Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Madogatari Exhibit-Valentine's Edition.

A bit curious,who's that girl Mami's feeding chocolate to?

IIRC, Nadeko Sengoku.

You would think they would put Homura and Senjougahara together.

You just spoiled my crossover. They're cousins in it.

Also. Apparently my Madoka fanfiction is getting really popular. I don't know how this happened..... I think it has the most follows compared to my other, 30+ stories from other fandoms.

Then again I've also turned away a lot of readers because I spell Homura's name Hōmura.

I've had a lot of P Ms expressing vitrolic rage at that. And I don't get why people can't see that Oriko in my story isn't being evil for evil's sake. She has almost literally the same motivation as before. Maybe I presented it wrongly? Bēta is the one who is doing it for giggles and grins. Not her.

They don't have a purpose. Which is one of the in-Universe problems in my quest. Because girls randomly get powers out of nowhere without any idea why or what they should be used for, which results in them being used mostly for stuff tat has nothing to do with protecting humanity.

Also, yes, wishes give you what you intended. Kyuubey doesn't screw you over that way.

Does anyone have any idea why some fanart pics have Homura's hair as purple instead of black? I've always found that trend kind of odd.

Color matching?

Shading purposes. It's not uncommon to use purple in black hair in order to create a lighting contrast, because it's really hard to shade something that's already jet-black.

edited 11th Feb '16 12:13:54 PM by TobiasDrake

Also every other Meguka has matching hair and eyes.

Except Nagisa

And the spinoff ones.

This post was thumped by the Merciless Hammer of Doom

Hmm, so this is only tangentially related to PMMM, but has anyone seen RWBY's most recent season? I saw PMMM long after the incubator was out of the bag as far as the sudden tone shift, and I'm wondering if that's how it felt watching this series blind.

At least RW By doesn't have people's head getting chomped off. >_>

No. Madoka's tonal shift felt shocking. RWBY's felt cathartic at best, polarizing at worst..

I wouldn't call it catharic, but they dragged out the pre-tone shift stuff way, way too long, that's definitely one of the things Madoka did extremely well.

Yet. We've had torn to shred by razor wire, just plain eaten, and shot in the heart so far, I fully expect "headchomp" to be next on the menu.

edited 13th Feb '16 4:44:19 PM by CaptainCapsase

Plus RWBY's may very well reverse or recede. Madoka's certainly didn't.

Unless the next project turns out to be Prisma Kyubey or something

edited 13th Feb '16 4:53:11 PM by 32ndfreeze

I swear I once saw a tweet of Monty Oum's mentioning he was a fan of Gen Urobuchi's work. Then again, he was a fan of a lot of anime/manga and their creators, which is evident just by looking at his own work.

edited 13th Feb '16 5:26:11 PM by CaptainCapsase

Gen Urobuchi is something is a nihilist while Monty appears to be his opposite. Monty might had been inspired by some aesthetics rather than the sadism present in Urobuchi's works. Not all of them are like that though.

One thing I recently realized about this show is that for all the magical girl fights and the total lack of teamwork involved, there aren't any Evil magical girls in it who don't end up pulling a Heel–Face Turn later on. I mean yeah there is Homura as of Rebellion, but I think at this point she's way past Magical Girl in terms of power and ability and more like a demonic, petty and possessive goddess. Do any of the manga's have actual MG antagonists who don't turn good later on?

Oriko and Kirika

Eh, I don't think they count, since they got a whole spinoff to be good guys in.

That spinoff had a magical girl who never turned good, though. Kazumi had a couple as well, and Suzune had a real nasty piece of work.

I kind of wonder if Kyueby has ever made a contract with a particularly unstable girl before. As in, someone who's likely a future Serial Killer. That would be terrifying.

edited 19th Feb '16 10:12:03 AM by marston

Welll, those antagonists I mentioned include one girl who wished for the power to control everyone superior to her, one who started up a years-long revenge scheme that involved making the target of this revenge into a serial killer so she'd suffer from the My God, What Have I Done?, and two who go around killing magical girls because they like collecting pretty soul gems.

I'mma go with yes on that one.

RWBY didn't have a headchomp, but it did have a Ridiculously Human Robot getting butchered, a main character (nonfatally) losing her arm and a major character getting incinerated on screen

I love it, we must embrace the suffering and use it as fuel for our journey

edited 21st Feb '16 8:16:17 AM by MoreThanBored