General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[Mass Distraction]

So, I just finished the Puella Magi Madoka Magica series (thanks MexicanAnime) a little in advance in accordance to my vacation. I was just supposed to check the first episode to see what it's about and ended up watching the whole show :D

Uh... If anyone wants to watch the show, do so and don't read my post. So... Spoilers, I guess. Nothing major but I do feel this show needs to be watched knowing nothing about it in advance. Honestly, if I had known what the show was like beforehand it propably wouldn't have had such an impact on me. I'll put everything in spoilers just in case.

Spoiler

Seriously, I wasn't expecting such a dark story from a magical girl show. It was like the Higurashi of the magical girl genre, just not as bloody. I also would have never thought a character who does so little for the most of the show would be such an important and central part of it all. And, a magical girl show whose main character actually isn't a magical girl until the very end of the show? The opening lied to me so much, I love it! It's all the show could have been and I couldn't be happier with what I actually got.

I actually thought the ending was one of the coolest and most epic I've seen in anime. Then came Rebellion. They turned what was a happy ending completely upside down. Poor Madoka. Everything Homura did she negated with her own actions. At least Kyubey got what was coming for him and learned one important emotion at the end. Fear.

Seriously, I don't remember when I've been this depressed after a show ended. Man. Dem feels. Oh well, an episode of abridged MLP fixed that.

Another thing from Rebellion, I totally loved the over exaggerated dance parts when the characters turned into Puella Magis. And seriously, 2 hours? That's amazing. It's the longest animated movie I've seen thus far.

I would love to see the spinoffs made into anime series as well, even though the manga series in itself was made after the anime, apparently.

Btw. Kyubey reminds me of something...

That is the face of evil, I tells ya.