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My-HiME (2004)

My-HiME poster
Original title
舞-HiME
Genre
magical girl, science fiction anime and manga, comedy drama anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, action anime and manga
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Girls at Fuka Academy have special powers called photons. They are brought together for secret reasons and must deal with conflicts and their own destinies.

mysteriousdramaticaction-orientedmelancholicsuspensefulsupernaturalschool-life

What happens

My-HiME (舞-HiME, Mai-Hime) is a Japanese anime produced by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, it premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005. The series focuses on the lives of Himes, girls with the capacity to materialize photons, who gather at Fuka Academy for secret purposes. The series was licensed for North American distribution by Bandai Entertainment and European distribution by Bandai's European subsidiary, Beez, with the first American DVD released in March 2006. Bandai released the Complete Collection DVD set in America on October 7, 2008. It is also shown on iaTV in the mid-2000s and on Comcast’s Anime Selects on Demand for a limited time. At Otakon 2013, Funimation had announced that it acquired the series, along with a handful of other former BEI titles. They also announced at the 2017 New York Comic Con that they would release My-HiMe, My-Otome, and a My-Otome Zwei + My-Otome 0: S.ifr pack, all on Blu-Ray + DVD combo packs on January 8, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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