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Originally Posted by Lord of Fire

So...

Spoiler:

Sayaka mercilessly slaughtering a Witch into (quite literally) a bloody pulp, to the point where she cuts off her head is not extreme enough? Homura using any explosive she can think of and more to defeat either a regular Witch or Walpurgis Night is not extreme? Mami shooting Witches and their minions with her arsenal of flintlocks, even going so far as to headshot Charlotte (which turns out to be ineffective, but that's beside the point) is not extreme?

So what would be extreme to you?

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.