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Also, since the subs for the video are messed up and don't completely show up (at least for me):

Homura: "The only one who remembers is me alone."
Kyouko: "Is this (referring to a person or creature) some kind of illusion or something?"
Homura: "Using this roundabout way out/exit... What in the world is your intention!?"
Madoka: "You mustn't [let yourself] be alone."

Juno016 wrote:

Also, since the subs for the video are messed up and don't completely show up (at least for me): Homura: "The only one who remembers is me alone." Kyouko: "Is this (referring to a person or creature) some kind of illusion or something?" Homura: "Using this roundabout way out/exit... What in the world is your intention!?" Madoka: "You mustn't [let yourself] be alone."

The subs aren't broken. It's just not completely subbed. It's just someone typing translations in the comments and centering them. Is it okay if I try to add your translation?

Sure, though my translation is super direct, so I wouldn't call them proper for subtitling. You can re-word them so they're smoother in English, if you like. I'd stick with "way out" over "exit," due to the likelihood of it not referring to an actual exit (despite the possibility) and make sure the last line from Madoka has connotations of "You musn't do that to yourself" so that the actual meaning comes out.

...The new clip just confuses me.
Homura's Soul Gem?
1) Purposely breaking it?
2) With her mouth?
3) Or is that someone else's mouth?

What does it all mean!?

Juno016 wrote:

Sure, though my translation is super direct, so I wouldn't call them proper for subtitling. You can re-word them so they're smoother in English, if you like. I'd stick with "way out" over "exit," due to the likelihood of it not referring to an actual exit (despite the possibility) and make sure the last line from Madoka has connotations of "You musn't do that to yourself" so that the actual meaning comes out.

Okay, I added your translation. I hope I picked a suitable wording for Madoka's line and didn't mess up the timing horribly or anything. I didn't mess with the other lines much on account of barely knowing enough Japanese to time the subs.

Juno016 wrote:

...The new clip just confuses me. Homura's Soul Gem? 1) Purposely breaking it? 2) With her mouth? 3) Or is that someone else's mouth? What does it all mean!?

Or, is it even a mouth to begin with? I thought it was a mouth too, but watching that part of the clip a few more times, I'm thinking it could actually be a hand crushing it, with the animation showing the back of a clenching fist. Either way-- and Aoki Ume's fairly simple character designs don't do us any favors here -- there's too little definition in the features to tell what's exactly crushing the soul gem.

The fact that we're seeing a soul gem being crushed is still confusing in of itself, like you said. Kinda ballsy on the production team's part, actually, since everyone that's watched the series knows the implications of what a crushed soul gem signifies. Could the imagery here be serving a more metaphorical purpose here? Maybe soul gems in this movie's universe, post-TV series, don't hold quite the same properties that they used to before, and thus the consequences of crushing a soul gem are different, if not less dire this time around? Looking more forward to this, especially since it only just now hit me that it'll premiere less than two months from now. I hope this movie will reach St. Louis when this makes the rounds in the States, even though it'd be without precedent considering that the first two movies didn't show here....