Madoka Rebellion Review (made in January 2014)

WARNING: TL;DR CONTENT HERE


I did tell people many times that I was going to do a video review on this movie. But over time I've found I could not get the time, energy, or motivation to do it... Since many online are already doing reviews on it (but I'm sure many of them are just going to gripe over the "incomprehensible" ending or just do what I stated in this review, which is why I don't want to bother watching them), I'm just going to leave the original script I put together for the review and just say THIS is my full review on it instead. :/

It's spoiler free, so those who haven't watched it online yet can still read this. I'm sorry I couldn't do the video review, I'm just going to have to try something else some other time to put my microphone to some good use. Thank you and I hope you guys enjoy what I wrote.

Also excuse any grammatical errors you find. This was meant originally as a script, not an essay.


Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movie 3: Rebellion


To be honest I’ve always had the greatest mixed feelings for Madoka Magica. I can’t decide weither to absolutely go ahead and love this series or absolutely despise it. I would love for one person to just break into my house and just force my head against the table shouting “MAKE UP YOUR FRIGGIN MIND!” Though after watching the anime series and seeing all the hype there was for it’s 3rd follow-up movie, it made me want to understand the series and it’s fanbase a little better, like a psychiatrist interviewing his patient to see what is his/her diagnosis. I found out that the movie was on tour, and it just happened to premiere close to where I was living at the time. So I took this opportunity to do a little investigation.

When I was talking to most people before the movie started, I asked them “What DOES make this series so popular? What makes it special?” Although most of them pretty much told me what I already knew. Madoka is basically a “deconstruction” of the typical “magical girl” genre, delivering a darker twist to the traditional image of "mahou shoujo". Then I was like, “Okaaaaaaay… but what’s the point in doing that?” Like what does the series want to tell us by doing that? That our childhood role models *slash * young boy wet fantasies had a messed up side all this time? Facebook users are already doing that by showing us a former child stars doing drugs and/or being an asshole. The only response I ever got back was… “Because it’s something new.” … Welp that was a huge disappointment guess it wasn’t what I was hoping after a- OH NO YOU DON’T! You still have a movie to review! So go back in there and watch the movie you paid good money to sit-down for!

The movie starts out with a rather bizarre action scene with series common enemy, a “witch”, or as I always liked to call them “the dark forces lead by Romare Bearden”. While it’s attacking the city with Hans Christian Anderson’s paper cutouts, our heroes known as the “Magical Quartet”, come in to finish him off with high cholesterol levels. After some copy and paste animation from the first episode of the show, Madoka meet up with her friends Sayaka and Kyoko to go to school. Then they meet a new socially awkward class member named Homura who later joins their battles full of more bizarre weird moments, including a Nick Junior cake party (it was a weird scene). Homura then notices along with the audience that things seem to be off with this world. Not only are the witches created differently but eventually she finds out that they are in an enclosed version of their city with no way of getting out. Meanwhile, Homura seems to be the only one who retained the memories from what happened from the anime series when Madoka sacrifices her existence to be god. Yet she’s bothered that no one else seems to remember. Even though none of them were ever alive to even know that. Homura’s goal throughout most of the movie seems to be trying to find the witch that’s trapping everyone here and break free.


I do have to say while the amazing visuals of this movie are still live up to the original anime, the animation I didn’t find all that spectacular. I mean it is a bit of an improvement over the anime series to appeal to the movie format making the actions scenes look pretty fluent for the most part it still falls rather short. I probably shouldn’t expect anything more or less given this is an anime movie. However with the amount of money that was obtained through whoring out the series with games, synopsis movies, dolls, dakimakuras, and Warner Brothers help to launch the films, I was expecting cleaner animation quality even in the scenes where the characters are socializing. I can’t help but feel a little detached from what’s going on when the characters are using heavy dialogue with little to no movement. JRPG dialogue looks more socially alive than this. However the biggest problem with this heavy dialogue is not the large amount of words there are, but the information that comes from such dialogues that require you to think a lot about. This movie feeds you with a lot of thought provoking dialogue, foreshadowing, and symbolism, and this movie is paced so awkwardly that we are never given enough time to digest this information before something even more intense happens. It starts with casual dialogue that no one cares about, and then it catches you off guard with a scene with heavy dialogue or intense action. It’s like you’re in a friggin Christopher Nolan flick. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he did contribute to this movie given the nature of the overall film and it’s ending.

Speaking of serious mind-numbing dialogue, some of the characters throughout the story will usually confront Homura intentionally or unintentionally about the actions she’s taking to try in possibly deconstructing the world that’s programed like the infinite staircase from Super Mario 64. I’m not going to spoil who those people are, but in the show most of these characters had an uneasy past and tried to wish for a better one by becoming magical girls. And I can tell you one of them is NOT the latest token loli to the series, Nagisa. This character comes very out of nowhere and doesn’t even directly explain to us whom she is and what she’s doing here; so don’t expect that there is. It’s like trying to figure out what a party clown is doing in a tanning salon. So what benefit is there for having this character in this movie? Well… these two makes a cute illustration card? Anyway, this world deviates from what was going on in the show by having a brave new world for every one of Madoka’s friends living in it. How they point that out also makes Homura’s motivation all the more confusing. Homura is basically just someone who wants to kill a witch just because she’s pissed off with everyone forgetting Madoka and her sacrifice. Though we do see Homura think on what these characters say. Because, again in the show, Homura was broken up when Madoka is left to live completely alone as a higher being. So that’s what almost keeps pulling her back into this world.

Actually I’m just going to say this now before I go any further with constantly mentioning the show, if you haven’t watched the previous movies or the show, you’re better off witnessing this story from the beginning. The movie will not help you in trying to get up to speed with what happened before, so you’re just going to be lost with this story.

I have said before how I have a strong love strong hate relationship with this series. I did mention the visuals in this series I have always seen as spectacular, but what I wanted to see more into was the story. I know that this anime gets the appeal from having a dark spin on a genre that I’m sure many have grown up with. I didn’t think it was really enough though. All I saw at first was just the same gushy romanticizing from the genre this series stems off of trying to fight it’s way back in a needlessly dark tone.

I mean don’t get me wrong, I know of the series’ writer Gen Urobuchi a.k.a. “Urohutcher”, who was the same guy who did the well-known Saya no Uta. He’s usually the kind of person that takes a psychologically tortured goldfish drops it into a fish tank, feeds steroids to all the other fishes in the tank, and hysterically watches what happens. He also makes sure that the pirana has the moral instincts of a 3 year-old toddler holding an expensive toy it found on a heavily funded TV ad. Though thanks to a bit of research and the help of some Carnegie Mellon scientists, there’s actually a legitimate reason for why he would do this. The magical girls throughout Madoka Magica become magical girls in the first place for selfish reasons, thinking that what they are doing and what they wish for is to benefit themselves. However in reality, they have been doing something for someone else’s benefit all this time, which in turn plays against them mentally and physically. It’s where most of the tragedy comes from in this series and that’s how we feel sorry for these characters. That probably is the reason Sayaka has always been my favorite character, because she has always been the best example for this series’ theme.

AND WITH THAT SAID, allow me to give you another bit of fair warning. If you are not aware of or can firmly grasp this concept, then the ending will completely lose you. Because it did for everyone else I asked after the movie was over. Not to spoil anything, but if you have seen stories like Bioshock Infinite, Neon Genesis Evangalleon, or even Inception (*wink wink*), then this ending will make you feel in familiar territory. It’s one of those stories where you feel like you missed a lot of detail where you want to just go back and look at the whole thing again with the “WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?” stuck in your brain. To lose track of heavy dialogue is one thing, but another thing is personal struggles and motivations characters have that are rarely relatable with the audience. It’s like trying to figure out the inner mind workings of someone with autism, it’s too complicated for everyone who doesn’t have the same mindset. I can possibly see some people who can relate to such characters, but I doubt any of the fans even try. With what I heard from the people I talked to before and after the movie, I see the vast majority of them seem to only watch this series just for the entertainment in shock value, while this movie dives into complex issues that none of them really care much about.

While I still think this is a good movie, there are the two things that bother me the most with this movie. It’s the terror of knowing how many fans are blindly naïve to the themes to the point where the ending makes no sense at all to them, and that the ending itself will leave you at a point where you will feel it’s anticlimactic. I don’t know if there’s going to be a 4th movie to follow up with this one, but if there isn’t then I’m rather disappointed that they left it off at this note. Then again would they even be able to top it after this? Well I guess this trip didn’t benefit me much at all… Wait a minute… What if I’m being used for someone else’s benefit? What if I’m really trying to discuss these themes as a way of trying to get people to like the ending? What if I’m just making more people interested in this movie so the series can have more people to watch the show? What if I’m supposed to add more details and convoluted questions to this review to get people more interested in the series instead of my new review series?... THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY!

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~When I was talking to most people before the movie started, I asked them “What DOES make this series so popular? What makes it special?” Although most of them pretty much told me what I already knew. Madoka is basically a “deconstruction” of the typical “magical girl” genre, delivering a darker twist to the traditional image of "mahou shoujo".

Too bad that it's not a deconstruction. It simply shows what other series decide to simply imply (and because the age window that it's aimed doesn't require them to make everyone die off cam). If Meguca was a deconstruction, Hentai would be the deconstruction of everything. It's just mahou shoujo usually don't have a character that suffers from downs being useless the entire show, and her retarded gay friend rewriting the universe so she can be gay.
The fans simple make up shit to make it seem better than it is. They are simply blinded by how easily they can chew on it and because they can like all their kawaiiness by simply saying, lel grimdark (while saying how shows like Elfen Lied are bad because lel, grimdark).
I'd put Meguca at the same level of retardness that Strike Witches pulls out, except Strike Witches characters are actually better (some anyway), and there's some character development.

If people didn't watch shitty mahou shoujo, they probable would know that it's not a deconstruction, it simply uses a different genre, and aimed at a different age window. By those terms, one could even call CardCaptor Sakura a deconstruction, because it doesn't strictly follow the generic mahou shoujo, and the story does imply some "dark" parts. But it's not a show aimed at killing characters to 'cause shock and appear to be good.

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Not to spoil anything, but if you have seen stories like Bioshock Infinite, Neon Genesis Evangalleon, or even Inception (*wink wink*), then this ending will make you feel in familiar territory.

If you did watch Evangelion, you will notice how the TV series ending felt a lot like End of Eva movie, even better when you add Rebuild to the equation and consider Rebuild a sequel.
But at least Eva did a better job in making the last choice, to be something that could only be made in the end. And people call Shinji a pussy, but it's Meduka who spends the whole time doing nothing, only to watch everyone die and suddenly, I will become a mahou shoujo, 1 hit the last bossu and save everyone! YOU COULD'VE DONE SO SINCE THE BEGINNING, that's a really poor excuse of a plot.

But in the end of the day, Meguca is all about reusing the same old formula, kawaiiness, then shock, then bullshit ending. People love that shit, bullshit ending makes them look smart when they talk about it.

The best character in the show is actually Kyubei. The one smart enough to use flaws, and hated so much that people didn't believe when he speaks the truth. And that's how goddess Meduka was born. People believed in his lies and not in his truths, and they ended up changing the plot to fit the fans fantasy and make mad cash from the movies.
Or one could just say that writing is awful, because Kyubei isn't the kind of thing that relates to Gods.


Meguca is the twilight of anime. That's why people like it.

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Meguca is the twilight of anime. That's why people like it.

I personally wouldn't go that far. Even if I would I can definitely say even I know there are other train wrecks that are much worse than that... (*cough*SAO*cough*) But yeah the fandom of this series really bothers me sometimes. I mean I can understand what the series TRIES to say, but the fan base just gushes over more incredibly confounded things about it. So I do see a bit of what you're saying.

I actually find Meguca a lot worse than SAO. I see SAO fanbase as a bunch of kids making Kiritos everywhere they can.
Meguca's is more about people trying to sound intellectual by claiming that the show is something that they can't even understand what it is (not the usual therefore deconstruction), and saying how the show is something that is not. Deep show with deep characters, nah, not like that.
And most of the fanbase is the type that will say that other shows are bad, for the same reason they claim that Meguca is good.
I can only but to think that they mindless twisted drones.

And I never had people forcing SAO down my throat, which Meguca fans did quite a lot, just like ponies.
Well it's thanks to Meguca and pornomonogatari that I don't like Shaft shows anymore and probably won't watch any newer ones anymore. Because when people tell me that it's good, I already expect it to be some pretentious bullcrap shit.

I only see Meguca movies as milking it as hard as they can. Rebellion is a pretty poor excuse of a continuation. Mostly because everyone that matters seems to pull powers out of their ass, while others are simply there. Being gay seems to make people strong! : D
Though I can only see it as bad writing, where you get ideas but can't find a way to execute them, so you just jump a few stages ahead so you can do so, leaving a huge blank space.

I for one just find the series overall as "meh" to be honest. The idea behind what it's trying to say is interesting in it's own right, but it's like you said, the problem is execution. Gen Urobuchi KNEW what he wanted to say but the other writers most of the time didn't know how to translate that correctly.

And that's painfully spot-lighted in this movie, which is why I think of the movie as "meh" now instead of "good" when I wrote this review originally. Gen compared the Madoka series' plot to Al-Qaeda (which is rather a big stretch now that I think back on it), he said said so during one of his interviews.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-08-30/madoka-magica-writer-urobuchi-compares-plot-to-al-qaeda

Overall, much like many anime shows or movies, the idea is interesting as well as realistic, but usually poorly executed and hard to relate with. So while it's not the worst series I've ever seen, I dare say there are still things it did get right, I always thought it's was very over hyped for what it's worth. And just how I stated in this review, talking to actual fans and movie watchers about it did nothing to help me with that.

btw, that one guy that told me it's a "deconstruction of the mahou shoujo genre", he was acting like a complete tool when I spoke to him lol... He was talking to me like I was a naive dumbass that needed to be corrected...

Well, yeah, one could see potential in it. Though if I was to strip down all the wrongs, I'd still find it pretty boring.
They start by making it like it's something unique, but later they make it seem like just everything else done before it.
The characters came out rather poor, and the little character development that happened ended up being because the characters are stupid. The main character is just horrible and doesn't really add much to the show besides a huge drag.
The main character also seems to have really big issues during Homura's background episode. It's like she's not the same. Guys, it's time travel, why does Madoka have a completely different personality? Different events making different outcomes is normal, but changing personalities isn't. For me that doomed the show even further down the pipe.
At first the show gives some backgrounds that justify some actions, but later on it's just, wow, I think I'm gay for you! LET ME DIE WITH YOU. Just, wait, what?

In the end, I end up thinking that the potential of the show is rather limited, and comes out as pretentious still.
And this is a show that had a handful of characters.
There's shows like angel beats that had a million characters and possibilities for a good show, and they just ruin it with bad execution and making it super short, while still giving a few good backgrounds, but making a bunch of useless episodes. Well, if it was to be short, their mistake was to make so many characters, but it's not like they didn't make it worse in the end by making the wrong characters get the spotlight, and talk with a character that could somehow justify the main character's actions in the end of it, which came out as, wait, what are you doing, why, what.

But Meguca is something that I'd scrap out completely and make something completely new.
And rebellion is just forcing hidden agenda down our throats even more, while still making a poor job. They really didn't need to reuse hidden agenda like that, they could've made it more natural (and they did have the tools and story to lead to it) instead of pulling into a completely new faux setting.

Though the problem with the fans of it, is that for them, Mahou shoujo shows are all the same. Some girl transforms, has magic and a pet. And then they go and only think about the extremely generic and kiddy shows. Probably why the slightest darky thing makes them go wild (baby's first grimdark? I barely find it dark).
The good mahou shoujo tend to have some non generic stuff which makes it good, and usually a good story. Of course the main characters won't die, because they are the focus of the show, while in Meguca the characters are nothing but tools, they have very little importance by themselves, they are just there for the plot, nothing more, which is probably why they came out so... boring.

And even kiddy shows can be good and not as generic. Ojamajo Doremi is pretty kiddy, but not as generic. They aren't really fighting monsters, and they are actually learning how to be witches.
In Cardcaptor Sakura, Sakura only faces like, 2 actual threats, one of them being a soul of a dead woman and the other the sealed card that for some reason wasn't part of Clow's plans, while everything else was arranged by Clow years before so he could pass his cards and guardians to her, while testing her at the same time.
I'd say that's 2 non traditional mahou shoujo that did a good job.
Meguca on the other hand, had a somewhat interesting idea, but honestly, hardly well executed unless made by some sort of genius or once in a life time great idea.

I posted this on Suleika's Topic, I will post it again here!


I saw this movie, Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story. And even though I am a fan of Madoka Magica, I totally hated this movie, and for multiple reasons.
The series is so much better off without this terrible movie!


I thus offer the following two theses

1. The success of the original Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV series can be explained primarily through its adherence to a number of vital principles (pacing, thematic consistency, understanding of its artistic pedigree, etc.) which, in concert, exhibit mastery over the storytelling craft. I propose that Rebellion does not achieve the same victory because it does not adhere to the principles that made the original series great.

2. I also propose that the cause for said lack of adherence is the by-product of what I will label, as inspired by Shinbou and for the lack of a better term.
Fan Response.
Rebellion, in its entirety, is colored by the creator’s reactions to how viewers perceived the original work. In-so-doing, it forgets or discards what helped generate those reactions to begin with.

To put it another way, the phenomenon of Madoka Magica was so great that it cannibalized the potency of its own sequel.


First of all, in the movie, after the deal with Kyubey and the world inside of Homura's Soul Gem, where they have these 'Nightmare Monsters' (who don't look Nightmarish at all). AND THEY DON'T ENGAGE IN SUPER EPIC BOSS BATTLES AGAINST THEM!

No, they just sing and dance around, and then the Nightmare Monsters disappear! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CUTENESS + ACTION SERIES, NOT A GODDAMN NICK JR MUSICAL! YOU'RE TAKING AWAY THE EPIC ACTION!

And the songs they sing to do it are stupid, like this 'Cake Song' which is basically like "Who could that Cake Be?" That song was so juvenile and annoying and terrible! I'd rather listen to Teen Titans Go "Waffles Song" or "Spaghetti Dance" than listen to that nerve-wrecking excuse for a song!




Then laterthey fight against Homura's Witch Form, Homulily. This is when things started to Really go downhill.

Homulily Is Supposed To Look Like This! It showed it in the Madoka Magica PSP Game! Look below and see what Homulily, Homura's Witch Form is SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE


However, Homulily in the movie looked nothing like that. They just changed her appearance drastically for no reason, and the new look sucks too.

Also, what's with this finding a dead Homura in the Witch Barrier with no Soul Gem and half of her head missing, when Homura IS the Witch?

Then on top of it, during the fight against Homulily, Sayaka then somehow summons her own Witch Form, Oktavia Von Seckendorff, but as a separate being to help her in the battle.
THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT! The Witch Form is supposed to be a permanent and irreversible transformation that happens when they fall into despair, and now Sayaka is somehow sending her Witch Form as a separate being to help her in combat? That Makes No Sense! It also makes the Witches look more like totally separate entities, and not the transformed evil state of the Maho Shoujos.

Also, there is no point of Oktavia being here as well. As shown in the movie, her whole thing with Kyousuke has somehow been resolved in this movie. In a sense, Oktavia Von Seckendorff has essentially become a Branding Logo. If I didn't hate that Witch enough, now they have to pull crap like this!

Not to mention, how can Homulily and Oktavia even still be there, after the Witches were wiped from Existence by Goddess Madoka? The movie is already messing up its own frikkin continuity so badly!


Then next, we have this new girl who was added in, Nagisa Momoe, who happens to be the former Maho Shoujo self of the Witch, Charlotte.

First of all, Charlotte's former self was partially shown in these silhouettes in the original series. Nagisa however, looks nothing like what it was shown that she was supposed to look like in that silhouette. Look at these images below and see. Once again, totally changing the characters's appearance for no reason.



Second, Nagisa was shown to be able to somehow change into her Witch Form, Charlotte, and change back whenever she feels like it. Once again, just like Sayaka in the fight against Homulily, THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT! For The Witch Form is supposed to be a permanent and irreversible evil transformation that happens when they fall into despair! Now this Nagisa Girl is just changing into her Witch form whenever she feels like it?! What The Hell?!

And not only that, but Charlotte's appearance has also been changed for no reason, and her name as well. Charlotte now has a weirder-looking face, and they now call her "Bebe," when she's supposed to be called "Charlotte!" Now not only changing the appearances for no reason, but also their names too?!

I hated Nagisa Momoe in the movie! She was so annoying and nerve-wrecking (especially when she'd sing that stupid Cake Song) and she was obviously just tacked on for no reason other than because Charlotte is such a popular Witch. She hardly proved helpful either. Heck, if she hadn't been in the movie, it would've changed Nothing!


Plus, so much stuff that was obviously done just to get the fans to be happy and shut up.

Like that part where Hitomi is turned into a Nightmare Monster. That part just Screams "it was done just to make all the fans happy because Hitomi gets what she deserves for stealing Kyousuke from Sayaka and being a jerk!"

Or the fact that Sayaka is now alive again, she now has Kyousuke as a boyfriend, and his hands are completely healed. Obviously that was done just to make all the fans happy that she gets her boyfriend now, even though it contradicts so many things! It also renders Sayaka's whole character arc in the anime pointless and superfluous too!

I should also mention that After first act is over with the whole fake city inside of Homura's Soul Gem and the Kyubey Plan, none of this is relevant anymore. After that first act, the movie is about something completely different, and that last part is never brought up again, like it didn't happen!
That is a MAJOR PROBLEM! I must admit that I never seen a first act having nothing to do with the rest of the movie. Some argue that they were thinking outside of the box. Well as MrEnter once remarked in his Animated Atrocities reviews, "If This Were A Testament to Anything, it's that there are times when the Box is a Good Place To Be!


Finally, the thing that really made it absolutely awful.

After Homulily is killed, and Homura departs onto the afterlife, she then meets with Goddess Madoka. Then, out of the blue, Homura turns evil, somehow manages to steal Goddess Madoka's Powers and becomes Evil Goddess Homura (or more like Satan Homura), then she turns Madoka back into a normal girl and sends her home and Mind-Wipes her. After that, the new "Satan Homura" creates these new Witch-like creatures called "Wraiths," and sends them across the world, restarting the whole Witch thing with something new (which is basically a rehash of the old).

Seriously, this was the worst part of the whole movie. First of all, how the hell could an ordinary Maho Shoujo just steal the powers of a Frikkin Goddess like that? Plus, that's totally out of character, Homura is a hero, and she would never want to do that! And Homura certainly didn't have to start this thing with these Wraith Things either!
It was a huge Deus Ex Machina (or Diabolos Ex Machina) that made no sense, it rendered all the past 12 episodes pointless, and it was obviously done just to make it opened ended for more sequels, which IS NOT A GOOD REASON!!!
Not to mention, it gives a bad moral too, instead of "always keep going for your dreams" now it is "Keep going for your dreams by all means necessary until you become a Monster from it!" It also degrades her character, at first she appeared to be a creepy stalker in the show, but then became the big badass hero. Now she's once again back to the creepy stalker, except omnipotent now too!

Dear God, I think that this whole movie was just a cheaply done and terrible way of making the ending of a Closed-Ended series become Open-Ended, so that they could make sequels in a possible OVA series, or perhaps a Season Two.

SHAFT could've done something similar to this without this crap, like making an OVA or Anime about the Madoka Magica Spinoff Manga series, like Kazumi Magica, or Oriko Magica as an anime or OVA series. Why did they have to do this?!


Thankfully though, this hasn't ruined or changed anything that is going on with my Madoka Magica Fan-Manga project, "Maho Shoujo Rika Magica." I'm at least thankful for that, and I can still continue working on that project of mine.




UGH! Now I guess it's time to pretend that this movie didn't happen, like with Dragon Ball GT, or Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, or Exorcist 2, or Highlander 2, or Hunchback of Notre Dame 2.

I still like Madoka Magica though, but I do Not Like this terrible third movie of it, Rebellion Story!!!

I am done I will never watch madoka ever again

I only watched the original show. I found it pretty entertaining. The character designs were a little to kiddy looking, but ok.

I'll never get how people can write walls of text about random movies, when they don't like it. I mean you could like - wow what am I saying - just turn off the movie or something. There's literally no loss from that. You know in a videogame you might delete your high score or shit, but a movie? Like, come on :V

What are the other shows and Movie liek anyway? The original show's ending seemed pretty absolute ö.ö

Is the rest of the show just ike, ugh, cute girls doing cute magical stuff? :V