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nebroadweMadoka is a cheerful middle-school student, despite the ominous dreams about the end of the world. Then she discovers that the suicides and disappearances that plague her hometown are actually caused by witches, which is bad. And that the witches are opposed by heroic magical girls, who gain their powers from a cute animal mentor in exchange for a wish, which is ... worse?
There's no way to summarize this fascinating, Faustian deconstruction of the magical girl genre without spoiling its best features. Let's just say that if Stephen King had written Cardcaptor Sakura and Madhouse had outsourced the production design to Tim Burton, you might have gotten something like Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The fact that Kajiura Yuki is responsible for the soundtrack doesn't hurt, either. Recommended.
There's no way to summarize this fascinating, Faustian deconstruction of the magical girl genre without spoiling its best features. Let's just say that if Stephen King had written Cardcaptor Sakura and Madhouse had outsourced the production design to Tim Burton, you might have gotten something like Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The fact that Kajiura Yuki is responsible for the soundtrack doesn't hurt, either. Recommended.