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Elleanior wrote on 2014-04-06 13:55
Quote from Taycat;1213133:
This series went from a girl not wanting to see her friend suffer and longing to be with her to her completely obsessing over Madoka.
Well, it was never exactly stated that Homura was emotionally stable to begin with...
[SPOILER=""]She's been a time bomb waiting to go off for quite some time, now.[/SPOILER]
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Murasaki wrote on 2014-04-08 01:28
I managed to watch the movie recently. I definitely like it. Bonus points for all of those Homura hair moments.
[spoiler="Homura's stability"]
Or lack there-of.
It's been pretty clear in the series that Homura's actions revolve around Madoka. That's not to say she doesn't care about the other girls (because I'm sure she does), but Madoka has always been the most important in her eyes. She still tries to save the other girls, but if they mess up, she tries to make it so that it affects Madoka as little as possible. She goes as far as distancing herself from Madoka in order to keep her as safe as she can from Kyuubei and the actions of other Magical girls, and is willing to dispose of the others to make sure Madoka is kept safe.
I'd say her actions in the movie are true to Homura, and the only reason they might feel jarring is because part of the movie is spent in Homura's fantasy world where everyone is alright and they all get to have a more or less normal life despite being magical girls. In the show, thinking that she can't save Madoka, Homura lets her despair taint her soul gem, rather than repeat things again and make things worse for Madoka. Madoka makes it to her just in time, but in the end, once again, Homura's wish is never granted, and Madoka is lost to her in a new sort of way. In the end, Homura is still left fighting, and all she has of Madoka is a ribbon and her memories of her.
Magical girls either die, or turn into witches (but thanks to Madoka, disappear before they actually get to), but Homura ends up being frozen right at the point where she would be about to turn into a witch, meaning she was once again, horribly unstable. We all saw what magical girls are like once their gem has been tainted through Sayaka, and what that does for their stability. Homura clearly has a higher tolerance for how unstable she can get, considering how quickly Sayaka turned in comparison, so I'd say she was in a pretty warped state by the time they got to her.
And let's remember, that at one point in the movie, things were so against what she wanted that turning into a witch and having the others kill her was the better option for her.
After she's Devil Homura, she's still intending to do what she does to keep Madoka happy, to the point where she will paint herself as evil, just so things can be fine for Madoka. Really,it's not different from the show, as she often came across pretty badly in the eyes of the others.
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Elleanior wrote on 2014-04-18 01:37
HAMORU
WAT HAVE I TAUT U ABAOT GOIN FULL YANDERE
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Murasaki wrote on 2014-04-19 04:26
I'm really glad I watched this close to when the soundtrack came out because I would have gone crazy otherwise.
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Elleanior wrote on 2014-04-19 17:53
Quote from Murasaki;1215914:
I'm really glad I watched this close to when the soundtrack came out because I would have gone crazy otherwise.
Agreed. I got the OST as soon as it was available, and words cannot describe it.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-04-29 00:50
Just got around to watching it. Holy fucking depressing :(
I thought the original anime was sad enough but this....this really tore at me.
[spoiler="']
Between Kyuubey and Homura's actions I don't know who I hated more. I mean Madoka was so close to saving her and Homura greedily took her away and became a demon? Well I suppose it was out of love she did that so she could be in a world she was happy with. But all the same, god damn this movie!
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Murasaki wrote on 2014-04-29 01:10
Well...
[spoiler="on Homura"]The series ended with Homura's wish not really being fulfilled. According to the creator, this is her "happy end". Homura was never really happy with the way that Madoka ended up having to sacrifice herself in order to save everyone, because all Homura wanted was to save her. Right now, though Homura may be the enemy, Madoka's living a normal life, the other girls all seem to be doing well enough, and Kyuubei is getting his ass thoroughly handed to him. On top of that, I don't think the incubators would have stopped going after Godoka and attempting to control her had Homura not smashed them under her thumb.
To top it off, Homura's actions aren't too different from Madoka's. Both of their actions resulted in the re-writing of universe rules, both of their actiosn resulted in the changes in memory of friends. The consequences of Homura's actions are currently unclear as far as the Law of the Cycle goes, but with the incubators being the ones that have to take care of things, it didn't seem like there were witches running around. And on top of that, the Incubators seem far less inclined to attempt to use magical girls for their gain, considering the kinds of things that can end up happening. [/spoiler]