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1* This show's cute, horrific, terrifying, action-packed, funny (but only very sparingly), dramatic, tragic, unusual and artistic. The characters all take different MagicalGirl character archetypes and deconstruct them, among other things. The action scenes are amazingly fantastic, and the animation is beautiful, with gorgeously-designed characters and mass amounts of SceneryPorn. The series has beautifully moving and unique music (what else do you expect from Music/YukiKajiura?) that is utilized to its greatest effect in every single scene. Gen Urobuchi and Creator/AkiyukiShinbo have created a magnificent tale blending MagicalGirl, Horror, Drama, Fantasy and SpeculativeFiction in the most poetic and moving way possible. Each episode gets progressively better and better than the last, and it won't let up for even a split-second. Each single plot twist is unique and unexpected, including, but not limited to [[spoiler: Mami's death, the revelation of Puella Magi being first-form Witches, Sayaka's transformation into a Witch, Kyouko sacrificing herself to save Sayaka from a FateWorseThanDeath, and the entirety of episode 10]]. It is one of the greatest ever created, and Shaft's grandest work of all time.
2* All the characters feel like real people. Very few anime existing that achieve that.

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