Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Heh:

Considering how much Homura is basically Ryo Asuka, this fits so well.

I'm afraid I don't follow.

Also: wasn't there supposed to be a second season or a fourth movie? Is that still a thing, or...?

It'll come out when Half Life 3 comes out.

Ugh, I really don't want Rebellion to be the last we see of these characters.

Shaft is pretty much dead set on finishing the Monogatari series, and Urobuchi is busy with Godzilla at the moment.

That Godzilla has two more entries upcoming, for the record.

This makes it two times that Godzilla has delayed a much anticipated anime.

edited 9th Feb '18 9:03:38 PM by LDragon2

That news is rather disappointing.

Said Godzilla series is also [drumroll] mediocre so far.

Isn't it 3D? Anime rarely looks good in 3D.

The mobile game does exist, and people have translated a lot of it. It's probably not in continuity with the main stuff, but hey it's got those characters you like.

You mean Magia Recode? Then yeah, it's definitely not in continuity. Ridiculously good source of fanfic fuel though.

Why isn't it?

I mean, we have Oriko right? We know there's other timelines that Homura visited, so unless this one is drastically different, I don't see why it can't be canon.

You try and make sense of a gacha story where you have Moemura on the same team as Oriko and Kazumi.

No idea what's going on there though (and I'm holding out hope for an English release), so maybe you could find a way to squeeze it in somehow.

In the same game, due to the Elemental Axis it uses to classify the magical girls, we hilariously have both Madoka and Oriko as having the Light element, and Mami classified as... Forest. What.

That said, we get stuff like learning what Kazumi's witch (in the game they're called Doppels) name (it's Carola). So there's that.

edited 12th Feb '18 8:57:10 PM by MyssaRei

In the timelines where Madoka becomes a magical girl before meeting Homura, do we know what her wish was?

Her original wish is saving Amy the black cat after she gets hit by a car. In later timelines Homura rescues the cat before the matter comes up, I believe.

What's wrong with Forest element? You got a problem with it? Some of my best friends are Forest element! I'll fight you, mate, swear on me mam.

(Seriously though I don't see what's so funny about those elements.)

edited 16th Feb '18 10:46:28 PM by rikalous

Jesus, Madoka really is the kindest, tenderest, sweetest little thing. Imagine giving up your soul to save a kitty.

Do you also know what Kyoko's dad preached that made his congregation turn away from him, before Kyoko wished to make him more influential? I already asked this, but to be perfectly frank, I didn't understand the response I got.

There isn't an official answer for that, as far as I know. All we can say for sure is that his Christian-esque followers disagreed with it. Kyouko insists that he was a flawlessly good person which implies that he wanted world peace or some such thing, but his... homicidal demise shows he was lacking quite a few of his marbles, so it's hard to say; maybe Kyouko was just too young and naive to understand why people shunned him.

I don't think we know anything that'd give a reason to tack an "esque" onto Christian there. 'S not like this is a Crystal Dragon Jesus setting.

Sell her soul? Nonsense, she was just getting a wish from the nice fluffy mascot who surely didn't have any ulterior motives whatsoever, nope nope.

But yeah, this is a girl who basically becomes a bodhisattva at the anime finale.

Madoka is a good girl but she suffers from feelings of inadequacy and not knowing what she wants out of life but she is still a teen and if she hadn't decided to become a Bodhisattva, she still would have time to figure things out.

I think Kyoko still loved her dad too much to admit (to herself and to Sayaka) that he was a kook. Even though he murdered her whole family, she still spoke about him in pretty glowing terms.

Sure, but whatever she may have become or accomplished in a more normal life would still pale in comparison to "basically God," so I'd call her an overachiever.

Madoka does Pop Team Epic

In the PSP game, it is explained that Kyouko's dad preached some kind of pseudo-Iconoclasm, where people are more doing real good deeds instead of the 'I'm so Christian, look at these crosses and Bibles that I have'. When he found out that Kyouko's wish makes him has Compelling Voice, he deliberately made an increasingly absurd sermons to test it and his congregation did it without second thought.

Realizing that people were not changing out of the goodness of their heart. and he has strayed them with his power, he goes crazy because he was too kind a man to do such manipulation. In his crazed state, he called himself a demon and Kyouko a witch, and his congregation still followed him, chanting non-stop that they were indeed demon and witch.

Despair Event Horizon ensued.

Is that true? Because I remember people assuming that he was essentially a cult leader before Kyoko made the wish, while I continually stated that we don't know anything about what he said, and that we can't judge him by his final moments when he snapped (as even the nicest most decent person can snap hard and do things they'd never normally do).

But a lot of people kept assuming he was awful.