As with all FanCruft Watching Anime installments, may contain spoilers
Rewatching My HiME at this point, I’m starting to remember why I like this series so much. It’s introspective, but fairly light at this point. In the first episode on this disc, there’s a festival. Nagi’s wearing a fox mask that looks almost exactly the one from Technolyze. There’s a lot of foreshadowing regarding Reito, Tate, and Mai; but at this point we don’t really even know what the show is about. Searrs makes its entrance here, quite dramatically.
There’s just something slightly wrong with the way Miyu is played, IHMO; the VA is good, but seems slightly off; this is much less noticible than in the previous volume though. The VA for KOS-MOS in Xeno 1 and 3 would have been a much better choice; she has experience going back and forth between “emotionless robot” and “dramatic feelings,” and she’s proven that she can do it well (Wikipedia says that the person I’m thinking of is Bridget Hoffman). Somehow Miyu just seems too normal in the English dub.
Something that I didn’t notice before – if you watch Miyu closely, you’ll notice that she has a look of pure terror when she sees Kagutsuchi. After watching Otome, this just seems to underscore how freaking awesome Kagutsuchi really is. Anything that Miyu’s afraid of has to be over-the-top powerful.
This is the disc with the Karaoke episode. It’s amusing.
At any rate, the best is yet to come in this series, and I’m looking forward to it.