the thing about pmmm analyses that a lot of you people forget is that these girls are like. 14. forget the loops they're literally mentally all kids. it's not so much about selfishness or selflessness. you miss the point. you forget who the real enemy is: the incubators, for the deception and abuse.
AND ALSO. putting all my beef in one big post. i would argue even with all the christian allegories that madokami represents jesus/god but homura does not represent the devil.
why? because homura hates herself. she loathes her very existence. she fancies herself evil for pulling madokami from the sky but she doesn't want power.
the devil does not hate himself. the devil is proud. he loves himself, and only himself. he wants power. he wants to rule.
homura does not want to rule. she wants everyone she cares about -- that's right, all of the quintet, not just madoka -- to be happy. even if it means playing the bad guy. even if it means splintering. even it means she has to break herself and fall apart and become her beloved's enemy. homura treats herself as evil in the way an unreliable narrator would.
this is not about the devil and god. i'm not educated on the bible enough to know for sure what this is. but my best guess?
this is about jesus and judas.
doomed yaoi became doomed yuri.
could i make it any clearer?
they're not critiques on the christian god, the devil or blind faith. that's the worst, most tradcath reading of both the bible and pmmm i've ever heard.
homura and madoka are doomed by the narrative, not each other.
they're just trying to make things work in the way that aligns with their own youthful motives. the way that they love. throughout the series, madoka wants to save everyone and had the power to. homura wants to save everyone and only had the power to increase madoka's potential.
that is the difference between them.
remember? homura called herself a demon. demons are different from the devil himself, and yeah, girl needs an exorcism from her girlfriend.
if you call homura and madoka selfish or selfless you're missing the point and actually, you're adhering to reductive readings of not just the media but how you may be approaching mentally ill kids too. art imitates life and all that.
ok, so, apparently the quote in the new walpurgisnacht rising visual says something along the lines of “let’s fulfill the promise we made that day. Even if it’s not what you wanted,” if I’m going by what Google translate’s telling me.
And unless there’s something that got lost in the translation that seems to be a direct nod to Madoka having Homura promise her that she’ll stop her from ever making a contract with kyubey again, which definitely falls in line with the “…even if it’s not what you wanted,” part of the quote. Homura technically fulfilled her promise to madoka by becoming akuma homura.
but clearly…considering that madoka is in a magical girl outfit and is seen transforming in one of the walpurgisnacht rising trailers…Homura also kind of failed. Madoka will make a contract once again, like she always does.
and it makes me wonder…is (presumably) homura telling madoka this before or after she becomes a magical girl again in walpurgisnacht? Because if this is something she’s saying after madoka made her wish…what is she planning on doing?
I’m going to presume it might have to do with time travel since that was her main power/one of her major motifs and the gears both girls are standing on do seem kind of remind me of the gears in Homura’s shield and the gears at the bottom of walpurgisnacht’s dress but the role walpurgisnacht is going to play in this movie is something to touch on in another post lol
also worth noting that in the visual madoka’s eyes are not only yellow like her god form’s eyes, but they’re glowing in the same way they previous glowed when madoka was starting to realizing something was off by the end of rebellion.
I want some French fries soooooo bad,,,,,,,anyway, since I can’t have any they might as well have some
what if i did something so cool and awsome
Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Sayaka Miki. I just got procreate, so this marks my first finished work on it.
the witch form of Kyoko Sakura name's Ophelia so I immidiatly thought of the Millais's painting
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