ほんで出番もちょっとずつ減ってくんじゃろ
So, I've finally finished with MY OTOME Zwei. (I was wrong about it being only three episodes-actually, four.) Of course, the first thing that caught me was the fact that it's so irritating that there's no baseline for volume level, so I have to change it every time I listen to something different. (The "Dancing Mad" I have is a .mid, but I've been listening to it through MPC too.) Also, the fact that Media Player Classic is unable to read the aspect ratios of video files (and thus that I have to use override to get the right proportions) gets on my nerves.
Anyway, my kansō for the first volume are here. As a whole, I didn't like this series as much as the previous one, as the MY HiME Project's drift away from yuri elements continues. Also, as an OVA, they had to pack in lots of combat and people saying "Holy cow, I can't believe that's happening!" which leaves little chance for the characters. I also couldn't follow the specifics of the latter, since I wasn't motivated to rewatch any of the episodes to pick up on more of the dialogue.
2: With Ms. Viola petrified and Ms. Blan spirited away, the two chief couplings don't get any screen time. On top of that, we find that Ms. Marguerite has lowered her standards quite a bit. Ishigami was quite an unpleasant character in the first place, and Ishigamin seems just to be a pointless cameo in a series that doesn't have that much space to spare. And again, they throw in a combat showcase for another character only to get rid of her. Meanwhile, it turns out that the attacker is this world's version of Ms. Himeno, who certainly didn't get much on-screen combat time in the first series. . . .
3: The character glut is illustrated by a gratuitous bath scene, and another one bites the dust.
4: Still no time for characters, as they have to throw in even more action for the finale. The addition of the children was interesting. Ms. Tokiha fights her former self's Kagutsuchi, and Ms. Himeno's child fights on-screen for the first time. I didn't recognize any of the others, although one's wings did remind me of Yatagarasu. Ms. Blan and Ms. Himemiya do finally have their reunion, but I'm somewhat disappointed that the latter wears her ring on a less significant finger. The giant Ms. Himeno is just weird, and all the fighting doesn't leave time for a proper conclusion, either. I was, however, somewhat amused that the after-credits sequence brings the project full circle with respect to both previous series.
Of course, there's the preview of ０～S.ifr～ at the end. I can't say I have high hopes for this one, as I've noted the trend above, and the only character relationships I can expect to be spotlighted are between Sergei and Ms. Yumemiya's parents (of which, naturally, one is also male).