Let's start with what was alright in my opinion. The soundtrack was decent and I liked the ending song. The music complimented the story nicely and that's all. The art was also good, especially the backgrounds were very well done.
Characters - I give them 5/10. They were believable in their behaviour (mostly), but I didn't identify with any of them and their struggles didn't really have any affect on me. Why was that? Probably because of what the story was doing to them. I admit some of them had their cool moments, but there were few and far between.
The story - in my opinion it's above average, but doesn't deserve more than 6/10. The idea to show why becoming magical girl is a very bad choice of future career has its appeal, but the ending totally destroyed it and cheapened the struggles of the characters. Basically, it all was going in a good direction, story-wise, then it seems like the authors decided that the magical girls have to save the world and maybe even the universe, because it's no fun without that. I hated it.
Enjoyment - at first there was none on my part, then the middle of the anime was good and interesting, and then the ending, which blew everything out of proportion and ruined the whole experience for me.
Generally I don't watch the magical girls genre, but I heard "Madoka" was different. It was, and probably it's very good in comparison to other animes of this genre, but when I don't comapare it to anything, I can give it only 6/10. Above average, thanks to some originality, but nothing great or exciting.
Thank you for reading my first review.
