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Mar 28, 2015
Madoka Magica, it's like an A-bomb, the words that would fits the most for me, would be "Mystification".
The opening is betrayer, the trailers are, the first episode are... I would say that the so good ED by Kalafina is the only place where we really feel the ambience of the anime, a darkness unexpected and unpredictable. It's a true innovation, Gen Urobuchi completely reinvented the Magical Girl by giving him an psychological side, very mature and frightful. To avoid spoilers, I'll stop right there.
The Art is not perfect, even if some may not have, I liked the Witch's dimension, which is psychelic and I
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really love that. The plot is amazing. I don't think there's 12 episode plot that are as good as this one, it's the most dense anime that I saw and it's truly a masterpiece, everything is perfect. The character development is sudden, logic but surprising. The sound is perfect, Yuki Kajiura is for me, as good as Hiroyuki Sawano and the enjoyment may not be 10 all the time, but for me it was and there's more than just that. That psychological side, that Gen Urobuchi does so well, make us think, and it's intelligent thought.
The end, we can't just describe it by "sad" or "beautiful', it's beyond that. Some people might dislike it because it doesn't bring any conclusion but that's what so good with this end. It's full of meaning, tragic, very true and reinforces the pasts events in an way that I never felt before, and that makes it even better."The individual is powerless to change History and that by screaming his existence to the world, we just look stupid." That could describe what we feel in the end of the anime. It's realistic, and cynical.
I give 10/10 to everything except Art, where I give 8/10, but it doesn't matter much for me. The rest is from FAR, enough to give Overall : 10/10. Don't believe that it's just the typical Magical Girl show, it's so much more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 18, 2015
I still remember the time when I was waiting for the release of this anime. It was one of those that I was most looking forward to. For me, it seemed very good and a bit more original than all the "weird dorm" anime. Now that I've finished it, I can finally see whether it was up to my expectations. And I can tell you that it was exactly what I was expecting from this anime, but better. At first, I wasn't expecting so much from it but I was expecting something at least as good.
The plot is concretely about a "special" dorm, a
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little different from the others. Up to that point, you're thinking "meh, already and often taken"
Even if the beginning looks pretty stereotyped, it's still "masked" by the humor that makes me laugh a lot, so I thought it was forgivable and that the side "included" was well covered. However, the sequence the events is the same. The "déjà vu" feeling is still there, and the same humor is always used, and as a result, you get tired of it. The same situations keep coming up, the same scenes and again the same humor.. It gets boring around episode 7-8, and I was thinking "But when is it gonna start for real?".
After some pretty "ordinary" episodes (for some of you, involving "torture" and "perseverance") we start to see an interesting plot. For the few times in Slice of Life anime, the main character, or even all the main characters actually have a goal. They're not only living their student life – they really care about their future, and it's not as grand as it may seem. So we’ve got an anime with at least a degree of realism, even if it doesn't look that way (especially with that kind of humor). And the future of our character isn't all that bright: in this anime, we also have good things happening, but mostly bad ones! There is drama to it all the same, even though it's not often very "powerful".
What I truly liked in this anime, is that I had the same feeling of "Clannad" while watching the 23rd episode : They ensure that the characters are having good times together, and that, even if these moments are ordinary, the characters are happy and live normally together. But in the end, they ensure that these feelings and emotion are delivered forward to make you regret to not being able to see more. That's what I felt in the end of Sakurasou (even if it's not on the same level as the one Clannad that thoroughly made me cry).
The graphics were nice, the sound and all the things that go with it weren't perfect, but they didn't bother me. The first ending with the song is the one that marked me the most (And I was very pleased to hear it a last time in the end)
The story first goes slowly, but it's worth it! The characters all have real personality and have their own story, as well as their own future. The characters are so well workedout ! The only problem was that, it was too “copy-cat” in some scenes, the plot was sometimes cliché and the end seemed like, "We take new characters, and we do it all over again! ". They could've done better on that point.
In short, Sakurasou managed to really give me the "shivers" properly, and far exceeded my expectations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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