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shamanicshaymin) wrote2014-05-22 08:29 am
shamanicshaymin) wrote2014-05-22 08:29 am
Ugh, crappy low-res icon I'll probably erase later. Just needed something to express my mood.
So, um. I was bored. So I watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion last night.
The movie itself is fine. Gorgeous animation. Got all the trippy imagery and nightmare fuel I could ask for. Good fight scenes. Bebe/Nagisa didn't do much, but she was cute; I look forward to seeing more of her. The movie had guts to follow the ending that it did. Sayaka is absolutely amazing and probably the best thing about the film.
I'm just really sad and I'm scared about Homura and Madoka's future, especially the former.
If you read the description of her witch self and her familiars (and realize what the runes during her transformation sequence actually mean), Homura hates herself more than anyone else in the universe and is clearly suicidal. She's upset that Mami and Kyouko tried to save her, and she was even willing to let Madoka hate her if that was what it meant to keep her safe and live a normal human life again, all due to a goddamn misunderstanding in a flower field. Homura's unhinged (hell, her own relationship with Madoka was deteriorating even before she grabs her and becomes the Devil) and she clearly needs help.
I've been checking Madoka news for a release date regarding the second season or fourth movie, but I've been getting nothing. Just the promise of more Madoka to come. And so far, it's just spinoffs that have nothing to do with the continuation of the main story.
I don't think I've ever been affected by a cliffhanger like this in so long.
I won't deny that Homura's a fucked up mess and that her relationship with Madoka has its Unfortunate Implications. (I'd say that I still like them even with the dysfunctional elements, but The-BDSM-Series-That-Must-Not-Be-Named and countless YA romances have made me increasingly wary and uncertain about shipping unhealthy ships) But goddammit, I just want Homura to heal and be able to be saved not just by Madoka, but Sayaka, Mami, Kyouko and Nagisa too. That eventually, she and Madoka would be able to be happy together.And hopefully canon, only because I'm skeptical and think the line is blurring between subtext and queerbaiting for this franchise, but that's a separate rant. Hell, for all the magical girls to be finally having their happily ever after, and not because of some "illusion" or other trolling device either.
Based off interviews with Gen Urobuchi, I don't think I trust SHAFT or the Magica Quartet. I swear to god, if they ultimately do a downer ending for the series ("Hope? Which the first season's ending had stressed and shaped the entire story? Hope? After it was overturned in the movie, but still has a chance of turning things around for the better? Hope? In a magical girl anime? HA HA HA oh you naive soul.") and make it so Homura has no chance of redemption, joy and peace, I will fucking flip a table and rampage through the studio with a torch.
I need time to recover. I really, really do.
The movie itself is fine. Gorgeous animation. Got all the trippy imagery and nightmare fuel I could ask for. Good fight scenes. Bebe/Nagisa didn't do much, but she was cute; I look forward to seeing more of her. The movie had guts to follow the ending that it did. Sayaka is absolutely amazing and probably the best thing about the film.
I'm just really sad and I'm scared about Homura and Madoka's future, especially the former.
If you read the description of her witch self and her familiars (and realize what the runes during her transformation sequence actually mean), Homura hates herself more than anyone else in the universe and is clearly suicidal. She's upset that Mami and Kyouko tried to save her, and she was even willing to let Madoka hate her if that was what it meant to keep her safe and live a normal human life again, all due to a goddamn misunderstanding in a flower field. Homura's unhinged (hell, her own relationship with Madoka was deteriorating even before she grabs her and becomes the Devil) and she clearly needs help.
I've been checking Madoka news for a release date regarding the second season or fourth movie, but I've been getting nothing. Just the promise of more Madoka to come. And so far, it's just spinoffs that have nothing to do with the continuation of the main story.
I don't think I've ever been affected by a cliffhanger like this in so long.
I won't deny that Homura's a fucked up mess and that her relationship with Madoka has its Unfortunate Implications. (I'd say that I still like them even with the dysfunctional elements, but The-BDSM-Series-That-Must-Not-Be-Named and countless YA romances have made me increasingly wary and uncertain about shipping unhealthy ships) But goddammit, I just want Homura to heal and be able to be saved not just by Madoka, but Sayaka, Mami, Kyouko and Nagisa too. That eventually, she and Madoka would be able to be happy together.
Based off interviews with Gen Urobuchi, I don't think I trust SHAFT or the Magica Quartet. I swear to god, if they ultimately do a downer ending for the series ("Hope? Which the first season's ending had stressed and shaped the entire story? Hope? After it was overturned in the movie, but still has a chance of turning things around for the better? Hope? In a magical girl anime? HA HA HA oh you naive soul.") and make it so Homura has no chance of redemption, joy and peace, I will fucking flip a table and rampage through the studio with a torch.
I need time to recover. I really, really do.