Well, I guess they can leave in about three episodes worth. Yuri and shoujo-ai don’t get the credit they’re due.

One more season coming. I hope we get more Shizuru and Natsuki in it. Maybe married? Living together?

And can they kill Shiho off? Violently? Maybe have her get stepped on or something?

How absolutely unfair. If the revive (reset implies deletion of memory) removed all responsibility for their actions, the implication is that all the emotions that crashed through those episodes also don’t count for anything now.

I find this extremely sad and disappointing. Shizuru was incredible because she embodied those extremes of emotions. Without them, as you can see, she is but an airheaded 18 year-old schoolgirl whose glompee happens to be a girl.

I’d like to subscribe to my private theory that the OL’s Evilness doesn’t cause the HiMEs to act completely out of character; rather, it simply amplifies their “omoi” and removes the normal inhibitions people have. The HiMEs are special not because they are ordinary people who got caught up in some extraordinary festival; they are extraordinary people who were given an unusual avenue to express their feelings.

But the stronger the feelings, the stronger the consequences. Yes, both good and bad. You don’t just live happily ever after in some pink haze. You laugh and cry and weep and smile and despair and soar, from day to day, and that’s what makes life.

Or so I would like to think. Huh, no wonder I can’t watch Jump anime anymore.

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That’s anime for you, where as long as you have happy happy feelings everything turns out in the end

Kokuyou-no-kimi: OMG DIE B**CHES
HiME: WE HAPPY *happy feelings destroy kokuyou*
Kokuyou-no-kimi: F**KING H4X *dies

Also, I’m one of those fans that only cared about Natsuki and Shizuru. That’s why I didn’t even bother with the raw and the 2chan screens. But this whole reset event — and that’s what is, as all the angst and rage and bad things just disapear instantly. Akane’s psychological collpased is reversed in a matter of seconds. All the guys Nao’s victimized? Just funnin’ them. And the eye is healed so no hard feelings.

Okay so Natsuki’s forgiven Shizuru for molesting her in her sleep and going psycho. Yukino’s seen her disapear Haruka and then laugh about it. “Kannin!” all better. Shizuru tried to murder Nao. “Kannin!” no hard feelings. Okay. But what about all the complete strangers she’s run down and butchered? Actually if this show wasn’t such a hardcore failure at dealing with these hard issues, I could say her flippant, blithe attitude towards her actions shows her psychopathy.

BTW, if I heard it correctly, I do think all the HiMEs were somehow cursed to act the way they did. Which means Shizuru was abnormally psychopathic during the whole festival… I dunno if this version is an improvement though ^^;; Pure Natsuki, she’s in for a long year at school!