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Originally Posted by Sekirei07
Has anyone actually read or watch Geothe's Faust to speculate as to how the series will end? It seems to be following the same situations as that, so an ending could be derived from it. The entro to the anime itself was the same as for the story with 2011 on the bottom which would mean that this series is a modern interpretation of the story of Faust right?
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This is more or less true, but I don't know if we can say that knowing the story of Faust (which I don't, at least not intimately) will help here. Beyond the obvious things (like Kyubey=Mephistopheles, becoming a Puella Magi being a parallel to the contract between Mephisto and Faust, the passages from the story present in the first two episodes, etc.) I don't know how much of the story could be taken as a direct parallel to Faust. Although if Kazu-kun is correct in Madoka saving Homura in the end, that'd likely be a reference to Gretchen guiding Faust into heaven at his death.