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relyat08
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 Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:23 pm
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| Ouran High School Dropout wrote: |
| Animeking1108 wrote: | | The series is basically "Madoka Magica" if you injected it with "Elfen Lied's" Everyone's-An-Asshole Nihilism. |
Wow.  That sounds incredibly toxic. May have to keep my eye out for this one.  |
Same, to be honest. For the sake of the children. 
| LaytonPuzzle27 wrote: | | I'm sorry am being negative but in my opinion I hate those dark/deconstruction magical girl anime shows like Madoka Magica, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, and Magical Girl Raising Project. To me Madoka Magica is infamous for being the How to manual of How to Kill Your Favorite Childhood Genre. Magical Girl Apocalypse/Magical Girl Site along with other three I mention are a disgrace the Magical Girl genre. |
I don't see why they can't coexist. We have shows like Precure and other great, more wholesome, magical girl shows still being made, so nothing has been killed. The genre is just expanding to cover a larger audience. I, personally, am a big fan of both. I am watching Card Captor Sakura right now and it's an absolute pleasure, but I also really enjoy darker anime. For what it's worth, I don't really think Madoka nor Yuki Yuna are that dark, and they are certainly not nihilistic. Both of them are fairly positive and optimistic thematically, as far as I'm concerned.
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Ringking
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:17 am
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| relyat08 wrote: | |
I don't see why they can't coexist. We have shows like Precure and other great, more wholesome, magical girl shows still being made, so nothing has been killed. The genre is just expanding to cover a larger audience. I, personally, am a big fan of both. I am watching Card Captor Sakura right now and it's an absolute pleasure, but I also really enjoy darker anime. For what it's worth, I don't really think Madoka nor Yuki Yuna are that dark, and they are certainly not nihilistic. Both of them are fairly positive and optimistic thematically, as far as I'm concerned. |
I dunno, when you factor in the movie, I don't think Madoka had a single positive outcome.
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Mew Berry
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:27 am
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| Ringking wrote: |
| relyat08 wrote: | |
I don't see why they can't coexist. We have shows like Precure and other great, more wholesome, magical girl shows still being made, so nothing has been killed. The genre is just expanding to cover a larger audience. I, personally, am a big fan of both. I am watching Card Captor Sakura right now and it's an absolute pleasure, but I also really enjoy darker anime. For what it's worth, I don't really think Madoka nor Yuki Yuna are that dark, and they are certainly not nihilistic. Both of them are fairly positive and optimistic thematically, as far as I'm concerned. |
I dunno, when you factor in the movie, I don't think Madoka had a single positive outcome. |
Eh, I'm still hoping whatever comes out of the concept movie will fix that (if it ever actually happens). But I have a feeling a certain character will just be let off the hook in the end, which isn't a good outcome to me, honestly.
On another note, having just read the first Raising Project novel, I don't think it's really nihilistic either. It's more about how a few had people can ruin a good thing, and how the ideal of the pure and perfect magical girl can't really be lived up to. The anime didn't do as good a job at conveying that, in my opinion. But the novel leaves the impression that a difference can actually be made.
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Animeking1108
Joined: 26 Apr 2011
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:32 pm
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Violence, gore and I think there were a couple of nude scenes? About on the level of Go Nagai. But I might be confused with another title, I only peeked through the first volume and then kinda forgot it existed. |
Yea I went through the first chapter a little to rapey for me so guess this is a pass. |
Unless it's airing late night or on cable, I think the rapey scenes will get toned down. "Akame Ga Kill" had a scene were a girl was raped by a dog, Syura raped a woman on her husband's grave, and he had a pedophile clown lackey that raped the woman's daughter. Even those were too extreme for the anime.
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