Puella Magi Madoka Magica

@Cheek rubbing scene: ...The shipper in me cried tears of joy.

I'm never not going to believe that Homura is in love with Madoka. (Or at least has a crush the size of the sun on her.)

Same here. Having watched that clip, I now also think Madoka returns the feelings.

edited 14th Oct '12 10:44:50 AM by deathpigeon

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

I can't imagine why.

Poor bastard. He must have known that one would piss some people off.

As for Cheek rubbing... Yeah, Homura has essentially kicked Sayaka out of the Best Friend spot. I mean, she only knew Madoka all her life and all, but it's hard to complete with someone willing to turn back time over and over again to save someone else.

More than anything else, it's THAT that makes me feel sorry for Sayaka. One friend turns out to be macking on the same guy in an insanity-inducing way, and the other decides the standoffish new girl is more interesting.

Joss and gen should be drinking buddies....

If only Mami had lived. Maybe Kyoko would've been nicer to Sayaka :/

Joss and Gen should have kinky sex. :3

tbh it's a bit creepy to ship real people. Though I'm amused at the thought of the conversations they might have. A theoretical thing that Urobuchi and Whedon somehow worked on together would be quite interesting too, but I don't have firsthand experience with Urobuchi's other works—what qualities are characteristic of him?

But we saw a timeline where Mami lived, and Kyouko still managed to make Sayaka hate her, after presumably their first meeting if it went like the fifth timeline. With Mami to intervene, Kyouko might've had less opportunity to be brutal, I guess, but I wouldn't expect her to really be nice just because Mami's there.

edited 14th Oct '12 12:56:16 PM by greedling

, Drunk-Fuck-Buddies.

All the material we've gotten so far suggests that to be the case. It won't be instant friendship, but it does appear Mami becomes a mediator of sorts for those two.

edited 14th Oct '12 1:42:17 PM by Ikiniks

Due to similar soundings, I am now imagining Mami, Sayaka, Kyouko and Madoka or Homura*

Magicka.

Tis a thing that can destroy friendships.

edited 14th Oct '12 2:18:08 PM by Bocaj

If a Madoka live action movie ever happens, Joss Whedon should be the director.

I'd prefer David Cronenberg.

edited 14th Oct '12 2:24:59 PM by Brushguy

A more in-depth look at the first movie. Didn't realise the cheek-rubbing thing was part of the opening of the first movie somehow. Some of the cuts seem like important exposition for a first-timer, but I guess those weren't the target audience anyway. Otherwise the trend seems to be "the same but more emotional [read: sadder]" which is appropriate. Also Kyouko has a bunch of different food items.

Also,

pfft.

Eh, there's less overt asskicking in Madoka Magica and not a whole lot of snarking and wit, which I really associate with him more than being sad at people dying, so I'm not sure that's entirely appropriate.

At this point, I think rather than having to have shipping goggles to see homumado, I think you'd have to have pretty strong anti-shipping goggles not to see it.

I surprised they cut the dream sequence o.o I guess it was more a narrative hook than anything else, though.

I don't see how misinterpreting that would be "for shame", though. There's nothing dirty about lesbian romance.

edited 14th Oct '12 3:01:46 PM by Haldo

Well if a Japanese or otherwise knowledgeable person tells me that this kind of affection is common among friends in their culture, I'd be inclined to believe them. Which doesn't change the way that I rather feel like I'm being herded toward seeing the pairing as much as possible without it becoming outright text, but it's not really wrong to not accept it as canon, I guess? Of course, most people who don't accept it aren't saying that there's nothing there that might lend support to the pairings being there, so maybe that's irrelevant to what you're saying.

I don't think "shame on you" was really implying that yuri is actually shameful, more like "I know some of you are going to be jumping on this but you really shouldn't", but that person doesn't have enough posts on their tumblr for me to get a sense of their character. Slightly unfortunate phrasing, though. If anything the shame would likely be about jumping to conclusions rather than yuri itself.

Considering the romantic two girl friendship trope and apparent basis in reality, it can go either way.

I'm okay with this

from the Online Game, I suppose◊

It looks like a shitty ms paint drawing.

I guess it might look better in motion though.

It's listed as fanart on the original page. "Tyappa", though?

Some witch labyrinths are so colorful it looks kinda messy, but it works because they're supposed to be realms of pure madness.

You wouldn't be calling it shitty if you'd actually tried using mspaint.

True, it'd be pretty hard to make that in MS paint.

No, I still would. Its a very skillfull example of shitty work. In that it looks bad.