{"id":629,"date":"2006-12-03T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/03\/mai-otome-zwei-episode-1\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T14:41:47","slug":"mai-otome-zwei-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/03\/mai-otome-zwei-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai-Otome Zwei Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode of the new Mai-Otome OVA series is pretty darn good. Sunrise has got this whole drama-comedy hybrid formula perfected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome00.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Animation is OVA quality and significantly better. Soundtrack seems to be the same, except for the new theme song. (Crap BTW.) The episode starts with the Meister Otomes gathering in space to destroy an incoming asteroid and ends off with a mysterious attack on the academy by an unknown invader. In between, we have neko ramen, teenage quarrels, Shizuru in swimsuit, and a taiyaki thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome01.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nIn the year AD 2101&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome04.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;War was <a href=\"http:\/\/static.kdenews.org\/mirrors\/malte.homeip.net\/base.swf\">beginning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome03.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t this remind you of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome18.jpg\">certain meme<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome05.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nHer mother was hotter<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome06.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nLens flare!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome07.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nArinko, save us!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome08.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;from the Engrish!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome19.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nMore Shizuru-oneesama please!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome09.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t feed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/10\/08\/down-with-fat-taiyaki-fangirl\/\">Fat Taiyaki Fangirl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome10.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\n<em>kuroitani<\/em> is now <em>nekogamisan<\/em>? The old name was cooler<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome11.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;I want one thiiiis long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome12.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Is there actually cat meat in this ramen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome13.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nHer robed form never ceases to amaze&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome14.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nBrooms are multi-purpose weapons of self defence<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome15.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nMai has more airtime in this episode than in the entire TV series<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome16.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nStill alive<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_otome17.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:400px;\" alt=\"Mai-Otome Zwei\" \/><br \/>\nHer too<\/p>\n<p>This episode needs more Nao and more Shizuru.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I can&#8217;t believe that her name is actually Lena and not Rena. WTF!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode of the new Mai-Otome OVA series is pretty darn good. Sunrise has got this whole drama-comedy hybrid formula perfected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[720,644,93,232,295,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}