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Old 2012-11-14, 07:26   Link #853
Triple_R
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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun View Post
That story ends with everyone happy and the assertion that fate could be changed. You're entitled to think whatever you want about what will happen afterwards, but the game itself doesn't hint that something bad will happen or anything like that. All the opposite actually, it goes to great lengths to make it clear this is a true happy ending.
I think it's a happy ending for Madoka, although it's rooted in blissful ignorance really. As such, I think it's a successful ending for Homura (which is all that Homura reasonably expects and hopes for at this point).

But without finding some mechanism through which Soul Gems are cleansed without needing Grief Seeds, it is hard to imagine the Puella Magi of this ending lasting very long. The best case scenario is that they get a few generally happy years before dying in battle as Puella Magi.

It might be fair to call this Homura's happy ending.
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