My-HiME: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Almost Kiss]]: Mai and Reito at the festival in Episode 13.

* [[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!

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Miyu}}.

** {{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.

* [[Bandage Babe]]: {{spoiler|Miyu, upon her resurrection.}}

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: {{spoiler|Miyu again}}.

** 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 Damn Heroes]]: The main [[Power Trio]] does this mutually on different occasions.

* [[Big Eater]]: Mikoto.

* [[Big No]]: Several in dramatic and comedic situations.

* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: Natsuki on a few Searrs troops.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: ...except for the [[Eye Scream]] incident below.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Shiho.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Midori, but {{spoiler|in a [[Obfuscating Stupidity|less genuine sense]].}}

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Mai, in the first episode.

* [[Crash Into Hello]]

* [[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|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}}

** Eros: Mai and Shiho->Yuuichi, Yukariko->Ishigami, Shizuru->Natsuki (and possibly visa versa), Akane->Kazuya

* [[Freak-Out]]: This happens a lot.

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: "HiME" stands for '''Hi'''ghly-advanced '''M'''aterializing '''E'''quipment.

** Let us not forget {{spoiler|Miyu Greer: '''M'''ultiple '''I'''ntelligencial '''[[Norse Mythology|Y]]'''[[Norse Mythology|ggdrasil]] '''U'''nit}}.

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[Kendo Team Captain]]: Takeda.

* [[Kikuko Inoue]]: As Sister Yukariko.

* [[Kill Sat]]: Artemis, a gigantic orbiting ''mon''.

* [[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.}}

* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Shizuru.

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Mai gets one of these. We already know she's in one from the start, though.

* [[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 Triangle]]

* [[Love You and Everybody]]: Mikoto at the [[Festival Episode]].

** 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.

* [[Name's the Same]]: The show has nothing to do with the [[wikipedia: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]]'') provides the voice of Sister Yukariko.

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Played light, not serious, in episode 4.

* [[Neutral Female]]: [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] with Yuuichi.

* [[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.

* [[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 with That]] / [[Sorry to Interrupt]]: Mai, to Natsuki, in episode 9.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: {{spoiler|Shizuru}}, later in the series.

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Mikoto

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Yuichi's sword-using in episode 26, although there were at least allusions to him having championship-level kendo talent beforehand.

** Also note that it was still played believably: the immortal swordsman disarmed him pretty quick.

* [[Trailer Spoof]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.