History Anime / MaiHiME

* TransferStudentUniforms: 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.

* LoveDodecahedron: ''Everyone'' wants Mai, and many of her pursuers are the vertexes of their own [[LoveTriangle love triangles]] or worse, all with absolutely no regard for gender.

* CooldownHug: [[spoiler:Mai on Mikoto in the final battle]].
** [[spoiler:Natsuki kissing Shizuru immediately after she draws her into a hug during their last battle]].

* BadassCrew: The [=HiMEs=] when working together.

* BadAssCrew: The [=HiMEs=] when working together.

* ShowSomeLeg: In episode 9 the female PowerTrio is stranded by the roadside. ''[[DefrostingIceQueen Natsuki]]'' loses the draw. HilarityEnsues as she is trying to use her femininity to get a car to stop.

* ShowSomeLeg: Natsuki trying to use her femininity to get a car home in episode 9. HilarityEnsues.

* IdiotPlot: Mai gets involved because, when told she'll have to risk the one thing most important to her, assumes that means her life. Really, Mai? You can't think of anything you value more than your life?

* AlternateContinuity: ''Anime/MaiOtome'', ''[=Mai-HiME=] Destiny''

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Shizuru kisses Natsuki while she's sleeping, and some (Haruka and Yukino) believe that she's [[RapeIsLove doing something else entirely]].

* EveryEpisodeEnding: the closing theme song fading in.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: what Midori ''wants'' to be, and [[spoiler:who her "most important person" ''is''.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[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.]]

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: There is a trailer for a MaiHime movie with Arika as the main antagonist, which is apparently set to be released ''in almost eighteen millennia''.

* CookingDuel: An entire ''IronChef''-style episode.

* {{Homage}}: Episode ten's CookingDuel, which is an extended parody of ''IronChef''.

* PersonalityPowers: Hot-blooded {{Red Headed Hero}}ine? Fire. No-nonsense DefrostingIceQueen {{sidekick}}? Ice. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Breezy and hyper-enthusiastic]] teacher/archaeologist? Wind... and so on.

* StopHelpingMe: {{Invoked}} In universe, Mai chides Mikoto a few times when the former tries to save her in episode 19 a couple of times (once against an unknown assailant who turns out to be [[spoiler:Shiho, whose Child's destruction means Yuuichi's death]], and another who is [[spoiler:Yukino, one of Mikoto and Mai's other friends]]), since she's still trying to keep the situation from declining any more than it already has.

->''"The Festival is about to commence! Now the time has come. If you have someone residing in your heart, then come, accept the challenge and descend upon the cursed land of Fuka! Mai-[=HiMe=]!"''

-->'''Shizuru:''' Uh... Forgive me girls!

* EasilyForgiven: Nobody holds ''anyone'' responsible for their actions during the Carnival, up to and including rape and murder.

* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Fuuka Academy is quite large, and the features it has

* BigSisterAttraction: Takumi is accused of this

''[=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 [[Manga/MaiHime manga]] has its followers. The video game, a DatingSim created by the people behind ''DaCapo'', was never released outside of Japan.

* EveryoneIsBi: In a similar vein to ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', just about every character gets absolutely slathered with some level of both homosexual and heterosexual subtext, and in many cases text.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: Kikuko Inoue (''Manga/AhMyGoddess'') provides the voice of Sister Yukariko.

** Let us not forget [[spoiler:Miyu Greer: '''M'''ultiple '''I'''ntelligencial '''[[NorseMythology Y]]'''[[NorseMythology ggdrasil]] '''U'''nit]].