#iroha gave me a crisis

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Mod, I just want you to know that your recent updates gave me a heart attack, and I am currently thanking God for the wonderful existence of Ayame Hatano. That is all. Now, back to our regularly scheduled line of time.–Timeline Anon

May 29:

The Warriors of Hope see Iroha outside Hope’s Peak Elementary, and Jataro recognizes her from the park. Monaca Towa also notices Nikei, who uses a skeleton key on the school’s security door so that he and Iroha can enter later. 

Chiaki tells Hajime about her past mistakes. He tells her that it’s okay, that she’s obviously improved, and that she’s one of the best people he knows. She kisses him on the cheek. It’s decided that she’ll be the one to talk with Ruruka. Also, she asks what she did as a Remnant of Despair, but Hajime still can’t bring himself to tell her the truth. They share a hug, then immediately get reprimanded for PDA.

Mikan tells Seiko her story in order to advise her not to push herself too hard for people who aren’t appreciative of her. Seiko also tells her story: her family is genetically predisposed to sickness, she got into medicine in order to help them, and Ruruka is the first and only friend she’s ever had. She helps Ruruka to make up for not being able to eat her sweets, and even though she knows that Ruruka is taking advantage of her, she can’t say no. Mikan offers to be Seiko’s friend, and she promises to help both Seiko and Ruruka.

Chiaki tells Ruruka her story, but Ruruka thinks it’s all fine because Chiaki’s a better person now. Ruruka thinks highly of Seiko, believes she can do anything, and doesn’t seem to understand the issue of having Seiko make things for her all the time. When Chiaki asks about Ruruka’s life before Seiko, Ruruka becomes visibly distressed and refuses to talk about it.

At night, Nikei and Iroha sneak into Hope’s Peak Elementary. They plant a hidden camera and a mic, but when they run into a security guard, Nikei holds him at gunpoint and forces him to take them to the security room. There, they find the security cameras’ footage from the previous week…which features many terrible scenes of child abuse. This absolutely enrages Nikei and Iroha. They shoot the security guard unconscious with a rubber bullet, download the footage onto a USB that Nikei brought along, and leave.

May 30:

Chiaki encounters Nagito telling Ruruka and Seiko about his upcoming surgery with Kanata. After Nagito leaves, Ruruka invites Seiko and Chiaki to help her make Nagito some cookies mixed with medicine so that he can heal faster after his surgery. The baking session goes well at first, but when Seiko tries to talk with Ruruka about their issues, things turn sour fast, especially when Ruruka refuses to understand why Seiko can’t just make something that will let her eat her sweets. Oh, and Ruruka’s mom is brought up, which just makes things worse. Eventually, Ruruka storms off in a rage, leaving Chiaki and Seiko with no other option but to go to Miaya about the problem.

Hajime commissions Aiko to make some Usami dolls.

During the meeting with Miaya, Seiko reveals Ruruka’s backstory. The short version is that Ruruka’s mom was a garbage human being who treated Ruruka coldly, cheated on Ruruka’s father, threatened Ruruka with a knife after Ruruka discovered said cheating, and then skipped out on the family. Ruruka’s dad took his frustrations out on Ruruka because she looks like her mom, and the whole mess has left Ruruka terrified of being hurt and unable to trust anyone besides Sonosuke and Seiko (who had always been there for her). Miaya decides to talk to the headmaster about the mental health crisis at Hope’s Peak Academy. She also agrees to help Seiko and Ruruka.

Nikei sends Hajime the footage of Hope’s Peak Elementary. Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan are absolutely disgusted and vow to make Hope’s Peak pay.

//Understandable : P

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Magia Rapport pt 2

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August 24th prompt: What was your favorite event, and why? Is it because of gameplay or the story?

It’s hard to choose so I’m gonna just, gush a bit.

As you can probably tell I’m very biased toward the OG girls, I started Magia Record primarily because PMMM had become my new obsession and I wanted some sort of constant flow of content out of decade old anime lmao.

But another thing I think I hooked onto was Inu Curry’s writing. They really know Madoka Magica and aren’t afraid to really play with them- something the writers for a spin-off gacha game (as with most spin-off stories honestly) can be scared to do. Inu Curry made references, revealed secrets and built upon the story we already know- which lets be honest is what we always truly want from a spin-off series. Magia Record proper does this well by putting more magical girls into the world and letting us see things work out better for them than for the original cast, but what I really appreciated with this story was getting to see that old original cast get to get in on that, and these events managed to do that without watering them down any.

Under the cut is me going on for 3000 words about why I love these three events I’m so sorry. TL;DR at the very end-

I’ll go in release order,

A La Carte Valentine was one of the first if not THE first event I got in on. I was eager to bc 1 Gay Magical Girl Shit Guaranteed. And ofc 2 OG Cast participation.

I want to preface by saying I actually loved all the girls’ stories in this. I was very much still in a state of getting used to Iroha’s gang let alone trying to care about the secondary girls. I knew Tsukasa had this angsty Twins Separated At Birth Deal and liked seeing her home life (also I immediantly stanned Take. Regular well-meaning dude who has no idea whats going on just trying his best and hating his boss). I knew nothing about Ami except Cowgirl Meguca and getting the bulk of her personality in one short even I think really kept me from being absolutely sick of her, she’s just a cute silly teenage girl who could be in literally anything and I was able to just endearingly giggle at that. Hinano managed to do the heterosexual unrequited crush cliché without me groaning or missing any of her regular personality. Also was there a Ren part? I don’t remember because everything Ren does feels like a Soft Yuri Valentines Special. Also I love Momoko. Ok moving on to what I Really wanna talk about.

Madoka is genuinely my Least Cared About of the Holy Sextet. I don’t think she’s bad or even boring- Madoka has a depth to her character, like, really deep- but that’s not something ever really touched upon by the fandom. Even when people like her and make her the Heroine she’s Supposed to be, it’s usually in the context of “Girl who feels nothing but kindness and happy thoughts would cut off her right hand to feed to a hungry dog. Isn’t she so Good????”. And honestly, while I understand the point it was going to make, I wasn’t crazy about her sacrifice in the end of the series. (Team Homura “Rebellion Is Good Actually” ftw) All because I think that I’m an Adult Woman watching this like “You are 14yrs old and need to be home playing Sims and not sacrificing yourself for the greater good you stupid silly little baby girl”

So my point is here near all fan content I encounter tends to emphasize whats sort of my least favorite facet of Madoka. I don’t think she made the ‘wrong’ decision in the context she and the story were given, but it’s still a sad thing to show a depressed(!!!) insecure girl resolving to give away her very existence so that every other girl on earth has a chance to just Dream. Oh and they still usually die young. But that’s ok because then she takes them and lets them sleep peacefully forever in her Heaven Basement (Yes I am bitter stan Homura I would yank this savior complex infant girl out the sky too)

MY POINT BEING (The servers closing let me BLEED OUT ALL MY FEELINGS) This event did not do that!!! It made Madoka…….. EVERYTHING SHE SHOULD BE??? ALWAYS??? Showed her HOW WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW HER??? (Read: Happy and Alive and Confident at no foreboding or sacrifice of anyone else!!!!)

She is Sassy and Surrounded By Friends and Really Funny??? And we get this Ridiculous Oh My God On Crack metaphor about her being this all-powerful apocalypse bringing being which is representing her love for the universe through her Witch form of Wanting Everyone To Be Happy And Safe With Her??? And she still risks herself to save everyone as is her Thing to do but we get to have her do it without erasing her existence as a human being at the end and if that is not some GOOD SHIT????

Ok next:

NGL Sayaka’s (fav character, inarguable best girl, can u not tell) parts in MagiReco til like the last arc have always left me a bit disappointed. She was the only late comer of the OG girls from what I understand and it kind of gives her the air of what a lot of the second(/thirdary?) girls suffer from. You can tell the writers can’t even figure out a trope to apply her to to make her easy and two dimensional to write about so they just don’t know what to do. They definitely try to make up for it (especially in the anime which Praise Be but that’s probably Inu Currys doing) but she’s still lacking like, any of the depth of her personality. Which, I guess I could anticipate. Because most of the fandom tends to as well. (again)

Gonna stop complaining and get on with- That didn’t feel as much the case in her Valentine event. Sure it was still the same formula of “The Issue Is Kyosuke” but that didn’t play out as grueling as her personal story did with “Nine Episodes Of “The Issue Is Kyosuke””

There was one big glaring heart-aching detail of “Mami isn’t really there because SHES IN A FUCKING CULT RIGHT NOW” which kind of jarred the event out of the ho-hum silly valentines sidestory these events usually keep up.

Sayaka has this crisis about Doing Anything Meaningful With Kyosuke which we all know what That’s calling back to, but in this environment we get to have Kyoko come right up and be in a position with her to earnestly and affectionately Push Her To Do It. The lonely little tsundere bitch girl pushes her Not Friend to Give The Bastard The Gotdamn Chocolate Already and for a moment you can only think about What If’s and If Only’s. Sayaka’s is still the weakest of the threes stories in this event but it worked harder to show us different sides of the characters then 6 chapters of Another Story managed to do.

And then there’s fucking Homura.

I will be, eternally grateful for Kuro. As a character that becomes metaphorical for the 2D ways we initially viewed the feathers and just NPCs in games in general, and also like, giving Homura a friend she actually cares about that isn’t the tangled dark web of Bullshit she’s gotten tied up with Madoka in. Please ask me about all my AU’s where Kuro is Homuras first girlfriend.

Seeing Moemura in Magia Record has always been a bit surreal, we never really understand just what stage of Trauma this Homura is in because Multiverses Are Hell, but this event gives us a good chunk of a Homura who still has hope and faith both in the world and Madoka. Theres this wonder to her that while still bogged down by terrible experiences still has the energy to be Trying. And she sees a girl who used to be like her- which when you think about it is probably what Madoka saw in her- and she wants to help. Because Madoka helped her. And Madoka is the best thing in the universe and maybe Homura can be just a little bit closer to that.

Kuro is too far gone though, as is the reality frequently in this series, things don’t work out just because of circumstance. Kuro was a bullied, insecure little girl who realistically shouldn’t have had to become a rampaging monster because of it. We’re reminded of this being the reality of the Madoka universe. Homura, is reminded of this reality. Homura loses this one chance to bring hope into the world like Madoka brought hope into hers.

And then her story ties into the ending of Madoka’s. Madoka saves her life yet again, even as Homura continues to feel miserable and empty. But at least Madoka is with her. The girls then share a quiet, intimate Valentines together. And you sort of understand how Homura fell so far into the darkness that the only thing she was able to still care about and fight for was Madoka’s safety.

That shit slaps. It slaps you right in the heart and causes fucking bruising but then u want it to do it again because you’re masochistic and Meguca Is Suffering.

Anyway I hope Kuroe slaps our hearts more in season2

MOVING ON!!!!

~Nagisa’s Wish~

Ok, I don’t remember what got me so simp over Nagisa, I think it was the heart-aching irony that Mami adopts the witch that fucking ate her. But that is my baby now and I’d die for her. Fandom Charlotte whose pink and silly and loves her mom and is Mami’s cancer-riddled girlfriend is cool and all but she isn’t a tiny Halloweeny baby whose fucking bitter angry and manically obsessed with cheese due to PTSD.

I had saw a summary of Nagisa’s Wish reposted just to quickly explain Nagisa’s backstory, and as such immediately had to search out if that crazy ride was true- so I actually watched this whole event probably before I downloaded the game. It was surreal on its own but replaying it when it came to NA didn’t lessen it any- I got to process more of what I was witnessing and as result stanned Yu pretty hard.

I guess to explain my Emotions here, saving Yu for later- calls for me to just, describe who Nagisa is as a human being and my headcanons surrounding it all with what this event gave us. Whether you consider it canon or not it’s one version of events that we were given and that I am all for accepting.

Nagisa’s Mom was a celebrity, she could have been an actress though I also like the idea of her being an Idol. She met Nagisa’s Dad oh-so romantically and got knocked up- they very well could have been married but it doesn’t seem clear enough. He seems to have left too suddenly for legal matters like that. Nagisa is approximately 11, and while she seems to remember her Father, she doesn’t in the sense of having had a relationship with him or any feelings. Her Mother has to “explain” why he left, so Nagisa was probably still young even if not a baby. What I’m getting at here is the timeline for when Nagisa’s Mom Got Like That. Nagisa can remember her from before she was, and then says that she got sick after her Dad left. So what I’m wondering is did Daddy Momoe ruin this young rich girls life, give her syphilis and then leave her with a baby she was unfit to care for in poverty? I know half of this is running on anime logic but Holy Shit all the possible ways reasons and ideas for why things could’ve gotten This Bad.

Is it ridiculously dark and edgy that the original story we were given was “Girl wishes her dying mother could have her favorite cake but then realizes OOPSIE-DAISY I could have wished for her to Not Die instead!!!!” got turned into “11yr old hates her abusive mother so much she wants to make her suffer in the most symbolic way she can and then goes mental when she isn’t able to do it”??? Yes. But if I had the mental capacity to I have to admit I was in a position to be just as bitter at that age too. I can’t call it unrealistic. I may infact be projecting hard with how much I support and enjoy this backstory.

Anyway Nagisa was in such a state of trauma and distress at a horrifically young age when she died that it broke her mental faculties so severely that even when she came back as a literal Angel of God she had blocked it out so deeply and thoroughly she seemingly regressed to an even younger capacity and hyperfixated on the trait that she has before used to try to bond with her Mother who she had died hating.

And that also slaps u right in the heart.

A N D T H E N !

~Beachside Bonds~

Just the simple structure of this story was so enjoyable and nicely done. We finally get to see the OG girls in a context we wouldn’t be able to in literally any other scenario. They’re going on a summer vacation together and Homura is sentimentally journaling every single second of it. Is this mayhaps because she’s never gotten to be this happy and blissful with these girls she loves so much??? Of course this is are you not paying attention what the fuck. Homura is so optimistic and healed and hopeful she’s acting like what she might actually be doing as a normal teenage girl. (A heartrending contrast to the end of her Valentines Special)

We get nothing short of pure fluffy Slice Of Life shenanigans on the beach which even includes a bunch of the Kamihama girls that the OG crew knows! And they talk about it! And introduce eachother! And their friends commentate on it! Ren gets to see Kyoko Not Being A Bitch and then Sayaka teases her about having made friends and oh my god my heart is turning into cottoncandy as we speak Mom holy FUCK

Sayaka’s existence fucking matters in this story! It’s her families Hotel they’re staying at and she has relationships and memories with the creepy twins that live there and she talks like a fucking person??? And gives opinions??? That aren’t just copypasted “Justice is Good and Bad things are BAD!!!!”

Mami is fresh out of her fucking Cult Drama and she’s still trying to be cool Senpai but then she DECKS Homura in the face and gets scared by the ghost stories and then turns into pudding and waxes nostalgia at Kyoko out of nowhere IT’S ALMOST LIKE SHE’S A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL????????

G H O S T S ? ? ? ?

Y U ! ? ! ? ! ? !

(IS G A Y ! ! ! !)

This whole fucking backstory and truly horrifying Romeo and Juliet on Acid love and death story between Yu and her girlfriend and like if I wasn’t fascinated enough by Yu just being the creepy organ harvester before but apparently thats what she became after she literally made some sort of wish that erased all of her memories besides the nickname her sweetheart used for her and coincidentally also added to her the task of killing all Bad People?????

Yu made a wish to be able to get rid of All Bad People preserving the innocent version of herself who grew up with this girl and it was right after a failed double suicide attempt on fucking Doomed Lovers Cliff fucking Lifetime Will You Ever.

It then pairs with Homura whose PTSD gets to shine through a bit in being unable to believe any bad sort of Madoka which how could you try to force her to at this point while Also pairing Homura with Ren in the “Gay Love Saved Our Lives: Traumatized vers & Vanilla vers”

I don’t remember if there was a symbolic finale and tbh I have forgotten a lot of the details with Yu and her girlfriend Whatsherface because that shit was just so shocking and bizarre to read and much too painful to reread in a timely fashion just.

That shit hurted but it was full of so much love and hope both doomed and stolen but still was wrapped up in the comforting concept that This Is The Universe Where Homura Gets To Be Okay This Time.

She’s still scarred beyond comprehension and this ghost drama accentuated it all but at the end of the day this is still the Safe Universe where all of them are alive and the Holy Quintet are friends and they’re all going to be okay (Godoka & Aniplex willing) and so many of us love Madoka Magica because it shows girls fighting through the same pain we’ve been through and keeping their hope alive and here we get to see them actually find peace in a clunkily written fanservicey spin-off mobile gacha game and hey, that made me happy while I got to experience it. Thanks for the ideas and memories and tragic backstories and funny thirdary characters MagiReco I’m gonna take em all and Run.

Akjsladbfalkjfsbslk If you read this all without getting a migraine or blocking me ily thanks for listening!!!!!!

TL;DR

Me likey A La Carte Valentine bc it’s silly and gay and I simp Kuro

Me likey Nagisa’s Wish bc sawft baby is good and so are Tragic Edgy Backstories

Me likey Beachside Bonds bc Gay Ghosts and Our Girls Finally Get To Be Happy Peaceful(ish) Teenage Girls and that’s all I want for them ;w;

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ASOOT Timeline: July 2012 (Crisis at the Hospital)

Things gotta get worse before they get better. Also, quick note, since everyone’s favorite ninja maid is literally on the verge of entering the story, how would you like me to refer to her so that I don’t get her mixed up with the other Akane? With the Hajimes it was easy because one of them has a fan-given nickname, but it’s harder in this case. Do let me know!–Timeline Anon

July 12:

Iroha and Jataro have an early-morning heart-to-heart. Jataro still feels scared to take off his mask because of how terribly ugly his mother told him he is. Iroha, in turn, tells Jataro about her own horrible childhood: her family of famous artists locked her in a room so she’d produce great art, never let her leave, stopped all suicide attempts, and gave her beatings if she tried to escape. With Iroha’s encouragement and support, Jataro finally takes off his mask, revealing himself to be a cute child. The two of them (plus Nikei, who shows up briefly to see Jataro’s maskless face) officially become their own little family, and “Big Sis” Iroha promises to make sure that Jataro knows how much he’s loved.

Kokoro continues to be haunted by the guilt of what she did to her daughter. Eventually, she decides to do her best to make things right, and so she pulls Yoruko aside and tells her the story: she married and had a child specifically so that she could study the most primitive emotion. To that end, she isolated her daughter in a laboratory for eight years, put a microchip in her brain, and ran constant experiments on her. This only stopped when her husband ran away with the child. Yoruko tells Kokoro that the fact that she feels regret about what she did makes her a better person than the WOH parents. Kokoro, who has figured out that Yoruko is working with Kasugano, asks for her (and his) help in finding out what happened to her husband and daughter, just so she has closure on them. They check the data from the microchip (which was never removed) and discover that Kokoro’s daughter is alive. Kokoro, with Yoruko’s support, plans to use the signal to find her daughter’s location. She also becomes an ally of Kasugano.

Everyone in the Quantum Crew receives code names based on tarot cards. Hajime is Fool, Sonia is Empress, Gundham is Emperor, Umeko is Sun, Mikan is Lovers, Yoruko is Temperance, and Chiaki is Star.

Kotoko is officially set to be moved to Chiaki’s house within the next few days.

Hiroshi badly beats Masaru into unconsciousness. Iroha witnesses the whole thing, runs away out of fear, and calls 110. Masaru ends up in the ICU with severe injuries, while Hiroshi is arrested for his crime.

Kanata’s phone call with Nagito is interrupted by Hikaru informing her of the situation, and they immediately get to work on performing emergency surgery on Masaru.

Kakeru, who is still trying to get the WOH investigation unblocked, is summoned to the hospital in order to deal with the legal fallout of what happened. He brings Midori with him. Tsurugi is dispatched to the hospital as well.

Hajime hears about the incident from Nikei, who heard about it from Iroha. He briefly blames himself for not acting fast enough before Yoruko gets him to pull himself together.

Nagito directs Mikan to the hospital, where she goes to help Kanata and Hikaru.

Iroha cries in the waiting room of the hospital, where she is comforted by Setsuka. Setsuka tells Tsurugi that Iroha is her little sister, and together, they explain what happened. Iroha blames herself for running away and not helping Masaru when she had the chance. Nikei arrives at the hospital shortly afterwards, and Setsuka claims that he’s her brother. He plans to update his website with the news of Masaru’s hospitalization as soon as he gets home. Both tell Iroha that it’s not her fault and that the best thing they can do is support Masaru, help the other kids, and make sure the terrible parents get what’s coming to them.

Kanata finishes her emergency operation and informs everybody of the results. Masaru is currently stable, but his injuries are very serious, and she’s concerned that he might have suffered some brain damage. Mikan agrees to stay at the hospital and keep helping Kanata, even if it means she won’t be there to help move Kotoko.

As she leaves, Midori decides that when Masaru’s awake, she wants to visit him. She knows what hospitals are like, and she wants him to know that he’s not alone.

Down at police headquarters, Tsurugi interrogates Hiroshi (he’s been given carte blanche for this by his father). Hiroshi refuses to say anything at first, and the interrogation gets pretty nasty, but eventually, Hiroshi talks. He says that Hope’s Peak gives him protection/immunity for as long as Masaru is enrolled there in exchange for the chance to study Masaru’s talent. He doesn’t, however, seem to have any remorse about abusing Masaru, as he claims that Masaru had it coming for being a “troublemaker” and that it’s also Hope’s Peak’s fault for not getting back to him after the Kasugano broadcast. Also, he mentions that a maid came by his house a few days ago. Tsurugi declares that Hiroshi will be detained until his legal hearing, and he makes him sign a confession after punching him in the face a few times. Afterwards, he sends some officers to look for one Akane Taira, who he suspects to be a witness in this case.

The Quantum Crew finds out about Akane’s possible involvement, and Yoruko is reminded of Sora.

//Man, July was an eventful month : P

//Also, perhaps referring to both Akanes by their surnames would work?