#urobuchi what is this??

[8r14r-r0s3]

I adore madoka magica but when i think about it too hard the amount of inconsistencies that pop up from the soft magic system confuse the ever loving shit out of me

POINT ONE: what the fuck is all of the magic in episode one??? What are the purple light beams Homura is shooting??? What fucking gun is that Akemi??? Why can Mami heal Kyubey??? Can magical girls heal other people or just themselves??? Cause I thought healing other people was like a special thing only Sayaka (in this story) can do??? What’s up with the weird texture that pops up when Mami arrives??? It shows up when she makes the ribbon barrier to block Sayaka and Madoka from Gertrude in episode two, is that just like a force field she can set up??? That’s never explained, is that her magic power??? Cause

POINT TWO: what the actual fuck is going on with Mami??? Magical girls have a weapon and at least 1-2 magic powers. This is very consistent, Homura has a shield, time stop, and hammer space, Sayaka has a sword, healing powers, and speed boosts, Kyoko has a spear, barriers, and illusions, and this was seemingly true of Mami too, until fucking Portable happened. At first it seemed that her weapon was Guns and her magic powers were Ribbons and potentially the other weird shit she does that no one else does (Sayaka’s magic bat, seeming safety circles, healing Kyubey), but her guns are made of her ribbons, meaning she either doesn’t have a weapon or doesn’t have a clearly defined magic power. What the actual fuck is going on with her????

POINT THREE: All of Charlotte’s Labyrinth. Why is her grief seed outside of the hospital when according to her Magia Record story she witches inside the hospital? Why hasn’t it already hatched? Where’s the big witch explosion when it hatches? Where is her body? Why does the labyrinth form BEFORE the grief seed hatches??? On the topic of Nagisa, what’s HER magic power?? Is it the weird cake ritual thing?? The thing she does with the serving platters to homulily’s familiars? Cause I thought those were witch power things?

POINT FOUR: Why do Elly and Izabel pull people into their labyrinths when witches are supposed to gain power by people committing die? Or if they gain power by drawing people into labyrinths and eating them, why do the people the Witch Kiss not enter labyrinths? Also what are the exact effects of a witches kiss? Why does Gertrude’s make a woman try to jump off a building but Elly’s starts a death cult? Is it based on the strength of the witch? Cause Elly goes down in one hit to the weakest magical girl in the show so that can’t be it. Is it based on their nature/“curse”? Because then what does Izabel’s “vane” nature have to do with Homura’s relatively unspecific ideation in episode 10?

POINT FIVE: what the fuck happens when a familiar becomes a witch?? Why do they still drop grief seeds despite not having soul gems from which they hatched??? If they don’t produce energy from their conversion like magical girls do, why do the incubators allow this to happen??? Isn’t it wasteful??? Also will they be carbon copies of their witch??? Are there just TWO Albertines in Mitakihara????

POINT SIX: How did the cycle start?? What was the first magical girl fighting if there weren’t any witches that existed yet???? I understand this is nitpicky but were they fighting wraiths???

I have so many questions please help QwQ

[xbuster]

Fate/Zero is a really good series of books for people who hate Saber

[tariah23]

https://x.com/manglegrove/status/1754679523440800001?s=46&t=QiKHdDdvKoMxWGyakqTvxA

[neomedievalistbr]

additionally you like madoka magica, which the creator of, gen urobuchi, made a lolicon vn called saya no uta. LMFAO

[around-your-throat]

looking up a madoka-like author to see if they're a man which would massively impact my opinion of it

[tothepointofinsanity]

What would you like to see in the upcoming new madoka magica movie

I hope more than anything we get to see the usual play with different mediums to capture that dream-like sequences from the past few shows. To satisfy my thirst for the fancy pancy artistry, of course.

Secondly, it is imperative that I cherish every new scene with Sayaka in it. Someone else mentioned it already, but if Sayaka was to fight Homura (angel versus devil), I would pass out in the cinema/pos. I wouldn't mind if God and the Devil talk it out. We love good x evil tropes.

Lastly, regardless of what happens, I want to see everyone have a happy ending. Homura included. And I'm praying it's not a "they all died and lived peacefully in heaven!" ending.

[biomic]

all the origami watching tsubasa while he discovers all the juuto victims strung up in trees..... this is so fucking eerie i love it

[corokoro]

im about to make a statement that might get me bonked on the head by two different fandoms

kaito and astarion have a similar core desire for power, in that they came to desire it because of trauma and basically want these potentially dangerous powers so they can never be hurt like that again, when in reality that power is unnecessary when trying to protect themselves and it's not worth the corruption

but astarion (and everything else in baldur's gate 3) is written with so much more nuance and was carefully crafted with proper impact, you can tell how much care was put into it...while kaito is unfortunately not written that well, like he has potential which is why i love him, but from an objective standpoint, he's not written well, and part of it is just because the writers have him say the same things over and over and he kinda stays static almost, he has moments of development but they don't really change him, and while character development can be "this character does not learn the lesson they should learn and suffer the consequences", even that feels poorly written. kaito becomes the final villain in gaim at the last minute, when hes been on the good side for the entire story up to that point, and then they threw in some random misogyny for kicks even though he was genuinely connected with mai?? like kaito's a jerk but he's the same guy who helped shapool even after the dude literally drugged him with knockout spray and put him in trouble because of it. there was always going to be a clash of ideals between kouta and kaito, but it felt like it only went deadly just so they can live up to the fight they promised through the entire season, especially when you remember all the scenes where kaito helps the rest of the main cast despite him fundamentally disagreeing with how power works, how many times he works well with kouta in situations they both get into

the promised fight between kouta and kaito didn't work in the end because it felt like the fates were forcing it to happen, changing characterization so suddenly just to keep up with promises, a fight between two people who were on the same side just only days ago. the promised fight with cazador works because the fates wove together naturally, pushing the party to destroy a man who had a calculated horrific plan in the making for 200 years, something that astarion was always going to try and stop no matter what - he didn't need to have his nature forcibly changed for the fight to make sense.

[magicalgirlagency]

So, the trailer for Walpurgis no Kaiten has dropped, and like always, I am confused and struggling to give a fuck about it.

Do I get bonus point if I act like I care for something that hasn't been touched on for 10 years, has most likely aged like milk, and will have everyone in the cast still suffering?

[masodemic]

If 1984 was promoted the way Psycho-Pass is …

[elmelloill]

lev don't rewatch psycho pass. you don't need to do that.

[c0rpsedemon]

every1 who's ever been exposed to a quote by gen urobuchi deserves financial compensation

[uncleasriel]

thunder

Reblog and put in the tags, which fictional characters death still angers you today, or makes no sense.

[sasaranurude]

I liked kamen rider w SO MUCH that after I finished it i was like "OH BOY WHICH KAMEN RIDER DO I WATCH NEXT!" and I saw Gaim was written by urobuchi and had what seemed to be a batshit premise so i was like cool awesome I'll watch gaim! and well I am 8 episodes in and am wondering if this ever gets good or what.

[atamascolily]

Rebellion is, among many other things, taking something that fans wanted from the original PMMM anime, namely the girls fighting as a team in a more conventional magical girl style against more conventional monsters of the week, and serving it up in a world where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts--only to reveal that it was all a dream of Homura's that she created as a coping mechanism to deal with suicidal levels of despair. Which leads me to wonder what exactly Walpurgis no Kaiten might do along similar lines... and, given the marketing thus far, I think it's going to interrogate Homura's character--specifically, the varying fan interpretations of her based on her actions at the end of Rebellion.

By which I mean, you know all the fan arguments that "Homura is a selfish monster" and "Homura did nothing wrong" that have been going on ever since Rebellion was released? I think what Urobuchi et al. is going to do is give us a version of Homura who is just as bad as some people think she always was--a ruthless, cruel, vindictive, remorseless overdramatic bitch who manipulates people for her own amusement/goals (including/especially her other self!)--and a Homura who is "innocent" but nonetheless forced to face the consequences of her actions independent of their morality, and put them directly in conflict with each other and the rest of the cast. Homura will be forced to confront herself at her worst, and she won't enjoy it one bit.

But if this is the case, then the twist (because there's always a twist) will ultimately reveal that these two Homuras are, on some fundamental level the same and always have been; that in the end, all people are a mix of good and bad, and it's the act of splitting/separation/doubling/mirroring/projection/demonizing itself that is the real problem. Only by acknowledging this truth about herself and accepting herself as she truly is, for better and for worse can Homura be fully whole--and hopefully healed from the terrible self-loathing that has plagued her ever since her first chronological appearance in the narrative.

In other words, just as Madoka said in Rebellion, "Homura is Homura no matter what" (my emphasis). I think Walpurgis no Kaiten is going to explore just how far that last part goes--and just how far Madoka's love and compassion (and our own!) extends.

Do I think the outcome will be worth it? Yes, but it will likely take us to some very dark and uncomfortable places first. "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it" applies just as much to the audience as it does to the characters in this series.

[kurozu501]

i really want to know what the hell happened behind the scenes that they released the madoka rebellion movie in 2013 with a twist ending and cliffhanger clearly intended to set up a sequel and then just… did nothing. for a decade. the sequel is now finally slated to come out at the end of 2024, 11 years later. was the money from the pmmm gacha game really that good, that they just felt no need to continue the main anime? was there some kind of insane production difficulties going on with the team making this movie? did they have trouble convincing urobuchi to come back for it? whats the deal?