Okay so maybe someone already said something similar but I have something to say about Madoka Magica

It's about Homura, especially the events in Rebellion

I won't go over why people don't like it because I think they're wrong not to, nope, but il going to talk about the ending so warning spoilers I suppose?

Basically, many people stated that the conversation Madoka and Homura have in the flower field was the turning point that led to Homura becoming a demon, and I agree. What happens is that Madoka clearly said she would never willingly and happily give up her life and leave her loved ones, and that led to Homura deciding to separate Madoka from the law of cycle

HOWEVER there is something important to note !!

Unlike the other characters present in Rebellion who are basically the actual magical girls (plus Bebe), Madoka is solely the version of herself that Homura has in her head. An idealised version of her. Indeed, it wouldn't make sense if she was the real Madoka because then she wouldn't be able to come to her as Madokami, if she was inside the labirynth with the others.

She's only the reflection of what Homura wanted Madoka to be, and the moment Madoka sais she would never be happy doing what she did, it was only what Homura wanted to hear, a way to comfort her in her idea that that was not what Madoka wanted while, in reality, it was not what HOMURA wanted !

I think it's relevant because it completely changes the reasons of Rebellion's ending. Because instead of Homura's actions being done for Madoka's happiness, it was for hers. We tend to forget that the whole point of opposing Madoka and Homura is to oppose Selflessness and Selfishness.

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“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.

"sth may happen in the new universe🌇"

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Lineless pic of everyone’s favorite cheese girl

I watched the Madoka Magica: Rebellion movie today, and I absolutely loved it. A very interesting spin on the shows ending, and it makes perfect sense to me. In the show, nearly all of them died except for Madoka and Homura, the former of which sacrifices herself to become a God of sorts so that way no other magical girl will have to suffer anymore. So she leaves Homura alone. Alone in a world where nobody but Homura remembered Madoka. And after everything that girl went through to try and save Madoka, that's a hard pill to swallow. So when it's revealed in the movie that the reality that the girls are in isn't real, and that one of them made it up because they now have the powers of a witch, it made perfect sense for that person to be Homura.

Out of all the other magical girls, she's the one who has faced the most heartbeat and despair. Constantly going back in time, creating different worlds as a result of said time travel, all in a bid to save Madoka, the person who she loves the most. And in the end, all of her efforts were in vain. She lost the one person who she had sworn to save and protect. So is it any wonder that she would give in to her despair and create a world where Madoka and all of their friends could live peacefully?

Look at them. All together and happy, unaware of the reality they actually come from. In other words, a world that Homura wanted and desired more than anything else. Something that I found to be really interesting and thought was a nice touch was this:

The people around them don't have faces. Almost as if they weren't real people, and the only ones who WERE in fact real was Homura, her friends, and the people closest to them. They were the only ones who actually had faces in this world. Of course, eventually Homura realizes that something is off about the world, and confides in Kyoko. The two then set out to Kyoko's hometown, hoping to find some answers there....only for the bus that they were on to take them back to the city that they currently live in. And endless loop that they can't get out of. As if nothing outside of that city existed. A lot of stuff happens, and Homura eventually comes to a startling conclusion: that she was the witch that created the labyrinth they were all currently stuck in. As a result, she gives in to despair entirely and transforms into a witch. Madoka and the others arrive to try and save Homura. And now we get up to the scene that had me screaming😂.

I've been shipping these two since I watched the show, so the fact that Sayaka actually confessed to Kyoko here was a very welcomed surprise, lol. Anyway, they all fight together to save Homura (also, I loved that they played Misterioso by Kalafina for that scene, absolutely banger song) and eventually Madoka regains her true form once again:

Everything looks like it's going well, and it looks like Homura will be saved....until this happens:

Homura takes away Madoka's God powers so she can live as an ordinary girl, and takes the power for herself, essentially turning her into a demon.

Now, I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people who hated this part, but honestly? I loved it. To me, it really showed how done Homura was with everything (and I can't say that I blame the girl, she just found out from Kyube that she was being used for an experiment in order to get to Madoka) and that she would literally do ANYTHING to make sure that Madoka and her friends could live happy lives.

Even if that meant becoming a demon to do it.

The movie ends with all of the girls alive. And this time, instead of Madoka no longer existing in the world, she's here too. In fact, she's the transfer student instead of Homura. Very interesting turn of events indeed.

All in all, I really loved this movie and I think the ending makes perfect sense, especially for someone like Homura, who has been through a heck of a lot for a young girl her age. So becoming the villain in the end? Fits her tragic story perfectly.

I don't agree with certain interpretations of Rebellion tbh

This is a revisit to an incomplete drawing I made in middle school. Around 2013 or so.

I was really into the first few episodes that still felt like a regular magical girl show. Though, imo, the series has more in common with 90’s magical girls than the edgey shows that come out after.

Old piece, as well as closeups to the lil madoka and sayaka below cut

Popcorn:

Madoka - strawberry flavor

Homura - black pepper flavor

Mami - caramel flavor

Kyoko - chocolate flavor

Sayaka - salt flavor

Nagisa - cheese flavor

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Drinks:

Walpurgisnacht - cherry Coke

Dessert witch - strawberry milk

Mermaid witch - grapefruit juice with blue Curacao syrup.

The soul gems squares are coasters.

While we all are pretty much aware that this is Madoka's concept art outfit finally being used for her new Magical Girl design, there seems to be a lock and some chains around her ribcage. The first thing I thought about was the metaphor “hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages” which is meant to illustrate that the heart cannot be governed, that it will go anyway it wants, that it is uncontainable, hence the “wild creature” title, and the heart being a “wild creature”, needs to be encased, limited, caged, hence the “rib cage”. This could symbolize a lot in terms of Madoka's character, but one of my theories is that Madoka's memories of every loop where Homura fought for her and never gave up, the realization that someone like Madoka, whom has never seen herself as worthy of anything, let alone love, unless she was helping or being of use to someome else, actually had someone all this time who's loved her for who she is, not what she can do for others, the clarity of “oh. this is the love letter I've always wanted,” the reciprocation of Homura's love that transcends time and space, all of that is locked away with the final memory wipe at the end of Rebellion. Maybe the metaphorical key to unlocking it is her finally regaining all of those memories, all of that love. Of course, she'd have to regain her godhood to do so. My second theory is that maybe this is meant to symbolize Madoka's ultimate sacrifice being locked away both as a means to keep her alive as a human and as a means to spare Homura anymore grief; maybe eventually Homura's acceptance of her death and acknowledgement of her grief will be the symbolical key to unlocking Madokami... which unfortunately will kickstart the inevitable battle between God and the Devil.

um uh potentially hot take but like…the pmmm fandom realizes “homura is not evil” and “the ending of rebellion is tragic” and “madohomu is a toxic relationship as it currently stands” can all be simultaneously true, right?

like homura isn’t evil, she’s a traumatized, isolated child with an unhealthy attachment to madoka. her version of love is ultimately selfish and her decision to change the world to make madoka happy wasn’t kind because it took away madoka’s autonomy and right to choose. but she made that choice because she was literally tortured into insanity by the incubators. like her trauma pre-rebellion would honestly be enough to justify her becoming a witch but she became homulilly because she was tortured on top of her already beginning to question her own sanity with regards to madoka’s existence.

but like…she isn’t evil. it doesn’t matter that she said she was at the end of rebellion bc that was her self-loathing speaking. ultimately she does love madoka and the other magical girls, she just prioritizes madoka over them because madoka will always be who matters most to her - but she knows madoka’s happiness is reliant on the rest of their friends’ happiness so she makes sure they get to be happy too.

anyways all this to say akemi homura is one of the best characters of all time.

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