| MONTHLY? I understand for something like a special one time thing magazine, but there's no way this can go monthly for very long. At least I sure hope that this isn't leeway into having an ass ton of Madoka spinoffs. |
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| Sounds good and interesting. |
| I did want Madoka to become a full-on media franchise, but I don't begin to care about all the merchandise. I wish they did some stuff to expand the universe instead. Even if it was just a drama cd or a mediocre spin-off manga, if it was new material, I'd be somewhat happy about it. |
| Not a very good investment. I think having their own area in another magazine would be better. |
| I love Madoka, really. I consider it one of my favourite anime and I've given it a 10. ...But a whole magazine? Really? I don't see what the need is, plus it might not last long... It'll be cool to read the articles but it feels a little excessive. |
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NyuuuuSaaaan said: I did want Madoka to become a full-on media franchise, but I don't begin to care about all the merchandise. I wish they did some stuff to expand the universe instead. Even if it was just a drama cd or a mediocre spin-off manga, if it was new material, I'd be somewhat happy about it. Actually there is the PSP game now, unfortunately it's in Japanese only. Also there is the manga Puella Magi Oriko Magica and Puella Magi Kazumi Magica, in case you haven't tried yet. There are drama CDs also bundled with the original BDs. |
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| I don't like all the attention Madoka is getting. The score on MAL has already dropped by .2 (used to be 8.75, now 8.73) It's definetley (lol it won't show up correctly on spell check) giving some people reasons to lower the scores on the series. Not good reasons, but still. |
| seriously is this crap that popular let it go for go sake |
Little-Wonders said: I don't like all the attention Madoka is getting. The score on MAL has already dropped by .2 (used to be 8.75, now 8.73) It's definetley (lol it won't show up correctly on spell check) giving some people reasons to lower the scores on the series. Not good reasons, but still. 8.75 - 8.73 = 0.02 I love Madoka Magica. It still remains the best anime I have ever watched. But I'm still wondering whether they are maybe pushing it too much. As long as there is demand for it, I'm all for it. But maybe too much oversaturation may have the opposite effect. Still can't wait for the movies though. Have been in Homura withdrawal. The other problem is that to be truely established as a series, it can't be a one trick pony. The anime was brilliant, but in order to cement this series, the movies also have to be brilliant. However, I don't think the later will be much of an issues (this is Urobuchi Gen doing the script again). Mr_Gutts said: seriously is this crap that popular let it go for go sake Naruto, One Piece and Bleach on favourites... Hmm... I don't even need to comment further. It speaks for itself. |
OmniknightApr 23, 2012 8:29 PM
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| pass, i seriously don't know what's so great about this series. |
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| Ok,I loved the show, am excited for the movies, but just running Madoka articles? How much is there to write about it? Are they gonna feature (le gasp) fan fiction? I think it might be a tadbetter if they ran mahou shoujo articles on a whole to appeal to a wider audience...(just in my opinion) |
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Failures said: The show was good, but not THAT good... Yeah, I just reached that point too. |
| Oh, wow. Kinda exaggerated if you ask me. |
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| Seems rather pointless to me. I'm all for more Madoka merchandise, but a significant amount of goods released so far have been redundant, unnecessary and not particularly nice. In short, more quality, less quantity. This is getting silly. |
| Wonder how long it'll last. |
| It is interesting... how much I don't really care. But like just about everyone here, I'm still gonna watch those movies when they become available. |
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Sanguis said: I doubt it'll run for very long. Yeah, Madoka is a popular brand, but its popularity won't last forever. tell that to evangelion. |
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Omniknight said: Mr_Gutts said: seriously is this crap that popular let it go for go sake Naruto, One Piece and Bleach on favourites... Hmm... I don't even need to comment further. It speaks for itself. For someone who hasn't even watched any of those animes you're pretty quick to judge people who like them. |
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| It's... nice! |
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| wow thay are committing atrocity to earn more money on series that sells unforgivable! no decent company does things like this - they should be ashamed of this! |
Watupfoo said: Dalek-baka said: wow thay are committing atrocity to earn more money on series that sells unforgivable! no decent company does things like this - they should be ashamed of this! Your point doesn't make a tad bit of sense, if a series sells, then why not make game adaptions and other projects out of it? that just makes the fans happy, and they'll keep making them whether you or the haters here like it or not. I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm. |
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Totentanz said: I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm. Looks like sarcasm to me. Even so, I think they're going a little too far with some of their stuff. Of course Madoka's going to have it's haters though, everything popular does. Considering it's mentioned in this thread a lot, look at Evangelion. It has a LOT of haters and a considerable amount of people who believe it's the best thing ever, plus a whole lot of others in between. Then again, me thinking this is going a little too far is a bit hypocritical of me since I own a couple of the official MLP magazines which are the same deal. Hell, it's worse since those things are aimed solely at little children and don't really contain much other than overused vectors and simple puzzles. Obviously there's enough of a fanbase out there to warrant the start up of such a magazine, plus there's plenty of potential material to expand upon in the Madoka universe and the idea of new official artwork and the like sounds decent. I may even pick something up if I get the chance. I can understand why they're doing it now considering the upcoming movies but I do wonder how effective this product will be. If they keep it to a few volumes leading up to the movies and expanding on some of the possibilities and ideas already put forward in the show, I reckon it could work, but they could quite easily mess up and create something not worth the money or keep it going for far too long. Even so, I reckon the franchise is still going rather strong. It's broken records and made a name for itself both in the industry and amongst various communities for multiple reasons, both positive and negative. As a stand alone series, it'll likely go down in history no matter what people think of it, it's already achieved that much. However, future projects could well damage it's reputation as a franchise (look at Endless Eight, for example) and have negative effects on the attention and expectations for following projects. And no, I don't quite know why I'm talking this much about all this in this thread. tl;dr: Madoka is poplar, some hate it, some love it, it's made history and has already achieved recognition, but this magazine may be going a little too far unless it's handled properly. |
Watupfoo said: If that was really sarcasm then i feel like a big idiot right now lol, you know with all the complaints and stuff i thought was being serious :/ it was... but there is no reason to feel weird as I also don't understand that hate here and a lot of this goes around Madoka if they want to make some good money by producing some good quality stuff than I'm fine with it, I won't buy it but someone will they will make some $$ so they can put it back into some new series and everybody wins - a lot of people don't seem to understand this but than I greatly enjoy Precure franchise, which is dedicated to selling toys to young girls while offering good time to rest of us :) |
Dalek-bakaApr 24, 2012 3:43 PM
Dalek-baka said: but than I greatly enjoy Precure franchise, which is dedicated to selling toys to young girls while offering good time to rest of us :) Wait. Precure is for selling toys to young girls? Well I've chosen the wrong path on life... Either that or the final few episodes of Heartcatch were the manliest thing aimed at young girls in history. |
Watupfoo said: I see where you're coming from, and i apologize if i seemed like a jerk. you didn't - it's nice to hear some voice of reason here :) Seasonreaper said: Wait. Precure is for selling toys to young girls? Well I've chosen the wrong path on life... Either that or the final few episodes of Heartcatch were the manliest thing aimed at young girls in history. yes to both: selling toys and being quite manly - kind of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann with flowers, hearts and pink overload (and some people really compare those two - bit too much but I can see from where it's coming). here is some stuff you can buy still, they put it in a very good show, with nice plot and great animation (those transformations XD) - so I can't complain here. Also making it suited both for otaku and their kids is a good thing. They get money, I get fun :) BTW bit of problem of Madoka is that it can't do the same - like I would have doubts to let my kid watch it... so they have to be creative in order to gain - plus I hope they won't go into Madoka-cakes again ;) |
Dalek-bakaApr 24, 2012 5:03 PM
| Meh, I've seen things milked much more than this. I can't blame them for what they're doing though. It's extra publicity while offering the devoted (in this case, truly devoted) fanbase something to keep them occupied. Supply and demand. Also, anyone else think a Final Fantasy XIII-2 style RPG based on this show would be amazing? |
| Ok, Japan thats enough. Just hurry up with Nekomonogatari, the third Eva movie, and Sword Art Online. You can forget about Madoka for now. |
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jmal said: kezthepieman said: Nekomonogatari, the third Eva movie ...Haha, wow. I really hope other people can see the hilarity in this too. (I'm really hoping you meant that entirely ironically, but in that case SAO wouldn't fit into the joke.) I think it was supposed to be ironically, but SAO doesn't fit. If it was something like the Nanoha A's movie or a second K-ON! movie it would fit into the joke, but I can't quite tell if he's being serious or not. |
Awesome. Just waiting for the trilogy series. Madoka ROCKS! =P |
| I always felt that Madoka's religion needed more coverage. all_my_money.jpg I really don't get why too much of a good thing is bad. Did you guys even read the spin offs? They developed further parts of the story that an 12 episode anime was not. They revealed in canon what Kyouko is like on off days, which was never seen in the anime in the Oriko Magica story. The Drama CD also showed Kyouko and Mami's past, which was never revealed that they even had a connection to each other in the anime. They also further expanded on Kyouko's abilities and backstory. |
| I'm surprised people are still butthurt about Madoka's success. That's so 2011. o.O |
| The show wasn't that amazing. The ending in episode 12 seemed fine. I was hoping it would just stop there to be honest. |
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| They just need to fill it with pictures of Homura and it would be a success (at least for me!). |
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| I foresee spin-offs in the near future. |
| I did love Madoka but I'm surprised they've started a magazine for it. I know they need to advertise but a magazine devoted to just that? You're basically buying an advert rather than a magazine. |
| They should really stop with all the Madoka crap, they already have three movies, a video game, tons of merchandise, and now a magazine. |
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Rayla said: Not enough Madoka still.They should really stop with all the Madoka crap, they already have three movies, a video game, tons of merchandise, and now a magazine. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Yes, don't be bitter on PMMM's popularity. I firmly believe that the series is getting the popularity, sales and adaptation that it deserve that most anime fail to reach. Move on with life, buy that MADOKAMI figure today LMAO |
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