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So. I might have spent the last month first being interested in Madoka Magica, then hearing the big news like every day on Hachima. And then finally, like, reading a wiki about it and watching that thing that happened in a video. I was fully prepared to continue avoiding Madoka Magica, but that was because nobody had told me they also made some really cool fighting sequences! Wow guys, cool.
I have a great therapist and I'm not as afraid to tell my friends what interests/disturbs me lately, so I suppose that I will overcome the inevitable trauma.
Magical girls become witches when their Soul Gems go completely dark. If they fight witches, they risk dying horrible deaths. If they don't fight witches, they might actually be able to live (so Kyuubei is lying about responsibilities), but they would always have to live with the idea of having powers and doing nothing with them, and with being susceptible to witches. When they become witches, they either lose the ability to do anything but kill people...or they go crazy, and the only therapy is a bunch of ignorant, vicious young people stomping around in their heads trying to kill them.
Note: at first I thought they would be putting the Grief Seeds in their Soul Gems to add energy, but no. They use the Grief Seeds to suck out the darkness in their Soul Gems and make them bright and shiny again. Basically they're forcing the mentally ill and the weakened to bear the burden of their insatiable, immoral desires. By killing them.
Witch dimensions are not actually dangerous to normal people. They're SCARY and probably not especially safe, but not inherently malevolent. They're the cry for help. Witches may also make people kill themselves to try and reach out and make people notice. The characters who are magical girls are noticed and attacked by witches, but normal people don't seem to suffer very much.
Homura is the little black kitty that Madoka is holding in the opening. Madoka saved her, so Homura used a wish to watch over (or befriend) Madoka and turned into a (human) magical girl. She started out as an orphan in some religious school, and then transferred to Madoka's school. But everything went to shit because that brought Kyuubei to them. Mami died, Sayaka became a magical girl and probably a witch, and though Homura tried to fight Sayaka instead, Madoka insisted on joining in and died a horrible death at the hands of her best friend.
So either because of Homura's original wish, or because Madoka died and Homura got another one? Homura ends up repeating these events trying to save Madoka in a time loop. She's failed and tried again, possibly many times, so she knows exactly what happens and what she wants to say, but her frustration that nobody else knows is visible. Witness Homura gnashing her teeth when Madoka announces that she won't ever forget about Homura.
If making wishes really does affect family members, then Mami's family could have died because she panicked and made a wish, not because of the car crash.
Hopefully Sayaka was clever enough to wish for that musician boy's wrist to get better, not for him to be a famous violinist again. All he has to do to be a famous violinist is kill himself or, or maybe other people.
People who think that Madoka's mom is the last boss, you're a bunch of stupid babies. Madoka's mom is the shining example about how if you really think and really try, you can have whatever you want. She comes home drunk, doesn't like to wake up in the morning, and has to go through 10 steps of makeup just to leave the house. But you know what? She's happy and she doesn't need to make wishes. All Madoka has to do is suggest that she become president of her company and she sashays off to work in high spirits. She's one of the most important things in episode 2.
I think that the powers that be are not lying about Kyuubei. I think that its impatience to recruit magical girls is more like desperation. Kyuubei is some kind of special case, like a witch that lived too long, or a boy, or someone who resisted whoever started this nonsense, and now the only way it can escape either death or more witches is to recruit a magical girl who will wish for the terrible cycle to end. It is also bound by rules that keep it from outright telling girls what is happening and what it wants, unless they ask.
I kind of think it would be really rad for the magical girls to learn the histories of each and every witch and to help heal them, rather than just flat out killing them. I liked Mami's fight scenes, but I was always a little sad that nobody told me the story of the creepy medical equipment in the candyland. Did you guys just kill someone who was a diabetic?
I have a great therapist and I'm not as afraid to tell my friends what interests/disturbs me lately, so I suppose that I will overcome the inevitable trauma.
Magical girls become witches when their Soul Gems go completely dark. If they fight witches, they risk dying horrible deaths. If they don't fight witches, they might actually be able to live (so Kyuubei is lying about responsibilities), but they would always have to live with the idea of having powers and doing nothing with them, and with being susceptible to witches. When they become witches, they either lose the ability to do anything but kill people...or they go crazy, and the only therapy is a bunch of ignorant, vicious young people stomping around in their heads trying to kill them.
Note: at first I thought they would be putting the Grief Seeds in their Soul Gems to add energy, but no. They use the Grief Seeds to suck out the darkness in their Soul Gems and make them bright and shiny again. Basically they're forcing the mentally ill and the weakened to bear the burden of their insatiable, immoral desires. By killing them.
Witch dimensions are not actually dangerous to normal people. They're SCARY and probably not especially safe, but not inherently malevolent. They're the cry for help. Witches may also make people kill themselves to try and reach out and make people notice. The characters who are magical girls are noticed and attacked by witches, but normal people don't seem to suffer very much.
Homura is the little black kitty that Madoka is holding in the opening. Madoka saved her, so Homura used a wish to watch over (or befriend) Madoka and turned into a (human) magical girl. She started out as an orphan in some religious school, and then transferred to Madoka's school. But everything went to shit because that brought Kyuubei to them. Mami died, Sayaka became a magical girl and probably a witch, and though Homura tried to fight Sayaka instead, Madoka insisted on joining in and died a horrible death at the hands of her best friend.
So either because of Homura's original wish, or because Madoka died and Homura got another one? Homura ends up repeating these events trying to save Madoka in a time loop. She's failed and tried again, possibly many times, so she knows exactly what happens and what she wants to say, but her frustration that nobody else knows is visible. Witness Homura gnashing her teeth when Madoka announces that she won't ever forget about Homura.
If making wishes really does affect family members, then Mami's family could have died because she panicked and made a wish, not because of the car crash.
Hopefully Sayaka was clever enough to wish for that musician boy's wrist to get better, not for him to be a famous violinist again. All he has to do to be a famous violinist is kill himself or, or maybe other people.
People who think that Madoka's mom is the last boss, you're a bunch of stupid babies. Madoka's mom is the shining example about how if you really think and really try, you can have whatever you want. She comes home drunk, doesn't like to wake up in the morning, and has to go through 10 steps of makeup just to leave the house. But you know what? She's happy and she doesn't need to make wishes. All Madoka has to do is suggest that she become president of her company and she sashays off to work in high spirits. She's one of the most important things in episode 2.
I think that the powers that be are not lying about Kyuubei. I think that its impatience to recruit magical girls is more like desperation. Kyuubei is some kind of special case, like a witch that lived too long, or a boy, or someone who resisted whoever started this nonsense, and now the only way it can escape either death or more witches is to recruit a magical girl who will wish for the terrible cycle to end. It is also bound by rules that keep it from outright telling girls what is happening and what it wants, unless they ask.
I kind of think it would be really rad for the magical girls to learn the histories of each and every witch and to help heal them, rather than just flat out killing them. I liked Mami's fight scenes, but I was always a little sad that nobody told me the story of the creepy medical equipment in the candyland. Did you guys just kill someone who was a diabetic?