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AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#18151: Sep 29th 2011 at 10:49:40 PM

Oh, Madokami, I cannot stop laughing

Original

edit: Kazumi 9 script up at anon scanlations!

edited 30th Sep '11 5:15:42 AM by AceOfScarabs

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
UltimateChimera (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#18152: Sep 30th 2011 at 7:33:44 AM

I tried rewriting Poor Unfortunate Souls to fit Kyubey (sung towards Sayaka, of course). Mind helping me iron it out? 'Specially near the end, with the Rhyming with Itself.

I admit that in the past I've been insistant / They weren't kidding when they called me well, a creep. / But it's unfortunately it's just / How I am, what I do, I'm persistant! / You see~ / So fortunately I can grant you magic / It's my job, you see, in addition to a wish / So Sayaka, you're the next / Of the fairer sex / That want to heal, to live on, to save the world (The whole universe...)

Poor unfortunate souls / In pain, in need / This one wanting them to listen / That one wants to save the girl / And do I help them? / Yes, indeed. / Those poor unfortunate souls / So sad, so true / The moment I appear to them / Their wish is right upon their lips / And I grant them / Yes, I do.

But, you'll have to keep your wits / Or you'll be ripped to tiny bits / Their sacrifice has never been in vain. / Yet their smiles forever last / Within their loved one's hearts / Those poor unfortunate souls /

Now knowing what happens in the shadows / Do you really just want to run away? / The death and the despair / Now that you are fully aware / How can you just keep watching this horrific play? /

Not to mention that

The boy of yours may stay in bed forever / His glory days are all but long gone / But if you form a contract / Fighting witches to get your friend back / On his feet, his legacy will live on /

Come on, you poor unfortunate soul / Go ahead, yes or no / There are many other girls / Who would kill to have this chance / So what will you do? / Sign you up? /

You poor unfortunate soul / It's sad, but true / Staying constantly alert / Fulfilling your superhero role / Saving hundreds, saving thousands / Isn't that part of your goal? / (Yet another girl / Blindly charging ahead) / Yet another on the roll / You poor unfortunate soul!

edited 30th Sep '11 7:36:37 AM by UltimateChimera

universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#18153: Sep 30th 2011 at 7:46:15 AM

Kazumi Chapter 9 reactions: What the —-?

I don't trust Jubey, I still think he's a Unreliable Expositor. I'm not entirely sure I trust Nico either, but I still think she's also being played.

AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#18154: Sep 30th 2011 at 7:59:09 AM

huh, looks like Nico can regenerate to more than one place at once.

edited 30th Sep '11 7:59:20 AM by AceOfScarabs

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#18155: Sep 30th 2011 at 9:44:01 AM

[up]After thinking it over some more, I'm not sure it was actually a copy of Nico. It had its own Soul, and could turn into a witch. If a magical girl could just make copies of herself to turn into witches...well wouldn't that be akin to a perpetual motion machine?

I'm half-thinking she was just some poor girl Nico turned into a Body Double. We have precedent with Airi/Yuuri. There's also that symbolism connecting with the shooter from the news story in Chapter 7 - it just keeps popping up. Given that some have commented that Nico's wand looks like a walking stick, I'm also wondering if some sort of revenge isn't involved...

But either way I am very concerned about that image in Chapter 1 where Kazumi is standing over dead bodies...because they looks just like her!

EDIT: Ah one more thing. It's nice to know that Mirai and Satomi are one death away from snapping.

edited 30th Sep '11 11:17:38 AM by universalperson

Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#18156: Sep 30th 2011 at 3:24:26 PM

Yet more Kamen Rider Madoka crossover!

Neuchadjinys Since: Jun, 2011
#18157: Sep 30th 2011 at 3:48:35 PM

[up][up] Oh, heck, you're right. I thought there was just a bunch of blood everywhere, but the bodies really do have Kazumi's hair.

I was thinking so, too. About the body-double thing. The specific term that Nico used was 選手交代. It's not just some ambiguous 'switch', she specifically 'tagged out'. Like in sports or something. It's really suspicious.

edit: Then again, Juubey referred to the double as 'the price of Nico's contract', and she had this really grim expression before she turned to everyone else and joked about it, so it doesn't seem like she's comfortable with its existence. I want to know what her wish was more than ever, now.

universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#18158: Sep 30th 2011 at 4:06:00 PM

[up]Huh, I guess it is a grim expression. I do not trust a word Jubey says though.

Neuchadjinys Since: Jun, 2011
#18159: Sep 30th 2011 at 4:21:47 PM

[up] ...oh, right. Unlike Kyuubey, he has been unambiguously shown lying (about how he doesn't know why Soul Gems hatch), so I should be wary of what he says too.

Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#18160: Sep 30th 2011 at 4:24:15 PM

Or... and this is just a hypothesis, Juubey is one of the insane members that shows sympathy towards the girls.

universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#18161: Sep 30th 2011 at 4:42:21 PM

[up] I do think he's an insane Incubator, but I don't think he has any sympathy. In Chapter 4 we see him hanging out with Kyubey and giving an Evil Grin. Heck, he gives another one this chapter!

HidingGames Awesomebender Since: Apr, 2011
Awesomebender
#18162: Sep 30th 2011 at 9:50:09 PM

Hm Yeah I feel like I have no life by saying that I finished the show in two days, but guys: I finished the show in two days.

Oh, well, wow. I looked at the trope page and I was quite surprised that I didn't spoil ANYTHING as I watched it o-o Probably the only time...

GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#18163: Sep 30th 2011 at 9:58:16 PM

wild mass guess Jyubey is leading an independent faction of the Incubators. wild mass guessor wild mass guess J Yubey has defected from the incubators and actualy desires Entropy to happen.wild mass guess

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ThatHuman someone from someplace Since: Jun, 2010
someone
#18164: Sep 30th 2011 at 10:36:02 PM

@Psyga: Yet I still haven't found a good vid with the Ryuki theme. There should be one with the Ultraman Nexus theme, honestly.

something
Excelion from The Fatherland Since: Sep, 2010
Solstace Hexachordal Combinatorial from the Second Viennese School Since: Dec, 1969
Hexachordal Combinatorial
#18167: Oct 1st 2011 at 9:39:51 PM

Though I don't frequent this thread at all, I've found a couple pictures worth sharing with you guys.

Ecstasy is Sustained Intensity
Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#18168: Oct 1st 2011 at 10:01:31 PM

[up] I've seen the first pic, but the second is new.

Anyways, I have a Majuu theory...

Kayasa, The Fish Majuu of Jealousy. Feeds off the grief of those whose boyfriends are stolen from them. They repay the grief by going after the boyfriend's new girlfriend and attempting to kill her so that the boyfriend will come back to her.

ashnazg Since: Dec, 2009
#18169: Oct 1st 2011 at 10:23:32 PM

@Excelion: Oh god that's brilliant.

UltimateChimera (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#18170: Oct 1st 2011 at 10:37:26 PM

[up][up] To be honest, I think that sort of theory goes against what they were aiming for with the majuu. The majuu are pretty much the opposite of witches in every way except for the fact they are creatures born of despair. The majuu are identical, masculine and right in the Uncanny Valley. Witches are the ones that are individual, feminine (...sort of) and totally abstract. The majuu are a hivemind, I'm guessing.

I dunno, I liked it more as it was. To make the majuu evolve into something witch-like is kind of defeating the purpose of their existence, because what you have is based off a single person and not the fusion they really are. It makes me think of D.Gray-Man, too. Personal opinions, really, but as I said it just doesn't seem to fit.

...Ahaha, well, I thought this out a little too much.

edited 1st Oct '11 11:08:40 PM by UltimateChimera

SPDUDE48 Michael G. Since: Apr, 2011
dmysta3000 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18172: Oct 3rd 2011 at 8:46:17 AM

[up] So its a prologue showing how Madoka first became a Puella Magi? interesting....

GUNDAMU GUNDAMU
RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#18174: Oct 3rd 2011 at 8:57:08 AM

[up][up] I think it's more of Gen's original concept for Madoka Magica before the changes made it the Madoka it is today.

universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#18175: Oct 3rd 2011 at 9:52:03 AM

It's the first draft of Madoka Magica's script, which could have copious amounts of What Could Have Been.

EDIT: Come to think of it, this helps mitigate the drought - although it's still Kazumi-only in October, and the guide is to be released at the November (meaning it's more of a December product).

edited 3rd Oct '11 12:53:15 PM by universalperson


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