Well, the end of Zwei was stupid. We all had to see some variation of it coming, since the OVA never once seemed to take itself serious. I did enjoy the appearance of Mai-Hime Mashiro's True Form...after combining with Fumi of course, heh. Maybe no one else remembers that, it was only a few frames in Mai-Hime anyway.

As far as I can tell, that prequel is completely serious. There wasn't a "Coming in 20006," like the Mai HiME movie had.