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Funnily enough, if you watch the part where I'm rapidly skimming Eureka Seven's features, you'll notice Mai-HiME frequently following behind, which the US gave even less of a shit about and is truthfully even funnier to see promoted so hard. I kind of mentally glossed over it while putting my poster boards together because all of the Japanese magazines I was also cutting from were saturated with the series--I even have one magazine of just Mai-HiME promo art. The show was legitimately a huge deal with Japanese otaku at the time, but I only ever saw it released in a thinpack stateside (which I have), and I couldn't have named anyone who'd seen it that wasn't watching fansubs by that point.

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