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The Mike Toole Show - The Thing About My Dokes

Personally, I think the excessive merchandising seems like the logical next step of corporations pitching to fans who for the last several years have stopped buying discs and been proclaiming the merits of the merchandise purchases as industry support. I'm not saying that is an incorrect notion, but for the companies, if they can't sell you discs, then they're gonna see what they CAN sell you.

I don't think this would be quite as much of a problem if companies weren't selling discs at such rip-off prices (in Japan at least, though Aniplex USA certainly seems to be imitating that model).... though, I heard someone on Sankaku Complex mention that Japan actually did experiment with selling them cheaper at one point but never got a higher consumer turn-out from it (that person never gave a source nor any further details on this, so I can't be too sure that was actually the case). At any rate, I'm probably not one to talk on the subject: in the midst of Madoka's localization, I went and imported the Japanese limited edition BDs.

I personally don't see a problem with merchandising as long as the original work remains good.

Now, if they try to drag Madoka out endlessly, that's a problem, but why would they? EVA is still crazy strong and only had one movie and a series of recap movies. They could make only, say, another movie/season of Madoka and I guarantee that 15 years later they'd still be making merch.

I don't see Madoka becoming a franchise zombie or anything similar.

People who refer to Madoka Magica as "Dokes" have small and insignificant genitalia.

That is all.

People who refer to Madoka Magica as "Dokes" have small and insignificant genitalia.

That is all.

I'm someone who has never seen Madoka Magica and am not making any plans to either.

45+ minutes of screwing around in the name of stylistic irony as directed by Akiyuki Shinbo sounds utterly painful

I'm someone who has never seen Madoka Magica and am not making any plans to either.

I'm sure it's a fine show that perhaps is as great as everyone says it is, but the hype reminds me exactly of the hype for Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I tried watching some years after the hype began but it just didn't do anything for me because I couldn't separate the show from the hype and appreciate Evangelion on its own merits, and I fully recognize that's my own failing and not a problem with the show but the experience of an anime failing, in my eyes, to live up to the hype left a bad taste in my mouth and put me off watching any series that gets all that much hype.

The other thing that puts me off ever trying Madoka Magica (besides the price of the show) is that I am a spoiler-reader but, even if I wasn't, it's pretty hard to avoid certain major spoilers for this series especially if you spend any time looking at anime image boards so I know about many of the deaths in the show and to be frank, what I've seen in image memes about certain deaths comes across as rather brutal and sadistic and that's just not the kind of show I'm interested in watching.

I mean, I'm not going to dispute the acclaim a show I haven't watched receives, but, as for me, I'd rather just stick to happy anime about girls eating cake and drinking tea.

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I'm someone who has never seen Madoka Magica and am not making any plans to either.

Does anyone else not see the problem with such a sentiment within the context of this conversation?

If my post had been just that one sentence, it would be problematic, but I explained myself and people are free to agree or disagree with my reasoning as they like.

What is so hard about not opining on the content of stuff you haven't watched any of?