#sayaka is best

[heyitsthatweirdo]

I have finished Puella Magi Madoka Magica. That was very good. I really liked it. I probably would've loved it if I watched it back in 2011, if I wasn't scared off due to...a certain scene. Still, this was an enjoyable show, even if it was a little overly edgy in some places.

[sayaberry]

[rainbow-taishi]

Butterfly

[frostyrainn]

okay girl!

[bluuscreen]

this is a mix of me figuring out how i wanna draw everyone + just needing a reference because i’m bad at drawing faces consistently sometimes lol

i’m gonna do everyone from sdr2 at some point as well, and probably v3 when i finish playing it :3

bonus version with gender/sexuality headcanons + some extra notes under the cut :p

so i have junko down as straight/cishet because i genuinely didn’t know what to do with her and she’s like kinda canonically homophobic [/hj?] but then my friend said e sees her as a bisexual who thinks being gay is a choice because she chooses to pursue men and i’ve decided that’s what the straight flag there means now

honestly zero solid gender headcanons for chihiro. something girl adjacent for sure but mostly i think she’s just vibing and doesn’t care what people call her as long as they aren’t asses about it [also uses she/he/they]

fun little design note regarding toko, i choose the pupil/iris shape based on Vibes but she’s the only one with a mix of circle/square. if i’d drawn syo, she’d have the opposite [square iris, circular pupils]

i like to think leon doesn’t actually have the right nose bridge shape for those piercings between his eyes but he did have rhinestones and super glue and the ability to make very poor decisions

kiyotaka’s earring is in the gay ear 👍 i think. i googled it and i’m pretty sure it’s the left one. pre-despair mondo jokingly dared him to get a piercing or they wouldn’t be bros anymore and kiyotaka took it seriously even after mondo said he was joking. during the killing game taka just has no fucking clue why he has an earring and thinks monokuma must have put it there

[samble-movedd]

everyone should like madoka kaname. everyone on this website. everyone on this planet.

[etoneokay]

HI THERE I HAVE A NEW KYOSAYA ART !!

aaaand happy pride for everyone

[minimechacowboy]

Btw I love your Danganronpa x JJBA content 🥰 (PLEASE MAKE MORE I'M A SUCKER FOR BOTH)

tyyyyy and oki doki!!!!!

it's actually insanely fun to draw these weirdos and i've been trying to come up with a story for the au for a bit

[spittyfishy]

I couldn’t fit all the girls in this unfortunately, but I really do wish danganronpa had treated the women better

[spring-gogurt98]

kyu-kurarin

[corisanna]

Actually, I'm not done talking about things I love about ANAI! Your Sayaka is *chef's kiss*

The way you went from "writing Sayaka is hard and I'm having trouble figuring her out" to "Sayaka Miki Is Done With Your Bullshit" and her actively be aware of "I'm a support character at best. That is going to change if it's the last thing I do. Just have to wait for a scene change."

You made me care about Sayaka in a way the original show never quite accomplished. She's genuinely my second favorite character in ANAI after Hitsugaya. Depending on the scene and my mood she even steals his number one spot.

I wanted to include specific lines of hers that I go "*points* I liked that!" at, but soon noticed it would be almost her entire script. So.

Here's to your Sayaka whom I adore very much 😌

Thank you!

Interestingly, the more I worked on Sayaka, the more attached I got to her. I had already been soft for her from seeing her arc as an allegory for depression and social stress a teen generally doesn't have the life experience to mitigate careening into a tragic, self-destructive psychological breakdown, but nudging her actions in ANAI to continue at the angle of the more even-headed and positive mindset she started with at the beginning of the anime before getting sabotaged by the contract endeared her to me even more. The way I wrote her made her canon story feel even more tragic in contrast to "what could have been." The life details I reasoned backwards to get included some things that are personal, so I got even more into her head. I love to write her now. She's my favorite PMMM character.

Coincidentally, that "adding personal details to the canon doll that already resonates with me" process is a factor in why Toshiro is tied with her as a major favorite fictional character of mine, with Homura a more moderate degree of favorite. In general fandom, I mean; I try to not play too much to favorites in writing ANAI. I don't know how successful I am at that.

I've gotten a lot of similar comments about ANAI Sayaka over the years. Those and things I see in fandom in general always make me wonder why she gets so much negative commentary or even hate. I find her canon self to be a sympathetic portrayal of teen angst and existential crisis causing a painful spiral. She makes sense to me even when she lashes out and tries to create life stability through some rigid morality and defensive rejection of people and their help. I've seen people scorn that she acted more okay in the immediate aftermath of Mami's death; I read that as intense masking of her feelings. She feels real. Maybe it's because I had a depressive spiral as a teen that I tried hard to mask as being okay, had more and saw friends having them in adulthood, and saw myself in her even before I started playing with her for my story.

One of my subplot goals for ANAI is to develop Sayaka's character through her personal struggles that she masks with cheer and teasing to be more stable and in a better place mentally. I hope I can pull it off. I've wished for better things for her since I first saw the anime.

[kyosaya-enthusiast]

KYOSAYA WIPPPP!!!!!!!

WOOOHOOOOOO SCHOOL GOT CANCELED FOR ME TMR SO I MIGHT GET THIS DONE A BITT FASTER

She wants that cookie so effing bad/ref

[cryokxsss]

[serenaira]

Christina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown, The Penguin Book of Mermaids • Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Episode 9 • Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion • Hanokage, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie -Rebellion-, Volume 3 • Mabel, Episode 33 • Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion • Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

[tea-cat-arts]

People on this website will be like "you can't handle the moral nuance of Madoka Magica! Not everything is black and white" and then claim everyone criticizing Homura's actions thinks she's a terrible person in the same sentence

[mrcatfishing]

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