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#2: Jul 13th 2022 at 8:12:16 PM
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Ok so this is something ive been wondering about for awhile. Madoka is often listed as the go to textbook example of a "magical girl genre deconstruction", the trope page even lists it as a trope codifier. But I can't think of anything about madoka that id considered "deconstructive". Sure its darker than your average magical girl show, but thats not the same thing. A deconstruction is supposed to reveal the "hidden realistic consequences" of tropes, but as far as i can tell madoka plays most magical girl tropes fairly straight. What am I missing?