Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-4010415-20160214072023

QuasimodoBellringer wrote:

As for Puella Magi Madoka Magica....I HATE Madoka herself she is so annoying. Sayaka was good and the reast of the cast was meh, but it just took itself WAY too seriously to where it did not have any enjoyment value to it. Well, that's a matter of taste.

For me, a story doesn't always have to have fun and humor to stay enjoyable. I watched and enjoyed Deadman Wonderland. Hell, after that, I read the entire manga of Deadman Wonderland, and I quite liked it. That series pretty much decided that the characters were going to have fucked up shit in their lives, something horrible that happened to them or will happen to them, etc.

I get kind of tired of "100% happy, everything is okay, the main characters saved the day and 100% definitely won, hooray!" endings, so endings that are bittersweet or "They kind of won, but not entirely" help me take a break from that.

And sorry, but Madoka Magica was written by a guy who likes to take a typical manga concept and twist it. Apparently he's the guy who wrote Psycho-Pass? (I fucking loved Psycho-Pass, by the way) I think I heard that someone asked him to make a magical girl story, and he did what he usually does and twisted the concept.