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i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.
Top Ten Madoka Magica Songs
#7 Taenia Memoriae
So who is “Madoka”? Do you know her? Is she some kind of anime character or something? …it seems to have such a nostalgic ring to it…
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One of the scenes in PMMM that absolutely breaks me is Homura checking up on Madoka’s family during the Wraith Arc. That pained smile on her face is just 😭
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.
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