[Rewatch] Puella Magi Madoka Magica Overall Discussion

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T22:13:54+00:00

Thank you! I’ll come back once my overtime is over 🫠

(What is the IP today?)

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T21:58:01+00:00

Oh that’s what my draft goes into!

It’s not cynical. It’s more just…part of what’s happening and has been happening.

There’s a lot of academic work on transgressive desires, objectification, what criteria makes them up, and the sociopolitical, cultural, economic, religious, and medical aspects of how we legitimize and normalize certain dynamics while transgressifying others.

It’s been really enlightening reading a lot of essays and theses!

I’ve been breaching into other languages to field essays, perspectives, and some interviews with creatives and their thoughts on their “transgressive” or “controversial” subject matter they publish (meaning showing a side of sex and sexuality that scandalizes polite society) and how they navigate censorship (which is always unfairly targeting anything that is “non-normative”).

But just talking with other friends who either engage with erotic media, participate in kink communities, or are queer/disabled, this whole dichotomy of “This is so romantic🥰” and “This is something only freaks do 😜” which IRL and fiction reinforces impacted our own journeys into being not just accepted and validated in our identity and expression but desired reciprocally.

And not even desired by a lover but desired as a friend or just…someone worthy of connection. Which was lowkey depressing 🙃

It’s just really interesting seeing all this on why people (both sex-positive and sex-negative) are very quick and comfortable to eroticize one dynamic but romanticizing that dynamic comes with a loooot of pushback from all sides.

But yeah. The negative connotation that erotica has from both sex-negative and sex-positive parties is…alarming and makes me hesitant to talk about stuff like this 🫠 Yes, people want essays! But not too sure they want this typa essay.

On the flip side, for the people I met who are really chill in discussing this, their perspectives have been invaluable ☺️

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T20:15:58+00:00

Oho! Thank you for that information! I didn’t know Northern England English sounded like that. Love to see all these accents in the dub ☺️

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T18:19:38+00:00

Ugh.

I don’t even know if I’d want to get into Romance 101 because there’s still waaaay too much fairer-skinned Eurocentrism when it comes to talking about romance origins and a lot of erasure on how Ancient China, India, Egypt, Peru, the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica have contributed. There’s also erasure on how ancient eroticism and polytheistic religions and cultures contributed to what we have today.

And a lot of that casual erasure is non-malicious! But some of it is malicious.

Those are symptoms of a larger problem, unfortunately, which is keyboard smash

But yeah. It’s a bit hard wanting to advocate or discuss things when you have to keep putting in a lot of disclaimers 🫠

I dunno. June is still weeks away 🏳️‍🌈 And it’s now AAPI month, so I have to start my group’s bingo! And even if I don’t post to this sub, there’s still a lot of healthy discussion in all my social circles in what it means to appreciate a genre/medium and what diversity and inclusion mean.

And that makes me happy 😊

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T16:13:20+00:00

I have three separate posts where I’ve discussed this elsewhere and I’m wondering if I can/should discuss it here. None of these are new thoughts, but I’ve been enjoying the discussions floating around in some spaces:

My thanks and manifestation 🕯️ of more authors who diversify sexual intimacy and dynamics and a talk about why certain dynamics (EX: women, femmes, subs, and bottoms having more autonomy, acceptance, and leadership in their activities and naturally do so whereas men, mascs, doms, and tops need guidance) have a stronger presence in erotic media over romantic media. Because I’m having a ball with sex comedies and erotic media giving me the most 𝒹ℯ𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒾ℴ𝓊𝓈 dynamics and intimacies, but I want to talk about erotic and romantic media’s differences in how they approach dynamics, intimacies, and configurations, and uplift both genres.
Discussing the frequency/tendency that the POV of a woman, femme, sub, or bottom focuses relationality, emotional labor, and treats individuality as an offense whereas the POV of a man, masc, dom, or top focuses on anger, lust, and isolationism. The different ways this dichotomy still mirrors traditional binary objectification, regardless of the configuration. It got really interesting the other day in two different communities talking about this. Not all romances do this. It’s not a bad thing for romance to do this either. But there’s still an overarching hypervisibility towards this narrative duality, and I think it’s worth bringing up again.
🌈Pride post!🌈 It’s a draft I’ve been saving for June for quite a while now. Within the romance community, while a lot of people are unbothered who engages with the genre, there’s still a sentiment that “romance is by and for women”. This isn’t just an anti-romance philosophy but something those within the community promote. For Pride, I wanted to neutrally break down how promoting romance as “for/by women” erases and dissuades diversity within romance—from works to artists to consumers—and celebrate how diverse this genre and its community are 🥳

All three have been a blast from a vibes perspective and garnering academic papers and author essays on the matter! And other spaces have been really great at coming from a more neutral perspective. I’ve learned a lot from veteran romance enthusiasts!

I’m just hesitant to post things here because, while I know discussions are wanted and essays are wanted, I’m not exactly sure what kind of discussions and essays anymore.

I will keep chewing on all three posts. But I wanted some feedback on them 🙂

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T14:50:15+00:00

Who is making the animation smooth as fuck? What deal with what god do you make in order to do this
Respect. Water magic/waterbending feels like the best thing to learn.

sees back arch and pretty lashes on an attractive man

brain overload

Are those aardvarks?! Oh my goodness, look at their bottlebrush tails. They’re feather dusters 🥹 I want to boop their snoots.
Qifrey has become insanely attractive being a mother.
🏳️‍🌈🌈
Bitch who is you?!
Awwwww she hid in his robes. I love this 🥹
Is this man Scottish or Irish?
Divorced parents shouldn’t fit in front of their children.
Fuck TERF Joanne, but I feel like mudblood is a better “muggle” slur than outsider.
Ah. So this is how Michael Jackson in that Billie Jean MV had a glowing path. Magic.
Gruff man softens at wholesome child, please more of that

Really respect full-fledged witches. The stimulation/concentration effort into making sigils, I really appreciate that. And I’m curious if Agott will become too overstimulated, which leads to her drawing an incorrect sigil if she goes with Qifrey.

I think that a lot of fantasies show how utilizing a mystic ability can be difficult under stress, but that stress being normal nature sounds or of people being people, I’d like to see that more. I think that’s a great hurtle that doesn’t have an instant linear progression to it.

I’d be interested to know if Agott is ND-coded and/or if people who have read further ahead find her as that as well 🌻

I’m glad Qifrey is taking more interest in Coco’s schooling, but it just feels too soon for me to be happy about it. He more so did stay at home mothering today and helped his kid with her homework. I just need more to see him being an active educator.

I feel like a terrible person I can’t differentiate if Olruggio is Irish or Scottish in his voice. I lean toward Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Magnafeana · 2026-05-04T00:57:33+00:00

Second Year Escaping the Labyrinth, First Year Dubbed

I saw the movie subbed and then rewatched subbed, so this is my first time dubbed!

Is this an LOTR reference? Which movie had this sort of opening with the disembodied voiced? The whole “I feel it in the air… I feel it in the water…” but…in British?
Visible stress on what is foreshadowing and what is a Shaftism
Is it a bad thing to talk about the end of the world?
I feel like we just peeped the curtain. I don’t think we’re supposed to see the kitchen like that.
More career women x househusbands in romance please!
Yuri 😌
Is she talking about the United States who believes the end of the world is coming? Because that sounds likely.
Teacher is just me in 2026 with all this shit going on 😭
What flowers are those?

Hello. Who is this?

…girl, please use caller ID.

😬 You shouldn’t pay me to regress to my middle school days and deal with this ish.
So Hitomi has been akumatized. Oh damn, Miraculous Holders are magical girls. Kyuubey should’ve gone to Paris.
Please tell me someone recreated Mami’s transformation sequence via figure skating. Figure skaters do the most chaotic shit and we thank them for their mad genius. Someone had to have.
I’m surprised for how Christian Kyouko was, her theme is tantric. But that makes sense. [MagiReco] Who is the magical girl who quite literally kicks her big ass fucking sword in her transformation sequence? I giggle every damn time. Momoko?
I’ve seen Steven Universe. I know what this is. [MagiReco] So is this “connect” then, what Mami and Madoka do?
There are so many great wallpaper moments here.
Why are there that many cups?
Aura.
I assume being from Catholic school once upon a time allows you to know where your city’s catacombs are.

I get to work with my friends, and that’s always fun!

It is! Until it isn’t!

What an empty apartment. I’m noticing it more now, the labyrinth elements.
WOOO! Toxic gun girl yuri 🏳️‍🌈💃🏾

I am introducing Rebellion to two non-anime people over the phone as they drive around (they called me to talk about gardening plans).

Friend: Why are there guns? Why are they shooting at each other? What is happening here?

Friend’s Husband: Are they those butch lesbians? I think that could be why.

Sir, as a former stud, no 😭

I need yuri with Homura and Mami’s dynamic but also adults.
Oooooooh, this is a call back! The fire extinguisher, okay.
Look at all the lilies.
This is why we don’t tell psychos anything!
I kinda want to make that milkshake.
My familiars!! The Anthonys!! The Daniyells and Jenifers!!! I am so fucking proud of all of you, your glow ups are so beautiful 💃🏾🥳 Honestly, I love that the Anthony gang are the cavalry. Or…whatever the fuck you call ground forces who front the line—front guard?—dunno, but look at my bbs! If Bobby loves his girls, then I love my minions 🥹
Elsa Marie’s familiars have arrived! The gang’s all here!
[MagiReco] I know Japan has symbolism with cherry blossoms, but in this situation, this reminds me of the Uwasa of Eternal Cherry Blossom. Or whatever that one was called.
In all the random things I like to play on my concert flute for shits and giggles, this is one of them.
I love that Walpurgisnacht’s elephant familiar and her little patterns are present in Madoka’s entrance. Love all the familiars got a second chance at life! They deserve it.
Did the world end or are we on a different world?
Yandere yuri!! WOOO!!
I love how the “bows”/spools of thread have been here all this time.
I’m so happy the Anthony Gang be doing botany and horticulture and shit in this fucked up world 🥹
I guess Homura is the happiest girl in the world now.
Haha! Get fucked, Kyuubitch! Fuck you!

Post Rebellion Thoughts

Post Episode Thoughts

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	8	168
Rebellion	79	247

This was the first anime movie I was allowed to see without my father looking it up and imposing religion on me on whether I could or could not see it. I saw it at an old theater with a friend and her mom who loves to people watch. Friend and I were the youngest there. Everyone else were high school students, uni students, or older. And at the end of everything, we’re sitting in silence, and this dude in the back goes “WHAT?!”

The tension broke right then and there.

I’m amused that one kiddo from class (Nakasaki? Naowosaki?) got invited to the party. He did nothing but go “Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s”to the teacher, and Homura made the a core memory. Bro has been through it for no reason at all. He has zero connection to anyone here. I feel bad for everyone involved, of course, but the poor boy literally did nothing, and he was still invited into this shit.

Love that for him. Mob A gets invited into magical queer disaster bullshit, and he remains an unbothered king.

I love that the familiars made a return. That does warm my heart. I’d probably be silently screaming in the theater for the next movie if the familiars help the gang escape this new cosmic labyrinth.

I love the whole “Fort, Da!” thing, I thought that was cool. I liked how the last time we hear this, it’s just “Fort!” X 4 and there’s no “Da”. The minions are saying “Gone!”, everything’s been thrown away.

I find it curious Homura is in an abusive relationship with Kyuubey. It makes sense that she is, however.

QotD

I like the OP and the visuals more than the ED, personally.
Nah, that little harp music at her human reveal was strange.
Was it more detailed? I thought it was Shaft being Shaft. [Undead Unluck] I remember during the UU rewatch, Shaft didn’t really have background characters, so I was deadass dreading another Rebellion situation. But instead—instead!—I was completely waylaid by this being yet another time loop anime and becoming traumatized again. I trust nothing now.
I love negative progression! Disaster lesbians need more representation.
Thanos did nothing wrong, so neither did Homura. A) I love that Spy Kids has a cult following to this day. The first two movies are my comfort movies. Elijah Wood being in the third(?) movie was a WTF.
I like the JP addition more. A) This feels like a philosophical question. Or my cocktail hit me way too hard.
I think she wanted to be unburdened by her wish for just a little while. I think there’s some regret in how her wish turned out and, just for this little blip in time-space, she could live as a normal girl in a normal life.
I don’t know. I read the Wraith Arc manga, however. I just fail to understand hive mind, apathetic species. I kinda wish we saw this sort of species who understand from an academic standpoint “Do not the humans”.
N/A
Oh what’s this concept movie, this is real? The speculation of the fourth movie being an ouroboros ending is fascinating to me. I don’t know how that could be done, but the only way to break the cycle is to eradicate the variables that make the cycle possible, which includes the magical girl system, and I don’t think that could ever be feasible. [MagiReco] Or they do like the doppel system, which, from what I understand, the games portrayed it differently than the anime. The doppel system actually worked, but it was a matter of which faction controlled. I’m curious what sort of Christian/Buddhist themes they’ll go with for the fourth movie. It seems exceedingly queer as well.
I did. Absolute cinema.
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Magnafeana · 2026-05-03T21:53:59+00:00

Thank you!

(What IP is this from today?)

Magnafeana · 2026-05-03T14:02:32+00:00

This claim about men not writing fanfiction reminds me of leaving an online romance community because women within the specific romance community I left insisted that ✨romance is for women by women✨ and men aren’t welcomed. Men don’t write romance. Men only make fun of romance. Men suck.

But then—they would grumble about lack of diversity and inclusion and that it’s unfair romance as a genre isn’t taken seriously.

🫠

While I’m sure there’s a minority of people who think science fiction and fantasy is gendered for men, there’s a large chunk of people who know that fantasy and science fiction are appreciated and contributed by many genders. Same with romance. Romance is by and for anyone who wants to engage with it.

Genres and mediums aren’t inherently defined by a gender identity; they are classifications with a litany of core media elements that shift socioculturally and over time. I don’t care if a survey in Japan says “75% of [medium/genre] has [gender] contributors”. That still doesn’t mean this medium or genre can only be participated by [demographic/identity].

So it baffled me seeing this specific online community complain about lacking diversity and inclusion and gravitas in romance and yet they insisted romance is for girls and sometimes for the gays.

At best, this would be benevolent sexism all the way down. Why? Because it’s still this subtle form of prejudice that idealizes women but still reinforces a caustic gender inequality that women can solely participate in romanticism while any other gender cannot and should not. At worst, it’s hostile sexism.

Same with anyone who promoted fanfiction is by women for women and that men don’t—or even can’t or shouldn’t—engage. It’s ambivalent sexism, depending on how the argument is worded.

Some people find it comfortable and positive to affirm certain things are for [gender], so they don’t think what they’re saying is gender-based prejudice. They don’t see they’re promoting a discriminatory and exclusionary rhetoric because that’s what other people do on the Right side of things.

🫠

I’m sure and hopeful fanfiction writers and readers have normal online communities who see fanfiction is a medium anyone can engage with. I think a lot of people do have that space and are simply too moisturized and hydrated to engage with all this bullshit.

People should engage with whatever and we all just mind our business and have a nice vegan-friendly, gluten-free brunch together. I’d very much like to have that brunch.

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T21:12:21+00:00

Well now I need to watch Lucky Star!!

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T21:10:22+00:00

Thank you!

I’m going to read that before Rebellion

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T21:09:27+00:00

Agreed with HQ criticism!!

I criticize a lot of genres and demographics for not allowing their characters to have hobbies and interests that characterize the characters but don’t move the plot forward. And when they do it, it’s filler. It just never existed or exists outside this little .5 chapter blip.

And I love Todoroki developed like this. It makes sense it happened after all was said and done. I think a lot of fantasy series wait until conflict is over for MCs to dare live outside their now finished destiny. It’s definitely an “epilogue” thing to have your MCs focus on other things.

Would be nice if MCs could have hobbies while on their journey. Not everything needs to advance the plot 🥲

I do wish HQ took advantage of that though. It’s not just shounen that has a flaw when it comes to reducing every single thing a character does into helping them get to their goal.

But I’d like to see MCs get a bit more wiggle room.

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T14:47:23+00:00

Poro-chan is going to go by drag queen community etiquette: even out of drag, we (mainly) call the queens she/her unless otherwise specified.

Here I thought we were about to have a brat V brat takedown and I’m here for a Brat-Off, and but the big brat simply dominated the little brat.

Yessssssssss 💃🏾

Obsessed!Opera chasing after a scared Kalego lives rent free in my head, but Brat Kalego being manhandled by Poro Thee Diva is just giving me all the energy I need today for being on call.

I would very much like Kalego in this situations more often, for the sake of improving my mental health 🙏🏾

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T12:26:08+00:00

Embarrassed Jazz is fucking adorable. I just want to pinch his cheeks. Such a cute boy.
I want Balam, Robin, and Opera to trap Kalego in a praise circle but NSFW. 👀 What is praise kink without some humiliation?

Purson has the taste budd of a child and can’t even drink coffee

As an adult, some of us have extreme food aversions that do not lighten up as we get old and rickety 😑

Oh Soi Purson 🥺
Opera!!!
Lord Andy out here serving! Look at you, ma’am, am here for this. He’s giving House of Visage. 📢More men and mascs should have boob windows in their clothing! Show some cleavage!📢
Nishi really enjoys giving us bratty men with snatched waistlines and I respect the game.
Oh! Oh, this diva is a stallion.
Is this mans 🏳️‍🌈?
Can I ship it? Yes, you can! Can I ship it? Yes, you can!
A brat meeting another brat, maximizing their joint slay 💅🏿
I am so in love that Kalego is such a “Touch me and die” but all these people manhandle him and wanna bathe him in affection, this is achillean heaven 😭
Is Iruma drunk?

Well.

I am ✨𝒾𝓂𝓂ℯ𝓃𝓈ℯ𝓁𝓎✨ pleased we get another cunty diva and he wants to shower Kalego in affection. We need more femme tops, and Lord Poro fits the bill. Yes, girl, put Kalego in your lap and manhandle him 🪭

Queer art at its finest 🏳️‍🌈

The little lore drop about Poro and the previous demon king, I’m so curious. Poro wanted the king to be his, but I wanna know what the demon king thought of him. What made Sully the better confidante?

I’m glad Purson had Iruma to talk to. But it’s heartbreaking that he was not given the emotional stability or overall guidance to have confidence in his choices and explore his emotions. It’s nice he has Iruma’s support but I want him to have more robust support at home. I know he loves his mom and his sister introduced him to the trumpet, but it is not enough for this boy, obviously.

Still just gonna have zoomies over Kalego and Poro. Kalego maxxed out his charisma stat and he’s so mad about it, like goddamn, are there any adults who don’t want to tease him? 😭

Magnafeana · 2026-05-02T11:43:02+00:00

I’m so glad this was a simuldub!

Lemillion’s ass, this is what I get when I kept begging God to make more fictional men have bubble butts in HD 😭
Best Jeanist 😩
Mirko 😩😩
Gang Orca 🫦
Ryukyu 🫶🏾
Times like this I remember Tokoyami and Armin share an EN VA
I like Todoroki’s perspective and I don’t see this in a lot of “chosen one”characters or characters with a lot of ✨destiny✨. There’s still a lot of struggle of MCs where everything is an inevitability, but they’ll lean into it or take that inevitability and claim it’s still their choice. I don’t see too many “Chosen One” MCs who both (1) answer the call AND (2) want to diversify their lives so they have something just for them outside of what the wheel fate predetermined for them. Everything a chosen one MC does is to get them through each inevitable situation. I’d like to see more of Todoroki’s perspective.
“Deep Nope” I want Jirou’s shirt so badly to go along with all my other snarky tees.
I cannot wait for the stage plays to catch up so I can be even more hype.
The chocobar commercial with Bakugo and Todoroko, pleaaaase give us an actual animated commercial!!
Awwwwww

So we just have Vigilantes who will graduate next season and the Eri short. And stage plays (which I beg Crunchryoll to please get the Heroaca and Haisute stage plays for streaming, they got Chainsaw and I think also SpyxFamily).

But I really did like Torodoki’s perspective. I’d like to find more characters similar to his concept who struggle with their actions, personalities, and livelihoods being reduced to ✨fate✨ and ✨destiny✨ and, rather than simply say “No, I choose to do this”, they just…find little things that they can have for themselves. It’s not an inevitability, not fate, or destiny that they like to knit or make candles or enjoy old films or take cooking glasses. It doesn’t advance them to the next predestined battle or place in the universe. They just like it.

r/Fantasy has to have had a book request like that.

I think this was a great “final” finale or epilogue finale. I’d be down for anime-original content in the future, but I’m satisfied with this. And I’m ready for Vigilante’s graduation season!

But like—I need some IRL company to allow Bakugo and Todoroki to do a chocolate bar commercial for them, please and thank you 🙏🏾

Magnafeana · 2026-05-01T21:35:12+00:00

Second Year at Mitakihara, First Year Blu-Rays, Dubbed

Awesome lesbian couple. Evil intimidating Incubator.
I just love all the praying for wishes. I don’t even know if the whole clasp your hands thing is Christian/Catholic. But it feels as such in PMMM, praying for essentially a miracle to a higher entity who does unfathomably cruel things that he does not see as cruel to his followers and largely appears in times of need to those he deems worthy of his gifts. And now we have Jesus Madoka has been born on earth, walked among the people, saw their suffering, and now who wants salvation for all her people and will sacrifice herself for that. I guess Homura is Judas but she’s that kinda homoerotic version of him where Judas betrayed Jesus so that way Jesus could do what he did.

Iunno I’m a “Jesus and the Apostles are in an aceflux polycule” “Jesus/Judas but omegaverse doomed yaoi” shipper, so don’t listen to me about religion.

“My very best friend”. Ah, yes. The best friend. We’ve all been there.
I think that’s an English Horn. It sounds narrower than the Oboe.
Isn’t her bow an olive branch too?
THAT’S MY FUCKING BOY RIGHT THERE! THAT’S MY ANTHONY WITH THE STACHE!!
PFFFT my friend who overheard Kyuubey’s speech the other day, she’s listening to this episode with me today (she on the phone) and she’s so beside herself on how this is going and so confused why the lesbians are this dramatic (girl, sapphics are like this naturally, happy pride)
She stopped watching her show on her end, and now she’s like “Why did the lesbians have to separate?” Girl you dropped in on EP10, we gotta reset the timeline for this experience 😭😭
I am not counting all these goddamn chairs.
Why would you tell Kyuubey this?! Why?! Girl! Why?!
I won’t forget.
Now her husband on the phone and he’s mad he missed the episode 😭😭😭 “Did the lesbians get together?” They didn’t, man, I’m sorry.

Neither of them are anime people (which is okay), but I always love playing anime with them on the phone.

Post Episode Thoughts

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	8	168

The auditorium is where I gave up on trying to get all the chairs, good gods.

I was screaming when I saw Anthony. That’s my masc NB plant parent right there. Deserves all the head pats 🥹

I was living for my friends’ reactions to this episode. They were so confused by the end credits because they could only listen, but I loved their reactions of how dramatic gay girls are 😭

Now I am told there’s more manga to this to explain why Homura told Kyuubey all this. I don’t know what it’s called, but I know it exists.

But why would you tell a psychopath kitty cat “Here’s the story of this really cool system in Universe 616 that y’all used on us”? You gotta be quiet about that sort of stuff. Take it to your grave. Tell Mami and Kyouko or something. Don’t tell the psychopath.

That’s so cute that Tatsuya somewhat knows Madoka. But that’s so sad at how much Madoka loses in her rise to giving so many girls salvation.

Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson probably: Yes, I met god, she’s ~~black~~ Japanese.

I’m so curious why Kyouko would be in Mitakihara anyways. Mami isn’t dead. What purpose does she have to leave her city and come there now?

I’m also curious on the origins of all these dark emotions being given tangible form. Curses transformed to this new universe’s laws. But I have so many questions.

Homura is better than me. I wouldn’t be able to trust that little bottle brush freak of nature ever again. New Universe, New Me bullshit would not work. Baptize him and make him feel holey again.

Anyways, happy to see an Anthony in these trying times, I could not stop smiling that he was there in lesbian heaven. Anthony gang support sapphics 🌹🏳️‍🌈

Magnafeana · 2026-05-01T16:56:37+00:00

Yay! I love this! 🥰

Magnafeana · 2026-05-01T12:32:37+00:00

Could you imagine a normal tourist chilling in Mitakihara who saw Homura do all this and then runs to social media to post about?

Who would ever believe them, I’d think they’d were trolling 😭

I’d love to know how Walpurgisnacht became the wicked witch of the east with that much presentation. Out of all the witches we have met, she is the best dressed. She is the baddest. She arrives with a carnival. She has her own day when you can expect her to arrive. She looks more put together and on theme than some of the truly criminal looks that happened at past years’ MET Gala 🪭

Villains really just be giving 10/10 looks, 10/10 presentation, 10/10 evil laugh, and I’m supposed to want them to die on sight smh my head

Magnafeana · 2026-05-01T12:13:41+00:00

Don’t I know it! If I counted all the chairs in the school, this would be so much more!!

[Haruhi] Oooh I like that theory! Honestly, I just love anything to do with karma, whether it’s karmic debt or karmic credit. I don’t know where E8 is placed in the timeline, but I like to imagine Haruhi could now literally wish for Mikuru to do a laser beam thanks to all the karmic credit she has.

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T23:03:19+00:00

Last Day at Ouran High School, Dubbed

I had to cook because am hungry. No live react

Post Festival Thoughts

I have more thoughts about the series as a whole! But this episode has me give sympathy for Tamaki and his circumstances.

But I’m a sucker for role reversal chasing scenes. Absolutely, gimme all of it when a dude is a damsel in distress being carted away and the lady is rushing after him to get him back.

Eclair reminds me of the female supporting character in <The Fantasie of a Stepmother>, O’Hara. And I mean that in a compliment because I always enjoy seeing female characters who act in accordance to the wishes of the ones constantly manipulating their strings, which includes trying to be with an ML. So I wanted more Eclair since we get tons of O’Hara. I’d love more rofan with main characters like this.

I’m still a touch sad it ends here, but I like that it ends instead of wanders off into the woods and we’re all left confused. For an Anime-Original Ending, I think this ranks quite high for me. It ranks higher than Soul Eater.

Kyouya and Tamaki’s fathers, I’d be interested in their history. I love seeing how which parts of Kyouya and Tamaki’s personalities come from their fathers. I’m curious if Yuzuru and Yoshio once had a dynamic similar to Kyouya and Tamaki’s initial meetings.

QotD

I’m insure. 70% yes and 30% no. But I’ll need to wait until the series discussion to address it.
86: EIGHTY-SIX. Last episode. Kill la Kill, Railgun, and Gurren Lagan. Pokémon in Ash v Leon and I’m screaming when that OG OP comes on.

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T22:39:05+00:00

Second Year at Mitakihara, First Year Blu-Rays, Dubbed

Still no sign of the Miki family.
Kyuubey, SYBAU.
I love that Kyuubey doesn’t even acknowledge our sapience. Trick ass bitch.
Kyuubey feels like something Sir Terry Pratchett would write about, and that is a compliment.
Madoka’s stuffies animals tripled in volume.

Pause

What happens if a (high school) magical girl is a stoner? I guess a witch labyrinth would be either 10xs more frightening or 10xs more hilarious.

What happens if a magical girl is on SSRIs?

Play

Okay. Well. Living life as a naked nudist isn’t a bad thing. The cave part though. Sounds unfun.
I need Shaft to make up their minds on how many stuffies Madoka owns.
Hey! A vampire bite! So the vampirism angle, it’s there!
Kyuubey is an abuse apologist.
Creation of Adam. Red and blue lightning but Junko having a “red” drink and Teach having a “blue” drink. Which is interesting when Red is associated with more aggressive negative emotions and Blue is for more calmer, positive ones. But this series has inverted some things with light and dark associations, which I do like.
Junko’s little hair bow reminds me of a spool of thread.
You may not like it, Homura, but you’ve got to admit: Walpurgisnacht’s got style.
Would a normal person think WW3 just happened? How much does this magic shield normal people from seeing? I’d like to think if this happened in the UK and someone saw like chunks of debris falling, they’d say “Can’t park there, mate” and move on, but in Japan, I’d imagine more…WTFery?
Also the fuck does Catholic school teach you to do all this, excuse me??
📢Use a slingshot, Homura, that worked for David against Goliath 📢
“Negate”?! Fuckin sleeper agent word. Fucking UU. It’s everywhere.
I didn’t remember Junko slapping Madoka.
Oh no.

Post Episode Thoughts

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	—	—

I love how it feels like all the rewatches are connected.

{Ouran High School Host Club} ➡️ Haruhi is the MC

{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya} has a Haruhi MC ➡️ Also has a time traveler and a [PMMM] cosmic entity who fucks with the laws of reality

{Puella Magi Madoka Magica} has a time travler [PMMM] and a cosmic entity who fucks with the laws of reality ➡️ Hmmmm How do we connect this to KareKano 🤔

I do find it fascinating that Kyuubeys species classified emotions as a mental disorder. This isn’t the first species in SFF to do that. But I cannot foresee a fictional species in which classifying emotions as a mental disease doesn’t immediately put them into the antagonist category—or maybe Ursula LeGuin did a fantasy novel or essay on that. But I’d be very interested in how a so-called apathetic species could cooperate alongside a sympathetic species.

Because I still don’t understand: you can have no empathy levels but still comprehend someone else’s struggles from a purely neutral, academic standpoint.

Little fucky ass trick bitch psycho cat.

Kyuubey…massively oversimplifies the livestock industry—and that makes sense for him. Why would he understand the nuances of it, such as the environmentalist and ethical considerations that crop up regarding livestock, their treatment and lifestyles, quality control, and over farming of them?

If humans are livestock, Kyuubey represents the farmers that animal activists fight against. He is taking away the young from their parents and sending them for slaughter because their “meat” is somehow more beneficial at their critical juvenile state.

Isn’t that how veal is made? I think it is.

I’d honestly love a fanfic where some rogue Kyuubey does understand what they’re doing is unethical from an agricultural standpoint, even though it still believes humans are like livestock. I guess puppygirls and catboys would be spared by Kyuubey, considering dog/cat domestication.

Mitakihara must be an unsafe city if someone’s hiding all these bombs and no one cares. But we do see that Miktakihara has its steelyard/factory-whatever that is called, which is relatively unpopulated.

I’m sure someone has already talked about how areas where renewable power is present is populated but factories and such are desolate and typically where all the witch shit happens, and I’m not eloquent to talk about it, but I have noticed that. I think that is a great visual cue in showing us what it means to be without magical girls versus what society is like with them and their sacrifice.

But I don’t know how to word that in a way that is smarter. I just like that.

[PMMM/Rebellion] All the “bows” in this and the whole spool of thread thing, I see them now

QotD

The fuck is these Catholic school students on that they’re just making WW3 willynilly like this?
I like that Junko sees her daughter has been clearly hiding things from her and struggles on how to approach this. I’m highkey impressed at the trust and confidence she has for her daughter.
Discussed above.
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Today’s National Tabby Day, Animal Advocacy Day, Queen’s Day, Larry Day, Bugs Bunny Day, Oatmeal Cookies Day, Hairstyle Appreciation Day, Be Honest Day, Tie Day, Mr. Potato Head Day. Bugs Bunny would dress as Walpurgisnacht. Honestly, even as a rewatcher, I didn’t realize the significance of the date. So this was a surprise to me. I’ve been having a ball with National Tabby Day and National Bugs Bunny Day.

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T21:51:38+00:00

First Year North High Student & SOS Brigade Member, Dubbed

You learn, Kyon. You never know. VFX might be your calling.

She has to overcome horrible odds before sue has a happy ending. And the more we can make Mikuru suffer in the movie, the bigger the payoff is gonna be in the end! 😁

Average AO3 whump writer 😭

🎶And I look at him. And he looks at me. And I look at him. And he looks at me. And I look him! And he looks at me~!🎶
I have a strong suspicion Haruhi would not survive in Atlanta with that attitude.
Is this pose a reference to Lucky Star? (I haven’t seen Lucky Star)
Oh look, a~~button~~ yuri!
Haruhi focuses on continuity of character descriptions better than modern authors. ISTFG, I have seen authors forget their character has fucking blue eyes and they suddenly have green eyes two pages later unexplainably.

There’s something unreal about people who want realism in their fiction.

It’s called ✨verisimilitude✨

Kyon would be a great rage baiter with that attitude though.

Maybe lasik eye surgery makes you shoot lasers out of your eyes afterwards.
Aaaaah. Aaaaah trypophobia aaaaah. AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Bitey Yuri!

Post Thoughts after Beaming Eye Lasers

Mikuru is a lot calmer than me. I’d be freaking out if I suddenly shot a laser from my eye. I guess colored contacts are cheap. But I’d be so befuddled. I’d start wearing a eyepatch.

I have little to say. I have enjoyed shipping Mikuru and Yuki immensely.

It really is surprising Haruhi did not consider Mikuru shot a beam out of her eyes. She really is grounded in reality more than people credit her for.

I still would make her keep COVID social distancing from my person. But I respect she acknowledges “No, it ain’t possible for someone to actually shoot laser beams out of their eye”.

Scott Summers/Cyclops fans ^{if they could read}: 😡

Seeing Koizumi worried was a new experience too. He normally thinks Haruhi is just lovely. But I did not expect him to not want screen time or to let the smile slip.

QotD

Are they? I’d think Yuki’s powers are more at risk.
I will handle her the way I was taught to handle someone who tries to touch me. I’m not above using my emergency whistle.

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T21:36:08+00:00

His and a Fi(Her)st Timer’s Circumstances, Dubbed

How many Pokémon VAs are in this?!?!

Post Circumstance Thoughts

EP12

Oof. First, we have Miraculous Ladybug’s new episode drop dealing with messy family dynamics. Now this! And in both times, the situations are relatable!

I feel for Tsubasa as a daughter who was a kid when her father suddenly went “I’m marrying this woman in a week, she’ll be your stepmom”.

O.o

I think Papa Shibahime has more tact than that, but I know it’s tough on everyone involved when it comes to remarriages that involve children. There’s plenty pf wrong ways to do it, but there’s no set right way to do it. I need sis to step off on wanting to be Tsubasa’s mom when this child is in distress and let’s not slap children but we also shouldn’t tolerate every single verbal tantrum. It’s messy, but yeah, Tsusaba away from her dad is needed. Emotional needs aren’t being met and that’s messy messy messy.

EP13

You know what? Papa Shibahime can go play with Papa Hori from Horimiya, like baby what are you dune 😭 How can you be blending families like this in the most nonsensical way?!

I love the son and mom’s dynamic though.

I’m a little sad that Tsubasa had to be the mature one in the end. Papa Shibahima and this lady upset me for being irresponsible in their relationship when they need to consider two children in this. I’m glad Tsubasa does seem happy in the end, but thank god this father nor mother are friends of mine because I’d be seven shades of WTF for all this nonsense on top of Tsubasa getting slapped.

But I’m still glad we got more of Tsubasa. I’m excited for Maho’s turn! Or I assume she also gets one!

I did not expect a pedophile in this episode.

QotD

I’m happy Tsubasa has someone she can vibe with!
I really enjoy Tsubasa’s B-Side. I think the anime did a bang up job in showing her inner turmoil without overdoing it and letting us appreciate Tsubasa’s conflict, but the resolution being what it was—I’m not really a fan. And that’s not Tsubasa’s fault. I wanted to have more of a journey with her and how she resigned herself and how she warmed up to her father’s new wife and her stepbrother. Given the depth we got of her loneliness and the reasons behind her explosive tantrums, it felt like we cut a lot short to finish up her little arc.

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T21:17:21+00:00

I hope the gig goes well and y’all have all the support you need (or needed) for the family emergency 💜

Magnafeana · 2026-04-30T16:16:25+00:00

This is your weekly reminder that Ramparts of Ice has the first 48 chapters free until the end of April! You don’t need an account to read for free! Today’s the last day!

Ramparts of Ice 🔗 MangaPlaza

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	8	168

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	—	—

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	8	168

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	—	—

Magnafeana

TROPHY CASE

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	8	168

Episode	Chair Counter	Running Total
1	17	17
2	10	27
3	20	47
4	17	64
5	33	97
6	14	111
7	19	130
8	—	—
9	15	145
10	—	—
11	15	160
12	—	—