My-HiME

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This article is about the anime series. For the 1890 novel by Mori Ogai, see The Dancing Girl.

My-HiME
舞-HiME (Mai-HiME)
Genre	Comedy, Fantasy, Shōnen
TV anime
Directed by	Masakazu Kohara
Studio	Sunrise
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	September 2004 – March 2005
No. of episodes	26
Manga
Authored by	Hajime Yatate
Publisher	Akita Shoten Tokyopop Chuang Yi (English) Asuka
Serialized in	Shōnen Champion
Original run	November 11, 2004 – July 7, 2005
No. of volumes	5
Related works
My-Hime (manga) My-Otome
Game
Developer
Publisher	Marvelous Interactive
Genre
Platform	PlayStation 2
Released

My-HiME (舞-HiME, Mai-HiME^?) is an anime series created by Sunrise, Inc., which originally premiered on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005. The show is about HiMEs, 12 girls able to materialize magical weapons known as Elements and summon powerful beings called Children.

The tone has many shōnen elements, with some parody of anime clichés, from magical-girls to romance, fan service and typical Japanese school life. However, serious matters are afoot behind the comedy, and the show takes a darker turn in later episodes.

The series is licensed for North American distribution by Bandai Entertainment and European distribution by Bandai's European subsidiary, Beez, with the first American DVD released at the end of March 2006.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Nomenclature 3 Characters 4 Related works 5 Theme songs 6 Soundtracks 7 Cast 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Plot

Main article: List of My-HiME episodes

Mai Tokiha is an average high school girl and devoted older sister who earns a scholarship to the prestigious Fuuka Academy. On her arrival she learns that she is a HiME - one of 12 girls with magical powers. With all of the HiMEs gathered at Fuuka Academy by the mysterious chairman of the school, each girl must deal with their powers along with their relationships.

[edit] Nomenclature

• HiMEs, also known as Valkyries and Ikusahimes, refers to females with the ability to materialize solid objects from photons. It is an acronym for "Highly-Advanced Materializing Equipment" and is used to refer to both the females with the HiME ability as well as the ability itself. It is also a backronym of hime, the Japanese word for princess. HiME all have an identical partially-encircled dot birthmark on various points of their bodies.
• Elements are weapons created by focusing a HiME's ability to create solid matter from photons. A HiME is able to materialize or dematerialize them at will.
• Childs are powerful robotic-like creatures who choose to act as guardians for the HiMEs. In exchange for accepting the protection of a Child, a HiME must put her most important person as collateral. If the Child perishes in battle, the most important person also vanishes and the HiME loses her powers. As the feelings the HiME has for her most important person increases, the stronger and larger the Child becomes.
• Orphans are monsters that the HiME fight early in the series. Orphans are the same as Childs, but with a distinct difference - they lack the capability to resonate with the soul of a HiME, and instead are attracted to the emotions at Fuuka Academy. Whereas a Child appears as a robotic form of an animal, an Orphan resembles a more organic and warped version of an animal.

[edit] Characters

Main article: My-HiME list of characters

[edit] Related works

The My-Hime manga follows an alternate storyline at Fuuka Academy. It was first serialized in Akita Shoten's Shōnen Champion and later published in North America by TOKYOPOP. For more information see

A second anime season, entitled My-Otome (舞-乙HiME, My-Otome^?), premiered across Japan from October 2005 to March 2006. This series contains many characters similar to the characters of My-HiME, and it makes several references to My-HiME.

A video game, Mai-HiME - Unmei no Keitouju, or Mai-HiME - Fate of the Genealogical Tree, was developed by Marvelous Interactive and released in Japan on June 30, 2005. This adventure game follows a storyline different from the anime and manga series. A remake, Mai-Hime - Unmei no Keitouju Shura, was released for the PC.

Two Playstation Portable fighting games, Mai-HiME Senretsu! Shin Fuuka Gakuen Gekitoushi!! and Mai-HiME Bakuretsu! Fuuka Gakuen Gekitoushi?!, both developed by Sunrise Interactive, were also released.

[edit] Theme songs

Opening theme

• Shining☆Days by Minami Kuribayashi (ep. 1 - 25)

Ending themes

• Kimi ga Sora Datta by Aki Misato
• It's Only the Fairy Tale by Yuko Miyamura (ep. 15)
• Shining☆Days by Minami Kuribayashi (ep. 26)

Insert songs

• Chisana Hoshi ga Oriru Toki by Minami Kuribayashi (ep. 15 and 26)
• It's Only the Fairy Tale by Yuko Miyamura (ep. 7, 8, 11 and 15)
• Mizube no Hana by Saeko Chiba (ep. 16)
• Kokoro no Tsurugi by Ai Shimizu (ep. 16)
• Itoshisa no Kousaten by Mai Nakahara (ep. 16)
• Parade by Mai Nakahara, Ai Shimizu, and Saeko Chiba (ep. 10 and 16)

[edit] Soundtracks

Main article: My-HiME soundtracks

[edit] Cast

(Family name last.)

Character	Japanese seiyū	English voice actor
Mai Tokiha	Mai Nakahara	Carol-Anne Day
Natsuki Kuga	Saeko Chiba	Cheryl McMaster
Mikoto Minagi	Ai Shimizu	Caitlynne Medrek
Shizuru Fujino	Naomi Shindou	Melanie Risdon
Joseph Greer	Kinryu Arimoto	Paul Cowling
Miyu Greer	Kiyomi Asai	Maizun Jayoussi
Chie Harada	Mitsuki Saiga	Hazel Forman
Akane Higurashi	Junko Iwao	Morgan Partridge
Fumi Himeno	Yukana	Wendy Morrison
Nagi Homura	Akira Ishida	Graham Ko
Sakomizu Kaiji	Akio Suyama	Randall Wiebe
Reito Kanzaki	Toshihiko Seki	Ethan Cole
Mashiro Kazahana	Yukana	Katie Rowan
Yukino Kikukawa	Mamiko Noto	Morgan Partridge
Shiho Munakata	Sakura Nogawa	Leda Davies
Akira Okuzaki	Sanae Kobayashi	Annika Odegard
Youko Sagisawa	Akiko Kimura
Yukariko Sanada	Kikuko Inoue	Allyson June Smith
Alyssa Searrs	Yuko Miyamura	Wendy Morrison
Aoi Senou	Ryoko Shintani	Jayna Mitchell
Midori Sugiura	Yukari Tamura	Mariette Sluyter
Haruka Suzushiro	Ryoka Yuzuki	Lori Barnes-Smith
Masashi Takeda	Yuji Ueda	Scott Roberts
Yuuichi Tate	Tomokazu Seki	Jordan Schartnet
Takumi Tokiha	Yugo Takahashi	Cole Howard
Yamada	Hisanori Koyatsu	Victor Atelevich
Nao Yuuki	Yuuka Nanri	Marcy Lannan

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Official My-Hime website
• (Japanese) TV Tokyo's My-Hime website
• (Japanese) My-HiME - Unmei no Keitouju website
• Bandai Entertainment's My-Hime website
• My-HiME at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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