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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising Trailer
#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm#madoka magica#walpurgis rising#walpurgisnacht rising#pmmm rebellion#pmmm rebellion sequel#madoka kaname#homura akemi#mami tomoe#sayaka miki#kyoko sakura#kyouko sakura
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I love the stark contrast between these two shots of Homura and Madoka. Like look at the colors schemes and background details!
Rays of light are shining down on Madoka, symbolizing her positivity and energy. She’s surrounded by pink roses and daisies, corresponding with her joy, innocence, and purity. The background of the shot is very vibrant and full of life, like Madoka here.
Meanwhile we have Homura, who’s intentionally shading herself from the light with her umbrella, causing shadows to be cast across her face. This represents her keeping everyone in the dark about her plans, especially Madoka. The background of the shot is more monochromatic, corresponding with Homura’s uncertainty and secrecy.
#madoka magica#pmmm#analysis#pmmm analysis#puella magi madoka magica#madoka kaname#homura akemi#mahou shoujo madoka magica#Walpurgis rising#rebellion sequel#pmmm spoilers#pmmm rebellion sequel#madohomu#Walpurgisnacht Rising#my post#mine#500
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I woke up this morning and the very first thing I did was watch the next Madoka Magica movie trailer, I will now provide an extensive (and probably excessive) analysis. I'm going to be as thorough as I possibly can and that's a warning! <3333
The phone ringing sound effect at the start is the exact same as the one in Akumura's transformation in magia record (april fools one) (side note this is how I found out Devil Homura actually got into magia record, I saw the transformation and I am so mad)
after that IT'S THE LIZARD :DDDDDDD
very happy to see the Homura lizard I think she's important <3
Translating the ear cuff concept art (google translate so probably not too good a translation but bare with me) the jewel attached to the tail is Madoka's power which is neat, the madoka runes also say "Homulilly" if you're wondering.
The new lizard is a similar representation to the purple one, I believe the lizard is a representation of sorts for her love of Madoka (note how it splatters. My theory is that the lizard is Love, that's why Love didn't show up to Homulilly's funeral.)
It's red either to show it's corrupted or because as aforementioned Homura possesses Madoka's power in the gem her ear cuff carries (that's also why I think her eyes were tinged pink in the Devil Homura form)
The lizard turns into a phone so we'll probably have a pretty good excuse to make Homura Touch Tone Telephone amvs/animations, yippee!
A lot of people have pointed this out as a tarot card meaning illusion, fear, subconscious, etc which definitely fits. I want to add on to this scene though: around the centerpiece there's butterflies with pins through them, in her magia record "coolmura" transformation her glasses turn into butterflies so it might be a callback relating to that.
(In that transformation they go into her soul gem, in this scene they're pinned down, something about lizards eating butterflies? And butterflies representing freedom, the butterflies being pinned then definitely matches what she does to Madoka at the end of rebellion.)
The moon symbol halved like that is also used various other times in the series too, in one notable instance she was even sitting under it like she is in next shot
LIZARD AGAIN WOOOOOOOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOOOOO
Homura gets a pretty new outfit and cool lizard chair good for her tbh
Zooming in I can see that 1: Homura's outfit slays even harder than I thought it did (and it's very similar to the one she wears mid witch transformation in rebellion) 2: the chair is supposed to look like her devil homura form and 3: the lizard she's sitting on has the gem eye so it's probably at least related to the ear cuff
Skipping ahead through the montage, there's this girl
Who the HELL is this. Her outfit looks a lot like Homura's, she even uses Homura's bow and arrow, but it also looks like Madoka's? Like some sort of mix between the two. Even weirder, the ribbons she seems to be fighting with look like MAMI'S. What, does the new movie have magical girl fusion? Is this Hitomi somehow? Is it Mami? Or someone new?
Here's what I think: Homura takes the place of Kyubey in turning people into magical girls, this is one of the girls who she made into one. It makes sense for why she was saying "can you accept the risks and responsibilities? Can you fight against the curse of this world?" Maybe, people contact her through the phone asking to become a magical girl and that's what she says to them. This girl also appears right after the phone hangup noise.
Next, there's this scene. Which... is a little concerning.
There's some pretty unfortunate conclusions you could draw here, but look at the digital stuff around her. Is Madoka going to the endless solitude? Remember, to get there you jump off of the radio tower alone. (To be honest, it's been a while since I've seen magia record because I don't really like it, and I haven't seen season 2, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some gaps so if there's anything from magia record that could add to the analysis I'll leave that to the fans of magia record)
Homura looks so pretty oh my god. New headband, also she's carrying an umbrella
she had one in rebellion too but this one's cooler. Also it looks like she wears pants under her skirt now! Getting some fun design changes to shake it up I see.
Kyoko and Mami got pretty slight design changes, Kyoko looks exactly the same so I'm not actually sure if anything changed and Mami's top looks pretty different. Nothing to say about that except, cool!
Sayaka looks pretty majorly different though. She now has a ribbon wrapping all over her face. Probably something about how she knew about Homura being the devil, this might be symbolism for her being silenced. Either way it's also cool.
After that Homura's on this really tall tower, somehow there's more than one of her. If you look at the backdrop you can see the fence on the roof of the school.
Zooming in, the tower is apparently built up of books. Behind Homura there's some nails, they look sorta like the needles in the first scene. Something interesting is she's wearing her usual magical girl outfit, except with the shawl and brooch from the first scene. The Clara doll also sorta looks like a lizard tail.
And that's the trailer! Hope you enjoyed my spiral into insanity, it took me two hours to write this :D
#madoka magica#puella magi madoka magica#akemi homura#homura akemi#madoka magica rebellion#walpurgis no kaiten#pmmm#pmmm homura#pmmm madoka#pmmm rebellion#pmmm rebellion sequel#AUTISM🔥🔥🔥#long post#like really really long post
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Just watched the trailer for the new Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie and all I can say is ayo what the fUCK-
#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm#madoka magica#walpurgis rising#walpurgisnacht rising#pmmm rebellion#pmmm rebellion sequel#madoka kaname#homura akemi#mami tomoe#sayaka miki#kyoko sakura#kyouko sakura#I think I tried getting into the show but iirc it got too confusing for me so I just? Didn't really watch it?#but oh my GOD that movie looks like a whole new level of The Horrors#and I do know that madoka magica already has quite a lot of The Horrors#hmm maybe I'll take a stab at rewatching the series#nonny's nonsense in tags
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NEW MADOKA MAGICA CONTENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 10 YEARS!! IT’S A GOOD DAY TO BE ALIVE!!
#puella magi madoka magica#mahou shojo madoka magica#pmmm#rebellion story#rebellion story sequel#anime
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*emo farmer voice* is it really possible for a lesbian Catholic teenager and her crush, who she has watched die hundreds of times and also ripped apart the universe for, to have a happy ending together
#Is it really possible for the pink haired protagonist and her emo girlfriend to be normal teenagers for once#pmmm#like man. Man the rebellion sequel movie is coming out maybe? Huh? Woah#puella magi madoka magica#madohomu#madoka kaname#homura akemi
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#pmmm#puella magi madoka magica#puella magi suzune magica#puella magi kazumi magica#puella magi tart magica#pmmm: homura’s revenge#pmmm: the different story#puella magi oriko magica#puella magi homura tamura#pmmm: wraith arc#I am not adding Magia Record cause it would just destroy the rest of them#and Rebellion is a sequel#not a spin-off
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im having a Madoka Moment currently
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it’s literally been 10 years
#rebellion came out in 2013…#anyway just holy shit. i was starting to doubt we’d ever get a continuation of the main story.#the last time we got news about the sequel movie was like…. 2 years ago I think?#anyway I just. pmmm was one of my first anime ever and is still one of my favorites I am so happy.#dramon thoughts
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising Key art
#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm#madoka magica#mahou shoujo madoka magica#homura akemi#madoka kaname#walpurgisnacht rising#pmmm rebellion sequel
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i really want to know what the hell happened behind the scenes that they released the madoka rebellion movie in 2013 with a twist ending and cliffhanger clearly intended to set up a sequel and then just… did nothing. for a decade. the sequel is now finally slated to come out at the end of 2024, 11 years later. was the money from the pmmm gacha game really that good, that they just felt no need to continue the main anime? was there some kind of insane production difficulties going on with the team making this movie? did they have trouble convincing urobuchi to come back for it? whats the deal?
#puella magi madoka magica#PMMM#madoka magica#the thing that's so weird is that rebellion built up to a natural ending#only to go PSYCHE and do the random twist and cliffhanger#and then they did nothing with that.#and at this point after a decade (A DECADE) i just wish they'd tossed the twist and let it end#it just feels like they want to milk the franchise for more money now
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I am once again going to talk too much about Rebellion
and how people don’t understand Homura. Here I would like to address the reasons why people call Homura evil/the antagonist, which is usually their reason for disliking Rebellion. My blog has basically morphed into an obsessive discussion on why that movie is my favorite and elevates the story, so I’ve covered a lot of these topics before, but I hope to make things more comprehensive here.
I’ve seen some people call Homura “corrupted” by the part of her that is a witch. Two thoughts on that:
Rebellion goes out of its way to show you that witches are not inherently evil. They have experienced serious pain and are spreading that pain before Madoka’s sacrifice. However, if this meant that witches were inherently evil, then why are Sayaka and Nagisa not? They are still witches- that’s why their witch forms are still a part of them.
Also, in Rebellion, Sayaka warns Madoka’s essence to not fear Homura, as “she’s the one who’s most hurt”.
I think that people misunderstand the theme of what a witch is overall. A witch is an inevitable reality of magical girls because being a girl in a patriarchal/Kyubey system is CRUSHING. The transformation into a witch is a coming-of-age step into womanhood. It comes from the culmination of mistreatments and systemic oppression girls inevitably become overwhelmed by. This isn’t to say that all women are forever overwhelmed, but it is an unpleasant reality that most women become awoken to. Think of the resolution of the Barbie movie, for instance, where (BARBIE SPOILERS) the characters need to “wake up” the others to the suffocating reality of living in a patriarchy. Same principle, honestly.
I also think that people sometimes interpret the Christian imagery in a stereotypical “good vs evil” way than looking at the situation, especially when it comes to Homura’s demon label and Madoka’s sacrifice.
I’ve talked about this a lot so I won’t go into too much detail, but I believe that the series is going out of its way to create its themes around the dark reality of the self-sacrificing nature of girls. For a brief recap:
Making wishes for someone else is considered taboo
Madoka mattered as a girl. Throughout all iterations of pmmm and its sequels, Madoka laments on the tragedy of magical girls vanishing from the world without anyone knowing and says in Rebellion that she would never want to go anywhere where she couldn’t be around her friends and family. Her mom had plans for them when Madoka grew up, her brother remembers her, and it drives Homura insane that she’s the only person who remembers the other timeline. Madoka was always worried that she wasn’t good enough at anything to have a place in the world and I truly have a hard time believing that this series is saying that young girls who don’t feel they have value anywhere else are best served to sacrifice themselves into oblivion. That’s basically been the history of women, forever.
Homura calls herself a demon because, “[Madoka] was sacred as a god and I couldn’t help but pull her from heaven and undermine her.” Throughout the Wraith Cycle, Homura commits herself to honoring Madoka’s sacrifice and new world order, so the phrase “and I couldn’t help but pull her from heaven undermine her” is, I think, more of a reflection of her self-loathing for going against Madoka’s wish and less of a true admission of evil, because I don’t think that Madoka’s erasure from the world was ever an okay thing. I think people get too hung up on “demon-bad” without thinking of the nuances of the imagery. I don’t believe that Madoka’s godhood is inherently good, and I don’t believe Homura’s demonhood is inherently bad. I think that Madoka’s godhood is more an alignment with self-sacrifice, and Homura’s demonhood is an alignment with desire, and I think that too much of either is a bad thing. It’s why they both needed to come together to eviscerate the Kyubeys.
I think that the label of “demon” makes Homura irredeemable to people and I think that people are deeply unforgiving of the not so pretty things that make us human. I’ve seen that a lot of what I assume are younger users are completely unforgiving to girl characters who go through things and make mistakes. I’m not even talking about Azula defenders (though I think there is a nuanced conversation there) but the Catra-type haters. As others have pointed out, ya’ll about women’s wrongs until a girl suffers a time loop to try to save the love of her life (who, lest we forget, begs Homura to shoot her in one timeline) and her friends and almost loses her mind by being the only person to remember the love of her life in the timeline that ya’ll think was the good one. I even hesitate to call it “toxic yuri” until the last movie comes out. Now, this isn’t to say that Homura has made no mistakes. I think the fact that her rewriting of the world to include the Kyubeys is going to be a BIG mistake on her part, and she did pull the identity of Madoka away from the Law of the Cycle against her wishes. But I think that to take everything Homura has done to try to save Madoka and even give Madoka the power to become the Law of the Cycle and say that she is irredeemable or toxic because she is traumatized…. It’s heartbreaking to me.
Moreover, this perception of Homura as irredeemable flies in the face of all this Christian imagery. Throughout the entirety of Rebellion’s ending (and as you’ll see further down) Madoka assures Homura that she loves her no matter what, that she is always there for her. Madoka in her fullness can see in intimate detail what Homura endured for her- literal YEARS of suffering yet never giving up- do you really think Goddess Madoka can’t and shouldn’t forgive Homura? Are the “good” guys in Christianity not all about forgiveness?
And finally, the real reason I made this long ass post: Homura and Rue from Princess Tutu are parallels. For those who don’t know: in Princess Tutu, the character Rue transforms into an “evil” persona- Princess Kraehe, daughter of the Crow. While Rue is convinced that she is now an agent of evil, the main character Ahiru/Duck insists that she is not. Also important to note is Rue may not rewrite the universe, but objectively commits more women’s wrongs than Homura. She rips the shards of emotion from her lover’s breast and tries to sacrifice innocent people’s hearts to her father, but the story does not paint her as condemned or irredeemable. She’s been lied to, groomed, and traumatized. She’s not an evil person, she’s a girl trying to navigate horrible circumstances, like Homura. Rebellion creates these parallels because Homura is forgivable and it wants you to know that.
So anyway, first parallel is the outfit. Demon Homura is SOOOOO inspired by Kraehe it HURTS:
And finally, Rebellion went so hard to reference this scene:
PLEASE put on sound they translate it differently but here she says "homura chan is homura chan"
so yeah if you stuck around thanks! love u muah
#madoka magica#homura akemi#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm homura#pmmm#princess tutu#princess kraehe#Princess Tutu spoilers#support womens wrongs#but actually support them#madoka kaname#madoka magica rebellion#walpurgisnacht rising#walpurgis no kaiten
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One of the things that I like about Rebellion as a movie is that it takes certain elements of the original PMMM series and dials them up to eleven for dramatic effect.
For instance, in the TV series, all of the action takes place in Mitakihara--the only glimpses we get of the world beyond are Homura striding through a barren desert. This is taken to the logical extreme in Rebellion, where the world outside the boundaries of Mitakihara City literally does not exist. Of course, there turns out to be a good reason for that, but it honestly doesn't matter where there's anything outside Mitakihara back in the "real" universe, because the main series will probably never go there.
Likewise, in the original anime, Homura's world has narrowed and blurred to the point where she no longer pays attention to anyone outside a handful of people. In Rebellion, this becomes literally true; everyone outside of these characters is a puppet. It's only as the facade begins to drop, revealing faceless automatons beneath, that we realize what is happening.
The creators were not only aware of what they were doing with these tropes in the first place, they deliberately exaggerated them and played them up for the sequel, and I appreciate that in my media.
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What do you think of the PMMM Wraith Arc Manga as an introduction to Madoka with no previous base (no spoilers please) I recently bought the first volume but haven't read it yet
uhhhhh you should DEFINITELY watch the main series first. The Wraith Arc is an interquel between the main series and Rebellion (the sequel movie); not only will it spoil the main series, it won't make any sense as an introduction.
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now imagine waiting 10 years for the sequel to rebellion
Couldn't be me lmaooo, shoutout to Walpurginacht Rising coming 2024
I would have actually gone insane though jokes aside, and I thought waiting for YS season 2 was bad.
I've said this before but it's really sinking in now that if I'd watched all of Madoka before I'd watched YS my AO3 would look DRASTICALLY different. Tbh I already know it's going to be a bit different going forward now, I HAVE to write PMMM fic now
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imagine how annoying everyone would be if devilman got an anime for it's 40th anniversary and not its 50th. another fucking angel with a trenchcoat in love with a human
Anon, you have to understand there's an insane pattern with my interests called they're all years irrelevant, but the second I touch them again they suddenly update or get an announcement. I get into PMMM and that spring the Rebellion sequel is officially announced after nearly a decade. I get into Future Diary and a few years later after over a decade after the anime aired a Yuno figure is announced. I get into NGE around the same time 4.0 is released without realizing it. I get into Homestuck and a year later HS2 updates suddenly. I would fucking kill for a legitimately good and faithful adaption of the manga to an anime but I'm so so scared. If it happens again I'm going to lose my entire mind. There's a reason I once said this.
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