History Anime / MyHime

* MurderByProxy: The whole point of the Festival/Carnival. The [=HiME=] are tricked into contracting "that which they hold most precious" in order to wield their [[{{Mons}} Child]]. But what they've contracted on is not their own lives, but that [[ExactWords of the person they love the most in the world.]] Then they learn the horrible truth. They weren't gathered to fight monsters known as Orphans. The Orphans were training so that they could fight each other. And if their Child dies, the person they love most will die. And non participation is not an option, because the Obsidian Prince will have the [=HiME=] Star, the source of their powers, [[ColonyDrop fall on Earth and destroy it]] if they don't participate. The Obsidian Prince is an EmotionEater who thrives on the misery and pain of the [=HiME=], and so he forces them to fight each to fight each other and kill one another's loved ones in the process.

The story stars Mai Tokiha, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudenta normal girl with a normal life]]. When she 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 [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility responsibility]] - but there's an additional, far more terrible price as well.

The story stars Mai Tokiha, a normal girl with a normal life. When she 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 [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility responsibility]] - but there's an additional, far more terrible price as well.

''[=My-HiME=]'' is an AnimeFirst project that brings a {{postmodern|ism}} sensibility to the MagicalGirl genre, removing traditional elements like over-the-top speeches, transformations, and elaborate outfits in favor of an EnsembleCast who utilize mecha-like BondCreatures. The girls are caught up in ancient conspiracies both mundane and fantastic, and the second half of the show turns the premise on its head.

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[[caption-width-right:299:Left to right: Mai, Mikoto, Natsuki]]

* BadGuyBar: Rorschach, the bar where Natsuki meets her informant, Yamada, is so smoke filled that viewers can probably smell it. Leering faces are everywhere. And no one seeems to care about carding Natsuki when she goes in, despite her only being seventeen. We never see her drinking in the bar, but no one questions her presence there, not even in "Natsku's Prelude", when she was only sixteen.

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* KansaiRegionalAccent: Shizuru speaks ''Kyoto-ben''. The dub has her speaking in a Southern accent, and viewers are divided over whether it's a close approximation to her clearly different way of speaking or completely ridiculous.

* {{Engrish}}: The supposedly American Alyssa singing "It's only a fairytale". While it sounds beautiful, it's pretty obvious that the lyrics were written in Japanese and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment blunt force trauma]] translated, assuming you realize it's supposed to be English at all.

* SwirlingDust: Certain summoning sequences.

* MischiefFace: SmugSnake Nagi Homura, who serves as TheDragon. Nagi has the power to control Orphans, often has a sly, smug expession on his face, and has been known to do things either ForTheLulz or ForTheEvulz. In episode 4, for example, an Orphan decides to go PantyThief and ends up stealing Natsuki's panties, forcing her into a GoingCommando situation. When she confronts Nagi about it, having long suspected that he controls the Orphans, he grins mischievously and asks her if she caught a draft on her "cute little bum". She snaps him out of his mischief making by shooting him point blank and leaving him dangling over the rail. In another episode he'd send an Orphan out to steal the cake Mai was baking as part of a make-up lesson, expressly for the purpose of stirring up mischief.

* InstantSeiza: Mai does this when seeing Reito one time.