FUCK EVERY MAGICAL GIRL ANIME THAT ISN'T MAHOU SHOUJO MADOKA MAGICA

[Kim]

Holy fucking shit this show. It's got a unique, gorgeous art style. It's pacing blows the shit out of that of every other magical girl anime ever. The writing and twists go "FUCK YOU" to all your expectations of the genre. I mean, seriously, this is fucking awesome. Not to mention the art style in reality marbles where everything looks like it's made of random clips of art. The fight scenes are amazing, too. In fact, my only real complaint thus far is that there's some pointless fanservice in the OP.

Favorite parts (spoilers up to episode 8):Mami dying, because ho-shits she got her head bitten off. The soul gems thing because that's kind of a "Well... fuck" revelation for all the characters. Kyubei being shot and later being revealed to be a villain. Sayaka turning into a witch.

Seriously, you fucks, watch this goddamn show. This is SHAFT at its finest tearing apart an entire genre and doing it right.

[phil_]

We're going to start discussing this show now? Alright!

Except all I have to say about it is at the same level as what I have to say about Bleach, which isn't much. This was a good episode, though; number eight. Homura made me go, "Holy crap!" twice (when she spawned grenades and when she SHOT KYUBEY IN THE FACE). So, that was nice. I hadn't done that since episode three.

Er, let me find a neat video directed by the same guy who directs the witches' labyrinth segments... Found it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3o0yCwHto)

Oh, also, this jank got me to read a translation of Goethe's Faust. It's a neat play. I could read Faust and Mephistopheles bickering all day.

More edits: Oh, carp, I forgot that I posted this (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1103738&postcount=4487) in the sketch thread. I made an edit of it using a screen shot, and it makes me happy every time I see it on the internet.

[Bells]

You have to curse this much because you want to feel manly after watching a magical Girl anime right... heh

Well that's... *looks at a couple of videos on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nlS9rravdE)* ...ahn.......

hum....

Yeah, Ok carry on please...

[phil_]

you want to feel manly after watching a magical Girl anime right... hehI watch Precure, my friend. Genre has nothing to do with how good this show is.

[Eltargrim]

This show has Shaft being Shaft, which to be fair is pretty awesome. Kyubey <3

[Grimpond]

Watched episode 1.....so much for sleeping. :ohdear:

[Kim]

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[Bells]

This is a huge spoiler for Episode 3, but also will make you feel better about yourself, for not being this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFbURzDgBhE)

[Eltargrim]

Holy fuck. Hooooooly fuck. I mean...fuck. What the fuck?

[Kim]

Which episode did you just watch?

[Eltargrim]

Eight. I mean, yeah, saw a lot of that coming, but still, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Shin Amakiir]

Yeah, Madoka's awesome. I've been watching it since it started, and I managed to get a friend into it. However, we're forgetting the best mahou shoujo this season: Ayumu.

http://i51.tinypic.com/ibfiv4.jpg

[phil_]

But he's a masou shoujo... Everyone's a zombie, though.

Edit: Now watch this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjj67bIQiU) Then go to my first post and watch Universe again 'cause Universe is hella pretty.

[Shin Amakiir]

But he's a masou shoujo... Everyone's a zombie, though.

Edit: Now watch this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjj67bIQiU) Then go to my first post and watch Universe again 'cause Universe is hella pretty.

No no no, he's a mahou shoujo, since he's a magical girl. Masou is just a portmanteau of mahou and something that I don't know which means clothed.

Also, that's a fabulous YouTube video. Thanks for sharing it.

[Fifthfiend]

I heard this described as Evangelion for magical girls so I am askin' like as someone who fucking hated Evangelion will I or will I not hate this anime you are tellin' me to watch?

e: Noncon your spoiler mentions a girl's head getting bitten off, how many brutal deaths am I looking at watching here, as someone who really doesn't especially have a major need for brutal deaths in his entertainment media?

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I heard this described as Evangelion for magical girls so I am askin' like as someone who fucking hated Evangelion will I or will I not hate this anime you are tellin' me to watch?

That's a bit of a bunk comparison, to be honest. But really I think it depends on what you hated Evangelion for.
Just watch a few, see what happens.

[Kim]

I heard this described as Evangelion for magical girls so I am askin' like as someone who fucking hated Evangelion will I or will I not hate this anime you are tellin' me to watch?

e: Noncon your spoiler mentions a girl's head getting bitten off, how many brutal deaths am I looking at watching here, as someone who really doesn't especially have a major need for brutal deaths in his entertainment media?

Well, I hated Evangelion for its shit pacing and awful ending. Madoka definitely feels slower paced, but it uses that to develop its characters instead of sitting on a single frame for five minutes cuz the animation budget ran out. But yeah, it's Eva in that it completely tears apart the genre and takes it in a whole different direction, but I like the direction Madoka is going, whereas Eva seemed to get lost.

Without offering too many spoilers, I will say that the spoiler you mention is not especially graphic as you might think, and that there haven't been any other instances of *that* happening since. However, there have been other REAL BAD THINGS that have happened, but they're a different kind of REAL BAD.

[Nique]

However, there have been other REAL BAD THINGS that have happened, but they're a different kind of REAL BAD.

What? I mean... what the fuck does THAT mean?!

You have sold me and then lost me on this show twice within two pages. How many more cycles are we going to run here?

[phil_]

Well, you could just watch it. If you don't care by episode 3, then drop it.

[P-Sleazy]

Odds are, you'll care by episode 2 though. I just watched all 8 eps and am in love.

[Gregness]

Is there any option for those of us who aren't bilingual?

[phil_]

Er, if you speak English, which I guess you do since you just posted something in English on an English-speaking (for the most part) message board, you should be good to go with an English translation, of which there are at least four.

Unless you want to be all legit about it, then, yeah, all you have on the internet is the Nico Nico broadcast in Japango. Guess that won't work for you?

[phil_]

What can I say? What can I even say? Prologue is gonna happen, Jesus butts.

[Kim]

HOLY FUCKBUCKETS

Episode nine is just...

Not only are they unable to save Sayaka, but ANOTHER character dies, and Kyubei continues to be the evilest motherfucker in the whole show.

This Witch's Labyrinth kicked all the ass though.

[phil_]

Hey guys.

Guys.

Guys.

Check this out, guys.

So, like Sayaka's labyrinth was made of music and train tracks. Music's a given, what with her wish and all, but why the tracks? It's 'cause the labyrinth is a mixture of the former magical girl's wish and the murder that turned her into a witch. Gertrude's scissors? You better believe she cut somebody. Elly made one last trip out of her room to murder somebody at an amusement park. You can see why this is fun, yes?

[EVILNess]

This show.

This. Fucking. Show.

What do you have me watching?

[Pip Boy]

This show is strange. Like the writers of Evangelion tried to do a take on Kobato. It seems so outwardly cute and adorable, but gives the constant feeling like there is some dark morbid whatthefuckery lurking right outside of your peripheral vision where you can just barely almost see it.

Also that cat is like fucking satan. It shouldn't be allowed to be so cute. It basically steal's people's souls in exchange for granting one wish, giving them a death sentence or oftentimes turning them into something no better than the monsters they're condemned to hunt. WHAT THE FUCK.

[EVILNess]

This show is quite literally the deconstruction of the magical girl that TTGL was for the mecha genre.

Where your normal magical girl anime is bright and happy and cute, all of the things that are bright and happy and cute are tinged with malice and darkness. It's like watching a show about the uncanny valley. Everything seems... off somehow.

[Pip Boy]

This show is quite literally the deconstruction of the magical girl that TTGL was for the mecha genre.

Where your normal magical girl anime is bright and happy and cute, all of the things that are bright and happy and cute are tinged with malice and darkness. It's like watching a show about the uncanny valley. Everything seems... off somehow.

I dunno, TTGL had a few dark moments, but even at its very worst, the most morbid moments were quickly overshadowed by PURE HARDCORE OVER-THE-TOP BADASSERY. Mahou Shouja Madoka Magica feels more like it wears a cute face, but there is a horrible looming dark right around the corner. Like Clamp meets Evangelion/Lovecraft.

I'd be lying if I said those Labyrinth sequences didn't have just a tiny bit of that Cthulhu Fhtagn feeling to them.

[phil_]

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5108/saiyakichannpf.jpg

It's funny to me.

[lazy man]

So just due to the sheer what-the-fuckery in this thread, I decided I'd give this show a shot.

...what. The. Fuck.

Seriously. I don't think I've seen something go from cute and bubbly to depressing as all hell so well. Love all of its qualities, but it's just so damn depressing... Especially at these recent episodes.

[Kim]

Holy fuck wow at the latest ep. Really, really emotionally powerful, and also a cool way to explain a lot of things. Also dig all the witches we see.

[Pip Boy]

MMMMMKAAAYYY, so Homura has been timelooping over and over in order to help prevent Madoka from transforming. Problem being that transforming Madoka is the only tested way to defeat the Walpurgis Night so far, but letting her transform dooms the entire world.


This show is doing things to my mind that have not been done since Evangelion.

[phil_]

I like how, while the premise of this episode has been known randomly-mass-guessed since episode one, the particulars made it still engaging and entertaining.

Those particulars being Homura's adorable "glasses and braids" look, the explanation of her arsenal (and its humble beginnings as a 3-Wood), making bombs with instructions from the internet, Mami's 'Nam moment after they kill Octavia, and all the awesome witches and familiars. Or, basically, everything from frame one until they rolled the opening as the ending.

[P-Sleazy]

I can't beleive there's only 2 episodes left. I'm trying to figure out how the hell can they wrap this up in that time.

Also, I particularily liked the way Homura alluded to this being Madoka's maze as if she were already a witch at the end of the episode.

[Pip Boy]

I can't beleive there's only 2 episodes left. I'm trying to figure out how the hell can they wrap this up in that time.

Also, I particularily liked the way Homura alluded to this being Madoka's maze as if she were already a witch at the end of the episode.

Well, considering how they've been unable to defeat the Walpurgis Night without getting Madoka into a contract, its a serious possibility she'll have to have Madoka defeat the Walpurgis and then kill her to prevent her transformation. Indicating that this may be Madoka's Maze in the sense that killing Madoka may be the only real way out.

ALSO I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT FUCKING CAT THING. Even from Episode 3 that seemed completely straight fucked up, then I go and catch up with the series and it just goes bananas.

[phil_]

http://cjblackwing.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/madoka-01-000026.jpg

[Pip Boy]

Seeing this largesized picture of something from the series has inspired me to switch to http://tsuntsun.de/wallpaper/uploads/wallpapers/2011/03/01/7981/1280720f8c71c73c98f71984c5160bdb4a3ef74.jpg.

[phil_]

This has been my background since shortly after episode three aired. (http://konachan.com/post/show?md5=94de251f592bba33283886353b51555f) It's the closest I've had to a classy background in a long time.

[Pip Boy]

Does anyone know what we can expect in the realm of episode premier delays as a result of the recent natural disaster and things?

[phil_]

Episodes are postponed until further notice. Episode 10 won't have its Niconico rebroadcast. Bluray one is postponed similarly.

Nothing has been canceled, though, and the series writer implied that work continues on the last two episodes. The issue is mostly waiting for timeslots to open back up on TV.

[Kim]

Yeah, it sounds like it's been postponed due to the events in Japan, so yeah, can't really blame them.

[P-Sleazy]

So apperently, the last two episodes of this will be airing on April 21st.

[phil_]

This is a thing which is true and I've been silently squealing since Friday or so when I found out.

[Kim]

Just watched the last two eps.

CRYING. FOREVER.

But naw seriously Madoka's probably the best anime that's aired in years.

[phil_]

That was the best ending ever. Homura's effort paid off. I have all kinds of parallels to draw to other works, but I'll save it.

That was incredible.

Edit: Like, I want to spam every thread with "Watch Madoka!" that's how good that was.

Edit: I'm gonna gush later. Seriously. So much awesome.

[Gregness]

I'm probably gonna have to wait for a dubbed version what with not speaking Japanese. Is there any word on a dub in the works?

[Kim]

I'm probably gonna have to wait for a dubbed version what with not speaking Japanese. Is there any word on a dub in the works?

No word whatsoever. So you'll either be waiting a WHILE or can just watch it with subtitles.

[Gregness]

Are there any TOTALLY LEGAL sites that have it up? My usual haunts aren't coming up with any hits.

[Pip Boy]

I can't help but think that Warbot was a major inspiration for the writers of this show.

Also, seeing this kind of makes me not want to get out of bed anymore.