Wow, marathoning Madoka Magica in a single night was surprisingly easy...and painful. Anime seems to love bittersweet endings, doesn't it? God damn them and their closure, finishing their series with nicely tied-off endings and resolutions to character arcs.
This whole thing got a lot darker and sadder than I was expecting, especially as it went deeper down the rabbit hole explaining the rules the Magical Girls live by. I suspected that Witches were evil MGs, but the sheer inevitability of it is definitely a cruel fate.
Episode 10 with Homura repeatedly going through the timelines over and over trying to save Madoka really did tug at the heartstrings, as did the ending where she seems to remember echoes of her existence. Gunna agree that Homura x Madoka is real, guys. You can't stop my love of lesbian time travelling love sprinkled with self-sacrifice and unavoidable fates. The stuff of Shakespeare, except Romeo and Juliet never made me cry, aside from the DiCaprio movie of it, due to horrendous...everything.
Mami kicks ass as well as Homura, despite their powers seemingly being, "summon gun." I also love that Madoka becomes a God of Hope to Magical Girls, and seeing a cross-section of the Girls throughout history was also really cool.
Man, I fear that by the laws of Anime Quality Entropy, I might actually one day run out of anime this good to watch. Didn't tug on my heartstrings to quite the same degree as the Walking Dead game did, (oh sweet Jesus.) However, it's probably up there with Gurren Lagann for sheer bittersweet emotional damage.
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