Once upon a time, there was a fanfic which was a rewrite of Mai-HiME. You could say that it was planned to run for fifty-two episodes. Unfortunately, the money started to run out, so that was cut to only twenty-six. Which was a problem, and a serious one, but still enough to be a good yarn.
Then the 'show's' 'writer' (muse) walked out during the filming of Episode 11.
Time will tell whether the rest of the production team will be able to eke out a satisfactory conclusion by Ep. 13 - or even if they'll get that far - but in the meantime, they though y'all might like to know what was originally supposed to happen.
The first Arc - call it, Introduction, went off without a hitch, bringing the HiME-Sentai and their various supporting characters onto the scene and setting things up for the Moe Arc, a schoolyard romance with a side of explosions. Nagi was supposed to use the Orphans to train the HiME in combat and drive them to form tighter bonds to each other - and, thereby, increase the emotional disturbance that would drive the Festival one it turned them against each other and, therefore, the power it would make available to the Obsidian Lord once he manifested. Akane and Kazuya would give everyone cavities, Tate and Mai would, eventually, become an official couple, and Akira and Takumi and Natsuki and Shizuru would provide a double-dose of 'awkward-cute'.
But that didn't happen, because of the cutting of the second season, so things went straight into the Festival Arc, wherin Tate, having been captured by SEARRS and pumped dry of all information, then used as an experimental subject, is convinced (with 'assistance') that the key to defeating the Obsidian Lord is to steal the festival's power out from under his nose at the critical moment, then turn it against him. Defeating the Lord permanently will require a great deal of power, which he then turns his mind to generating.
Several things would have come of this, among them Haruka learning Yukino's secrets in the most unflattering possible way, more than one variant on the theme of date rape, and, after having the possiblity pointed out to him by someone else using a sledgehammer, Nao's seduction, flaunting in front of Mai, and eventual abandonment.
Oh, and did I mention that Dr. Kuga is still alive?
Along the course of this arc it will be carefully hinted several times that Akane, far from being under the control of SEARRS, is in fact a double-agent... along with, having once loaned her boyfriend out as a shoulder for Mai to cry on, finding herself as one leg of an extremely uncomfortable triangle.
And then, when Tate clues in to the fact that he's being manipulated and lied to at the eleventh hour and wades through approximately a bazillion rentathugs trying to stop the Endgame, we find out that the HiME-Sentai's spy in the SEARRS-gumi was never Akane at all.
It was Nao, and the hints that were dropped about Mai-Kazu-Akane turn out to include no names and also fit with the Mai-Tate-Nao tangle. And the assorted HiME barrel in to pull their wayward friends' collective tuchus out of the fire... except Yukariko was quite genuinely subverted and puts up a fight - casualties were never decided - while Natsuki talks her mama down until, for a split second it looks like a happy ending.
Then the Obsidian Lord says 'go' and Akane takes Dr. Kuga's head off. Because he wasn't posessing Reito or Takumi... he's controlling Kazuya. Natsuki and Shizuru are gone in the chain reaction from that - yes, Mama Kuga had gone through the same procedure Tate had - the gates come down, the Festival is complete, the HiME star is opened and the two remaining Lovely Beauties released.
Nagi and the various other minions of the Dark hound the surviving HiME for a space while they try and assemble their emotional balance again, and in the interval, Obsidian and his harem go about wrecking as much of the current world order as they can find, starting with SEARRS before, eventually, the HiME-sentai manage to pull themselves together enough to carry out an assault on his fortress pretty much straight out of the manga - blowing past Akane and Marie and the third whose name I forget before taking out glass-ass, capturing his power supply, and...
Cuing an anime-style happy ending, complete with terrified and rather tired-looking Tate bookended between two redheads... well, anime-style except for the fact that they're sitting on Kagutsuchi's back, anyway.
Ja, -n
(actually has a thing for girls with black hair... among other features)
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
Then the 'show's' 'writer' (muse) walked out during the filming of Episode 11.
Time will tell whether the rest of the production team will be able to eke out a satisfactory conclusion by Ep. 13 - or even if they'll get that far - but in the meantime, they though y'all might like to know what was originally supposed to happen.
The first Arc - call it, Introduction, went off without a hitch, bringing the HiME-Sentai and their various supporting characters onto the scene and setting things up for the Moe Arc, a schoolyard romance with a side of explosions. Nagi was supposed to use the Orphans to train the HiME in combat and drive them to form tighter bonds to each other - and, thereby, increase the emotional disturbance that would drive the Festival one it turned them against each other and, therefore, the power it would make available to the Obsidian Lord once he manifested. Akane and Kazuya would give everyone cavities, Tate and Mai would, eventually, become an official couple, and Akira and Takumi and Natsuki and Shizuru would provide a double-dose of 'awkward-cute'.
But that didn't happen, because of the cutting of the second season, so things went straight into the Festival Arc, wherin Tate, having been captured by SEARRS and pumped dry of all information, then used as an experimental subject, is convinced (with 'assistance') that the key to defeating the Obsidian Lord is to steal the festival's power out from under his nose at the critical moment, then turn it against him. Defeating the Lord permanently will require a great deal of power, which he then turns his mind to generating.
Several things would have come of this, among them Haruka learning Yukino's secrets in the most unflattering possible way, more than one variant on the theme of date rape, and, after having the possiblity pointed out to him by someone else using a sledgehammer, Nao's seduction, flaunting in front of Mai, and eventual abandonment.
Oh, and did I mention that Dr. Kuga is still alive?
Along the course of this arc it will be carefully hinted several times that Akane, far from being under the control of SEARRS, is in fact a double-agent... along with, having once loaned her boyfriend out as a shoulder for Mai to cry on, finding herself as one leg of an extremely uncomfortable triangle.
And then, when Tate clues in to the fact that he's being manipulated and lied to at the eleventh hour and wades through approximately a bazillion rentathugs trying to stop the Endgame, we find out that the HiME-Sentai's spy in the SEARRS-gumi was never Akane at all.
It was Nao, and the hints that were dropped about Mai-Kazu-Akane turn out to include no names and also fit with the Mai-Tate-Nao tangle. And the assorted HiME barrel in to pull their wayward friends' collective tuchus out of the fire... except Yukariko was quite genuinely subverted and puts up a fight - casualties were never decided - while Natsuki talks her mama down until, for a split second it looks like a happy ending.
Then the Obsidian Lord says 'go' and Akane takes Dr. Kuga's head off. Because he wasn't posessing Reito or Takumi... he's controlling Kazuya. Natsuki and Shizuru are gone in the chain reaction from that - yes, Mama Kuga had gone through the same procedure Tate had - the gates come down, the Festival is complete, the HiME star is opened and the two remaining Lovely Beauties released.
Nagi and the various other minions of the Dark hound the surviving HiME for a space while they try and assemble their emotional balance again, and in the interval, Obsidian and his harem go about wrecking as much of the current world order as they can find, starting with SEARRS before, eventually, the HiME-sentai manage to pull themselves together enough to carry out an assault on his fortress pretty much straight out of the manga - blowing past Akane and Marie and the third whose name I forget before taking out glass-ass, capturing his power supply, and...
Cuing an anime-style happy ending, complete with terrified and rather tired-looking Tate bookended between two redheads... well, anime-style except for the fact that they're sitting on Kagutsuchi's back, anyway.
Ja, -n
(actually has a thing for girls with black hair... among other features)
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"