2011-08-16, 14:45 | Link #61 | |
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I'm totally with you, guys.
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Regarding those who don't know the show. I'm curious what they will think when they see the PG-13-sticker on the cover ^^ (or something like that, don't know how it is handled in the US). |
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2011-08-18, 00:34 | Link #62 | |
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2011-08-22, 03:35 | Link #68 |
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"When this airs in North America, delicious tears will flow from the people who has no idea what is going to happen." Echoing one of the comments from the trailers.
Delicious tears indeed.
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2011-09-08, 22:13 | Link #69 |
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I'm also really hoping it'll be dubbed, or at worst a subbed box set. Well never mind, it'll prob only be 3 volumes anyway, unless Aniplex follows the Japanese format.
Wondering how they're going to market Madoka, since on the surface it seems like a tween girl's show. But with all these guys (bronies) coming out of the closet, so to speak, as far as watching "girly shows with good plots" goes as of late, I could imagine them snapping Madoka right up. Perfect balance of good plot and violence, and they aren't afraid to buy girly looking stuff. I'm not sure how many of those guys there are, though. |
2011-09-09, 06:59 | Link #70 | |
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2011-09-13, 14:40 | Link #73 | |
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Violence alone is a guaranteed PG-13, though R and up is possible if there's lots of it. This show has a lot of action scenes, some of which contain blood, to the point where it can be considered as being gore. On top of that, it has all the ingredients for a thriller/horror, hence why I would consider this show quite worthy of an R-rating.
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2011-09-14, 11:35 | Link #75 |
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On paper, that indeed sounds pretty extreme.
The thing with animation, though, is that the art style, artistic direction, and style of animation can have a huge impact on how disturbing, graphic, gratuitous, and gorey such scenes come across as. The scenes that you alluded to here are presented in a fairly realistic fashion, but there's not a lot of gorey emphasis put on these scenes. If anything, the gore is actually played down a bit at times. I mean, it's not like Elfen Lied, Ga-Rei Zero, or Blood-C, imo. So I would think that PG-13 would be fine for PMMM. Personally, I doubt many 14 year olds would be particularly scarred by watching it.
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2011-09-16, 08:54 | Link #78 | |
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And the witches aren't very humanoid at all. The less human a victim of violence is, the less potentially traumatizing it is. You see monsters get torn up and gored in many PG-13-rated films. |
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2011-09-20, 02:46 | Link #79 |
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Though the idea that they used to be human is enough for psychological trauma at the very least.
Most magical girl shows have underage girls beating up monsters with sparkly magic but that's not considered violence.
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THat is what makes this unique, next to magical girl Nanoha it shows the trend of having something more than magic girls beating up monsters and it repeating it for so many episodes. It is what draws people to it something new.
Also since the Madoka series has been dubbed which is not the best, but I have heard worse and given Kubey such a voice when it dosen't match up... One thing about it is that that the DVD's are too expensive and are only sold on their website and maybe amazon been a while since I checked. All in all a poor market strategy especially when people can just download them for free.
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