Madoka Magica, however, is groundbreaking in the genre. If Sailor Moon changed dynamics in the genre by introducing a team of girls who fight together towards the same goal, Puella Magi Madoka Magica introduced these girls to real life suffering. It's not that the previous ones didn't suffer, they did, but here we're faced not only with ultimate grief and sadness, but also with values that make us rethink what we think it's right and wrong.
And we can also identify with these girls and how they "mature" throughout the series. When we are kids we have simple world views of what's right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral, a lot of these constructions were built by our parents. We go live and we grow up while life shatters these naive ideas one by one. In Madoka, is no different: a girl makes a hopeful wish, that wish turns against herself, she faces serious consequences and the cycle repeats itself.
The first movie of the trilogy, Beginnings, work as a recap to what happened in the original series along with the second film. Both lead to Rebellion, the third and currently the last movie from the trilogy, and also a sequel to all these events. The animation is on point here too since it was redone—which means no more Meguka.
