that discusses Natsuki's past, including when she became a HiME.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', ''Mai-HiME Destiny''▼
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Mai and Reito at the festival in Episode 13.
▲* [[Alternate Continuity]]: ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', ''Mai-HiME Destiny''
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Even the Himes that don't necessarily turn antagonistic tend to put more focus on protecting those close to them than saving the world.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: At least two of them!
* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Shiho does this to Yuichi... but he's sleeping at the time. Whoops.
** Shizuru has one of these with Natsuki, after her secret desire is exposed by Haruka and Yukino. She informs Natsuki that she never wanted her to know about her "wicked love" that she felt could never be returned. {{spoiler|Natsuki later tells Shizuru that she doesn't feel quite the same way that she does, but she's happy Shizuru loves her and also loves her in her own way}}.
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* [[The Archer]]: Yukariko's Element is a bow and arrows.
* [[Asskicking Pose]]
* [[Audio Adaptation]]: [http://translationcd.wikispaces.com/My+Hime+Drama+CD+Vol.+1 Sound]{{Dead link}} [http://translationcd.wikispaces.com/My+Hime+Drama+CD+Vol.+2 dramas]{{Dead link}} tell some often light-hearted stories that take place between episodes.
* [[Back
** {{spoiler|Alyssa}} too. Whether or not {{spoiler|the victims of the Carnival}} count depends on where you draw the line between [[Only Mostly Dead]] and [[Final Death]].
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: Natsuki visits one to get information.▼
* [[Badass Crew]]: The HiME's when working together.▼
* [[Badass Normal]]: Haruka. Oh, Haruka. Has no abilities, doesn't even know kung fu, but picks a fight with a battle tank. For a moment, appears to about to succeed in trash-talking a HiME into submission while held at swordpoint by said HiME. Finally ''literally bitch-slaps'' Fate itself when faced with death.
▲* [[Badass Crew]]: The HiME's when working together.
▲* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: Natsuki visits one to get information.
* [[Bandage Babe]]: {{spoiler|Miyu, upon her resurrection.}}
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: {{spoiler|Miyu again}}.
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** When {{spoiler|Mikoto (in reality, Shiho, but Mai doesn't realize this at the time)}} inadvertently kills {{spoiler|Takumi}}, in episode 20 Mai's gets smashed. She gets [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|really, really pissed off by it.]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The nicer the girl, the more horror she unleashes when she snaps.
* [[Big Sister Attraction]]: Takumi is accused of this▼
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The main [[Power Trio]] does this mutually on different occasions.
* [[Big Eater]]: Mikoto.
* [[Big No]]: Several in dramatic and comedic situations.
▲* [[Big Sister Attraction]]: Takumi is accused of this
* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: Natsuki on a few Searrs troops.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: ...except for the [[Eye Scream]] incident below.
* [[Bloodstained
* [[Blow You Away]]: Midori.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Mikoto}}, in the last few episodes.
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* [[Bullet Time]]: Used in at least one scene where {{spoiler|Miyu cuts through the shells Duran just fired at her.}}
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Natsuki and Midori.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: Lampshaded.
* [[Cat Scare]]
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Shiho.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Midori, but {{spoiler|in a [[Obfuscating Stupidity|less genuine sense]].}}
** {{spoiler|Natsuki kissing Shizuru immediately after she draws her into a hug during their last battle}}.▼
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Midori follows Mai to the temple (despite promising to work), leaving Akane to toil solo in the restaurant.
** In the Blu-Ray special, Mai lies to Reito about having lost interest in Yuuichi and goes to the beach with him in order to bury him in the sand and force-feed him extremely spicy food along with the other HiMEs {{spoiler|in revenge for what the Obsidian Lord did}}.
* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]
* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]] ▼
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The large bell that's pulverized {{spoiler|by Shizuru to capture Natsuki who was trapped in it}} in one of the last episodes breaks into a few dozen particles, which are all perfectly triangular polygons.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: Nina Wang is a member of Mai's class but is named "Chun Mei" in this series. Arika Yumemiya's brief appearance in the last moments of the last episode.
* [[Conveniently Timed Guard]]: Subverted: Mai surrenders immediately.
* [[Cooking Duel]]: An entire ''[[Iron Chef]]''-style episode.
* [[
▲** {{spoiler|Natsuki kissing Shizuru immediately after she draws her into a hug during their last battle}}.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Mai, in the first episode.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]
* [[Cross
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Natsuki.
* [[Custom Uniform]]: The higher-ranking members of the student council have their own unique uniforms.
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* [[Demonic Invaders]]: The Orphans.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Nuns don't take confessions.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Defeat of {{spoiler|the Obsidian Lord}}.
* [[Disney Death]]: Even the ones that don't even have Phlebotinum to stand on.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: {{spoiler|[[Psycho Lesbian|Villain]]!Shizuru}}
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Nao hates men ever since {{spoiler|a gang killed her father and left her mother and Key comatose}}
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
** There's some fandom discussion about this on the discussion page.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Mai (and pretty much everyone else) has to really work hard for this.
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* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The Obsidian Shrine that the HiMEs hide from Searrs in.
* [[Elaborate University High]]
* [[Energy Weapons]]: Natsuki appears to wield [[Guns Akimbo|a pair of energy-shooting pistols]].
** Actually, Natsuki's guns shoot ice. Refer to Episode 4, when she shoots at Nagi, and you can see the ice residue on the book.
* [[Engrish]]: The supposedly American Alyssa singing "It's only a fairytale". While it sounds beautifull, it's pretty obvious that the lyrics were written in Japanese and [[The Spoony Experiment
▲* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]
▲* [[Engrish]]: The supposedly American Alyssa singing "It's only a fairytale". While it sounds beautifull, it's pretty obvious that the lyrics were written in Japanese and [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|blunt force trauma]] translated, assuming you realize it's supposed to be English at all.
* [[Enjo Kosai]]: This is Nao's favored night activity, with a twist. {{spoiler|She actually makes the guys think she's gonna service them, but then she uses her CHILD to rob them}}
* [[Epilogue Letter]]: By Takumi to Mai, with some added notes from Akira.
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: {{spoiler|Nao vs. [[Psycho Lesbian]] Shizuru. Neither is entirely without sympathetic traits, but by their second fight, both are considered antagonists}}
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: Subverted when {{spoiler|Artemis lines up to fire more quickly than expected}}.
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* [[Expy]]: From ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''; one character is a very transparent Rei Ayanami clone (cute, but [[Creepy Child|creepy]]). Another is a blatant Kaworu Nagisa. His name? Nagi. Last but not least: they have the same [[Akira Ishida|seiyuu]].
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Nao gets stabbed in the eye by a stinger from her own CHILD. ''Ouch''.}}
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* [[Festival Episode]]: Two of them.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: Nao; See [[Enjo Kosai]], above.
* [[Finger
* [[Fire
* [[First Kiss]]: Mai gives up hers to Mikoto via CPR, but she insists [[That Didn't Happen]].
** Shiho forces Tate to give her one in epiosde 19. {{spoiler|Unbeknownst to him, Mai was sitting on a swing in a playground below where they were at, and he does it right in full view of her. Unlike when Mai [[Almost Kiss|nearly kissed]] Reito, she doesn't stop him, but he hears her getting off the swing in time to realize the trap Shiho forced him in.}}
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** Phileo: Yukino->Haruka
** Eros: Mai and Shiho->Yuuichi, Yukariko->Ishigami, Shizuru->Natsuki (and possibly visa versa), Akane->Kazuya
* [[Freak
* [[Fun
** Let us not forget {{spoiler|Miyu Greer: '''M'''ultiple '''I'''ntelligencial '''[[Norse Mythology|Y]]'''[[Norse Mythology|ggdrasil]] '''U'''nit}}.
* [[Gainaxing]]: On Mai, though interestingly ''Haruka'' actually has the largest bust of any female character (88cm) and mostly avoids this treatment.
** Maybe her bust is the biggest, but her cup size is obviously significantly smaller than Mai's. In fact, Yukariko the ''nun'' has the largest bust measurement (89 cm), but she's not as busty as Mai.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: There are two separate groups of [[Ancient Conspiracy|Illuminati]] involved, just for starters. {{spoiler|1=One such group is in the middle of a power struggle between two [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], has one human [[The Starscream|Starscream]] with his own pet HiME, has one [[Defector From Decadence]] independently working with Natsuki to bring the whole thing down, and ''had'' another member who tried to defect to the other side. The other group is more or less taken off the board in the middle of the series, but still works with Natsuki to trade information, and the immortal cyborg superweapon they lost control of proves key to stopping the [[Big Bad]].}}
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Many characters in the "vampire" episode.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: While Mai is [[Heroic BSOD|remembering her promise to their mother about protecting Takumi]], Natsuki gives her a big slap.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: In episode 15, Midori attempts to form a Hime protection group. Both Nao and Natsuki both claim they're not interested. In the very next scene, Midori is giving her speech about it, and both girls are there, albeit against their will and tied up, with the implication that Midori knocked them out and brought them there.
* [[The Glomp]]: Mikoto -> Mai, a lot; likewise Shiho -> Yuuichi.
** {{spoiler|Shizuru -> Natsuki}} in the ending.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Mikoto (gold), Nao (red), and Shizuru (both).
** Shizuru, as she dumps Nao into the drink.
* [[Goldfish Scooping Game]]
* [[Grand Finale]]
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* [[Immortality]]: The [[Big Bad]] is of course unaging, but he's also {{spoiler|an [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}. {{spoiler|Tokiha Mai gets blown up at least once, possibly twice; this counts as type VII or IV depending on who you ask. She doesn't seem to realize, and is almost certainly depowered at the end.}}
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Natsuki shoots several [[Flechette Storm|magical darts]] out of the air with her pistols.
* [[Instant Bandages]]
* [[Instant Seiza]]
▲* [[In the Name of The Moon]]: Midori.
* [[Invisible to Normals]], subverted: {{spoiler|Yukino's}} CHILD can do this, but people still see the collateral damage.
** And between {{spoiler|the Searrs-attack and Mai's [[Berserk Button]] being pressed}}, along with several other incidents, it gets bad enough that all the normals flee the school near the end of the anime.
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* [[Kendo Team Captain]]: Takeda.
* [[Kikuko Inoue]]: As Sister Yukariko.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Joseph Greer and the Obsidian Lord}} won't be coming back.▼
* [[Kill Sat]]: Artemis, a gigantic orbiting ''mon''.
▲* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Joseph Greer and the Obsidian Lord}} won't be coming back.
* [[Laser Hallway]]: Subverted -- Mikoto jumps into the laser grid at the abandoned First District Lab before Natsuki can formulate a plan to infiltrate it. The guards don't immediately come after them, anyway.
* [[Last Kiss]]: Yukariko and Ishigami, then Mai and Yuuichi, in the ''same episode''. The first one is played straight, but the second one is a near-miss, as {{spoiler|Mai's lips just barely touch as Yuuichi is dissolving. The series ends without them having kissed at all.}}
* [[Lethal Chef]]: It's not clear whether Mikoto, Nao, or Natsuki is responsible, but their cake not only sends the judges (almost every significant male character in the series!) to the hospital, it makes an ''Orphan'' sick to it's ... whatever it uses to digest food.
** The team with Haruka, Yukino, Shizuru and Youko made the mistake of heating the chocolate directly, which causes it to explode outward and might have made the cake inedible even before Haruka dropped it on the floor.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The core cast consists of twelve Magical Girls, as well as a bunch of other named characters associated with the school, including staff members. About 25 cast members are introduced within the first four episodes... and there are still 22 more to go after that.
* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Shizuru.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Mai gets one of these. We already know she's in one from the start, though.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Shiho and Shizuru. In a non-romantic sense, Nao is motivated by a desire to avenge what happened to her parents..▼
** Don't forget {{spoiler|Sister Yukariko.}} Mai even calls her out on the fact that everything bad that happens in the last ten or so episodes is pretty much directly her fault, and she did it because her boyfriend told her to.▼
* [[Lovable Traitor]]: Nagi
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: ''Everyone'' wants Mai, and many of her pursuers are the vertexes of their own [[Love Triangle|love triangles]] or worse, all with absolutely no regard for gender.
▲* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Shiho and Shizuru. In a non-romantic sense, Nao is motivated by a desire to avenge what happened to her parents..
▲** Don't forget {{spoiler|Sister Yukariko.}} Mai even calls her out on the fact that everything bad that happens in the last ten or so episodes is pretty much directly her fault, and she did it because her boyfriend told her to.
* [[Love Triangle]]
* [[Love You and Everybody]]: Mikoto at the [[Festival Episode]].
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* [[Master of Illusion]]: St. Vlas' (Yukariko's CHILD) ability.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mai-HiME. My princess? Dancing Princess? Princess Mai?
** [[
* [[Meganekko]]: Yukino.
* [[Meido]]: Fumi the pink-haired caretaker.
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* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: Shiho's grandfather.
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: Yukariko is found standing over an injured Aoi with her Element in hand, and gets interrogated by the student council.
* [[Moe Moe]]: On the first episode's [["On the Next..."|next episode teaser]], Mai asked "Isn't this supposed to be a school kid's story and have lots of moe in it?" There is [[Kill It
* [[Mons]]: The CHILD of each HiME.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Invoked deliberately in Episode 16, which was written so as to lull the audience into a sense of security before dropping a plot bombshell on them. Also arguably the big reason why {{spoiler|a lot of people had issues with the [[Happy Ending|ending]]}}.
** In the last episode, the battle concludes with {{spoiler|what appears to be a death scene for Mikoto, and when she seems to pass on, Mai looks, and sees that she's merely extremely hungry, with [[Wingding Eyes]]. The scene then transitions to the lighter-hearted ending}}.
* [[Motorcycle
* [[Mukokuseki]]: Most of the cast. In "Natsuki's Prelude," though, it's noted that Natsuki is suspicious of Yamada because he doesn't look Japanese, and suspects that it isn't his real name.
* [[Multi
** So what is it called when the Orphan {{spoiler|Akane fights}} in the eighth episode has eight legs?
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Attempted by Shiho, but Yuuichi sees through it}}.
* [[Musical Assassin]]: Shiho's Element is a flute.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Mikoto breaks down when {{spoiler|she realizes she struck down Akira's CHILD and killed off Mai's brother Takumi. She was aiming for Yatagarasu, Shiho's CHILD that had attacked Mai earlier, but her [[Brainwashed and Crazy|conditioning took over]] and caused her to attack the first thing she saw, which unfortunately happened to be Gennai. A flashback immediately following that event shows that she was also responsible for killing her grandfather.}}
** Later somewhat subverted and then reinforced when {{spoiler|it turns out it was in fact Yatagarasu that struck the fatal blow against Gennai. Before realizing this however, Mikoto defeats both Fumi and Midori and still invokes the trope.}}
* [[Mysterious Informant]]: Natsuki keeps meeting him for exposition purposes.
* [[
* [[NGO Superpower]]: Searrs.▼
* [[Names to Know
▲* [[Names the Same]]: The show has nothing to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancing_Girl 1890 story] by Mori Ogai, which is notable for being a role-reversal of ''Madame Butterfly'', published eight years ''before'' the latter was written.
▲* [[Names to Know In Anime]]: Kikuko Inoue (''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'') provides the voice of Sister Yukariko.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Played light, not serious, in episode 4.
* [[Neutral Female]]: [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] with Yuuichi.
▲* [[NGO Superpower]]: Searrs.
* [[Ninja]]: Akira's from a whole clan of them, apparently.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Bonus points for actually including a [[Ninja]] and a [[Robot Girl|Robot]].
* [[No Body Left Behind]]
* [[Non Action Guy]]: Yuuichi, a former kendo expert who had to give up his sport due to an injury.▼
* [[The Nose Bleed]]: Natsuki gives Takeda these, to both their horrors.▼
* [[No Social Skills]]: Mikoto.
▲* [[Non
▲* [[The Nose Bleed]]: Natsuki gives Takeda these, to both their horrors.
* [[Not So Different]]: Natsuki realizes that she, like Nao, was once bitter and refused to trust anyone after her mother died, and so {{spoiler|saves Nao from Shizuru}}.
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
* [[Nuns Are Mikos]]: Yukariko Sanada aka Sister Yukariko. Joseph works at the church along with her, but {{spoiler|he's also a Searrs agent}}.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: You may conclude early on that {{spoiler|Midori}} is really as dumb as she seems, but later episodes paint her very, very differently.
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Mezame's broken Italian, but eh, close enough.
* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: The Obsidian Shrine EUB.
* [[One
* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Nagi.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Kazuya, Akane's boyfriend, has a perfectly average life at school and working with Mai and Akane at the dinner. {{spoiler|He's also the first person in the series to die.}}
* [[Panty Thief]]: An Orphan in an early episode.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Several characters are missing parents when the series begins, and it is not taken lightly, at ''all''.
* [[Partly Cloudy
* [[Perpetual Molt]]
* [[Personality Powers]]: Hot-blooded [[Redheaded Hero|Red Headed Heroine]]? Fire. No-nonsense [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] [[Sidekick]]? Ice. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Breezy and hyper-enthusiastic]] teacher/archaeologist? Wind... and so on.
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: While Japanese characters have all kinds of unreal eye and hair colours (see the illustration above), the [[Tyke Bomb]] made by an American secret society has blond hair and green eyes, which are most likely intended to be her "real" appearance. Other characters aligned with the same organisation have similar appearances.
* [[Pillar of Light]]: Artemis' laser.
* [[Playing
* [[Point Defenseless]]: Prominent when Midori and Mai are attacking the Searrs ships.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The [[Big Bad]]'s primary plan is helped along at multiple instances by his [[The Dragon|Dragon's]] selective omission of information and other characters' outright deceptions, and one of the most bloody rampages of the show is caused by {{spoiler|Shizuru not telling Haruka her reasons for leaving the school and the latter's suspicion-fueled digging up of all Shizuru's dirty secrets.}}
** Natsuki cares for Shizuru significantly more than she lets on, and admitting the extent of her feelings might have averted some of the problems.
* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: The show's [[Mons]] are powered by {{spoiler|1=the life force of whichever poor sap is currently most important to the [[Kid With the Leash|HiME with the leash]].}}▼
** Actually {{spoiler|1=CHILDs are powered by the love that the HiME has for there Most Important Person. Not by that person's life force.}}▼
* [[The Power of Love]] / [[The Power of Friendship]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Used quite literally]] throughout most of the series, but played straight in the finale, as {{spoiler|Mai's mutual admirations for Yuuichi and Mikoto helps her overcome her problems and defeat the [[Big Bad]]}}.
** In a more conventional sense, Natsuki says in the 25th special, that Shizuru, Mai, and Mikoto helped her to open up, and that Shizuru's feelings for her and Mai and Yuuichi's feelings for each other helped her realize that people cannot live alone.
▲* [[Powered
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Mai, Natsuki, and Mikoto as Ego, Superego, and Id respectively.
▲** Actually {{spoiler|1=CHILDs are powered by the love that the HiME has for there Most Important Person. Not by that person's life force.}}
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: {{spoiler|Shizuru}}, later in the series.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Mikoto
* [[Railing Kill]]: Subverted in Natsuki's use against Nagi.
* [[Razor Floss]]: Nao has some, which can cut through trees and steel beams.
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]]: There is a trailer for a [[
* [[Redemption Earns Life]]: {{spoiler|1=Inverted. Even the utterly selfish Nao and the [[Psycho Lesbian]] Shizuru [[Big Damn Gunship|come charging in from the sky]] after all the Childs and MIPs are resurrected.}}
* [[Repeat Cut]]
* [[Revenge
* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Miyu, after being rebooted by Midori}}.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Mai really loses it when {{spoiler|Mikoto}} inadvertently kills {{spoiler|Takumi, by defeating Gennai, Akira's child. She's wrong about Mikoto being to blame, but doesn't realize this until later.}}
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* [[Show Some Leg]]: Natsuki trying to use her femininity to get a car home in episode 9. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Sick Episode]]: The two-part audio drama, "Demonic Uproar" and "Natsuki's Desperations", in which Natsuki becomes sick after the events of Episode 9.
* [[Slow
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: [
* [[Snow Means Love]]
* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: Mai, in the opening.
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* [[Spot of Tea]]: Shizuru and Reito are avid tea drinkers, and Haruka nicknames Shizuru the "[[Malaproper|bubuzuke]] woman" as a result.
* [[Squeaky Eyes]]
* [[Standing in
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Multiple characters do this from time to time. It always shocks the person when they show up.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Various CHILD sequences early in the series.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Mai chides Mikoto a few times when the former tries to save her in episode 19 a couple of times.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy|| StraightWomanAndWiseGal]]: Haruka and Yukino, respectively.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Mild example: Midori usually wears a tight-fitting tube top that reveals cleavage and quite a bit of midriff. Even while ''teaching in class''.
** And then there's some of the outfits from the Karaoke episode, including Nao's Showgirl outfit and Mai's decidedly non-regulation police outfit.
* [[Student Council President]]: Shizuru.
* [[Suicidal Gotcha]]: Mai pulls one to punctuate a very emphatic, angry [[
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Mai's elements allow her to shield herself, fly, and hurl flame. Natsuki's are well, just pistols. Her Child is also one of the strongest of the lot, capable of sub-orbital flight, massive bombardment and is simply fricking huge compared to most of the other Childs.
** This may be justified, however, since the Childs are powered by the love that the
* [[Swirling Dust]]: Certain summoning sequences.
* [[Sword Drag]] / [[Sword Sparks]]: Mikoto.
* [[Synchronization]]: See the [[Powered
* [[Taking You
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Natsuki.
* [[Team Shot]]: The opening.
* [[There Can Be Only One]]: The HiME Carnival
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* [[Those Two Girls]]: Chie and Aoi
* [[Thwarted Escape]]
* [[Token Yuri Girls]]:
** Shizuru and her obsessive love for one of the main characters, Natsuki. Fandom has rewarded this with a series of doujinshi, the tamest of which explore Shizuru's more publishable fantasies. The more extreme, well... let's just say that Shizuru is a very ''imaginative'' individual. One of the [[All There in the Manual|artbooks]] states that they "find happiness" at Natsuki's graduation. Shizuru's popularity in this series [[Sure Why Not|likely led to]] her ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' incarnation [[Official Couple|actually hooking up]] with that universe's Natsuki.
** Speaking of ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', there appear to be quite a few of them there, too, since most of the story takes place in the all-girls' Garderobe Academy. Chie, in particular, appears to have out-Chizuru'd ''[[
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Father Joseph. He sneaks up on a now-powerless toddler and her incredibly powerful and loyal robotic bodyguard (that he built but knew he could no longer control). He kills the former first, and then starts bragging about it to the latter's face. That ends pretty much as you'd expect.}}
** Arguably {{spoiler|Haruka refusing to run away and continuing to taunt Shizuru despite Yukino's insisting while Shizuru points her Element at her}}.
* [[Took a Level
** Also note that it was still played believably: the immortal swordsman disarmed him pretty quick.
* [[Transfer Student Uniforms]]: Reito's clothing is all-black, as opposed to the outfits of everyone else, which are most often brown vests or blazers and skirts or pants with white dress shirts.▼
* [[Trailer Spoof]]
▲* [[Transfer Student Uniforms]]: Reito's clothing is all-black, as opposed to the outfits of everyone else, which are most often brown vests or blazers and skirts or pants with white dress shirts.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Mostly subverted -- the girls do all of their fighting in their regular clothes -- but the activation of Elements and the summoning of Childs often get the full treatment.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: All the poor girls of the cast, but Mai, Mikoto, and Natsuki in particular.
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* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Subverted. Midori pukes offscreen after a night of partying, but you can still see the aftermath and hear Nao ''scream'' because of that.
* [[Waif Prophet]]: The {{spoiler|apparently}} 11-year-old Director, Mashiro.
* [[White Haired Pretty Boy]]: Nagi.▼
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: The last episode. In an inverted parallel of ''[[Star Wars]]'', {{spoiler|1=the [[Big Bad]] offers Mai the place of [[The Dragon]], Mikoto, who undergoes a [[Heel Face Turn]] because Mai is her parent/big sister figure, instead of the other way around. Mai says "no", twice, and then destroys the HiME Star with a little help from her friends}}.
* [[Weird Moon]]: Besides appearing enormous, notice that the moon is somehow always full throughout the series.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episodes 8 and 16.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Mikoto struggles with this a great deal.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Poor Yukino is pretty much relegated to a supporting role.
** Although it is arguable whether Yukino qualifies for this trope, as her role is effectively to provide intelligence and communication for the other, combat-oriented HiMEs. A very valuable role in real life.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Akira.
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Nao's Element is turning her hands into metal claws.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' meets ''[[
* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Shiho}} turns into one later in the series.
** Shizuru has that [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness|look]] on her face when she's "protecting" Natsuki.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Do not intern with Searrs, kids.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: A large part of Natsuki's beef with the First District. {{spoiler|But with her mother instead of her father.}}
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Nao, and (perhaps unexpectedly,) Haruka.
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