By Andrew Osmond. My-HiME, released by Anime Limited as a Collector’s Blu-ray, is a combo of post-Evangelion drama and school comedy. Most though not all of the characters are girls, and My-HiME has been also called a magic girl show, though these girls wield mecha monsters. It starts with the heroine, the very normal-seeming schoolgirl […]
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