Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica

• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:21

  Quote from kingofrunes;442883:

  When I first started watching this I didn't get the beginning. I never did understand Homura throughout most of the series as her true reasons for her actions weren't fully revealed until episode 10. That's when it all finally made sense.
  
  I also found Episode 10 to be the most heart breaking episode as well.
  
  [spoiler]
  Nothing is more tragic than repeating the same time line over and over again to try and help a person you hold dear to you, only for you to drift farther and farther away from that person as you repeat the same events over and over again.
  [/spoiler]

  
  
  Yeah, I know. :/
  
  It was definitely meant for her to be all mysterious and shady though.
  
  I hated Kyoko at the start, but I grew really attached to her, and I like whoever voiced her. The voice was super cute, tomboyish and yet so adorablee
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-05-12 20:25

  Quote from Pride;442610:

  I understand but still.
  
  ionno, I just hate endings. I wish things would last forever

  
  
  Lol.. at the end Homura is still fighting those demons till the end of the universe.
• Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-05-12 20:25

  Quote from Pride;442884:

  Yeah, I know. :/
  
  It was definitely meant for her to be all mysterious and shady though.
  
  I hated Kyoko at the start, but I grew really attached to her, and I like whoever voiced her. The voice was super cute, tomboyish and yet so adorablee

  
  
  Throughout the anime she was mysterious and shady until the last 3 episodes when you finally saw her softer side. Although she did show her softer side earlier in I think Episode 7?
  
  Kyoko was an interesting character. She seemed like a very selfish person but man she's really good at eating, that's for sure.
  
  [spoiler]
  Homura was so cute in the first few timelines with those pigtails and glasses and frail movements.
  Then after Madoka made her request, she went all badass. Finally going, okay Kyubey, screw you! Time to kill you as often as I can!
  [/spoiler]
• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:27

  Quote from Mentosftw;442888:

  Lol.. at the end Homura is still fighting those demons till the end of the universe.

  
  You should add spoiler tags xD even though this isn't that much of one~
  

  Quote from kingofrunes;442889:

  Throughout the anime she was mysterious and shady until the last 3 episodes when you finally saw her softer sad. Although she did show her soft side earlier in I think Episode 7?
  
  Kyoko was an interesting character. She seemed like a very selfish person but man she's really good at eating, that's for sure.

  
  
  Yeah, she really did seem selfish. I sorta wish it went on for longer to be honest.
• truefire wrote on 2011-05-12 20:29

  Quote from kingofrunes;442883:

  When I first started watching this I didn't get the beginning. I never did understand Homura throughout most of the series as her true reasons for her actions weren't fully revealed until episode 10. That's when it all finally made sense.
  
  I also found Episode 10 to be the most heart breaking episode as well.
  
  [spoiler]
  Nothing is more tragic than repeating the same time line over and over again to try and help a person you hold dear to you, only for you to drift farther and farther away from that person as you repeat the same events over and over again.
  [/spoiler]

  
  
  Truth be told, given what was revealed in episode 10, after seeing that I almost thought that
  
  [spoiler]Homura, who basically had the power to indefinitely retry saving Madoka also would have an indefinite capacity for despair; with every reset, the power she would release should she give up would make an even more powerful Witch. At that point, I was convinced that the Incubator, having finally noticed Homura's abilities and the effects they were having on the timelines she kept creating, could have possibly begun to see her as an energy source potentially greater than Madoka; Homura literally transcended time. Until Madoka made her wish, I really wasn't sure why she was still their primary interest, but afterwards, I understood completely. Homura only transcended time; Madoka ultimately transcended time, space, existence and all the laws in between.[/spoiler]
• Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-05-12 20:29

  Quote from Pride;442891:

  You should add spoiler tags xD even though this isn't that much of one~
  
  
  Yeah, she really did seem selfish. I sorta wish it went on for longer to be honest.

  
  
  Well she shaped up a bit at the end.
  
  [spoiler]
  Kyoko really did a good job reaching out to Sayaka towards the end, but by then, it was far too late for her and she even tried to bring her back and was to be her downfall :/
  [/spoiler]
• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:34
  So, I have a question:
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Sorry if I seem dumb, but what was happening when Madoka was visiting all of the dead people towards the end?[/SPOILER]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-05-12 20:36
  I thought it was pretty cool when QB ate one of his own bodies.
  
  

  Quote from Pride;442902:

  So, I have a question:
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Sorry if I seem dumb, but what was happening when Madoka was visiting all of the dead people towards the end?[/SPOILER]

  
  
  Those mahou shoujos were about to turn into witches and Madoka in her wish requested to oversee every single mahou shoujo to not turn into a witch by absorbing their grief.
• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:38

  Quote from Mentosftw;442904:

  I thought it was pretty cool when QB ate one of his own bodies.

  
  
  I've seen people call him QB, but why not just type out Kyubey? xD
  
  It reminded me of a rice cake or something.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-05-12 20:40

  Quote from Pride;442906:

  I've seen people call him QB, but why not just type out Kyubey? xD
  
  It reminded me of a rice cake or something.

  
  
  But it's the perfect alternate spelling!
• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:43

  Quote from Mentosftw;442908:

  But it's the perfect alternate spelling!

  
  
  mkay MNTO!
• truefire wrote on 2011-05-12 20:43

  Quote from Pride;442902:

  So, I have a question:
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Sorry if I seem dumb, but what was happening when Madoka was visiting all of the dead people towards the end?[/SPOILER]

  
  
  Here's the answer:
  
  [spoiler]Madoka's wish as you know was to prevent every Puella Magi in existence from becoming a Witch, now, then, and forever. Her wish proactively saves future Magi from their despair and retroactively undoes every Witch in existence. She basically declares that Witches no longer exist, thereby rewriting the world. Every girl who is about to turn into a grief seed has their seed purified, their grief absorbed by Madoka, and Madoka essentially takes their spirit away to Magi heaven, thereby assuring them that their wishes and desires to help people will never end with them hurting people instead. I don't know how the eradication of Witches from existence created the echoes that take their place as an energy source--that part seems more than a bit contrived to me--but in and of itself, Madoka exists outside of time and space and can travel anywhere, anytime, to spirit fallen Magi away.[/spoiler]
  
  Also, QB does not work. It's pronounced Cue Bay, short for Incubator. And I get strange inklings to call him quarterback with that abbreviation. >.>
  
  Which... might not be too far from his actual role in team Magi. -_-;;
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-05-12 20:45
  ^ I answered that already.
  
  .-. QB is also the same pronounciation.
• Akemii wrote on 2011-05-12 20:45

  Quote from truefire;442915:

  Here's the answer:
  
  [spoiler]Madoka's wish as you know was to prevent every Puella Magi in existence from becoming a Witch, now, then, and forever. Her wish proactively saves future Magi from their despair and retroactively undoes every Witch in existence. She basically declares that Witches no longer exist, thereby rewriting the world. Every girl who is about to turn into a grief seed has their seed purified, and Madoka essentially takes their spirit away to Magi heaven, thereby assuring them that their wishes and desires to help people will never end with them hurting people instead. I don't know how the eradication of Witches from existence created the echoes that take their place as an energy source--that part seems more than a bit contrived to me--but in and of itself, Madoka exists outside of time and space and can travel anywhere, anytime, to spirit fallen Magi away.[/spoiler]

  
  
  So Essentially
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Mami, Kyoko, and Sayaka live again?[/SPOILER]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-05-12 20:47
  Yes in an alteranate timeline where no one but Homura remembers Madoka.
  But Sayaka dies because she falls into dispair and that can't be changed.