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Wouldn't that be the point of a reboot of the magical girl genre, to redefine it and as such use as few existing tropes as possible? I'm not sure I'd strictly define B*RS as a magical girl series, but it does share some similarities - the main characters are all girls who have empowered, idealized versions of themselves who fight evil. It's just that the "evil" is each other and changes depending on whose point of view you use, and the girls are connected to their idealized selves not by a transformation sequence but by... well, however you want to explain what's going on here. It definitely takes some inspiration from the genre, if nothing else.

Whether or not the series can be called a deconstruction of the OVA depends on whether what we're watching now is what was originally concieved for the OVA that had to be compressed (it was originally planned to be a series back then, right?) or if it was written after the fact. Some of the expansions do seem to be sort of a jab at the original. Yuu was a minor character originally - a figurative nonentity - and then in the series she's a literal nonentity. You could chalk that up to just "needing four times as much plot", yes, but it does seem rather direct.

No. When you do that you end up with a different genre

Yuu was the third most important character in the OVA, and indirectly responsible for the plot

So, question: Which version of the characters do you prefer? Personally for me OVA Yomi > Anime Yomi while its the opposite for the other returning characters.

OVA Yomi*

I could not agree more.

edited 9th Mar '12 9:57:50 PM by Chariot

^Pretty much the same here. Anime Yomi has an undeniable yandere charm, but I wanted to slap her pretty much all the way through episode 4.

Seriously, with this and Madoka, I can't help but feel as though the Magical Girl genre is going to enter its own Dark Age, similar to how Evangelion spawned a whole bunch of dark mecha shows, and how Watchmen spawned the entire Dark Age of Comics.

Can this really be called a Magical Girl show though?

It does have a few of the elements. But yeah, it is rather hard to classify it as a true one.

So what I expect to see in the next two episodes:

Episode 7: Mostly a continuation of the previous. IBRS fights STR, we find out what exactly happened with Yuu and what Saya is doing. At some point the mechanism that will save everyone is introduced. The exact nature of Mato's issues is covered. At the end, Mato gets better and goes BEAST

Episode 8: Not sure! I expect it to end with the worlds merged, though. Yomi, Kagari, and Kohacchi regain their memories; Yuu, Saya, and Mato have to face their problems

Meh I can't really support that idea that getting rid of the otherworld is better. But in that case I just don't agree with the show. I think. It might turn out differently from what it seems from now later, though I doubt it.

Also what happened to Saya's not-so-sane-ness or was all of that an act?

I'm also not really seeing how Strength and Yuu "traded places." Might just not have been paying enough attention though.

? Saya's problem has been emotional outbursts, and this still kind of shows up in the latest episode

This wasn't stated in the episode, but is likely enough that people are treating it as canon

This is awesome

edited 11th Mar '12 11:33:41 PM by Hylarn

I was scared for a while that BRS wasn't going to be received well.

Then I visited /a/ this morning.

"Is it Thursday yet?" is practically a meme.

I thought it wasn't received well.

Or maybe the haters have just gotten tired of hating. As for me, I can't say that it's an excellent show, it is a interesting and good one.

A) "What's with these redesigns? They suck!"

B) "Why are all the characters acting retarded?"

C) "2deep4me"

D) Insert some other reason

Pick one. Though most of the hate seemed to be directed at the "melodrama" and real life bits instead of the Other World.

IDKY, but /a/ loves it.

I was just in a BRS general that had but one hater in it: someone didn't like the yuri fans within the thread.

edited 13th Mar '12 1:49:33 PM by SgtHydra

Technically that'd be a revival of an old meme. And you're sure it's in relation to BRS? Some of the alternatives are worrying

It was in a BRS general, posted alongside a pic of Mato.

It is safe to assume that it wasn't anything else.

The "Is it Thursday" thing is really old, and it was associated to both Steins;Gate (if I remember the schedule right) and Madoka Magica.

Steins Gate was Tuesday

And one year isn't "really old"

edited 13th Mar '12 5:39:23 PM by Hylarn

I stand corrected then!

One year is still a good stretch of time, especially for something that usually divides itself into 3-month cycles (1 cour).

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And everything went better than expected.

Like I said, I was sure /a/ would hate the guts of this show.

To think, there are still anibloggers who hate every bit of this show, due to "melodrama" and "unrealistic characters". Which...are kind of valid.

Where do you stand?

The melodrama dropped way off after the first two episodes. I'm really not sure why those two were so different from the rest of the series

Unrealistic characters... this is true, but they're a lot closer to reality than most of what's out there. Also I'm not sure why this'd be considered a problem. Normal people are boring people