I guess the adults at Wikipedia don't like all the fan-stuff that's showing up there. There used to be a lot more information about Negima on Wikipedia than there is now.

For one thing, the article about the Pactio system used to have a complete list of all the girls which listed all their pactio forms, especially Shinbo's mutant form of it. Someone deleted all of that. Pity; it was good.

Someone put a lot of work into it, and it didn't look inappropriate to me. Maybe the Powers That Be at Wikipedia decided they needed to save a couple of kilobytes of disk space.

I was just looking at all the information about the Mai-Hime/Mai-Otome franchise and there's a hell of a lot. I was composing a post full of questions, and then found out the answers.

For instance, I was wondering who the little schwarz girl is in Mai Otome Zwei. Turns out her name is "Ribbon-chan" and she's shown with her hood down at the very end of the credits of the last episode. I had never watched that far, which is why I didn't see her.

We can't see it at the time, but it goes a ways towards explaining why Nina gaver her such a big hug about half way through the fourth episode. She looks just like a girl named Erstin Ho who is indirectly killed by Nina in the Otome anime.

One of the things that I noticed was the way that every single Otome has her own unique form of attack. That part's fine; it's a standard trope. But some of the ones they show are really quite odd (e.g. Nao's Spider-girl getup) and some are utterly weird.

There's some girl with pink twin-tails who has a little gizmo she holds. It's got a crank on it, and when she spins the crank, it makes her enemies float in mid-air and spin around. I haven't delved into the pages enough yet to figure out who she is, but that has to be the stupidest power in the series. Mahya's power, by comparison, is reasonable but its manifestation is silly. Mahya can create a giant creature out of soil and sand. And she can control it by dancing and shaking a couple of maracas. She's a strong fighter, but that's really a weird way to control it.

I think that Sara Gallagher's power is the coolest. She can become invisible. Her costume apparently is supposed to harken to that of Batman, and her combat weapons are a couple of batarangs -- so that part is kind of stupid, too.

Chie Hallard's power is pretty formidable but it sure is presented strangely. She's got a top hat which apparently contains a dimensional portal. At one point she's shown shoving her fist into the hat, and punching out a man about 50 feet away.

There are a lot of things in Mai Otome Zwei like that which make it seem as if the people who planned Mai Otome weren't taking it totally seriously.

UPDATE: The girl I was thinking of turns out to be Shiho Huit.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 03:27 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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