my ancient wacom tablet stopped responding. left it alone for a week and it's working again. magic.

‪The art book seems to be sold out. It's nice that it was well received, and I hope it was successful enough to pique bamco's interest. The official page has been pretty quiet lately.

Mai being a multimedia franchise is nice until a prologue (canon to the anime!) is stuck in 2 books that have been out of print for over a decade. I was hoping they would continue releasing the old books as ebooks, but I guess that's not happening? Please rerelease Natsuki's Prelude, bamco.

if bamco can release dot ha//ck from IP jail and let the creators have full creative control, then maybe they can do the same for xenosaga?? mai series forever trapped in bamco limbo. :(

Heroes Phantasia

I want to collect more hime cards, so I looked up recent sold listings to see what the current prices are...um. wow.

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two of them

last 2025 snake

🥳 Happy New Year! I hope the new year treats everyone well.

bride shizuru reminds me of a fanart piece that had both natsuki and shizuru dressed in traditional bride clothes. pretty sure it was on twitter don't know if anyone knows what i'm talking about too vague lol.

so twt shit the bed with an ai edit option. ok. I haven't been on there to check it out yet. i mostly post random thoughts on here, but i guess i should limit my art to here too. i don't draw that much anyway.

i think it's funny that the bonus print of hotsprings mai and natsuki crops out most of natsuki. original art showed too much nudity i guess lol. here's the original:

the 20th anniversary bluray is about 11,000 jpy cheaper on amazonjp (no preorder bonuses): www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FRGDV9SX the artbook is on there too, but it is the same price as a-onstore. At least it has free domestic shipping. (also no bonuses i think?)

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i'm really looking forward to the artbook and trading cards. I am unfortunately a sucker for cardboard with pretty art. Maybe they'll reprint some Sunrise Crusade+Movic+Carddass cards? There was a lot of art made for the Pachinko games, I hope those show up in the artbook.

aah. can't get into one of my emails so haven't been able to log into some accounts.

new bluray release! it's kind of a shame to see so little new art,,the beach pics and hotspring mai+natsuki are from old magazines... though to be honest i can see how most fans might have never seen these so admittedly i'm just greedy for new art lol.

i think i've drawn this same thing multiple times (i'm sorry) anyway natsuki with shizuru, nao, mikoto, and mai as fluffy wolves

summer princess

haven't had much internet or computer access lately so I spend the last 2 days scrambling to draw something for Natsuki 😌 i'll upload the other one tomorrow. two silly self-indulgent drawings in a row lol

she probably didn't think she would live this long

Even the Director commented on Bamco's refusal to acknowledge the series over the years; especially compared to its contemporaries that do get new content. I hope there is a future bluray rerelease with footage of the live events. Maybe with another animated short? (also Natsuki figure please 🙏)

HiME and Otome got pretty good international distribution all things considered, even with official dubs! (Germany, Philippines, China, France, Thai, USA, and UK) If you dig around the internet for archives there were a lot of fanworks/doujin produced. This series was well received.

HiME's 20th anniversary saw many international fans came out in support through online messages and merch sales. Bamco saw all of that and decided to region restrict everything for Otome's 20th anniversary lol

more works by Hisayuki Hirokazu i haven't seen outside of his personal site (which has been mostly wiped).

she's dressed like every gay kid i knew in grade school lol

ah yes a perfect distillation of what these characters value and what they found in each other. sure, these are the Otome incarnations but the Hime shiznat are the same.

i always cringe when watching this scene because THIS should have snapped her clavicle. The episode does show her bandaged but?? The passage of time in these episodes weren't very clear to me but either way shizuru please take her to the hospital lol

despite being equipped with 2 little peashooters and a gunwolf the size of a motorcycle, she is still willing to stick her neck out for others. no sense of self preservation girl how are you still alive.

ah. a real sweetheart.

i would (allegedly) kill a man for CHILD plushies. A little Duran...a KAGUTSUCHI??

i love zekrom

resigning also means I'm going to have to move. Have about about 2 weeks to pack. I just counted.........I have 89 mai-hime/otome thin books lmao how did this happen

anyway that cd cover is very very cute. I was mostly disconnected from the online world but the moment i could i preordered from amazonjp for the poster + mega jacket. hope i made it in time 😢

that plane ride was 18hours too long i'm. tired.

odio cómo la gente habla de la "escena" del ep22. y los chistes de la violación de Natsuki. como chingan. quiero hablar más sobre la tema pero no sé cómo poner todo en palabras

loud sigh--yes bamco, i will buy another acrylic stand, thank you. Mr Hirokazu made this artwork as a promo for the 1st psp HiME fighting game! Aaaa i love his work. hime actually got a lot of interesting merch back then...I'm just happy to have Something to express support for the series now.

Then again one of key creative minds behind HiME was also a main figure behind Sound of the Sky and Izetta: The Last Witch, both of which also feature a lot of the same sexual humiliation kink that Mr. H*****ki Y***ino seems to be fond of... thanks i guess for always giving us lesbians but--Why.

It was a TV original production too. The anime came before the manga and any other subsequence adaptation drew their primary reference from the show. Original productions like HiME are rare because of how much of a gamble it is to not have a preexisting audience to sell an expensive cartoon to.

It's pretty easy to dismiss the off-putting parts of the show (episode 4..) as a product of its time, but to me the inclusion of these elements comes across as insecure. Like the creative team wasn't sure the story would sell without it so they threw it in to attract Those "anime fans" (derogatory).

Maybe it's just my personal, limited perspective--but it seems the that the long standing audience/fans of HiME have been women. Especially Not Straight women. huh, I wonder whyyy (sarcasm)

oh i had meant to reply to my post but i deleted it instead? oops. um. popup parade figures look great & aren't super expensive. If bamco won't make poseable kits of the others at least give us some popups. i REALLY want a poseable natsuki though. i have so many scale motorcycles for her lol