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Highly Materializing Equipment standing for HiME. HiME refers to the ability to create solid objects from photons, as well as the females who wield this ability. Each one of them has a birthmark on various points of their body governed by their astrological sigh. The birthmark looks like this:

Fuka Academy is a private school in which all the HiMEs go to. It has 3 building for grade school, middle school, and high school. They are all connect by the Crystal Shrine. The chairwoman is Kazahana Mashiro.

The Fuka Academy Student Council is morethan typical student council they are in charge of student discipline and are partly responsible for school funding. Its president is Fujino Shizuru In the anime, Kansaki Reito is the vice president.

The Executive Council is apart of the Student Council The students deal with maintaining order in the academy. The chief executive is Suzushiro Haruka who is assisted by Kikukawa Yukino.

A Orphan is what a HiME fights. Homura Nagi is the one generally responsible for summoning them. Though in the anime Alyssa Searrs can also summon Orphans to carry out missions for the Searrs Foundation. Orphans are described the same as Childs, but with a distinct difference - they lack the capability to resonate with the soul of a HiME, and instead are attracted to the emotions at Fuka Academy. In the manga, Minagi Mikoto has a Orphan as a pet.

The HiME star is where the HiME's power originate from. It is a glowing red object in the sky located on the lower-right side on the moon. It's structure is similar to the birthmark that the HiMEs wear. In the anime only the HiMEs and the First District can see it. The Obsidian Prince states in the final episode that the Star is the source of his powers. Its subsequent destruction weakens the Obsidian Lord, allowing him to be destroyed. Though in the manga it is visible by all and later becomes the Obsidian Palace.

The Searrs foundation is an ancient organization disguised as an American corporation. They seek to take the powers of the HiMEs for themselves with the help of technology. Alyssa Searss and Miyu Geer work for them. In the anime, Searrs uses Alyssa, Miyu, and Father Greer to observe the HiMEs.

In the manga, Searrs owns a private school, the Searrs Female Institute, which sends Saeko Kuga and a delegation of PRINCESSes to take over Fuka Academy and open the HiME Star's gate. Searrs later retracts its orders, but the HiME Star is opened anyway.

The Obsidian Prince is a being who is the main antagonist of the series, using the powers of the HiMEs to his own ends. He possesses on of the characters, but it never revealed until the final parts of the series. He seeks to recreate the world by using the powers of the strongest HiME. Kansaki Reito is the one possessed by the Obsidian Prince in the anime. In the manga. Tokiha Takumi is the one possessed.

In the anime only a HiME's most important person is a vaguely defined term in the series, first mentioned by Homura Nagi in episode 2. The most important person  becomes collateral in exchange for the power of a Child. If the Child dies the most important person also dies. District 1 is the organization responsible for gathering the HiMEs at Fuka Academy. They cover up the Orphan incidents by controlling media and erasing the memories on the victims. Episode 1 shows that District 1 works for the Obsidian Prince. Kaiji Sakomizu and Wataru Ishigami, teachers at Fuka Academy, are shown working with District 1.


There are 13 HiMEs in the anime who are Tokiha Mai, Kuga Natsuki, Minagi Mikoto, Higurashi Akane, Sugiura Midori, Yuuki Nao, Okuzaki Akira, Sanada Yukiariko, Kikukawa Yukino, Munakata Shiho, Himeno Fumi, Fujino Shizuru. and Alyssa Searrs. Out of all of them Alyssa Searrs is the only artificially created HiME.

There are a total of 16 HiMEs in the manga who are Tokiha Mai, Kuga Natsuki, Minagi Mikoto, Higurashi Akane, Sugiura Midori, Yuuki Nao, Okuzaki Akira, Sanada Yukiariko, Kikukawa Yukino, Himeno Fumi, Yoko Sagisawa, Suzushiro Haruka, the Three Scale Sisters, and Saeko Kuga.

Perfect realization of independent access which stands for PRINCESSes. They are only used in the manga. They are also made by the Searrs foundation. They summon Childs without Keys nor do they have Elements. Their powers come from fragments of the HiME star. They wear them as earrings on their left ear. They later become unstable due to the effects of the HiME star The only PRINCESSes in the manga are Munakata Shiho, Sanada Yukiariko, Alyssa Searrs, and Saeko Kuga.

Quaint Elemental Enchantress which stands for QUEEN. They are enchanted powers from the Obsidian Prince. The three QUEENs in the manga are Marie Antoinette, Yang Guifei, and Tokiha Mai.

Each HiME has a element in which each HiME can create except the artificially created HiMEs. They form into a kind of weapon that they can do combat with, but, a couple have non-combat elements such as Yukino's mirrors.

Each HiME also has a Child in which is a creature that they summon for battle. In the anime, the HiMEs can summon their child once they have accepted it. They are link to the HiMEs most important person or their Key. If the Child dies the HiMEs most important person dies and the HiME loses her power.
In the manga, however, a HiME can only summon her Child if their Element touches her Key but the Key can only stay a certain distance of the HiME of the Child disappears. The stronger the connection the farther away the Key can be away from the HiME. The death of the Child also results the death of the Key.  The HiME  does not lose her power if the Child and Key die. If she can obtain another Key she can summon the Child again.