--A Review of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica--
Madoka Magica is put on a pedestal by many as a brilliant decomposure of the Mahou Shoujo genre and for all the credit it's getting it does live up too it.
-Story-
*MINOR SPOILER - DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE SERIES WITH 0 KNOWLEDGE*
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The story follows the high school girl Madoka as she lives her everyday life but one day she hears a voice inside of her head calling out for help.
Following the tracks of the voice she meets with a girl called Mami and a cat-like creature called Kyubei and learns about the world of a Mahou Shoujo and how they live and protect the people around the world from witches.
As the story progresses more and more dark secrets reveals themselves.
*MINOR SPOILER END*
I think the main brilliance of Madoka Magica is it's story as it turns into a very enjoyable series but also a very deep and intellectual one who has very dark and real themes which is very contradictory for the Mahou Shoujo genre.
There are some small flaws like how with consideration you realize how stupid all the adults of the world they live in are but no show can be perfect and it's definitely deserving of a very high score.
-Art-
As for the art style of the show I found myself questioning it at the beginning as it's pretty unique and as a standalone I can't say I liked it however due to the general theme of the series I found the art style very fitting and adjustable and somehow it had something special I just can't put my finger on.
I also wanna give credit for the animation of said art style.
My reasoning is that the art style within the witches world and outside of it is substantially different but due to wonderful work they have animated it in such a way that it feels complete and not just like two series stuck on top of each other.
The general animation while having no real excellent points had no major flaws either so generally a very good job with art and animation.
-Sound-
The SFX of Madoka Magica are very good as they fit into their purpose and I can't think of any that sticks out as poor.
As for the music it's brilliant, I found the soundtracks to be after the story the most brilliant part of the series as they swap the OSTs accordingly with the current mood of the story very well and manage to merge the swap of a track into another without being noted unless you're looking for it.
As for the opening it makes you feel happy and hyped for the episode that's coming which is very reoccuring with work from ClariS and that causes this to be an excellent choice for the Madoka series in my opinion and "Connect" as a standalone song is also very good.
The most astonishing thing is the ending though.
"Magia" by Kalafina is one of the anime communities most liked songs and with good reason, it fits well with the dark theme of the anime, it's powerful and it instills some kind of craving in you causing you too want more and more making it the perfect choice for an ending theme and the ending for Madoka Magica especially.
-Characters-
This is the flaw of the series in my opinion.
While the characters and it's development are extremely good this is only true for everyone but Madoka.
Don't get me wrong as Madoka is also a good character and helps the story advance forward but she just gets outshone by the side characters as they all develop extremely interestingly including their personalities, skills, values and so on.
My personal favourite character to watch was Sayaka as she gets so much development and changes so much during the series while my favourite character in general was Kyubei who had such an interesting character development and is quite possibly among the top of his kind in all of anime. (I will avoid saying anything further about the characters as while they put too much focus on the main supporting cast it's still extremely interesting watching them evolve)
-Enjoyment-
I throughly enjoyed Madoka Magica and it's dark theme and I appreciated it's decomposure of the Mahou Shoujo genre and while I think people are putting it on a pedestal way too often I'd still rank it in my top 10 animes ever thus far but I think overall the best way to watch Madoka is to watch it with as little knowledge as possible.
-Overall-
I tend to be very heavily influenced with my overall scores by enjoyment and as to avoid that I have simply taken the factors of Story, Art, Sound, Character, Enjoyment and Ending and with the help of math arrived at a score of 9,17/10
At the time of this review I have not watched either of the Madoka films and as such I am only using the anime as a reference.
If you did watch Madoka Magica and liked it I'd recommend you check out "Princess Tutu" which is another great decomposure of the Mahou Shoujo genre.
Or the all so famous "Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni" as it too has a very dark theme.
Thank you for reading this review and I hope it helped you decide whether or not to watch this series, forgive my grammar mistakes and enjoy the show.
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