Puella Magi Madoka Magica

But there doesn't seem to be any visible body language that Kyubey gives to show emotion either. Perhaps I'm generalizing against all the kinds of visual cues that animals give, but Kyubey doesn't show any normal ways for animals to express emotions like with a tilted head or a wagging tail.

Unrelated, I think, but that cat smile of his stays on even as Homura's trying to kill him. What.

His facial expression does change a bit. He occasionally goes ^w^, and he actually loses the Cat Smile when he's dying/beaten up in episode one

^^ Animals don't tilt their heads to show emotions...the closest is bending them forward in fear/compliance to others.

Translated lyrics:

Connect:

I won’t forget the promise we made
I’ll close my eyes and ascertain it
Shaking off the darkness that closed in on me
I advance on

When will I be able to see here
The future, which I lost, again?
I’ll tear apart the overflowing shadow of distress
No matter how many times, and walk on in this world

The time that ticked away ceaselessly now announces the beginning
I’ll pick up my unchanging feelings and open the closed door

To draw the future where my awakened heart starts running
Even if I come to a standstill on a difficult road
The sky is always waiting for me in a beautiful blue, so I’m not scared
No matter what happens, I won’t get disheartened

Magia:

Someday the light of love you hold within your eyes will transcend time
and certainly destroy one of the dreams of a world racing towards destruction.

Now that you've drank every ounce of your hesitation, what do you desire?
Will there be a fleeting tomorrow for the course of this greedy admiration?

Like the ancient magic I saw in my dreams when I was young
I want to see you, smiling with the power to destroy even the dark

The courage from the flower that was plucked now lays in my frightened hands.
Everything only these feelings depend on is the wish to awaken that light.

Foreshadowy!

So, I knew of Urobuchi do to seeing the Phantom anime and knowing of Fate/Zero, but I never actually "knew" him. So on a whim, I decided to check out some Saya no Uta...

Oh GOD.....

edited 23rd Jan '11 10:10:29 AM by garfield15

My Anime club watched the first episode of this yesterday. There was speculation that someone had put LSD in the pizza. I'm going to need to keep watching this just so I know what the hell I saw.

So I heard that this will probably be like Magical girl version of Evangelion and that writer has done some disturbing stuff in past...

Should I watch the third episode or not? o-o;

Also, is there any hope series will not end in depressing way?

The writer has apparently claimed that this will have something along the lines of an Earn Your Happy Ending, which seems consistent with his previous work. Things look bad, but it's within human power to make them better.

That doesn't mean everyone lives and it's all sunshine and rainbows though.

So I heard that this will probably be like Magical girl version of Evangelion and that writer has done some disturbing stuff in past...

oh god please no...I hated the low budget later episodes that didn't make a lick of sense without the movies...and people getting depressed way too easily.

^ I hear that a lot...but got any link that actually shows the creator saying this?

edited 23rd Jan '11 1:19:29 PM by Signed

oh god please no...I hated the low budget later episodes that didn't make a lick of sense without the movies...and people getting depressed way too easily.

You're taking 'like Eva' the wrong way. What people are saying is that it's a fairly dark Deconstruction

^ I hear that a lot...but got any link that actually shows the creator saying this?

Not among the translated official documents, and Urobuchi has admitted to lying even if it was, so...

Still the most likely scenario, though. Lots of people die and the main characters' lives are ruined, but the world becomes a better place

I'm still hung up on that line that where magical girls are born from wishes, witches are born from curses. I wonder just how far the parity extends — I doubt there's an "Anti-Kyubey" running around offering slighted young girls some supernatural revenge, but it does seem to suggest that witches too were once human. I liked that one theory on puella-magi.net where a "curse" is simply a negative wish intended to hurt someone, but that seems like the sort of a hickup that Kyubey really ought to mention to his potential recruits.

Reminds me a bit of the Light/Dark Others from Night Watch.

@Spooky Mask: YES, GO WATCH IT. It is awesome. Also, the ending for it is awesome. I can't wait until they release the song. Anyway, you can't tell if you like it or not until you watch it! :D

Faustian deconstruction of Mahou Shoujo from the guys who brought Saya No Uta, Nanoha and Fate Zero.

UROBUCHIIIIIIIIIIII!

Wait......was there a Fate/Zero anime?

Urobuchi's the current scriptwriter for the upcoming Fate Zero anime. If I'm not mistaken, he was involved with the Light Novels as well.

^ Really?! Fuck yeah! Dual wielding Lancer will finally get animated! (the rest of the characters can go to hell)

Hold on bub, there's also Rider, Waver Velvet, Kirei and Gilgamesh. And Saber in a black suit.

Already seen Gilgamesh animated in Fate Stay Night...ok, Rider might be awesome...but compared to Lancer? He doesn't wield two lances at the same time.

edited 24th Jan '11 1:08:23 AM by Signed

Gilgamesh has an airship that he didn't have in the sequel.

I think you may want to discuss this in the Type-Moon thread in the VN subforum.

Fate Zero anime? Hell yes!

And, yeah, he wrote the original novels. I'd assume the scenario was written by Nasu, though

Relevant post in the Type-Moon thread.

Having watched the first three eps, I have a feeling that Madoka's mother is connected to the witches somehow. I mean, look at the facts. She likes the idea of knocking off the higher ups in her workplace if it means getting their position; a curse. And witches are born from/powered by curses. And judging by how everyone acted in the scene when she came home drunk, she probably does that a lot. And there has to be a reason for that.

edited 24th Jan '11 3:40:53 PM by RocketScience

From what I know of Japanese culture, business men going out drinking every night is pretty common. It's not a solitary "drink away your troubles" thing, it's a social bonding activity. Everyone works late at the company together, and then goes out and drinks together. Refusing to participate without a good reason would be considered rude, and as someone itching for a promotion its a good way for her to suck up to her bosses. It's just part of her being One of the Boys, except applied to the business world.

While I'm sure it'll be important and she seems to have some issues stemming from it, when seen in context it's not that unhealthy.

edited 24th Jan '11 3:52:59 PM by Clarste

Somehow, I get the feeling we'll have a new opening soon.

Call it a hunch.