I liked it. I didn't think it was mind blowingly fantastic, but I liked it. The ending felt a bit too open ended, but meh. To each their own.

>>550
The ending's supposed to be elaborated on in the third film. For the money I guess.

I like it as it is though.

Animation-wise, the scenes in the witch-world are some of the best I've seen in anime. My gif doesn't really do it justice.The plot isn't groundbreaking, although it's more than decent. I think the juxtaposition of a grim story on a genre usually thought of as for children, plus the graphics, are the main selling points of the show.

It's full of tropes. Tropes that don't belong in the genre. That's the whole point.

Ah. Now I see your problem OP. You didn't watch the gg subs, thereby missing the greatness that is Morning Lescue.

It should have gone straight for Urban Fantasy or Magic Punk instead of Magical Girl.

I'll remember PMMM since it's an affront to what mahou shoujo are supposed to be about (I guess that's why I shouldn't too LOL). Also because up until that episode I couldn't figure out what it was going for, or who the main character was.
I get the point the woman that wrote it was getting at but...couldn't it have been done some other way? I don't know...
I still cried when I realized it.

>>569
I had the pleasure of meeting the young lady who wrote Madoka at Otakon, and she was quite the looker, although quite camera shy. I just wish I could have met the man who did those character designs.

Isn't the moral of the story "don't be a drama queen". at least that's what I took from it

Just the time travel stuff made me head-desk so hard I ragequit everything. I just got done playing Blazblue like 3 months prior to this.

I didn't even mind some of the other dumb VERY UNNECESSARY twists, like the thing you're fighting was once just like you!!!!111.




Btw I genuinely like it, and will defend it to the death, just think it had a ton of wasted potential by being stupid.

>>569
>I'll remember PMMM since it's an affront to what mahou shoujo are supposed to be about (I guess that's why I shouldn't too LOL).

>affront
But, PMMM is exactly the throwback to the ancient magical girl genre while paying homage to both the classical magical girl genre and the modern magical girl genre. The entire show plays out like *the* quintessential university thesis papers on deconstructing and reconstructing the entire genre, to demonstrate what magical girls are about.

The magical girl genre emerged from dark fantasy/fairy tale literature with heavy dose of grim, dark, horror, surreal, absurd, and/or derange in dream-like worlds full of symbolism. Then, the genre was subverted with light-hearted slice-of-life stories and escapist wish-fulfilment stories with mundane magic and generally gradually shifted to younger audiences. Later, the genre was fused with the superhero genre and military scifi genre as the main conflict in stories escalated from simple magic rivalry to world-threatening super-villainy. Now, the genre goes full circle (lol, Madoka=circle) by bringing back some of cosmic psychological horror, while retaining some of other aspects it gained.

>>571
>Just the ... stuff made me head-desk so hard I ragequit everything.
It's a refreshing break, since a lot of magical girl shows focus on prophecy, fate, destiny, predeterminism.
>I didn't even mind some of the other dumb VERY UNNECESSARY twists, like ...
LOL, the tainted heart crystal/shards/gem and the magical corruption are such common elements in magical girl show, it'll be hard to NOT have that in Madoka.

>>571
>Isn't the moral of the story "don't be a drama queen". at least that's what I took from it
I thought the moral of story is "beware of those offering to grant you great power and to guide you on your way". Madoka Magica's Kyubey drives this point home much more than Princess Tutu's Drosselmeyer and Revolutionary Girl Utena's Akio ever could.

Although, come to think of it, if this trend continues in magical girl shows, this element might becomes cliche soon. I mean, how many in the audience don't suspect Kyubey's intention from the beginning?

btw anyone have any good gifs or edits

particularly did anyone photoshop/draw a parody of that flanders thing after episode 7

that's the first thing i thought of