#to this day madomagi has surprising details still being noticed

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waking from my slumber just to say:

everyone ignores this, but at the end of the original manga (aka not the new version) homura doesnt use madokas red ribbons as a substitute for her old hairband. she uses them to make twintails too, similar to madokas own but way longer.

ive always loved twintails homura and to this day im still surprised nobody ever mentions that goated design.

also, mamis stockings are purple, which ive always noted was an interesting choice... until i realized madoka also has someone elses colors in her outfit: yellow on the body of her dress. its a stretch, but sayaka also has a bit of yellow (her hairpins and ig the hilts of her swords) and kyouko has pink on the skirt part of her dress. meanwhile, homura seems to be the only one who doesnt integrate anybody elses colors...

while i believe that the diamonds on her legging-boots are more of a reference to her soul gem shape, i never noticed these other similarities. i once read somewhere that madoka magica has wonderful magical girl designs, because despite the outfits being clearly distinct and not following the "all magical girls have the same outfit except the colors change" à la sailor moon and others, theyre still aesthetically consistent. i never understood how exactly, until now.

So I recently noticed something about Homura Akemi’s magical girl outfit that I’ve never seen anyone else mention. Probably because it’s honestly a bit of a stretch but I think it’s fun.

So in her magical girl design she has this weird chain of diamonds down her leggings (boots??? Both???) that always confused me because of how much it looked like Kyoko’s chains. It’s was then also realized that she and Mami are the only girls to have a ribbon neck tie and a bow at the back of their dress. And I tried to see if she had design aspects that aligned with Sayaka and Madoka, and I think sayaka’s is a little bit of a stretch, but they both wear a pleated skirt that is their theme color with a white trim at the end of it.

But I realized something fun when I got to thinking about madoka’s outfit and seeing if anything matched, and I realized that both she and Madoka have a hairstyle that comes in two and are tied with ribbons (Madoka has twin tails, Homura has twin braids). Homura later wears Madokas red ribbons after she becomes Madokami. And then I realized that Homura doesn’t have anything matching Madoka for most of the series. The only thing that tied her to Madoka she renounced to try to save her, and she only gets something that ties back to her after she failed.

Anyways again bit of a stretch but I think it’s fun :)