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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #120 on: May 05, 2011, 12:11:21 AM »
Oh, huh. I'll have to look closer next time. Though those 'familiars' don't appear until after
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Walpurgis disappates, right? It could just be the separate witches from all the vignettes being wiped away/purified. Which makes more since Walpurgis Night is the "night of witches".

One other thing to note about the drama I caught on the second listening:
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the cat that Madoka wished to save was hit by a car right in front of her eyes. I'm guessing Kyubey was there to take advantage of the opportunity.

Also, they elaborated more on the events leading up to Mami dying. They never told Homura about the details of Walpurgis Night, and Madoka made mention to stay inside on the day a big storm comes. Homura puts two and two together when she notices a big storm and that Madoka didn't attend school that day, searches online for the meaning of Walpurgis Night and realizes that they were going on a likely suicide mission, and goes out to search for them. She finds the cat roaming, and it leads her to them.
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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #121 on: May 05, 2011, 12:18:03 AM »
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« Reply #122 on: May 05, 2011, 12:38:43 AM »
...Nice fucking going, Madoka.
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But at least the kitty got saved. Maybe it's the same one in the OP?
It is exactly the one from the OP. The OP was one big joke, and because it was there, they decided to use it.

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« Reply #123 on: May 05, 2011, 12:48:40 AM »
Oh, huh. I'll have to look closer next time. Though those 'familiars' don't appear until after
Spoiler:
Walpurgis disappates, right? It could just be the separate witches from all the vignettes being wiped away/purified. Which makes more since Walpurgis Night is the "night of witches".

Actually,
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they DO appear during the battle. They're those dark blue, cosmical-ish cut-out familiars that Homura fights. By cut-out, I mean that they're kinda similar to Oktavia's Klarissas, being nothing but a sillouhette.
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« Reply #124 on: May 05, 2011, 01:42:22 AM »
It's reeeeeally a stretch to say they're all the same as who contributed to Walpurgis. The way I see it, Madoka's first shot was only for magical girls in the present time.

First has long zigzag-finish sleeves and random circle things on her head. Second looks like a giant afro with a crown, also has a scepter.
Third has an antenna of sorts, four hair loops and wings. Fourth has wing-like sidetails on her head. Fifth is apparently Miku. Sixth looks like her crotch is a giant bird's nest.

i'd like to know how you can tell these are the same girls

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« Reply #125 on: May 05, 2011, 02:51:05 AM »
There's a picture of the familiars in the Puella Magi wiki. If you look closely, each one of them has a resemblance to the Puella Madoka saved.
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« Reply #126 on: May 05, 2011, 03:34:20 AM »
Thanks for telling me there's a subarticle about them; even though I still think they bear little to no resemblance to the magical girls saved, it points out that they are similar to the characters in the Universe PV by Gekidan Inu Curry. And that I fully support, some are nearly exactly the same, and others seem to just be meshes of two.

EDIT: why are you taking everything you're posting from the speculation section

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« Reply #127 on: May 05, 2011, 10:53:35 AM »
...Man. Now I kinda wanna run a Magical Burst PbP.

(For those not in the know: Magical Burst is a rules-lite RPG under development by the guy who translated the Maid RPG into English. It is very much inspired by Puella Magi Madoka Magica, among others.)

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« Reply #128 on: May 05, 2011, 03:23:14 PM »
...Man. Now I kinda wanna run a Magical Burst PbP.
...So I'm not the only one?  I've been trying to figure out a good campaign idea for it, but I'm not sure if I could get it to work out, ahah... >.> Or if there'd be any real interest.  I might have to rethink this.
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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #129 on: May 05, 2011, 05:58:44 PM »
EDIT: why are you taking everything you're posting from the speculation section

Because it's fun and because I have similar ideas.
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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #130 on: May 05, 2011, 06:20:42 PM »
It is exactly the one from the OP. The OP was one big joke, and because it was there, they decided to use it.

Did they actually decide to use the cat in the radio drama because it was in the OP, or did they have the story for Madoka already written and put the cat in the OP as a result?

The radio drama really feels like something they had planned from the start, but couldn't fit into the timeframe of 12 episodes. Since all the vocals from the first part of the 10th episode are in the radio drama verbatim, with a lot of things filled in. Still significant to the story, but also one of the first places I think they'd cut down.
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« Reply #131 on: May 05, 2011, 06:37:00 PM »
Urobochi said that the cat in the OP had nothing to do with anything so they wrote it into the drama. Looks like they did a good job if you can't tell.

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« Reply #132 on: May 05, 2011, 06:41:38 PM »
Indeed they did. Turning into a Puella to save the cat, although stupid, was actually a very Madoka thing to do.
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« Reply #133 on: May 05, 2011, 11:11:45 PM »
Or if there'd be any real interest.

Hey, at the very least, we're both interested... :3c

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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #135 on: May 06, 2011, 10:36:55 AM »
Madoka is a genius anime. It's in my top 10 right after Clannad.

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« Reply #136 on: May 06, 2011, 11:23:43 AM »
Madoka is a genius anime. It's in my top 10 right after Clannad.
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« Reply #137 on: May 06, 2011, 11:30:26 AM »
oh boy you're one of those people

Can you expand on this?

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« Reply #138 on: May 06, 2011, 12:16:45 PM »
oh boy you're one of those people

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« Reply #139 on: May 06, 2011, 08:47:48 PM »
oh boy you're one of those people

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« Reply #140 on: May 06, 2011, 09:34:35 PM »
It was more of that he mentioned Clannad was in his top ten and above Madoka than Madoka being in his top ten.



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« Reply #141 on: May 08, 2011, 04:42:52 PM »
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A friend of mine hates Mami because he thinks she has bad trigger discipline and treats her firearms like crap.
What do you guys think? Do you think Mami should treat her firearms better?
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« Reply #142 on: May 08, 2011, 04:47:04 PM »
I think that's the least of her worries, what with UNLIMITED MUSKET WORKS and that whole looming risk of sudden death and all.

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« Reply #143 on: May 08, 2011, 04:58:37 PM »
She's likely in junior high at the latest and lives in a country where firearms are heavily restricted. I don't think it's reasonable to expect her to be an expert on the subject.

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« Reply #144 on: May 08, 2011, 05:04:00 PM »
If you could conjure infinite firearms out of your skirt, you would treat them with alot less respect, too.

What's next? People saying the show sucks because Sakaya doesn't know how to fence properly?  :trollface:
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« Reply #145 on: May 08, 2011, 05:17:17 PM »
Oh no, Sayaka fenced awesome. But did you SEE Madoka's TERRIBLE Archery form? I mean, god, she'll break her shoulder after two shots >=[!


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« Reply #146 on: May 08, 2011, 07:17:01 PM »
To be fair it can be assumed that those were the only two shots she's fired in her whole life.

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« Reply #147 on: May 09, 2011, 05:18:14 AM »
Homura learned how to fire a gun in only one month!

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Re: Let's Discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Happiest Anime Ever
« Reply #148 on: May 10, 2011, 12:43:59 AM »
Meanwhile,

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« Reply #149 on: May 10, 2011, 12:47:21 AM »
Meanwhile
You'd want to mark that link as a spoiler, no matter how likely it is that people are going to know this already.  :derp:
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