IdyotAko 20 years 3 months ago wrote:

I have finished both anime series, and I must say... it's fairly a good see. I didn't really particularly enjoy Mai-Otome as much as Mai-Hime, but both had a fairly decent storyline (and a decent amount of "fan-service"). Not everyone will like it, but most would enjoy it.

Mai-Hime is basically about a girl who after she and her younger brother transfers schools, discovers that she has some special powers that would end up being the key to some kind of war that has been repeating for generations. Things become even more interesting as she finds out more about the school she has transfered in has a deeper, darker secret... not to mention more people like her.

Mai-Otome is a story about this gilr whose dream is to become an Otome like her mother was before. Otomes are personal guards of sorts that has a super-powered armor that can be summoned if the person they make a contract with enables them to. As soon as she ends up in the Otome school, mysterious things begin to happen until the secrets behind Otomes become revealed. Love, hate, friendship, betrayal... everything started to happen all at once and she was all in the middle of it somehow... and somehow, she needs to figure out how to make it all better.