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Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Franchise Teases Project Announcement in October

Madoka clone or not (really it wasn't....just same genre), it still wasn't a very good or unique anime. Wasn't even executed really well.

Normally I'm adverse to prequels, but Fate/Zero kind of changed the expectations in terms of how prequels can be executed. If any series could use an interesting prequel, it might be Yuki Yuna.

Yuki Yuna is nothing like Madoka. They are both magical girl anime, but have virtually zero similarities.

I've seen both, by the way - and while Madoka is a very special anime to me, I also enjoy Yuki Yuna for what it is: a magical girl series that sticks to the traditional friendship themes while still providing a twisted battle the girls must fight.

SEGAtheGENESIS234 wrote:

I haven't seen this anime, but I heard that the show was okay at best, and a poor man's Madoka at worse.

Everything is a Madoka clone in the eyes of the kids who have only watched Madoka.

Madoka relied too heavily on shock value, particularly sudden character death, while YuYuYu was smart enough to create drama without relying on easy things. spoiler[Killing a character is easy, have a character deal with a new disability requires more effort.]

This sounds like a challenge to me. Sudden twist about the world, ineffectual main character, "dark and edgy" because they're both copying Shadow Star... Shadow Star? Not important. No, both these excellent... ok, I can't go on. Yuki Yuna is a prime example of the wannabe set while Madoka actually is something. To put it simply and spoiler free as possibly: Yuki Yuna is a Hero is cowardly while and especially where Madoka isn't.

Here's the problem with the world: spoiler[The whole planet/universe has been reduced to one Japanese city floating in nothingness surrounded by hostile aliens and fire.]

So what can happen? spoiler[ For 99.999995% of the world, nothing. They're dead. I suppose the show could have taken the Dark City twist... still would have been a twist... and have the alien/gods abduct the city rather than precisely destroy the rest of the world but then the show would have been about, well, something. Fighting for something rather than just delaying the inevitable.]

But it's weird; These guys are fighting against spoiler[entropy] and spoiler[hostile gods who are like aliens] while the Madoka crew are fighting for spoiler[entropy] and spoiler[indifferent aliens who act like gods].

Which is why the main thing I dislike about YuYuYu is that, in the ending, spoiler[all the disabilities magically disappear.] Kinda defuses the drama that came before it, making it much weaker on rewatch. One of the best things about Madoka is that it's one of the ~5 anime that don't have disappointing endings.

Also, man, I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard the phrase "Madoka relied too heavily on shock value." (Or "shock value" complaints in general, but there's virtually no variation in how they're constructed.) Could buy up all those Aniplex-priced shows with that kind of money.

Nothing that happens in Madoka really qualifies as a Sudden Shocking Tweest, that whole perception is a meme, started by people who were so enamored by the Hidamari Sketch character designs that they completely ignored the giant neon warning signs all over the narrative and monster designs and everything else. (Rebellion does have a crazy twist you're unlikely to see coming, but it's a commentary on the narrow-minded interpretation of the series as just a sequence of horrific gut-punches from nowhere.) There is much more going on in Madoka than the overly-infamous twists. And you don't have to take my word for it, because literal books have been written on the subject.