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Feb 05 2011

Categories: episodic review, puella magi madoka magica
Tagged: madoka magica

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There’s No Way I Would Regret This

(As…
1. The Irish Government guarantees the loans of its banks
2. Jennifer Aniston lets Brad Pitt film a movie with Angelina Jolie
3. You log into World of Warcraft for the first time
4. Microsoft introduces the world to Clippy
5. Arnold and Dudley go visit Gordon Jump after school
)

Is it just me, or is every episode Kyubey trying to get Madoka to become a magical girl? He just seems like the horny boyfriend who keeps pushing his poor girlfriend to send him nakkid cell phone pictures. “Come on, don’t you love me?” “No one else will see it, I swear!” is basically “You’ll get one wish granted!” and “Don’t you want to help your friend?”

(Kyubey’s screw up? He should have invested in a buddy to help me… yep, that’s right. If Kyubey found Keima to help him, half the world’s population of cute school girls would be magical girls.)

Also, the process in which Kyubey extracts the crystal which then turns into a ring thus allowing a girl to become a magical girl… creepy. His two ear-thingies just resemble some creeper hands that are trying to molest the poor girl. This is honestly creepier than the Haruhi-chan episode where Kyon dreamt he was farming Mikuru sheep.

(Any other time, Kyubey’s magical girl conversation would be the reigning metaphor for a girl losing her virginity… except we have Star Driver‘s breaking the seal. Just cannot be more obvious than that. Especially with libido powered mecha.)

The way Kamijou looked at this hand… I couldn’t tell if it was more of a Luke Skywalker looking at his prosthetic hand after Vader sliced his off or more of a Touma looking at his hand after yet another amazing battle sequence concluded with him sticking his hand out and, uh, holding it there.

Waffles… delicious waffles…

Taiyaki… delicious taiyaki… uguu~~

Mincemeat: A Shafty breakfast? I imagine it to be full of sugar and includes a hookah for smoking a cocktail made out of every single hallucinogen in existence, in concentration so high it can corrode through all metals except gold!

So basically, Cinnamon Toast Crunch with some vegan donuts from Whole Foods and a glass of acai berry juice.

Animation and BGM… top tier. Shaft really brought their A-game for this show, which doesn’t surprise me. “Shinbo, let’s make an anime about a creepy rabbit with ears that can fondle little girls trying to convince little girls to become magical girls.” “Brilliant! Why didn’t we think of this sooner! We wasted so much time and effort with Arakawa Under the Bridge.”

(Shaft is really good at prettily animating silhouettes of girls falling and/or floating in air… they’ve done this now in Bakemonogatari, Negima, and ef.)

I was so hoping that Kamijou would break out in a cover of Cee Lo’s Fuck You.

(Or go the other way. He starts playing Beethoven’s 7th, and he’s joined by… the Rising Stars Orchestra!)

Homura has a diamond on her middle finger nail… think Sayaka has a crescent. What does this mean? Almost halfway through this series, and I get the feeling stuff isn’t made up along the way. A shocking feeling, really, considering the type of anime I normally *cough* Sunrise *cough* watch.

I want to see Homura’s magical girl transformation sequence. I also want to see Madoka’s mom’s…

(How did Homura become a magical girl then? Too much intrigue… I would hate it if they hastily tried to explain everything in the final ten minutes of the series, which is basically what every mysterious anime tries to do. How well did that go for you, Big O?)

Why does this remind me of a hooker getting ready for her rounds as her pimp looks on? There are four mirrors in this room…

(Wouldn’t Madoka tagging along with Sayaka just be a bad idea? Madoka is kinda useless, and she sure didn’t help Mami live. More likely, Sayaka would have to exert extra energy in protecting Madoka… unless Madoka is secretly an elite sniper, which I doubt she is.)

(And, obviously, the next plot point is Sayaka dying with Madoka using her wish to bring everyone back… thus causing the world to end.)

Hitomi seems to have no internal filter… I like that. I cannot wait to pair her up with Nao from Onii-chan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne!! for an afternoon talk show on my cable channel.

(And, yes, Eri Kitamura has a triple urkin going with this show, Onii-chan, and Freezing. And, yes, I’m co-opting the word “urkin” from Bill Simmons and House since I feel like we need a word to describe when a voice actress is starring in multiple anime simultaneously. “Urkin” just rolls off the tongue.)

I feel so cheated by Sayaka’s transformation sequence. Sigh.

“I am… The Queen of Blades!!!”

The love child of LOL FANG-TAN, Balsa, Shana, and Ayu. If this were genetically possible. I like how she reveals the true nature of magical girls… they eat the things that eat people, thus making them monsters in their own right. Seems like Homura grasps the consequences of this, but no one else does.

Have to give Shaft come props though. Best magical girl battle since Vita-tan vs. Nanoha and Fate. Even though no magical abilities were used.