self-proclaimed “world's number one madoka magica fan” who hasn't actually watched the series confused as to why every new woman he befriends is a tryhard called homura
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self-proclaimed “world's number one madoka magica fan” who hasn't actually watched the series confused as to why every new woman he befriends is a tryhard called homura
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shift/resetreplied to hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky) last edited by
@hikari really tired of asking people who say madoka is dark if they have ever watched another magical girl show
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hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky)replied to shift/reset last edited by
@shift_reset right? after rewatching it (well, watching the first two films, which is effectively rewatching) i realised that describing it as dark is unfair. it takes itself seriously
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demizereplied to hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky) last edited by
@shift_reset @hikari it’s… not even that much of an inversion of the tropes, now that I think about it
it’s more a continuation of them. what happens when you take the same tropes and up the stakes. it might feel like it’s trying to be edgy but you’re right, it takes itself very seriously, and that’s what it’s trying to be—serious, not edgy, and “dark” only insofar as dark overlaps with serious
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@demize @shift_reset @hikari there's a reason I say it's the Evangelion of magical girl anime
It subverts the genre by taking it's premise and conceits extremely seriously
