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* This Troper (C Charmander K) could go on about a number of different anime series and franchises for hours and hours upon end. But if there's one single anime that's captivated me the '''first episode in''' and refused to let me go for even a second, it's the 2011 surprise-hit ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. This show has nearly everything I love about anime in it in spades: it's cute, horrific, terrifying, action-packed, funny (but only very sparingly), dramatic, tragic, unusual and artistic. The characters all take different [[Magical Girl]] character archetypes and deconstruct them, among other things. The action scenes are amazingly fantastic, and the animation is beautiful, with gorgeously-designed characters and mass amounts of [[Scenery Porn]]. The series has beautifully moving and unique music (what else do you expect from [[Yuki Kajiura]]?) that is utilized to its greatest effect in every single scene. And don't get me started on plot; Gen Urobuchi and [[Akiyuki Shinbo]] have created a magnificent tale blending [[Magical Girl]], Horror, Drama, Fantasy and {{spoiler|[[Speculative Fiction]]}} in the most poetic and moving way possible. Each episode gets progressively better and better than the last, and it won't let up for even a split-second. Each single plot twist is unique and unexpected, including, but not limited to {{spoiler|Mami's death, the revelation of Puella Magi being first-form Witches, Sayaka's transformation into a Witch, Kyouko sacrificing herself to save Sayaka from a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], and the entirety of episode 10}}. It is the one anime series that I universally reccomend. It is one of the greatest ever created, and Shaft's grandest work of all time.

** Seconded so hard. I only bothered to check it out because [[Yuki Kajiura]] was doing the music, but the minute I tuned in and saw... well, just saw it all, I was entranced. This was a [[Magical Girl]] anime? Even with the initially cliche characters, they all develop amazingly - from seeing {{spoiler|an [[Plucky Girl|energetic tomboy]] grow into a [[Despair Event Horizon|broken down]] [[Yandere]], a [[Jerkass]] [[Dark Action Girl]] showing her [[Hidden Heart of Gold]], and the one you don't see until late in the series and definitely don't expect: A ridiculously [[Moe]], [[Adorkable]] [[Ill Girl]] growing into the [[Badass|strongest]], [[The Stoic|stoic]]-[[Buffy-Speak|est]] magical girl in the entire series}}. While people tend to hate Madoka, I find her to be the most realistic character to ever grace the genre: You're fourteen years old, fighting things your brain can barely comprehend, and you're seeing {{spoiler|your friends get killed brutally}}, so what are you logically going to do? Cry and panic. The interactions between everyone is just perfect, from fighting to just playful conversation. And then there's [[Sarcasm Mode|everyone's favourite]], [[Weasel Mascot|Kyubey]]. He's so much fun to hate. I never watched [[Sailor Moon]] as a kid but I did watch [[Mew Mew Power]], and seeing those tropes I loved as an eleven-year-old get mutilated like this is kind of exciting. But my favourite thing has to be showing others the series, especially the [[Wham! Episode|Wham Episodes]]. I absolutely can't wait for it to be licensed.