#DID SOMEONE SAY JESUS AND ANIMEEEE??????

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I can only speak for Madoka because I haven’t watched Utena, so let me, someone who has gone to church for 30+ years and has edited my dad’s papers and thesis for his theology PhD, to chime in.

The obvious parallel is how Madoka becomes the salvation of magical girls. For a more in-depth analysis, you’ll have to go back to the Old Testament.

Before Christ, forgiveness for one’s sins were done symbolically by burnt sacrifice. You can get the entire rundown in Leviticus, but the gist of it would be that there’s a symbolic transfer of sins to the sacrifice before it is burned as atonement for your sins.

Similarly, the maintenance of a soul gem can only be cleansed by using grief seeds (then “sacrificed” to kyubey)(equating the Christian god with a cosmic alien manipulator will probably get my Christian card revoked but fuck it let’s do it). Both methods are incomplete, one being completely symbolic and the other unsustainable in the long term.

The concept of sin can be applied to magical girls if we think of them of being “birthed” by kyubey and their wish. Where Madoka/Jesus comes in is how they bring salvation to the people who are stuck in this incomplete system, where their only option is death.

According to the Heidelberg Catechism:

Q. Why must the mediator be a true and righteous human?

A. God’s justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for sin; but a sinful human could never pay for others.

Extended to the Madoka-verse, only as a magical girl can Madoka pay for the wishes of other magical girls.

After their sacrifice to take away the burdens of sins and wishes, there is still sin, death and despair. However, the way to life after death is opened up by taking away the thing that would damn a soul to a second, eternal death.

tl;dr Madoka is totally Jesus.

Everyone knows that yaoi Jesus is Aoba but is yuri Jesus Madoka or Utena? Please discuss and support your stance with evidence