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self-proclaimed “world's number one madoka magica fan” who hasn't yet watched the series still trying to figure out why everyone “he” befriends is a tryhard woman named homura

@hikari really tired of asking people who say madoka is dark if they have ever watched another magical girl show

@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

@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

@demize @hikari

I basically agree with the continuation take. Basically madoka suffers from the Evangelion problem of people who don't watch that genre watching it and saying stupid stuff like "it's a deconstruction of GENRE"

@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

@erincandescent @shift_reset @demize the soul gem concept and its [spoiler] component feels like something that would come out of academic criticism of magical girls as a concept (bodies as special vehicles for doing violence or something, i forgot the phrasing)