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Why a former diehard shounen fan ended up spending over 2000 words praising a magical girl show.
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When I was kid, I was really easy to please. When it came to entertainment, all you’d have to do was show me something from a genre I liked and I’d pretty much be guaranteed to like it. Race cars? **** yeah. Superpower…
Read full review on AniList →The Line Between Hope and Despair
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica (PMMM) is an anime with an outer appearance of a cute, "[Mahou Shoujo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl)" and hidden under this is a façade that is violently hacked off in Episode 3. PMMM is not just an anime…
Read full review on AniList →The anime that gives me hope.
#~~~___Madoka Magica_ is the greatest work of fiction ever conceived__~~~
~~~I am a very cynical person. One might call me a "doomer". It's not uncommon for the themes of a work to resonate with me, but not convince me of much of anything. I'll give it a high score and move on with my life. And even…
Read full review on AniList →An overwhelmingly good subversion of common magical girl tropes and more
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica is many things, its a subversion of the magical girl genre, a dark solution to Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question", a ****** up journey into the world of witches and selfless wishes. But to me, the biggest thing this anime is, is the story of a kind hearted girl who wants t…
Read full review on AniList →The Tragedy of Akemi Homura
# ~~~___THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE TV SERIES PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA AND BY EXTENSION MOVIES 1 AND 2___~~~
I need to preface this by saying I have never seen the appeal of magical girls. School girls running around in frilly clothes saving the day and positivity spewing out of th…
Read full review on AniList →A grimdark deconstruction of the magical girl genre with an ending that will keep you coming back.
If you haven't heard of Madoka Magica, you might have suspected that it was a magical girl show. If you have heard of Madoka Magica, you probably know that it's a deconstruction of the magical girl genre... and a pretty **** grim one, at that. Don't let the happy, bubbly art style and cute little pi…
Read full review on AniList →Madoka Magica isn't about Madoka, it's a story about expectations and the reality beyond them.
I recently rewatched Madoka Magica, so it's up for a review. I’ll be reviewing this as if the movie didn’t exist.
Madoka Magica isn't about Madoka, the majority of the show she’s a scared girl with serious self-doubt issues and dangerously low self-esteem. She just like Sayaka is pretending to do,…
Read full review on AniList →I am in disbelief. I will never forget watching this masterpiece. Madoka. There will never be a better anime than this.
Generally, I hate writing. It is not one of my strengths or likes. But when something is so effective in its delivery, I need a place to express my thoughts. Because this is by far the best first-watch of an anime I've ever done, and I don't think anything will ever come close to this experience eve…
Read full review on AniList →watch sailor moon and princess tutu first then come back to me.
Waring this review may contain spoilers
First impressions, so today we are going to be reviewing the critical acclaimed magical girl deconstruction(TM) known as madoka magica which are clearly not an overrated and blotted piece of **** that not even a good art/ animation or soundtrack could save.…
Read full review on AniList →Fuera de edgy, pretenciosa y estrafalaria. Es uno de los mejores Animes de todos los tiempos.
# ~~~ __Fuera de edgy, pretenciosa y estrafalaria. Es uno de los mejores Animes de todos los tiempos.__~~~
(Reseña con spoilers mínimos y en __español__)
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Al igual que otros animes pertenecientes a…
Read full review on AniList →Didn't expect that what I thought was some cutesy anime, would be THE anime that transcends genres
I really like consuming media completely blind at first, since I love being caught off guard while experiencing something, plus it eliminates any expectations I'd have, so I would be able to form my own opinion without being affected by any external factors. And if there's anything that deserves to…
Read full review on AniList →The only magical girl anime you should probably be watching
__I'm bored. I KNOW! I'll do a review of Madoka Magica. That'll be fun.__
Disclaimer: This is an opinion from someone who is extremely biased and very hyperbolic. Take what I say with a grain of salt.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Another absolute masterpiece outputted by Shaft. Now I love Psychologi…
Read full review on AniList →Simple Deception, Masterfully Done.
~~~this show is like 10 years old there's going to be spoilers~~~
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The art of deceiving has been done countless times throughout stories. Season 2 of Attack On Titan with its reveal, or Vinland Saga being more than a story of revenge. With Attack on Titan, Isayama planne…
Read full review on AniList →A Prayer Surpassing Time. The Arrow of Light. The Goddess of Hope.
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After sudden inspiration struck and I decided to start writing anime and manga reviews in an effort to externalize my thoughts, broaden my horizons and re-examine my approach on what storytelling means to me, I also faced a serious dilemma. First impressions are im…
Read full review on AniList →Idolization and Deception in Madoka Magica
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~~~Deception is the core of Madoka Magica. Deception to the viewers going into an experience far more overwhelming and tragic than its cover would have you believe, deception of cutesy aesthetics masking how cruel and merciless the wor…
Read full review on AniList →Madoka Magica and how it twists the lens in exploring the power of mistakes
Everyone wants to fix a mistake.
Throughout life they are ever constant. You might’ve messed up on the job and gotten fired for the littlest thing, upset someone close you, lost a chance to make a new friend, got out of a bad argument with someone close to you, failed a test, hoped you would’ve pla…
Read full review on AniList →In a world that the series definitively helped shape, what does the seminal 2011 anime offer almost ten years later?
~~~All of my reviews contain __spoilers __for the reviewed material. This is your only warning.
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Here’s a hypothetical for you. Can a series that relies largely on a plot twist--some kind of tonal pivot at the very least--still be compelling if you already know it’s co…
Read full review on AniList →Dark, emotional, and yet, beautiful and majestic, with an inspiring message of hope.
Lately I've been watching old anime I had forgotten about. I would encourage the same for you. I think that, sometimes, one can't really appreciate a series or film when they are too young, and that they could always see it in a different and hopefully better light years later. It took me several ye…
Read full review on AniList →Madoka Magica é uma experiência, quem sabe seja porque eu gosto muito, mas é um anime que vale a pena.
Puela Magic Madoka Magica
__Introdução__
Vamos começar entendendo como eu conheci esse anime, na verdade eu só descobri ele, nem lembro se foi por recomendação ou não, mas eu já era fã de Mahou Shoujo, mas não esperava pelo que esse anime fosse. Ao terminar, também me tornei fã de Madoka Magica, me…
Read full review on AniList →Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away
>Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
This show is such a tightly integrated experience such that it would be a disservice to talk about aspects like story or visuals separately,…
Read full review on AniList →A story that changes over time, fantastically.
Simple Synopsis: Puella Magi Madoka Magica is everything but it would seem, as you learn very early on, though it constantly evolves overtime. It starts off as a very easy going show. Madoka, our main Heroine wakes up to a strange dream she had about a girl in the midst of battle. That girl later tr…
Read full review on AniList →The show is MadoHomu, and MadoHomu works because it's versatile and emotionally heightens whatever you do with it.
It's a testimony to the fact that good art can come about from a lot of mediocre elements; the series isn't successful because it's well-written or tightly plotted, or because it deals with any ideas that hadn't been done to death in anime and visual novels for at least a decade before its release.…
Read full review on AniList →Segue à risca a cartilha Shoujo e depois auto-sacrifício, religião, viagens no tempo, destino e física teórica.
A revisita a este animê que para mim ainda é meu favorito -- pela originalidade e pela fuga do lugar-comum e dos roteiros fáceis que a maioria das adaptações dos quadrinhos japoneses são submetidos -- foi feita em apenas uma noite. Mais de quatro horas depois posso reafirmar com convicção: é uma obr…
Read full review on AniList →Anime che parte pieno di colori per finire in una spirale di odio e oscurità senza pari.Capolavoro.
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Madoka magica è un anime del 2011 prodotto da Aniplex, stiamo parlando dell'anime più sorprendente che io abbia mai visto e che è entrato di diritto tra i miei preferiti facendomi appassionare al genere mahou shojo.
TRAMA: vede le vicende…
Read full review on AniList →"Brilliant" is all I want to say, but it's too short for the summary
__Scattered Thoughts #3__: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica
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Some light spoilers throughout, heavy spoilers are marked, if any.
I’ve heard a lot about this anime, mostly praise, but I wasn’t sure what to make of it going in. With such heavi…
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