My-HiME | |
舞-HiME (Mai-HiME) | |
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Genre | Slice of life, supernatural[1] |
Created by | Hajime Yatate |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masakazu Obara |
Produced by | Hisanori Kunisaki Naotake Furusato |
Written by | Hiroyuki Yoshino |
Music by | Yuki Kajiura |
Studio | Sunrise |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | September 30, 2004 – March 31, 2005 |
Episodes | 26 + 26 DVD-only shorts |
Related works | |
Original video animation | |
My-HiME: The Black Dance/The Last Supper | |
Studio | Sunrise |
Released | January 27, 2010 |
My-HiME (舞-HiME, Mai-HiME) is a Japanese anime series, created 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—gathered 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.[2] 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.[3]