ITT: Adnarel watches Magica Madoka

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ITT: Adnarel watches Magica Madoka; and shares his amusing and insightful opinions
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UltaFlame	Nov 8 2013, 12:54 AM Post #401
Thanks Poui. Posts: 28,951 Group: Venus Clan Member #516 Joined: September 3, 2009 True Name: UltaFlame / V. Terennia	Do you think the show would've been better if, instead of the flashback episode, the series were longer and showed things from the beginning of Homura's wish?



Seoulbowz	Nov 8 2013, 09:03 AM Post #402
Supergeil Posts: 19,233 Group: Sol Clan Member #54 Joined: May 28, 2006 Blog: Edeka Country: #79# True Name: Friedrich Liechtenstein Theme Song: https://youtu.be/jxVcgDMBU94	Do you think that if it hadn't jived with your worldview (i.e. being a Christ story, etc.) you wouldn't have "enjoyed" it?



Adnarel	Nov 8 2013, 09:08 AM Post #403
I'd rather be outside. Posts: 27,340 Group: Crystallux Member #71 Joined: July 2, 2006 Gender: #118# Blog: #118# Country: #118# True Name: #118# Theme Song: #118#	All good question. I'll try to address them after work and before Jenna gets here.



Dracobolt	Nov 8 2013, 09:23 AM Post #404
Incorrigible Posts: 72,032 Group: Kid Squid Member #25 Joined: September 11, 2005 Gender: Female Blog: Creative Contemplation and Random Rumination Country: #226# True Name: Braco the Magnificent Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMhvS8oGXQU	Adnarel Nov 8 2013, 12:36 AM I thought there'd be more questions and less circlejerking. ._. I don't think you understand how anime topics work at the Temple. Um, let's see, someone already asked about timelines and Homura's POV, so... Oh! Homura and Madoka. Just friends?



The Sin Thesis	Nov 8 2013, 09:03 PM Post #405
Posts: 3,397 Group: Jupiter Clan Member #314 Joined: March 9, 2008 Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI	Serious question, I guess: Do you think the age of the girls worked against them? Would having them older or younger have changed the experience significantly to you?



simplechild	Nov 8 2013, 10:24 PM Post #406
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	Imagining right now a middle-aged Mami somersaulting around pulling rifles out of her panties.



Dracobolt	Nov 9 2013, 12:29 AM Post #407
Incorrigible Posts: 72,032 Group: Kid Squid Member #25 Joined: September 11, 2005 Gender: Female Blog: Creative Contemplation and Random Rumination Country: #226# True Name: Braco the Magnificent Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMhvS8oGXQU	Why am I laughing so hard?



Momentime	Nov 9 2013, 09:27 AM Post #408
uh oh Posts: 18,956 Group: Luna Clan Member #194 Joined: May 28, 2007 Gender: pew pew pew Country: #226# True Name: Shads	Because it would be absurd to have a magical girl animu without lolis!



Saturos	Nov 9 2013, 10:08 PM Post #409
heart-under-blade Posts: 36,354 Group: Iris Member #2 Joined: March 20, 2005 Gender: Male Country: #0# True Name: Saturos Theme Song: https://youtu.be/mh5vyvMGhqE	watching the madoka movies, so I'll get some running commentary here. spoilers obviously ep 1-- "stay as you are, and as you always shall be" my brain automatically ends "world without end, amen." Gotta love Homura channelling Christian stories. EXTREMELY WELL-ANIMATED ESCALATORS. The motif of chains all around Homura's introduction w/Kyuubei is great. Because Homura is bound by endlessly repeating events, and is unable to act exactly as she wants to save Madoka. Right after Mami orders Homura to leave, there's that standoff moment... and then a split second expression of complete anguish as Homura turns away. Because it's one more failure yet. --first episode end-- My God the scenery porn in the movie is just flawless. Huh, they cut Kamijo crushing the cd. Interesting choice. Dear person in the audience loudly eating chips. Please die. Magica instrumental as fight music. Aww yeah. ... where does Mami get that tea from, anyway? And so Mami the Baptist sets Madoka on the road of Helping People. And the face of anguish again from Homura, after Mami says its the last time they can speak without coming to blows. Charlotte time. :3 fyi, Adnarel, the witch runes here say "I want to om nom nom Mami" I always thought cutting Mami's backstory here doesn't make much sense. It's like 30 seconds and it's soooo important to Mami's feelings of total worthlessness. But I guess that comes through anyway. Madoka standing and ringing Mami's doorbell is the saddest thing. Dat post-traumatic stress disorder. Or right, this is the part where Kamijo breaks the cd player. Totally sympathize with Sayaka here. I love how the chair in Kamijo's room casts a musical staff/fretboard shadow. This witch Madoka gets sucked into is so [radio edit]ed up. I totally knew Decretum DOES play in the anime. Idiot youtubers, claiming it doesn't. It's right after Kamijo looks at his healed hand. And also plays when Madoka begins to recite her wish finally. The dissonance in Conturbio they added really hurts the ears, but in a good way. [radio edit], I love the shots here while Kamijo plays. And uuuugh, Sayaka pls. So heartbreaking. I love the little look of surprise Kamijo has when he finishes playing. As if he forgot about the rest of the world. Kyubei close-ups are the best. The clinking of Madoka's mom's ice sounds like the magical gem sound. "I can't ask him to love me with a body like this. I can't ever ask him to kiss me." The feeeeeeeels ;___________; Oh man, the new musics. Aria version of Sayaka's theme. Loooooove the shadow art fight here. And how Sayaka's crazed laughter becomes indistinguishable from the witches. :sayakaface: All aboard the sufferring brigade! -- Movie 2 --- love the flies who cluster in the shape of a skull around the lamp. I couldn't even do commentary because too busy having FEELS Just in solidarity with you, Adna. I can kinda see where you're coming from on the melodrama thing, because initially the whole Sayaka-witch thing is over apparently very minor issues, buuuut again it's more what they represent that's significant.



Adnarel	Nov 10 2013, 09:11 PM Post #410
I'd rather be outside. Posts: 27,340 Group: Crystallux Member #71 Joined: July 2, 2006 Gender: #118# Blog: #118# Country: #118# True Name: #118# Theme Song: #118#	Jenna Has this changed your opinion at all about anime as a whole? No. >_> It's one show that was 75% bullshit. Not a really great grade there, but it's better than what I expected it to be, which was 100% bullshit. Again, I thought it was an excellent ending arc, and it made me wish they didn't screw around early on with silly conventional animu stuff. UltraFlame Hmmmm... If you could add one character from any western fiction to the Madoka plotline, who would you pick and how do you think they would change things? But Ulta, all of the characters in the show were western! This is an interesting question. You're asking me to transplant a character from another story, multiverse, and culture into this show. After giving it some thought, I think I'd pick Charles Wallace from Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet books. He started out as a pure soul, tasted corruption and temptation in a few books, and emerged as being a pure soul. I'd like to see how he would color the interactions between personalities and how he would view the role of the Incubators and Witches in general. HyruleanJedi Can you describe the process your emotions went through over the course of episode 10 (the flashback from Hell)? My pulse picked up during all that. It was the moment (or series of moments) during which I eventually thought to myself, holy shit, this story is actually real and they're finally getting to it. What if I end up liking this? Shit. I didn't fight for very long, though, because the unfolding drama was extremely compelling, and the notion of Homura getting to try over and over again to succeed in her goal has great poetic and artistic merit. It was also in that moment that I began to really appreciate how the show writers made the ghosts of each character's wish come back to haunt her in some way, or cause her downfall. The exception to this was Mami, whose overall behavior and demise had little to do with her wish. In short, episode 10 was the one that convinced me that the show wasn't a steaming pile of weeaboo shit. Jenna "The oikos is a microcosm of the polis and the polis is a macrocosm of the oikos." Discuss. Aside from the cute circular reasoning this is intentionally throwing out, I agree with the sentiment. I think an apt illustration would be any urban center in America. Families of low socioeconomic status are more likely to be apathetic, undereducated, and fearful of the world about them. As a result, their neighborhoods become dilapidated, bereft of good schools, and scary. UltraFlame Do you think the show would've been better if, instead of the flashback episode, the series were longer and showed things from the beginning of Homura's wish? To me, this would be the ideal way of presenting this show. Or an even better way would be to show how Madoka became such a badass Magical Girl in the first place, and then introduce Homura. That way the series would be more explicit about Madoka's being a puppet of Homura, and we'd get the satisfaction of watching how it affects both girls. Then, at the end of the arc, we'd see Madoka's return to glory in her wish, and how it ends with Homura with their scene in that higher plane. It'd make for a lot more holistic and dramatic story as a whole. In short, it's a good idea. BowzerKing Do you think that if it hadn't jived with your worldview (i.e. being a Christ story, etc.) you wouldn't have "enjoyed" it? I would have enjoyed it, but not in the same way that it did. When a form of entertainment resonates with one's own philosphy, that's a valid reason to like it more than something that does not resonate. For example, there's a movie of Akira Kurosawa's called Dreams. It is completely eastern in bent and philosophy. It is my all-time favorite movie due to its music, imagery, cinematography, and lack of traditional forms of dialogue. One of my favorite sequences in that movie is the [title=Was looking for this on YouTube but can't find it :(]Peach Orchard[/title] scene. It has nothing to do with my worldview, but it's a feast for the eyes, ears, and emotions. This movie is freaking awesome, but I liked Episode 12's Madoka is a Goddess sequence more because of the self-annihilating sacrifice and dearly-bought love it expresses. Reilface Do you think the age of the girls worked against them? Would having them older or younger have changed the experience significantly to you? I didn't really spend a lot of time thinking about the ages of the girls in this show. You idiots have convinced me that age means nothing in animu, so I didn't pay it any heed.



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Momentime	Jan 8 2014, 12:01 PM Post #412
uh oh Posts: 18,956 Group: Luna Clan Member #194 Joined: May 28, 2007 Gender: pew pew pew Country: #226# True Name: Shads	were a shit



Skylin	Jan 8 2014, 12:10 PM Post #413
2 Lewd 4 U Posts: 2,279 Group: Merc-Yuri Clan Member #1,146 Joined: November 25, 2013 Gender: Female Country: #226# True Name: Alexis	Adna really hates anime... I don't understand.



Saturos	Jan 8 2014, 12:16 PM Post #414
heart-under-blade Posts: 36,354 Group: Iris Member #2 Joined: March 20, 2005 Gender: Male Country: #0# True Name: Saturos Theme Song: https://youtu.be/mh5vyvMGhqE	He just acts prickly for the reactions, Sky. And uses anime as a scapegoat for some things. It's best to just shake your head, and understand that's why he's (last time I checked) winning Worst Opinions. >_>



simplechild	Jan 8 2014, 12:32 PM Post #415
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	This topic serves as a reminder that anime is not nearly as accessible as you might think.



Momentime	Jan 8 2014, 01:55 PM Post #416
uh oh Posts: 18,956 Group: Luna Clan Member #194 Joined: May 28, 2007 Gender: pew pew pew Country: #226# True Name: Shads	Not if you're someone with no taste like Adna, that is.



simplechild	Jan 8 2014, 02:51 PM Post #417
My only feel is murder Posts: 12,119 Group: Fori Member #115 Joined: October 30, 2006 Gender: Burning Blog: What's All This, Then? Country: 'Nam. True Name: simplechild	everyone has shit taste dont even go there



Chrono Ivan	Jan 8 2014, 05:08 PM Post #418
He who strikes like lightning Posts: 9,651 Group: Jupiter Clan Member #251 Joined: September 19, 2007 Gender: Hurf Durf Blog: Arrythmia Country: #238# True Name: Chrono Ivan Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl9kSsLMz4E	I think a lot of pacing issues were because this was Magia team's first real anime with no prior resources to draw upon, right?



Dracobolt	Jan 8 2014, 08:09 PM Post #419
Incorrigible Posts: 72,032 Group: Kid Squid Member #25 Joined: September 11, 2005 Gender: Female Blog: Creative Contemplation and Random Rumination Country: #226# True Name: Braco the Magnificent Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMhvS8oGXQU	Was reading The Different Story recently, and I wonder if Adnarel might have reacted better to that in some ways than to the main series. Not that I'd make him read it at this point, but there are probably pros to it that would make it more bearable to him.



Momentime	Jan 8 2014, 08:28 PM Post #420
uh oh Posts: 18,956 Group: Luna Clan Member #194 Joined: May 28, 2007 Gender: pew pew pew Country: #226# True Name: Shads	I still think we should've made him watch Baccano! first

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