Media Review.
Jul. 6th, 2012 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_doyle Delaying my next book review for either tomorrow or, well, later today at any rate.
Today I finished watching the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and I thought it deserved a little discussion. Advance warning: the comments will have spoilers, as I really really want to chat about all the twists and turns with people.
Anyway, Madoka is a show that combines the magical girl genre with... existentialist horror. The foundational concept appears to have been someone asking themself the question "Who the Hell would make young teenaged girls fight battles against evil, and why?"
The answers are grim, shocking, heartbreaking, and sold with an intense and compelling narrative over a relatively brief twelve episode run. You can find the show free to watch online, and if you have four hours to kill, I'd recommend it.
It became only the fifth movie or TV show I have ever cried at. And then it broke a record and became the sixth I ever cried at, too. The tenth and twelfth episodes were some of the most finely crafted and heartwrenching things I have ever seen, and the fact that I flat-out wept is just about the highest recommendation I could possibly give this show.
So. Fellow viewers, let's take to the comment threads and chat about it.
Today I finished watching the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and I thought it deserved a little discussion. Advance warning: the comments will have spoilers, as I really really want to chat about all the twists and turns with people.
Anyway, Madoka is a show that combines the magical girl genre with... existentialist horror. The foundational concept appears to have been someone asking themself the question "Who the Hell would make young teenaged girls fight battles against evil, and why?"
The answers are grim, shocking, heartbreaking, and sold with an intense and compelling narrative over a relatively brief twelve episode run. You can find the show free to watch online, and if you have four hours to kill, I'd recommend it.
It became only the fifth movie or TV show I have ever cried at. And then it broke a record and became the sixth I ever cried at, too. The tenth and twelfth episodes were some of the most finely crafted and heartwrenching things I have ever seen, and the fact that I flat-out wept is just about the highest recommendation I could possibly give this show.
So. Fellow viewers, let's take to the comment threads and chat about it.
