Anime Discussion Thread - Page 588

To further speculate: No, in that case it would be too late for you. When your magical power is gone / tainted, you have no chance to defeat another witch. But since your contract demands that you defeat them, you'll have to fight another witch. Either you get killed without your magic, or you use magic, reach the taint threshold and become another witch.

Edit: That would also work with the cycle of life or the death and rebirth imagery of the witches butterfly. And would lead to a constant supply of witches for the magical girls to defeat, only to become one in the future. You could even tie some sort of "there will always be evil in the world" balance to this.

Unrelated to that, we learned that the Grief Seeds have charges (and can be shared). I wonder if one charge removes all taint or if they are limited in some way. They are also considered a reward and if you listen carefully, they not guaranteed to "drop" when you defeat a witch. So if you are unlucky, you could defeat a few witches, don't get a Grief Seed and have no way to remove the darkness from your magic.

And they only have a finite amount of uses. It'll be interesting to see how they are used in the later episodes.

Oh yeah, since the magic girls compete against each other to kill the witches, I wonder if Madoka and Sayaka(?) will end up having to fight each other or even Mami one day.

The elitist class rep is falling for him already? I hoped that they would wait a few episodes before expanding the harem.
I'm not sure if i like the show yet. It seems to be lacking something, but I can't put my finger on what that is.

It's lacking a plot. A good one, at least.

Now for some predictions:

• This has to be 24 eps. I don't think they can introduce the rest of the harem and still have a semblance of a plot in just 12. In fact, I think everything up until 12 will be harem stuff.
  
• New unclassified IS appears. Lots of throwaway student mooks lose to it (bet it's a man).
  
• Goal of the new IS is to take over the world or some equivalent for the sake of equal rights for men great justice. Actually, scratch that. He's doing it because he's an evil villain.
  
• War breaks out which means our hero gets to use his fancy ability since it's not a stupid duel.
  
• Our hero fights the IS and loses.
  
• Missing sister is making cores for the enemy! OMG BEST PLOT TWIST EVER
  
• Houki has emotional breakdown upon learning this. Cue several episodes of angst.
  
• Everybody works together and beats the new IS. Bonus points if they left Houki behind at first and she arrives in the middle of battle.
  

I like my chances.

Edit: I almost forgot. "First shift" implies that there'll be a second, third, and probably final shift as well.

Mami is in the ninth grade. Where are her parents? Madoka has parents. Homura said some stuff about why Madoka shouldn't become a magical girl because she values her family, right?
Why does Kyubey need to recruit new magical girls? This implies that new ones are needed. Are the numbers of magical girls decreasing (becoming witches?) or are the numbers of witches increasing (because of the corruption of magical girls?)?
What is the criteria for becoming a magical girl? Why doesn't Kyubey just recruit everyone?
For a genki girl, Sayaka can certainly be morose. Troubled past or something?
Where the heck did that tea come from? O.o
Kyubey is evil. I know that all happy rabbit avatars are evil because I watched Kobato.

Rumor has it this is the cover for the ED single:
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Was it just me or did that Merry ep make little sense, unless of course that was my fault for watching it over x1 speed, but what I grasped from it was:

They have some random chick who wants to become a nurse, and she has a dream demon that she's friends with. The whole episode is pretty much plot development, with Merry staying over, showing that the main char has a family, (mom's dead more stereotypes :D) w/ a overused transfer student (female of course) who seems to/will be important.

After that, some random dream eater comes, kills the dream demon that was introduced this episode (probably as showing a vessel type interaction), and takes over the girls consciousness, then the ep ends, trying to show more of a connection between the main character Merry and Yumeji.

For IS I think its pretty generic, with the plot line + character development. The harem growing is pretty standard once they put 1 male character... The fact that the story seems pretty much all about his past, and like a fight in present time.

Looking @ the next ep seeing another girl is pretty well... I don't know . TBH This seems like it'll just your average shounen/harem type anime, but the fighting animations are pretty nice, with the exception of the weapon variety being the same as gundams DRAGOON system + beam sword anyone?

Meh, if there are only 467, that won't explain the implied societal changes at all. At least I was somewhat right about the summoning possibilities (I guess it's in the bracelet).

Not really impressed so far, but the tsundere is cute and the fights are pretty good, so I'll stay with it for now. Also it still looks nice and the tech is still interesting. (A bunny girl is the developer of the IS?)

I was right to wait for UTW with this one. Really beautiful visuals, please don't watch this one on FUNimation, it needs to be in HD.

Can't say much about the story, very slow paced. The girl is nice, and the ending was a little unexpected. I wonder what's up with the 3 idiots. :D

I think you're jumping a bit too far ahead. From what I've been told about the LN, the "plot" hasn't really progressed anywhere meaningful in 6 volumes. And the series still has a long way to go before it works its way through the content in the LNs.

I don't think anyone has any idea where this is actually headed, if it's even headed anywhere at all.

That whole nurse thing was...odd. If I'm remembering correctly, she wasn't there at that point in the manga--so either they're pulling from an issue that I haven't read yet in order to speed up the progression of the story so it fits in a season, or she's just a character they made up for the anime. In either case, her insertion into the story is a little awkward.