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My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-02-24 04:48:31 (edited 2008-02-24 04:52:21)
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If you're a fan of the Mai-Hime/Otome series, you should know that a new OVA is out~! It's called My-Otome 0~S.ifr~, the preview for it was inserted at the end of the Mai Otome Zwei OVA. This is supposed to be a prequel to the Otome era. It was released to dvd on the 22nd of Feb, and with minimal torrent searching skills, you should be able to find the fansub. Support the dvd when it's available in your region~! You won't regret the high quality of the vids, plus there's always extras (like figurines if you're lucky XDDD) If I'm not mistaken, it's slotted to be a 3-part OVA, not sure when the next one will be out. But judging by the Zwei OVA, expect to wait 2-3 months for the next episode T_T. But for now~! XDD Watching this episode reminded me how much I loved this series. Lots of action, slight doses of fanservice, just what I like about my anime XDD I've never seen Otome/Hime fight like this before, seriously, I was kinda awed by the power of the Otome (no..I'm not exaggerating). I haven't wrapped my head around the plot as yet, it's been awhile since Zwei finished.. basically the main character is Sifr Fran, whos supposedly the mother of Nina Wang. The Schwartz are after her, and assigned to protect Sifr is someone who introduces herself as Rena Yumemiya. Later on, Rena is referred to as Rena Sayers. Yup, that's Arika Yumemiya's mom. Many other characters look similar to characters from Mai-Otome, but this maybe just a reference to the Zwei era, and they may not be related to each other. I'm repeating myself again, but what the heck, if you're a fan of the series, you really should watch this.. it's been awhile since I've had that tingling feeling of anticipation of more to come @_@     
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-01 21:56:35 |
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konnichiwa as a mai-saga fan;how sad to see this topic got left 9 pages behind,even behind mai-hime;the 1st of mai-saga well...as you said the animation is top notch,no regret watching it,supposed to be on the top of my anime shelf by the time the original dvd reach my place. i see youre pretty confident mentioning sifr fran will gave girth to nina wang. seeing from 1st episode i didnt see it will become that way...unless you actually get the info sumwhere else? you noticed that rena introduce herself as RENA YUMEMIYA to sifr but about the end of the episode the shwartz adress her as RENA SAYERS?didnt it smack your head which is actually her maiden name and if she already married that time(but still havnt did "that" heh)??? oh yeah,the new otome(forgot her name heh) and her master shion ready featured since almost a year ago in Mai-HiME~Destiny~.dont be so surprised,its actually a novel.in it the otome named as kagura mayo and shion with the same name.....and natsuki kuuga is allergic to mayonese heh  loneliness = freedom!!!! |
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Wow, i didn't know there's a thread for this... Well, i'm one of the fans and i'm really delighted about this OVA. The old school Otomes interest me and by god is Rena awesome or what... O.o And yeah, bkno, i'm kinda surprised when i read your post. Sifr is Nina's mother eh?? I never think that way before but now that you said it, it IS very possible... Or is it clarified already? Btw, is the next episodes out yet? I've only watched the first one... |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-03 11:41:55 |
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musubi-san.. Sai-san.. T_T ureshii..shiawase desssssu.. finally someone replied to this thread.. I was wondering if no one else had even heard of this new OVA. on Sifr = Nina's mom.. err.. speculation on my part at this point, but yes, I am kinda confident about it. There is no hard evidence, and I couldn't find anything on the net, unless I missed something from the official site with my pitiful japanese XD My 2 cents on this.. we all know from mai otome that nina is the actual lost princess of Windbloom. Now.. I think that Sifr is supposed to marry into the royal family. Bruce Wales at the end of ep 1 was identified by the bad guys as the King of Windbloom (so that makes him Nina's biological dad) and Rena Sayers is his otome. *Side note- did it seem to you guys that Rena and Bruce had a 'thing' going on??* That would partly explain why Sifr is being kidnapped all the time here.. XD well, maybe a bit?? >_<; Another thing.. I dug out my Otome dvd and got some screenshots.. sorry they're so crappy, but this particular scene was originally very blurry so I couldn't so much about it. You be the judge..    Hopefully it will be explained in the 2nd episode, so far there's no mention of when it's coming out though.. And on Rena's surname.. I really have no idea which is it, but I'm leaning towards Sayers as her maiden surname XD Rena was an Otome before she fell in love, but then she went back to Bruce because of her duty. I'm guessing the Schwartz did not know/guess about that, since she still had the ability to materialize.. so Arika was given the name Yumemiya cos she was the product of that love and of course, it's the norm for the wifey and the children to take on the hubbie's surname after marriage. if I remember, it was mentioned that Rena finally died trying to protect Nina one night when the Schwartz stormed the castle, and she couldn't materialize then. So, yeah.. at this point in the OVA, they aren't physically intimate as yet XD *phew* I finally got it out of my system.. I've been wanting to discuss about this OVA with someone for the longest time @_@.. your thoughts on the plot and the whole Sifr = Nina's mom thingy, guys??
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-04 05:41:11 |
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i see...i see,so its just a speculation after all.well i see your point,but still we could only wait the second episode to see how the story flow. i still see bruce saving sifr as 'rescuing a family in pinch' instead of 'saving a potential wife candidate'XD hehhe.i think bruce already got her queen,dont you think its too phedophile for a man of his age to go for sifr XD? well i did see that sifr's and nina's face is quite similiar.... uh oh,did you notice the cat named nina?even the fur(hair?) got resemblence..... and then about the official gem for windbloom country,where the heck did that crimson lofty gem come from? referrring back to the main series the gem that represent windbloom actually is mashiro nara kongoseki which is lost in a confusion loooong ago and turn into black gem before fall into hand of nagi.the souten no seigyoku then become the official gem that been used by rena and arika in the main series.that crimson gem not just un-elegent also weak,ah!it got destroyed anyway by M9 in the end.... loneliness = freedom!!!! |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-04 11:25:20 |
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lolz.. i knew the mention of that cat named 'nina' would pop up eventually XD you'd have to be pretty tired while watching the episode not to notice that.. even when the little girl mentioned the name nina my ears already perked up XD I actually though to myself "Poor nina, she's been reduced to a cat~!" I wonder if Sifr later on named her baby daughter as nina cos of this, and purposely started tying her hair like that XD Hmm.. on second thought, maybe not. The baby had really short hair when she was sent away by Rena.. Bruce really looks much older than he really is.. he's only 21. XD Rena is 16 and Sifr is 14. Hmm... a bit too young perhaps?? Yup, I was just as suprised as you were with that crimson lofty gem, since we were all expecting the Blue Sky Sapphire gem. Unelegant? Really? Oh well, like you said M9 destroyed it. Or rather, that gem couldn't handle Rena's powers, and it cracked as a result. So I guess we'll see the Blue Sky Sapphire gem coming out soon. M9.. so is she Hime-Miyu's predecessor? Wait, come to think of it, who was Otome-Miyu? Seems like she was a stranger (dunno human or cyborg like Hime-Miyu) who was looking after Arika, but no other info about her..
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-06 06:50:53 |
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uh well,you forget something,nina wang's real name is mashiro blan de windbloom. the name nina might be given by terrorist group that found her or maybe by Sergay wang...... owh!i see.bruce is 21 and rena is 16.so rena supposed to be fresh graduate from garderobe,no wonder she seem hesitant of meterealizing i dont think M9 is predecessor of miyu.i think miyu exist since ancient time.i recall in main series Miyu saw Alyssa while looking at arika. i dont quite understand actually when you mention "who otome-miyu?" loneliness = freedom!!!! |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-09 03:23:27 |
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nina wang's real name is mashiro blan de windbloom - oh yeah I forgot about that XD hmm.. I suppose Rena was hesitant because she mentioned that she was afraid of the power of the Otome, that it could do lots of damage to.. stuff. XD I remember her talking about it in the bath scene with Sifr XD Err.. I mentioned Hime-Miyu and Otome-Miyu to diffentiate between the Miyu's in the two series. Well, Hime-Miyu was definitely a cyborg, but I'm not sure about Otome-Miyu. I think she was just a normal human who could fight really good, or was she cyborg as well? Yeah, that part about seeing Alyssa while looking at Arika wasn't really explained. Miyu's specific words were something like "you remind me of her" in that she saw the golden hair on Arika, same as Alyssa used to have. But Alyssa never made an appearance in Otome, except in the form of the canary-bird on Miyu's shoulder.. so those who've never watched Mai-Hime wouldn't have a clue who she was referring to XD
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Hoho... I just listened to the ryuu no miko drama cd. So otome's cast are part of the cast there as well, i feel like listening to a joint show XD Musubi, you know your stuff to the details huh? XD been a while since i watched hime and otome, so i'm forgetting things. Ok, considering sifr being nina's mother, i'd like to believe in that more. Their seiyuu is the same after all! lol, a coincidence? Anyway, i kinda forget about miyu in otome, but i'm pretty sure she's not human, she's also a relic of the past isn't she? From the Hime times that is... So i always think that she's he same miyu. The Alyssa she saw being the proof. Anyway, anybody knows what the golden hair means? I think it was explained in Hime but i forgot... |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-12 20:37:18 (edited 2008-04-13 05:47:33)
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Sifr and Nina's seiyuu? hon tou da.. I didn't notice that XD I dunno the significance of the golden hair, but in the Otome universe, Alyssa Searrs is supposedly the creator of Miyu (so yeah, she's not human, and she's really ancient XD) as well as the ancestor of Rena Sayers and Arika Yumemiya. There's also this rumor that 'Sayers' is derived from 'Searrs' or just changed over time? That would explain why Miyu was guarding over Arika even though they were unrelated on the surface, her (Arika) being the descendant of Miyu's creator. And whenever Miyu looked at any of Alyssa's descendants, they had the trademark golden hair that Alyssa once had XD Edit: Okay, I couldn't help but post this.. XD 
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-13 06:10:35 |
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COSPLAAAAAAY!\(^^)/ yeah,i also see miyu as relics of the past=creation of searss corp. in mai-hime.could a person,however well they fight if could turn a part of body to weapon be considered as human?definitely cyborg.... i also didnt expect seiyuu of nina is the same as sifr,you got it more detail than me there,sai one more thing i just found out.go watch again otome~sifr specifically at the moment M9 appear,look carefully there and come back here after youve watch. did you realize that the moment M9 come out of the shell,the eye colour of both bruce and sifr change to light yellow,and bruce was struck by head ache at that moment.what could that be huh?i have my own theory but i like to hear yours 1st. loneliness = freedom!!!! |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-16 03:24:39 |
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O_o okay i just rewatched the episode.. yeap, I think I did notice both sifr and bruce's eyes change colour for a short while when M9 appeared, although I din pay much attention to it at first, too much going on XD Actually, I was pretty excited at the sight of M9, yeah.. XDD for some reason XD Hmmmm.. I really have no idea at this point. The only link I can think of right now betwen Bruce and Sifr is that they're both descendants of royalty (again, my own conclusion). In the restaurant, Bruce and one of the Meister Otome, Raquel called Sifr "princess" and Rena always calls her "Sifr-sama" even though Sifr is younger than Rena is. But, I can't explain why the eye colour changed and Bruce's headache. If it was M9's programming to identify royal blood, it shouldn't affect Bruce's and Sifr's bodies.. O_o What's your idea on this? A few other things I noticed on rewatching it.. - Our Miyu will appear~! Her face appears in the ED capture. But.. is she in an Aswad cyborg suit?!?! - Rena actually makes her 'contract' in this episode with Bruce, after contemplating for a long time. Bruce told her "You have to make a decision." All this while, she was 'just wearing' the Lofty Crimson Jade GEM. I was a bit confused about this cos if she was so powerful, wouldn't the GEM crack each time she used it? That explains that part.
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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on 2008-04-24 07:57:02 (edited 2008-04-25 00:04:17)
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ahaha actually not much of a brilliant theory 1-i also think that sifr in decendant of royalty,so sifr and bruce is blood related.look the hair colour of M9,almost the same colour as sifr just a bit pale.so theoritically M9 is another royalty?thus they react to each other resulting the colour change,and maybe the headache is like when some screaming "damn it" as regret of not able to save her(M9)prior story.....XD-theory 2-maybe its only an act of surprise.you know that sometime surprised is express in anime/movie by showing the eye pupil(is it?) expanding.let say that the sudio tried the eye expending animation and found it not interesting so they change it to the colour.but then the headache had no explanation.... lol,exited of M9?im speechless............ oh yeah,i remembered something,if im not mistaken the definition of M.I.Y.U. in otome is different from hime.in mai-hime: Multiple Intellengential Yggdrasil Unit dont remember the definition in otome,need to check the series loneliness = freedom!!!! |
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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sifr and bruce is blood related?? I still think that they're going to be married sometime in the future.. maybe not inside the time frame of this OVA.. Or rather.. I still think that Sifr is Nina's mom.. but I dunno how Bruce fits into all this. Bruce does not look like the guy in the snapshot that I posted (supposedly Mashiro's dad) mm..M9 is another royalty?? A bit far fetched lar.. it's hard to imagine.. and very sad if it was true. I think M9 is just a man-made cyborg, and not a modified human or something. lolz.. changing of eye colour to show suprise.. ahaha... too weird.. Miyu in Otome: Merciful Intellengential Yggdrasil Unit Hehe.. actually.. in Hime, Miyu was one of my favourite characters bcos of her quiet and emotionless nature. Even from the beginning.. when she defeated Akane-chan that hurt a little..but she made up for it in the end. And of course Natsuki was there (tsundere~!) Of course, in Otome she remained one of my favourites, next to Nina (tsundere~!) XD Here's a trivia question for you.. do you remember how many Hime there were in total, and can you name the two Hime that did not appear in the OP animation??
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Re: My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ OVA
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LOL with the different definition of MIYU i think its safe to assume that miyu in hime and otome is not the same person so do allysa that miyu sees in arinko what with the sudden pop quiz? -positively sure 12 pure HiME+ 1 fake(allysa sears) -i think sister yukariko and akira didnt appear your question quite a deja~vu felt like answered it before loneliness = freedom!!!! |