First off, before anyone makes any kind of drastic trolling attempt again, please read this review instead of calling me a cunt, bitch, go get raped, go kill yourself or any other kind of names. I will not put up with this again, it stressed me out enough getting trolled like that. Try and show your maturity, seriously.
I’m just going to go into depth with this review, and try to be as nice as I can.
Story & magical girl elements
Madoka’s story is basically about witches, magical girls, and… a evil alien thing that tries to make contracts with innocent looking little girls. All good and peachy, right? Well, the writers did something to make it a dark magical girl series. And well… they didn’t do it as well as other magical girl series.
Magical girl series are tricky, because they can be happy and innocent (like Cardcaptor Sakura)? Or dark and have young girls suffering about their fate as magical girls (like Sailor Moon)? Madoka just so happens to set itself up like it’s the first dark magical shoujo, somehow.
What if I told you that Sailor Moon had those exact same elements? The manga is way more dark than the anime, it isn’t about happy happy fun times. It isn’t even close. Sure, it’s happy in the beginning, but after Usagi reveals herself as the princess, well, things start to get serious.
In fact, Sailor Moon didn’t rely on shock deaths, or pity character deaths. It didn’t rely on the power of friendship most of the time either, like the anime did. Guess what Madoka relayed on, while Sailor Moon didn’t?
Why do I bring up Sailor Moon? Because it’s often compared to Madoka as a better, more solid magical girl series. But, it’s actually apart of the genre for magical girl anime to have sad magical girls suffering and stuff. It’s been done time, and time again. Sailor Moon is nearly 20 years old, but even then what Sailor Moon did was introduced a long time ago in magical girl anime. Sailor Moon just brought in the sentai elements.
I won’t go into detail about Madoka’s magical girl elements, seeing as they’re not original or creative. Though, I do side-eye it bringing up legendary girl/woman figures like Anne Frank, Cleopatra, and Joanne of Arc into it’s system. The writers just shot themselves in the foot by doing that, in my opinion. Not to mention it’s highly disrespectful to those people, since they were real and all.
Madoka, as a character
I decided to bring up Madoka as a character. Many of the characters rely on moe anime stereotypes nowadays, and Madoka is one of those anime’s that does rely on moe stereotypes, sadly. But, to me and many others, Madoka is the character with the most problems.
Madoka is a girl that has no hopes, dreams, or any kind of redeeming characteristics. She’s basically a walking stereotype in moe anime. But, in the end of the series, she figures out a loophole in Kyubey’s wishing system. Suddenly, she’s useful for one time in her life.
Is it just me, or is Madoka basically the Bella of the anime world? I mean, she watched her friends die, without doing anything whatsoever? If I were her, I would’ve done something at least.
Before everyone rages at me for saying moe so much, keep in mind, it’s possible to make a character cute, yet badass. Shiemi Moriyama from Ao no Exorcist is becoming quite the badass, she used to think that she was useless but now Shiemi wants to protect her friends. Tsubomi from Heartcatch Prettycure is badass. Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena is a walking tomboy, and badass from the get go. Usagi from Sailor Moon is a crybaby, yet she toughens up real fast after becoming a magical girl.
Those are just some examples. You tell me who’re the more fleshed out characters, instead of Madoka. Or heck, the entire Madoka cast.
The animation
I don’t think I need to type much about the animation. It’s pure crap, even by Shafts usual standards. Wonky in-between animation, bad special effects. Heck, even the transformation scenes are bad. The final animation had extremely bad animation, despite Shaft having one extra month to up the animation. Yet Madoka and Homura’s yuri fun fun times had the best animation within the series. How the hell does that work, Shaft?!
The DVD/Blu-Ray’s don’t fix up much, just making the backgrounds stupider and illogical.
To sum it all up, I give Madoka 1/10. I did not enjoy it at all, and I do not get the praise for this series at all.
However, you are allowed to like it. I don’t care. I just do not like the series, many others don’t either. Don’t go raging to 4Chan, or any other website like last time.
