Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion



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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion is Shaft's 2013 movie sequel to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It follows Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Beginnings and Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Eternal, two compilation films that re-edit the events of the series into feature films. Rebellion tells an original story, directly continuing after the original series. It was nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year in 2014, but faced tough competition from Studio Ghibli, ultimately losing to The Wind Rises--the exact opposite film to Rebellion.

Fourteen year old Madoka Kaname was an Ordinary High School Student. Now she's a Magical Girl, attending school, hanging out with her other magical girl friends. When the night comes, she and her friends--Homura Akemi, Sayaka Miki, Mami Tomoe, and Kyoko Sakura-- team up to fight Nightmares, creatures born from, well, nightmares. Things are seemingly idyllic in this existence.

Except, wait a minute. Didn't the magical girls fight witches, not nightmares? Even after Madoka Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence, the magical girls fought wraiths, not nightmares. Didn't half of them die in the original series? Why is Mami back? What is going on?

Well, things are far more than they look on the surface, for Homura quickly discovers she cannot leave the city of Mitakihara, and that it hides a far more sinister secret than it lets on. For you see, there's a lot going on in this "Mitakihara" the girls just don't know about.

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Round cake! Right in front of me!  Who do you think this cake could be? Bebe: Is the cake Sayaka? Sayaka: No it's not me. I'm just a little old raspberry. That big round cake's too red, don't you know.  Could the cake be Kyoko? Kyoko: No not me. I'm the juicy apple in this story. That big round cake loves Bebe can't you see.  Is the cake Mami?"
 * Art Shift: During the bus sequence as Homura and Kyoto tries to get out of Mitakihara, the art style shifts massively. Backgrounds become much emptier, with less detail. Scenes are generally darker. This helps contribute to a feeling that something is wrong.
 * De-Power:.
 * Gainax Ending:
 * The Movie: This is the last part of a trilogy . The first two films were a retelling of the original series, and this one is a continuation of the story.
 * New Transfer Student
 * Non Sequitur Scene: The "cake song" sequence, around twenty minutes into the film. It doesn't serve a bigger role in the plot, and it interrupts the pacing of the Nightmare fight. The scene is not used for humour. However, it is a nice break from the usual depressing Madoka Magica tone. "Everyone: Big cake!


 * Opening Monologue: Homura gives one about magical girls and how their end will inevitably be claimed by the Law of Cycles.
 * Post Modernism: Some sequences blur the line between Clip Art Animation and Anime animation. Hard. And there's many of them.
 * Shoot the Bullet: Mami and Homura, can't hit each other during their fight just before halfway into the film. The reason for this is quite simple: their bullets kept hitting other bullets.
 * Trilogy Creep: Originally, we only have Beginnings, Eternal, and Rebellion. Now we're getting Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- to clear up that Gainax Ending.
 * Weird Moon: At the very end of the film, after the credits, the moon shown is sliced cleanly in half.