World's Cutest Direwolf
She could have a whole school of happy people around Madoka without Miki fucking Sayaka (or any of the other meguca who haven't declared eternal enmity towards her, for that matter) being one of them. Since Madoka's new backstory has her just arriving from the states, she doesn't even have to worry about Madoka wondering where her blue friend went.
I feel like Madoka's probably known Sayaka for years. But Kyouko? Mami? Nagisa? They're totally unnecessary for a fabricated Madoka-happy-place; none of them are even shown interacting with her. Nagisa is especially weird because she didn't even exist, as far as any of the original 5 knew, until she regained human form for the quest to save Homura. She only seems to be there to make Mami happy.
At first, Homura unconsciously made a perfect world for everyone, with herself as part of the group. Then she took control and tried to make it all about Madoka and kicked herself out of the club because she hates herself, but as she put it, "somehow, all of you ended up being pulled in here as well." She does care about them, she just doesn't think she does, or doesn't want to deal with it because obsessing over making Madoka's life perfect is simpler.
Queen of Good Things, Honest
I don't think there was anywhere else for the Magical Girls to go.
She didn't hand-select Sayaka and Nagisa. She opened her Witch Barrier and encompassed the universe. Sayaka and Nagisa were five feet away from her when she did that, which is significantly closer than the edge of the universe, so they were drawn in as well.
The first labyrinth was much smaller and only drew in the people that Homura had reached out to, plus Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa who had deliberately gone in to get her. This one is huge. Outside of no longer existing in this reality, there's no way to avoid being drawn in.
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The best part of showing someone Rebellion for the first time is seeing their WTF face when it gets really trippy about a third of the way through.
edited 21st Aug '15 2:33:25 PM by asterism
Heart of Stone
...That was not what I was expecting when I read the title.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
One of the good things that have come from the Jonas Brothers.
Well to be fair in that case I was expecting the actual Poor Unfortunate Soul rather than their cover of it from the anniversary soundtrack.
And now I'm wondering if someone did an entire mashup of that scene with Kyubey and Sayaka.
edited 30th Aug '15 11:35:57 AM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Bird mom
I have to wonder why of all the lyrical twerks they made to the original song they kept the second verse untouched. It sounds a whole lot more douchey when it's a man saying that (even though Ursula was clearly manipulating Ariel in the original song).
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
There's another one with the original song
, but I like the other video better.
Bird mom
Yeah, that one starts better but then it changes in the end from a narative AMV, to a mood AMV (instantly chnging from focusing on Sayaka, to Madoka)
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
World's Cutest Direwolf
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Sounding douchey is not exactly a negative for that song. You'd have to do some pretty heavy The Cover Changes the Meaning for the singer-character to not be a douche.
Bird mom
True. It's meant to be a villian song. I suppose the context is supposed to change from a witch offering a Deal with the Devil to a Iago type character, which is also why "magic" is removed.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
World's Cutest Direwolf
Overt references to magic may have been removed, but he's still charging the listener her voice. And having her sign a scroll's a little weird, too.
So it seems I went full-on sparkle motion
◊ a few weeks ago.
Queen of Good Things, Honest
Holy shit, that is a fantastic costume of my favorite contract victim. ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
edited 31st Aug '15 9:50:46 AM by TobiasDrake
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Didn't really do my self esteem many favours but that's something for another thread.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
TBF Sayaka's not exactly the queen of the self esteem team.
I meant that to be more comforting than it probably sounds.
edited 31st Aug '15 12:31:25 PM by asterism
Heart of Stone
Yeah, I'm not really gonna go into exactly what I meant there.
It's a bit of a derail we don't need.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
I didn't know you were a girl deadbeatloser.
It's complicated.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
And if we're honest it doesn't look that good on me anyway
.
It looks a bit too small.
It doesn't feel like it.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Madoka essentially created the universe, and had to become a gigantic unified being (and erase her original existence) to do so; Madoka became two people, so now there are two universes. That's probably a simpler way of putting it. If there's only one universe, then where has Madokami wandered off to? Homura says she still exists, but apparently she's unable to interfere with regular-Madoka because we see no sign of her after the split, except when regular-Madoka tries to remember who she is.
Homura did say that she only took "the existence known as Madoka Kaname," so it's like saying she simply took Madoka before she became a magical girl, will all the memories and powers she had after that being left with the Law of Cycles and cannot be accessed until Madoka somehow remembers who she is.
The non-madoka entities being there is probably Homura's way of making sure Madoka remains happy, since she really can't just put Madoka in an empty box. The box has to be filled with happy people, so Madoka will be happy.
edited 20th Aug '15 8:36:42 PM by Hoki