Reading the first few pages of this thread when the twists and overall storyline were fresh is wild.
The Protomen enhanced my life.It's very divisive. Some people love it, some people find it an interesting sequel hook but an unsatisfying conclusion if not followed up on, and some just outright hate it.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It’s a very interesting ending that, given a little thought, does have a fair amount of set-up in the film but, by the very nature of it being that interesting, a follow-up is definitely needed and it’s been almost a full decade since the movie’s release.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.The Concept Trailer
has existed for a very long time (that reupload was only made three years ago, but it's been around for much much longer). At one point, Shaft did seem like they were producing the movie enough to make a trailer for it. But something happened and they've been sitting on it for some reason, despite Madoka being a Cash-Cow Franchise.
Hell, Walpurgis Rising may be a totally different script for all we know.
Edited by PhiSat on Aug 14th 2023 at 12:49:25 PM
Oissu!Yeah, from what I recall the Concept Trailer was first shown at a Japanese event in 2015, and leaked online a year later with attendees confirming that it was the trailer shown to them. So the sequel to Rebellion has been in Development Hell for at least 8 years now.
Oissu!Well, I've never seen any Magical Girl shows aside from the 4Kids dub of Tokyo Mew Mew (a LONG time ago) and Kill La Kill, if you even count that.
Clearly, the best one to start with is the grimdark deconstruction, right? That's basically the extent of my knowledge. I was considering watching this for a while based on what little I heard about it, and I was surprised to learn when I looked it up that it's only one cour plus some movies. I thought for sure it was longer.
Before I start, sub or dub?
Madoka is one of those franchises with a very small core but a huge sprawling collection of secondary works. The primary story is just 12 episodes and a movie (there are two other movies, but they're just compellations of the series), but there's an absolute ton of side stories in the form of manga, video games, audio drama, etc etc. That's a big part of how it managed to stay in the public consciousness so long even without any ongoing releases to the main story (thought we're supposed to get a second sequel movie... eventually).
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Yeah, there's manga with different casts, manga about different timelines Homura has been through, an Interquel between the second and third movies, and Magia Record. Plus the PSP game that fleshes out the side characters somewhat.
Edited by PhiSat on Aug 25th 2023 at 3:41:15 AM
Oissu!Decided on the sub.
- Episode 1: I like how coldly hyper-futuristic the world is. Everything is simultaneously really open and really constrained because of all the windows everywhere, the world feels like observation rooms in a lab. And then shit gets nuts. Even before it gets dark, it's still pretty psychedelic and weird in the dream and battle.
- Episode 2: Man, I LOVE the artstyle for the Witch section. I know that's probably the number one thing people praise about this show, but it deserves it, that clipart artstyle is AMAZING. The ED seems really low-effort compared to the rest of the show.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Aug 27th 2023 at 4:16:35 AM
- Episode 3: And there it is. They even changed the ED, too. Honestly, I was expecting worse. The headless body falling was pretty bad, though.
- Episode 4: Seems like the show has settled into a "dark magical girl" style, with stakes and threat of death but still keeping the cool action. Honestly, it feels like I've seen this before, but only because this show came out in 2011 and it had many imitators since then, so I shouldn't be harsh on it. The execution is still great. So, the Witch was making those people mix Bleach and Ammonia into Chlorine Gas, right? That's what I assumed.
- Episode 5: And now we've got a Magical Girl who sees herself at two levels above regular humans on the food chain. Interesting that Kyubey didn't make a contract with Homura and doesn't know where she came from. Maybe there's more than one Kyubey? They're really teasing the moment where Madoka makes the contract, and I'm glad it hasn't happened yet. It's implied to be a bad thing, she shouldn't make it until she really makes up her mind on a wish.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Aug 28th 2023 at 5:30:15 AM

Arc 2 dealt with it a tiny bit, but it's in untranslated sections of the chapter 12, with Mikoto bringing up and showing to Iroha how in every other timeline she, Ui, Touka, and Nemu die, as part of an attempt to convince her of the validity of her nihilism and desire to Retgone humanity.
The Madokami interventionist also something arc 2 kinda feels like they want to soft retcon out, as how well things went get brought up again and the lack of anyone dying in the battle with Eve and Walpy getting excused as the result of Mklage Yakumo's wishing for Kamihama to not be destroyed when Kyubey showed up to her during the Walpy fight and told her how her sister wished for Kamihama to be destroyed.