#magi talk

[magicalgirlypop]

i'm so well fed with amazing female characters in magical girl anime that i forget there's people who only watch shonen and think that's a whole representation of female characters in anime. how sad. you need some sailor moon, precure, and cardcaptor sakura, in your life.

[kelparty]

"Facing it"

Alt background :)) This took me so long ong I've never put so much work into a background. This is me wishing we'll get a scene like this in the movie.

Timelapse (made with Clip Studio Paint)

Yes the scene referenced is from Pandora Hearts

[beastwhimsy]

misunderstanding

[tothepointofinsanity]

MAGICAL DOCTOR.

[wiltkingart]

what year is it

[wyfy-meltdown]

Nagisa has such a complex and emotional backstory (the one presented within Magia Record) and while I love the memes, I'd also love to see her analyzed the same way as the Holy Quintet girls more.

When it comes to Nagisa's relationship with her mother, it is clearly emotionally and verbally abusive in a very realistic way. Nagisa loves her mom. Her mom is still her mom despite everything, and Nagisa wants to love and forgive her. Nagisa also hates her mom; The mom who yells at her, is implied to hit her, and tells her she's wasting money and time. Nagisa tries her best to support and care for her mom despite everything; she acts like a hit dog still coming back to the hitter because it's all she has.

Speaking of dogs, I want to draw parallels between Nagisa and Inui. Kyuubey specifically mentions that another girl in similar circumstances* (*to Nagisa) wished to have the attention of the boy she liked; cut to Inui, who talks to Kyuubey about her worries with the Sleepwalking Ghost and her boyfriend. From this we can guess that Inui is impoverished, has a difficult relationship with her mom, and has the same goal as Nagisa; to be loved in a conditionless way by someone who endlessly hurts them.

Inui is a perfect parallel for Nagisa; Nagisa has become disillusioned with the concept of "love" to the point of viewing all fairytales and stories in a gloomy light; Nagisa has not been loved in the way a child needs to be loved, and so cannot fathom the type of carefree love shown in fairytales. Inui on the other hand is so desperate for the attention and love she hasn't gotten she's gotten into a relationship with (presumably) the first douchebag who showed any kind of interest in her; she craves a fairytale romance and to be swept off her feet by a prince and so in her mind Sho can't be anything but that prince. Both of them cling to their delusions and coping mechanisms while further being hurt by people supposed to love and protect them.

Nagisa resents her mother despite craving her affection; she considers using her wish to make her mom regret being unkind to her (a vengeful fantasy of an abused child [she hopes for an apology and for things to become perfect]) before finally settling on making her mom unknowningly seal her own doom (ie, the cheesecake).

Nagisa's cheesecake is an incredibly important object for both literal and symbolic purposes. She wished for it instead of saving her mother's life; It represents her final revenge against a woman who never treated her kindly. It also represents the unobtainable love Nagisa searches for even as Charlotte; "unable to make the cheese she loves" aka "unable to obtain love". There is a more uplifting (albeit dark) symbolism here too; that being Charlotte's unfortunate decapitation of Mami. Mami, who in Rebellion is Bebe's caretaker and mother figure, is eaten by Charlotte: Mami is the "cheese" Charlotte loves and has finally found.

Nagisa is abandoned by everyone: the only one who hasn't abandoned her is her mother, who is convinced Nagisa will abandon her. They have a vicious cycle of mistrust and dependence. Right before she becomes a witch, Yuu promises "I'll never leave your side"; after taking the only person who never abandoned Nagisa, Yuu promises "I'll never leave your side". Those were some of the last words Nagisa heard: the crippling loneliness, guilt, and betrayal that sunk in is what caused the birth of Charlotte. What makes it worse is those are words Nagisa was likely told by her parents at some point: afterall, parents will say anything to comfort their child, especially before something like hospitalization or leaving the family entirely.

Nagisa is 12 at her oldest possible age and 8 at her youngest possible age. She is a tragic figure on the same level as Sayaka, Kyoko, and Mami. The only true closure we have for her at the moment is her relationship with Mami (and the other Holy Quintet members) in Rebellion.

[bitchliteraria1906]

Trying to write about how Kyoko and Homura being religious affects their characters but I'm not smart enough to make it coherent.

[austajunk]

I'm almost finished with PMMM and these two are my world, okay????

[clementiaart]

just once

[shibusawaz]

”what’s your favorite genre of animanga?”

normal-ish series with some deeper themes that eventually morph into absurd hellscapes that make you question what perception and reality could be

[magicalgirlypop]

honestly i wish the only way for magical girls to get respect wasn't for them to be as close to shonen as possible.

"unlike other magical girls, precure has hand to hand combat! its dbz for girls!"

"i know princess tutu's name is stupid but its actually not girly at all!"

"sailor moon isn't ACTUALLY for little girls because [insert scene of characters suffering or creepy stuff from the manga here]"

"madoka is better than other magical girls because its DARK"

like do magical girls really needs to be dbz but girly to be worthy of respect? can't they just be... magical girl shows? a show can be unapologetically girly and aimed at girls and still be worth checking out. yes, princess tutu is girly. yes, sailor moon is girly. yes, precure is girly. yes, madoka, despite being a seinen and darker, ultimately upholds the messages of the genre. and they're all awesome and deserve respect on their own merits, not as a comparison to popular shonen shows.

[somnisweet]

Theory i had regarding the new magical girls in Walpurgisnacht Rising

( which is probably very wrong lol but bare with me )

I think its likely the two new girls we see in the trailer will essentially be "secretaries" for Homucifer like how Madokami had Sayaka and Nagisa, I believe in order to ensure that her plans went smoothly she enlisted the help of past magical girls who had turned into witches, that before the events of Rebellion were living their afterlife in Madokamis heaven

We see in the trailer this book of witches which i assume Homura will have acsess too and i think will be where Homura pulls these girls from

Now unlike Sayaka and Nagisa i think that these two would not be working willinglly for Homucifer but are simply left with no other choice than to aid her

In a way its a repeat of the lives they lived before but now instead of being pawns in Kyubeys cruel system they are pawns to Homura

Being pulled from paradise back into the same life that caused them so much pain

Now in this shot we see i believe suggests that these two are actually plotting against Homura, we see them pretty obviously being connected to Kyubey so i think its safe to assume they have a partnership going on

My idea essentially would be that these girls long for Madokami and the hope that she gave to them. Homura is trying to keep Madokami from comming and these two with the help of Kyubey want Madokami back so she can rule again

( With Kyubey secretly having his own plans that hinge on Homura not being able to intervene )

This is just a guess but if this was to be true i can see these two not neccasarily being evil but just desperate to be saved

This religious belief in their "savior" would be driving them to the point they would do anything for her return which would be so easily exploited by Kyubey

There is probably also some symbolism here about how those in power use religion as a way to obtain control and the thought of Kyubey finding a way to use Madoka even after her sacrifice to keep tricking girls is so evil and honestly so him lol

But yeah im not sure this was just an idea im certainly intrigued about what these two mean for the movies plot

[ky00nn]

[lavenderr-starrs]

The style for the witches in the anime are so good

I’d kill a man to look like the walpursnagcth however the hell you spell her name

[timegrrrl]

mami tomoe after suggesting to wish for a cake if madoka doesn't know what to wish for

[gaylienstage]

okay upon watching the new teaser trailer for walpurgis rising, i wanna say that i have my suspicions that the girl waltzing with madoka in this scene isn't homura.

i don't have much to confirm my suspicions, aside from the fact that this "homura" just... looks and feels a bit different from the homura we know.

the first thing i noticed is that her eyes are a different color. at first i thought it may just be a lighting thing, but comparing it to the shot we got of Tired Homura from the first trailer, the eye colors are vastly different.

i find it particularly interesting that for the most part, in both trailers for the movie that we've gotten so far, whenever we get a glimpse of the homura with this specific headband below, her eyes are always closed. the exception being the new waltz scene, where we get a good look of her eyes up close for the first time. i feel like this was a deliberate choice when they were making these trailers.

also, i noticed that this homura's hair looks slightly wavy at the end, whereas regular homura's hair is straighter? this other homura's hair looks a bit more purple, too, but i might be looking too much into it.

lastly, this movie poster pretty much confirms the existence of another "homura", whether or not this is homura exactly, or another entity that is linked to her, i'm not sure.

+ this shot from the new trailer where we see homura's reflection in a compact mirror, her eyes are darker here, and her headband in this scene resembles the one from the back-facing homura in the poster. i think this is homura as we know her.

i'm interested to hear other people's thoughts, though. who do you think this "other homura" might be? i might've missed some stuff too, so feel free to add more