What do you think when you see this picture of Natsuki and Mai?

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:XD If Natsuki were indeed staring at Mai's boobs, then that would explain the look on her face. Are boobs that hypnotizing, Kuga? Wait...what a stupid question! *o*;

 : I'll someday make it my goal to get mine that big.

Annnnnd it happened. The proof is in the director's cut ending of Mai-HiME Episode 26:

Yes, Natsuki magically had bigger boobage. (A word I tend to use.)

Kino karutta-chan wrote:Silly people, she is totally just spacing out and not looking at Mai's boobs :^)

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:XD If Natsuki were indeed staring at Mai's boobs, then that would explain the look on her face. Are boobs that hypnotizing, Kuga? Wait...what a stupid question! *o*;

 : I'll someday make it my goal to get mine that big.

Annnnnd it happened. The proof is in the director's cut ending of Mai-HiME Episode 26:

Nymphetamine wrote:
 : Somehow the crew digitally made my boobs bigger. But that's not the point. TAKE THAT PICTURE DOWN NOW *rageface*

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

Nymphetamine wrote:
 : Somehow the crew digitally made my boobs bigger. But that's not the point. TAKE THAT PICTURE DOWN NOW *rageface*

 : Request denied~

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:Mmm~

Yeah, Takeda will never get any of that.  

Nymphetamine wrote: : At least I have my memories. And the Mai-HiME DVD. And Natsuki fanart...  

 : YOU FREAKIN PERVERT! *repeatedly whacks Takeda with kendo stick*

 :

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:
To be fair, Takeda, Natsuki rejected your feelings in Natsuki no Prelude without any malice. It was gentle and quick; like a gunshot to the heart. :'3

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

Shizuru knows there's no competition with Takeda. XD She just allows Natsuki to dish out the punishment~

To be fair, Takeda, Natsuki rejected your feelings in Natsuki no Prelude without any malice. It was gentle and quick; like a gunshot to the heart. :'3

Kiros Razer wrote:I read many translations of it but only a few I can seem to find anymore.
Mainly the ones I see are done from here.:D 
I think it was amazing the pictures and story, was it from an artbook?

I figured it had to be or something else.
Years ago.. I requested it to be translated and someone did..
It's been ages but it was nice rereading it.
I asked friends questions about it and one added some info
in a journal/blog another did it entirely for me and for others.

I am a very forgetful person.:lol: 
Natsuki was definitely polite in how she turned him down.

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

:D Thanks for the plug, we wanted to get Natsuki no Prelude back in the public's eye! And yes, it was from the Mai-HiME art books. I only knew of one translation in the past from a livejournal, but we wanted to do our own translation and thanks to my ex and now with V-chan's corrections, we have the best translation possible.

Join the club, Kiros. XD One of my biggest flaws is being forgetful, but when you're juggling such an active life, it tends to happen. Too much at once! Anyway, you gotta give respect to Natsuki for being polite. She realized that Takeda's feelings weren't perverted; they were sincere. She just couldn't return feelings for someone she barely talked to in the first place. There was only one person for that and whether Natsuki was gay or not, it didn't matter anymore. Love is love.

 

Well, some of the others were becoming too hard to find.
So I am thankful that it was done again and brought back to public eye.
I have changed computers/laptop since.
So when searching awhile back I couldn't find it.

Except the one here which was easy to find in searching,
somethings take me hours to find.
I think when I grew curious over drama CDs again..
I searched then remembered Nagumo who i asked recently for.
I remember once talking to them in Shoujo-ai forums but that was forever ago!:lol: 

I was surprised with how much Natsuki had changed
by being open and politely rejecting him.

The prelude definitely showed how much Shizuru
added to Natsuki's life despite her not
being fully aware of Shizuru's feelings then. ^^

It was beautiful.:D
The prelude allows others to understand Natsuki never rejected her but accepted her.
She never looked down on Shizuru, she did feel rather violated due
to the unexplained happening during when Shizuru took care of Natsuki.

but once she saw Shizuru's eyes and how pained they look
after she defeated yukino and haruka disappeared. 
I felt she knew Shizuru was not herself and was controlled.
I think the kiss she did to snap Shizuru out was sweet.

I kind of felt Natsuki wouldn't have kissed her if there was no feeling whatsoever involved. 

Kiros Razer wrote:
but once she saw Shizuru's eyes and how pained they look  
after she defeated yukino and haruka disappeared. 
I felt she knew Shizuru was not herself and was controlled.
I think the kiss she did to snap Shizuru out was sweet.

I kind of felt Natsuki wouldn't have kissed her if there was no feeling whatsoever  involved. 

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:


We mentioned on our recent MM Podcast that the episode 25 kiss was fairy tale symbolism. True love's kiss broke the spell over Shizuru. I will be very surprised if that was unintentional on the part of Sunrise, because it made sense to me.  

Kiros Razer wrote:However I get reminded of Mai was viewing a first kiss and how special it should be and considering Mikoto her first.

I feel Shizuru meant a lot to Natsuki even when she
considered herself unable to feel the same.
If the view of the first kiss had a similar value to other characters,
I would see Shizuru finding Natsuki's kiss very strong and able to bring her back to reality.

Natsuki obviously seen Shizuru the one worthy enough for it
and wanted the one person she truly held special
to know that she still cares and willing to understand her.
Even though she never had much time to
ponder through the depths of her own heart.

I saw that as intentional myself, and a fairy tale love in bloom.
This kiss symbolizes Shizuru awakening from darkness.
Natsuki served as her light and the hope in ever bringing her back.:)[/color]

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

It's funny how Mai tried to convince herself that the CPR "kiss" didn't count. In the long run, it sunk in and she came to accept it. XD There's two sets of lips, Mai! Once they collide, it's considered a kiss!

Totally, Kiros. It helps that their kiss in episode 25 was their first. Both were swept up in the romance though it was planned by Natsuki, it clearly had sincerity in it. Natsuki's honest and true feelings blossomed like we've never seen before. Her light brought Shizuru out of her own darkness, yes. It's so great storytelling to have Natsuki dig her own hole of darkness with a shovel called revenge for First District. By episode 25-26, she became the complete opposite of a vengeful person. Amazing character development on her part.  

Kiros Razer wrote:

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

We mentioned that on the podcast too, how Shizuru didn't know about the CHILD's size measuring a HiME's love. The Clifford-sized Duran was the biggest giveaway, but I don't think that was a mistake by Sunrise. I honestly think Shizuru didn't know about the CHILDs growth via MIP love. That right there shows that when she first received Kiyohime, it was already huge to begin with as her love for Natsuki was burning passion from the start.

Kiros Razer wrote:It's pretty awesome those discussions,
i wondered much and had to think of so much on my own.
Like ponder reasons.

Luu Sky Sapphire wrote:

Kiros Razer wrote:It's pretty awesome those discussions,
i wondered much and had to think of so much on my own.
Like ponder reasons.

This series expands out minds a lot.  Thanks to Mai-HiME's tendency to "show and don't tell" a lot, we will always ponder and create discussion. Things like Natsuki's recovery after the accident, Mashiro being the master of Kagutsuchi, Shizuru discovering Kiyohime, and more.

A lot of those I honestly wondered, I had to rewatch certain parts.
Think of possibilities, form theories.etc.
I often wondered the theories of other fans.:D 
Sometimes others have a different view from your own
and it's like light bulb moment for me.
I'm sure we all get those too since it takes awhile to develop certain theories.

I mean yesterday I figured out something that I spent since childhood figuring out.
(It's silly but this is my example of a way overdue light bulb moment:
Where I have heard the beat of the 80's song "I want candy" before that even came out?
and everything just hits me when simply washing my face! )

Light bulb moments are great! I wished they'd happen more for me.:lol: 
In a group sense like here, sharing ideas and having discussions
are likely to open them up more in people.

A sense of a group is the ability to work together.
Which helps a lot.

Kiros Razer wrote:



My view simply was Natsuki was looking at her boobs,
This thought could be in relation to episode 4,


Or come up with things based on what it looks like to you.
You can be silly about it too.

(Example: Natsuki: Those are some nice boobs you got there, Mai.)

I re-watch episodes a lot and do screenshots
as I pause something that I find amuses me.