I think if I never have to hear Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, The Promised Neverland, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica recommended as “good/outstanding/feminist” works of media for anime newcomers to check out ever again, then I can finally, finally, FINALLY fucking die in peace.

Within magical girl stories, what would your reason for young girls being given magical powers that. I want a better explanation than what madoka gave. And I figure the color of their alternate form would be determine by the color of their aura.

I love this question ahahhaha

Hmm I dunno ig it depends. I would probably have a reason simply be something like "women are more powerful than men" or "women have a better grasp of magic" but honestly to avoid gender essentialism I might just make it so that there is no particular reason, yk? It just so happens that all magic users are women because that's the story I want to tell. That's just how it is.

Also I agree with the aura part, I think my aura would be pink.

“Homura can't stand the idea of moving on. So she's isolating madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her.” Are you fucking stupid? She literally rewrote the entire universe so that Madoka could be happy with her parents and her little brother, so that Sayaka could have another chance with Hitomi and Kyoske, so that Kyoko can have a life with Sayaka, she literally revived Mami and Nagisa and gave them a life together. What the fuck do you mean she's “isolating Madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her??”

The only person she's isolating Madoka from is herself because she knows Madoka will regain her godhood sooner ot later and she knows that her desire for Madoka and her friends to be happy will directly rebel against Madokami's rules that require Madoka to die to maintain order to the broken world that traps Magical Girls in their cycle of hope and despair, even if maintaining order means making hard choices and sacrifices, which in this case, is Madoka sacrificing herself again and again not only because she cares so much for others but because she cares so little for herself whilst Homura is the only one who can see that she's so much more than her sacrifice and that she shouldn't reduce herself to a means to an end.

She took Madoka's immortality for herself to spare her of anymore loneliness in Heaven as a trapped Goddess. She literally gave Madoka and the rest of her friends a second chance at life and you people have the audacity to just blatantly fucking lie on her to justify hating her for how she reacts to the psychological torture of having to watch the love of her life and her friends die for 12 years worth of time loops then to live in a world where no one remembers the girl she loves but her. Let something like that happen to you at the age of 14 and then come and talk to me about Homura. Idgaf that she's a fictional character. If y'all continue to treat her like a heartless monster that deserves to be “held accountable for her actions,” then I'll defend her like the traumatized 14 year old child that she actually is. Fuck off and stay away from Madoka Magica. It clearly isn't for you.

An underrated fact about Mami is that she’s a fucking weirdo (pos)

I am tired of people who are unironically woobifying homura and saying all of her actions were completely justified and she has done nothing wrong or made any bad choices in her life ever and cannot possibly be a morally gray character doing nuanced actions

I am also tired of people who unironically see her as the literal devil and act all of her actions were done with malicious intent and that she’s super obsessed with madoka and has never done a single good thing in her life and also cannot grasp that she might be a morally gray character doing nuanced actions

For the love of god the statements “Homura isn’t a horrible person she just wants to protect the people she loves” and “Homura has done some morally dubious actions and that should not be over-looked” aren’t two mutually exclusive statements and I’m tired of some people pretending that they are

Hitomi love <3 !!!

From Kanameke, the Veranda of Madoka and Mitakihara Anti-materials

Day 11 of daily ba-

OH COME ON AGAIN??

WHY IS HE BACK

I love remembering how madoka magica wasnt like "omg magical girls bad bc they have too much power and fight too much and they could destroy things if they lost control. Isnt giving teenage girls power bad????" Rather instead it shows how any good intention they ever have and all the responsible ways they use their power are abused by kyubey. Its impossible for them to be empowered when that power is just a falsehood kyubey is pretending to grant them. And thats why the show ends without Madoka taking away the power of magical girls but by wishing away the way kyubey abused it

Somehow, for some reason, when I watched the scene where Kyubey eats himself, I suddenly had a craving for white rice due to how the other Kyubey’s corpse looks like it. What does that mean? Is there something wrong with me???

THIS is how you subvert the Magical Girl genre without being torture porn and punishing girls for wanting things.

catching anime/cartoon ai art

*note: obviously, how obvious it is depends on the generator.

there was a user making ai art posts in the pmmm tags awhile ago, so here's the post. but tl;dr: usually ai art screws up hands (either adding way too many fingers, blending two hands into one, or having them in impossible positions) and won't holdup detail wise, even if the piece looks good as a whole.

using the images they had uploaded in the tag to point this out.

right hand is two hands mixed as one in different positions, left hand has six fingers (thumb not shown), random thing on her shoulder.

random hand(?) shown but not attached to arm, hand is half missing for some reason.

hand with too many fingers, melting stocking, sword is broken and clipping through her cape.

something off with the faces (imo), three hands shown when there should be only two, madoka's bow is seemingly two on one side.

chest plate coming off, hand held in impossible position.

Honestly, anon is beginning to think "fandom culture itself" is the problem, rather than just Puella Magica fans. Modern pop culture fans just seem to have very warped moral compasses in general. The Once Upon a Time fandom makes excuses for Regina Mills raping a man, a man in the FE3H fandom threatened to lynch anyone who doesn't like Edelgard (and the Edelgard Discord agreed with him), the Star Wars fandom excuses the Sith's racism, and the New Vegas fandom has Caesar's Legion apologists.

I hadn't thought to throw this into the same pit with "People who think Hiyoko Saionji did nothing wrong," but... no, you're right, it's totally the same pit. (I also didn't realize I was tipping my hand quite this blatantly about which side I'm on when I posted that poll, but... hoo boy, am I EVER on the side you presumed.)

It's not like Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion was subtle about the conclusion's implications. The voice acting, the visual presentation, the dialogue, the music, everything was VERY VERY SUPER-DOUBLE-PLUS OBVIOUS about this being BAaAaAaAaAaAaAaD.

But the utterly fucking bugnuts Reddit PMMM community somehow sees it the entire OPPOSITE way, and any post to the contrary is shouted down, gets zero upvotes, etc. Every post about how you-know-who is purely heroic and entirely justified gets tons of upvotes, everybody else gets told they don't fucking get it, and it is fucking INSANE.

I didn't know Regina raped a guy?! WTF and WHY TF??? Like I've said before, didn't watch a lot of that show.

Edelgard is highly problematic by design. That's like, her whole thing. It is both the appeal and the anti-appeal of her character/narrative — the "by ANY means necessary, kill-your-friends-if-you-have-to" way she sets out to make her world (theoretically?) better. If you try to make her non-controversial, you're missing the whole goddamn point of the narrative. I don't know why anyone would WANT that. You're just killing your babies.

And speaking of "Why would anyone want that": Why would anyone ever excuse the fucking Sith's ANYTHING? They are murderers and oppressors. They are legit rotting from the inside-out due to embracing darkness so hard. They are so known for betraying and backstabbing each other that it's literally built into their own rules of operation! And there are people who think these are the heroes?

Mami: this is my girlfriend Homura, she just doesn’t know it yet

Ok my juicy Madoka hot take

People who think the flower field scene in Rebellion justifies what Homura does because "those are her real feelings" don't understand Madoka's character at a fundamental level.

Don't you realize you're agreeing with her when she's saying she's not strong enough and basically validating her insecurities??? The fact that I read someone DARING to say the scene is misunderstood because "you might think her words have no weight because she doesn't have her memories but akshually this is how she really feels..." when this is LITERALLY THE INTERPRETATION EVERYONE ALREADY GOES WITH IN THIS FANDOM and only valid through Homura's POV pissed me off. Sorry.

Due to the fact I missed a day here's some goofy drawing for day 7

Idk guys she kinda looks like the guy from Mario party ds anti piracy