#mai otome

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✿ Mai Otome 0 ~S.ifr~ ┊ 64 sheets ✿

… a 2008 OVA with character designs by Hirokazu Hisayuki has been added to Patreon.

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Mahoupunk - My Genre Proposal

Last year I wrote this blog, where I proposed some missing "punkpunk" genres. Some of them were based on time periods like a lot of existing punkpunk genre are. But some of them were also based around the deconstruction of other genre - including three anime-typical genre. One of them being Mahoupunk. Basically: Magical girls, but make them punk!

For those not among the anime nerds, let me quickly explain magical girls to you, even though I will assume you do at the very least know Sailor Moon.

Magical Girl (Mahou Shojo) is a fairly common genre among anime and manga that center around young girls (usually between 10 and 16 years of age - though there are examples that are younger or older) transforming into magical forms through either a form of magic or a technology, that still is pretty much magic in the way it works. At times the girls are "chosen" in some way or form, at other times they chose themselves to become a magical girl.

Most magical girl anime/manga are targeted at young girls, usually primary school students - so girls in the age between 6 and 12 years. And most of the time the series do exist to mostly sell toys. For this reason the girls will usually have at least one transformation item, one item for attack, then another item for a group attack, and then some item for your everyday magic use.

However, given the genre is fairly old and is very popular (especially thanks to Sailor Moon), there have been a lot of deconstructions done. Most of them are just "Magical Girls, but instead of childlike innocence it is now dark and gritty and little girls will die". The most popular example of this should be Madoka Magica.

BUT!

While Mahoupunk would be in a way a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre, it would obviously be a punk deconstruction of it.

So, let me put up the definition of punk once again, alright?

[Punk ideology] is primarily concerned with concepts such as mutual aid, against selling out, hierarchy, white supremacy, authoritarianism, anti-consumerism, anti-corporatism, anti-war, imperialism, conservatism, anti-globalization, gentrification, anti-racism, anti-sexism, class and classism, gender equality, racial equality, eugenics, animal rights, free-thought and non-conformity

How do we connect this to magical girls?

Well, there are different possibilities, but in the end it is fairly easy: Either the magical girls use their powers (or are made use off) to hold up a suppressive system - or they use their powers to fight one. In either way, the powers might actually get some symbolical meaning to enforce the themes of the story.

One could argue that Stevenson's She-Ra remake could fall under this mantle, but an even more stern example is the anime, that I used the picture from: My-Otome.

Now, mind you, My-Otome is at least 50% fanservice. And with that I mean all sorts of fanservice. Oh boy. BUT... The worldbuilding in this anime is something I have never seen since.

Magical girls here (Otomes) work with nanotechnology, that allow the girls to transform - as long as their hymen is intact. And yes, the anime makes it very clear that this is about the hymen, because magical girls who gave out blowjobs or are in lesbian relationships can still transform. Eeeeerr, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, the worldbuilding.

So, yeah, the magical girl stuff works via nanotechnology that somehow depends on hymens. Just roll with it. They are basically soldiers trained in a specialized school to fight with those "magical" powers - and the best Otomes will serve the kings and queens of this world, while the weaker Otomes will just be normal soldiers sold out to the different armies.

The anime starts out with the girls in school and just wanting to become Otomes, only to devolve into a war scenario in which the girls learn: "This world is fucked and something needs to be done about it."

It should be said: No, in the end the world order gets not overthrown quite as far as I would have liked it to be, but at least the idea is there.

And that? Well, that makes for a really interesting basis for a genre, right?

Technically you could mix this in with capepunk (aka superhero punk), given that magical girls are just a subgenre of superheroes. But it is just so rife for deconstruction. Doubly so, because one can use the fact that magical girls are girls or young women, allowing the writer to use it to shift around gender and sexuality.

[studentofetherium]

the relationship between Agni and Judah in Fire Punch is identical to that of the relationship between Nina and her father at the end of Mai-Otome

[crossoverheaven]

[richehllette]

Pretty much everything plot relevant in Mai Otome could happen without the pedophilic incest love triangle also happening. Sergei could be overly invested in Arika because as far as he knows she is either the woman he liked is daughter or the lost princess of Windbloom that it is his job to find. Nina could be overly jealous of Arika and desperately want her father's approval because she is traumatized so despite how much Sergei shows that he loves her unconditionally she thinks she could be abandoned by him at any moment. Arika could just not have romantic feeling for Sergei.

I don't understand why the writers chose to make it romantic when they just could not.

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Chiisaki Dukeshi

[miaqc1]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 舞-HiME | Mai-HiME, 舞-乙HiME | Mai-Otome Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tokiha Mai & Tokiha Mai Characters: Tokiha Mai Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, 1 Sentence Fiction, Plot, Female Protagonist, same name, sharing name, POV Third Person Limited, HiME and Otome, Materialization, Nanomachines, Word count: 0 - 100, Cross-Posted from AO3, Autistic Author, Betaed - No, Rare Fandoms Summary:

One-sentence fanfic where Otome Mai meets HiME Mai.

[crossoverheaven]

[most-enchanting-magical-girl]

[moth--mallow]

Oscar Pine from RWBY

Dressed in an outfit based on

Sakura from my otome sifr 0 uniform

Doing Christmas magic

This is in away connection to my main au were Ozpin and Oscar are separated from each other in V8 using the staff

Then Oscar learns he not from remnant he's from another magical world and it's like this big crossover a you thing I want to do with animes I like the main one being my otome ,and the cartoon / comic w.i.t.c.h. and maybe fairy tail

[tsuutarr]

Yandere!Butler x Noble!Reader

Geoffrey has never particularly liked the Master of the House, Duke Arrington. Duke Arrington is what most hate about nobles – pompous and arrogant, but deeply incompetent. Thankfully, The House of Arrington isn’t doomed thanks to you, the heir to the Arrington Duchy.

You’re everything your father isn’t – sensible, witty, intelligent, kind… Why, Geoffrey could spend hours waxing poetic about how wonderful you are. It’s his honor to serve at your side as your right hand butler.

And, like any competent butler, Geoffrey must ensure that you obtain your rightful birthright. So, in the background, Geoffrey works hard with your other admirers to ensure that you can successfully take your father’s place.

As your personal butler, Geoffrey has the best access to your pathetic excuse of a father. This means that it’s quite easy to incorporate little drops of poison into your father’s teas or meals. 

Thanks to Geoffrey’s work, your father has been getting sicker by the day. You’re a dutiful child, so you worry and fret over the pathetic excuse of a parent. This kindness is something Geoffrey loves about you, truly, but he also can’t wait until your father is finally gone and over with, which won’t be much longer judging by how sickly your father has been looking as of late. You’ve taken up more of your father’s work officially because of this, too, and it’s amazing to see you at work. Geoffrey knew that you would be absolutely perfect for this role. It’s riveting to see you so focused on your tasks.

Just like any other day, Geoffrey is preparing tea (not poisoned, of course) for you. From your desk, you observe him, lips drawn in a tight line. “Do you think the House of Arrington is cursed?” you ask, making Geoffrey turn to you curiously.

“My goodness, why would you think that?”

“Just…” Leaning back in your chair, you sigh. “All my younger siblings have died. My step-mother disappeared. My father is dying… It’s all just… a lot, isn’t it?”

You really are too kind, Geoffrey thinks. All of those… misfortunes occurred thanks to him and your other supporters, so you shouldn’t feel bad about it. Your house isn’t cursed – everyone else just deserved to perish so that you could claim your rightful throne. But, you don’t have to know that, really, so Geoffrey says, “How could the Arrington Duchy be cursed when we have you?”

And he means it, truly, because there is no other person that can rule as dutifully as you.

[miaqc1]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mai-HiME, Mai-Otome Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tokiha Mai & Tokiha Mai Characters: Tokiha Mai Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, 1 Sentence Fiction, Some Plot, Female Protagonist, same name, sharing name, POV Third Person, HiME and Otome, Materialization, Nanomachines, Wordcount: 0-100, autistic author, Not Beta Read, Cross-Posted on SquidgeWorld Summary:

One-sentence fanfic where Otome Mai meets HiME Mai.

[richehllette]

Finished all of Mai Otome/HiME.

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