[Blue Confusion]

Mashiro has plenty of reason to be whiny and upset after recent events (especially last episode) but the emo-overload from characters I don't care about just doesn't interest me. I did like it in #20 when Mashiro pointed out that Arika's not the only one suffering. Arika chose to be an Otome, after all, whereas Mashiro had no choice about being used to fill the missing princess's shoes. Now watch as it turns out that she IS the princess really. Would be more of a twist than Nina being the lost heir

Heh, I mocked Nina's hairstyle when she appeared back in HiME as a background character. Good ole Sunrise, they just had to reuse that design... I was eating rofl waffles for an hour or so. And Nina with her hair down looks even more like Natsuki's bastard child o.o

I'm not sure Mikoto would have a sword; when the apparition appears at the Harmonium, doesn't it carry a staff or spear of some kind? But a return of Miroku and the subsequent mass destruction would be incredibly awesome.

Thanks for the names ^^ I haven't read the Otome manga, after reading the HiME manga, I thought the Mashiro is a guy cross-dressing surrounded by dozens of girls would be just as off-putting as a Mai-Tate-Natsuki love triangle. Come on, manga-Natsuki, where was your self-respect?