Comments on: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

By: deanexia

deanexia — Sun, 01 May 2011 02:46:43 +0000

Probably 2011 Winter’s best anime. Shaft totally deconstructed the Magical Girl genre…give this series some love if you’re looking for some differences in this kind of genre…magical girl + Faust + Lovecraft

By: Zem

Zem — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:37:40 +0000

Well, you were right on the money. Excellent article, made even more amazing that it was written after only 3 episodes (OK, 3’s been helping, but still you got where it was going before the shit -really- hit the fan.)

By: Shikaze

Shikaze — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:10:12 +0000

Just so you know, the scenarist who did this series… is also the one who wrote the Saya no Uta VN. Let that be food for thought.

By: steelkokoro

steelkokoro — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:08:12 +0000

“This supporting character reminds me of someone but I cannot quite come up with a name”

Reminds me of one of the random supporting characters in Kino’s Travels or something similar. Green hair makes me think é»„ç·‘ but anyone could have green hair.

By: Yamibakeru

Yamibakeru — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:23:54 +0000

What they don’t tell you is that SHAFT has secretly abducted Dave McKean into their underground bunker, bound and chained, and forced him with the aid of hallucinogenic gas to do the alternate world sequences. Yeeaah. THAT’S where SHAFT spends their budget.

By: Marigold Ran

Marigold Ran — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:58:32 +0000

Who am I to disagree?

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:23:14 +0000

In reply to Kurogane. Let's not get too far ahead... It's only January.

By: Kurogane

Kurogane — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:41:12 +0000

Inb4 best show of the year.

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By: SnooSnoo

SnooSnoo — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:00:01 +0000

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It’s staring into your soul

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:36:01 +0000

To me it feels mainly like a giant mish-mash of other Shinbo shows. The backgrounds have a very similar look to them to the ones in Bakemonogatari. Hidamari Sketch character art. Crazy jarring witch-world animation sequences straight out of a Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei OP, along with the sinister undertone. Which isn’t to say that it’s bad or anything. I guess expecting something less derivative from a Magical Girl show is always going to leave you somewhat disappointed. Maybe it’ll improve – the second episode was certainly better than the first one. It just really hasn’t clicked for me.