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** 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.
** ([[C Charmander K]]) Agreed so damn hard. This is one of the few anime series that would connect excellently with a North American audience. Everyone knows of the [[Magical Girl]] genre over here due to shows such as [[
** Fourthed, this is one of the greatest shows and most emotionally involved shows I've seen for a long while. When I first started watching this, I just expected a magical girl show with the trippy animation that shaft is renowned for. Despite my Shaft-fangirlness, I was not expecting much from Madoka Magica. Then episode three rolled around, despite the fact that I kind of called something was going to happen to {{spoiler|Mami}} I was never expecting THAT to happen. Afterwards every plot twist from that show was like a punch to the gut, a beautiful but soul wrenching punch to the gut. When watching that season I would always watch Madoka the instant it came out, then watch Wandering Boy afterwards to preserve my sanity. Something this show loved to screw with. Coupled with the fantastic art-design, and animation (Which shaft deserves a metal for making every witch design unique and intriguing), there's the fact that I didn't hate a single character in this show. Which is odd because my usual nitpicky self always finds somebody to hate. Admittedly, Madoka was a bit boring, but it was made up for 1000x over in the ending. This needs to get dubbed soon, because I need to show this to all my friends.
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