Story-The story is amazing to the point where it's almost ungodly, putting to shame almost all animes around it. There are EXTREME plot twists and sudden surprises and an extremely unique concept at its time of the "magical girl anime". The story is a little slow initially and can make you wonder if it was all just decent filler, but it serves a greater purpose in the end. The whole story will open your mind greatly, mostly towards the last 3 episodes. 1O\1O
Art-The artwork is largely kind of adorable and looks almost sketched out a bit, however, when the witches create their labryinths, the artwork gets VERY odd and eccentric. Its like a huge acid trip or alice in wonderland. The artworks creates a bizarre yet intense atmosphere and is actually important in this case (in animes, they usually aren't). 1O of 1O my freind.
sound-The sound is kind of a nice little bit if anything, adding a little more to the mystical mood of the anime, with a beautiful intro and sick dark outro. Nothing game changing, but still cool. 7\1O
Character-The characters here are heartwarming as alls hell (except the ferret asshole who fucks up the girls. you'll see who i'm talking about). Madoka herself goes from being sweet yet weak and undependable to being a savior of all of the universe, and being able to stand on her own and withstanding anything, along with homura (who is a little bitter but knows about sacrifice well.) 1O\1O.
enjoyment-the enjoyment is still a 9 instead of 1O simply because this-you need patience. Most of the intense heated action and tearjerkers do not even happen until like episode 8 or
9, but they are well worth the wait.
Overall-definetly a 1O, a great introduction to gen urobitchi's works, and an anime that earns him the title urobutcher very well. You like deep thought or intense emotion than you will love this.
