#homura talking to the sky knowing she will only be reunited with her love through death

[saltyloafy]

listening to mitski like I do every day but lately every song is just "that's soooo madohomu vibes" or "akemi homura would love this song" or "this is just like [scene in anime] holy shit"

I think my brain is broken

[kyu-bri]

Magia Rapport pt 7

@magiarapport​

August 29th prompt: What moment, concept, or character makes you happiest from the game? Why is this?

I wrote these all August 30th and I’m burnt out at this point. I’ve covered Alot of what I love about the series previously but I’ll give highlights and hopefully won’t ramble for 1000 words.

A character that makes me really happy is Yachiyo, to get to see a Real veteran magical girl, one whose been doing this since far too young, seen far too much, and not only survived but learned to hope and dream again through the power of Friendship, I think that’s the most magical girl you can get.

The concept I like the most really is Magia Record in general. We take Puella Magi Madoka Magica, best known for popularizing the grimdark magical girl trope and- while it did it very tastefully, launched a series of very untasteful takes that gave us a whole bunch of Sparkly Little Girl Torture Porn.

I know that wasn’t what Madoka Magica was going for though. And it’s not what I took from it either. I said I didn’t like Madoka’s sacrifice at the end. The idea that a girl had to sacrifice herself so that every other girls like her in the world had their chance to be happy, it didn’t fix the issue.(and it wasn’t trying to, but-) Then Rebellion happens and we actually get a ‘better’ conclusion to that! The girl who loves her decides to rip her out the gotdang sky and Force Her to be happy. She becomes a Devil so that the girl she loves can be a normal teenager again. And then she’s painted as toxic because she went against that girls wishes. Madoka’s alive again but at what cost? (The cost of Homura’s own happiness and sanity Rebellion still isn’t a good end either 4th movie where are you)

Magia Record quite literally wasn’t Capable of going that heavy. Because theres still a 4th movie to work around and even excluding that, Rebellion to ignore. Madoka Magica has worked hard to keep making material using it’s multiverse bullshit and stretching it to explain all sorts of Technically Canon continuations, but Magia Record was one of the bigger stories that would have a lot harder time covering its ass.

This makes the story feel watered down at times. It’s clunky and idealistic and hanging by a thread. This even seems represented by it’s Record in Madokami’s collection being fragile, such ‘explaining’ how it’s Special. But honestly? It’s exactly what the Madoka Magica Extended Universe needed and deserved.

Magia Record is a fanservicey cringey badly written cashgrab and NA server going down brings me relief. The game was tiring to play and the writing was subpar and awkward when it wasn’t downright unbearable and I didn’t have to look at a middleschooler in their battle bikini.

But it gave me everything I wanted out of Madoka Magica.

It gave me little girls being allowed to hope and actually making changes and progress with it. It gave us found families, multiple instances of them- it gave us girls in love and even an explicit lesbian that can’t be brushed away. Girls teamed together because of hardship or friendship or just because they needed somebody.

Our original girls got to come back in an alternate universe where not everything has gone to shit yet. They get to get saved from their doom and talked down from their despair and reconcile while they still could and pull through it all together and then be allowed to stay that way. We got a universe where Madoka’s confidence was bolstered by becoming a magical girl and Homura got to save her from both death and despair. Mami got her literal guardian angel to save her from her grisly fate and then she got to reunite with her dearest Kyoko. And throughout all of this pain and joy and drama Sayaka was too busy to get all worked up over a stupid boy who never appreciated her.

Magia Record is shallow, idealistic, inconsistent nonsense. But it’s because it isn’t capable of being too dark and heavy that lets it and all the girls living within it actually be happy, hopeful slice-of-life magical girls like the childrens shows that started the genre.

I’m grateful for that if nothing else. And I’m glad that it let me see my girls safe and happy when they first became my girls through my wanting to make that for them by myself.

My favorite moment is when every girl bands together, using the wishes that in other versions of the universe might’ve ruined their lives, and takes that power to protect and uplift eachother. They made a miracle happen with their wishes once again, on their own terms, and used it to all save themselves.

I’m thanking the community and especially @muffinrecord​ for putting this event together and encouraging me to share with everyone me sobbing grossly about magical girls! It’s been nice playing with you all. I hope we have many happy times still ahead. <3