Madoka Magica - General Discussion

[mols]

of course not, I am not complaining. Its just a preference.
On the other hand I heard the music has been changed. Is it better?

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Akashin

I could care less about Mami's room, because really, an extravagantly decorated room and a completely empty room says more or less the same thing; that she's completely alone. Only difference is that the new look gives the impression of overcompensating, which actually fits her a bit better than it being completely empty.

Still far from being a necessary change, but it's not something to really complain about, I don't think.

That would be freaky to show her talking with dolls, pretending that she is talking to her parents.

[FatPianoBoy]

Originally Posted by mols

I preferred Mami's empty room. An empty room that showed a lonely person. It somehow showed the hard life MS had...

Lonely people tend to have more stuff. A sparsely decorated space is a constant reminder of solitude. My initial impression from Mami's barren apartment was that she spent so much of her time going to school and hunting witches that she only used her home to eat and sleep.

[RadiantBeam]

Originally Posted by FatPianoBoy

Lonely people tend to have more stuff. A sparsely decorated space is a constant reminder of solitude. My initial impression from Mami's barren apartment was that she spent so much of her time going to school and hunting witches that she only used her home to eat and sleep.

Admittedly, I think both versions work well at portraying the fact that Mami is lonely. They just have different ways of showing it, and IMO it would make sense for her to fill up her apartment with stuff; a way to try and fool herself into believing if her home is decorated, she isn't completely alone.

[sa547]

Originally Posted by Sheba

That would be freaky to show her talking with dolls, pretending that she is talking to her parents.

Reminds me of Asuka in Eva: Rebuild 2.22, where she sometimes talks to her doll/puppet, or for another analogy, in Cast Away, Chuck is seen conversing with "Wilson" while stranded in an isolated island.

Talking to dolls (or inanimate objects or even an imaginary friend) is, IMHO, a way of keeping themselves psychologically stable during times of severe isolation.

[yanZy-san]

Just started watching Madoka Magika and safe to say wow, so many pretty colours n weird things rofl! ^^

[Riga92]

Originally Posted by yanZy-san

Just started watching Madoka Magika and safe to say wow, so many pretty colours n weird things rofl! ^^

The pretty colors won't be the only things to wow you

[sa547]

Wow... The lines in SuckerPunch seem to ring true here. In most cases, Sweet Pea is Homura.

Originally Posted by Sweet Pea

Everyone has an Angel. A Guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take One day, Old man, Next day, Little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, They can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they're not here to fight our battles. But to whisper from our hearts. Reminding that it's us. Its everyone of us who holds power over the world we create.

And this kind of remind me of Episode 12:

Spoiler:

Sweet Pea: This can't be. We did everything right.
Baby Doll: A map, a fire, a knife, a key, one thing more, one thing more. It's me.
Sweet Pea: What?
Baby Doll: [a breathy 'Oh'] Oh it's me,of course it's me. It's the only way this ever coulda been prevented.
Sweet Pea: What do you mean?
Baby Doll: I'm saying you go home, go to your family. You tell your mom what Rocket said, make her happy. Go out and live a normal life. Love, be free, you have to live for all of us now.
Sweet Pea: Baby, no, you can't...
Baby Doll: Yes Sweet Pea, you're the strongest. You're the only one of us who ever had a chance out there. You're going home and leaving, that's how we win. It's ok, it's better this way. Now listen, I'm gonna walk out there and when they come after me, you go, ok?
Sweet Pea: There's gotta be another way.
Baby Doll: No, this is right. This was never my story, it's yours. Now don't screw it up ok?

A coincidence? In any case it's so profound even though both were written down independently, unaware of each other's possible similarities.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/quotes

Edit: Dropped to 12 from 9. http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php

A backlash perhaps? Dunno, but sometimes (as I said before) we can't please everyone.

[BaKaBaKaOtaKu]

so, i believe madoka magica has reached over a million posts already at 2ch even prior to episode 11 and 12. =) continue breaking records madoka!!

[kaigan]

Originally Posted by sa547

Edit: Dropped to 12 from 9. http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php

A backlash perhaps? Dunno, but sometimes (as I said before) we can't please everyone.

true, we can't please everybody. but i'm sure we greatly owe the dropping mal rankings from troll campaign and the likes.

[zato_1one]

I never care about any top list. Why should I care about what other people enjoy? The one who decides if it's enjoy or not is me.

Signed by Keima.

[sa547]

QB telling people where to go; stamping on face optional (site NSFW):
http://www.akibaos.com/?p=10091

[omimon]

So what does sales look like for week 2?

[zato_1one]

I still don't believe that it can beat SenjougaharaTore-sama.

[Pachael]

Looks like (my) previous expectations are to be tempered with Wk 2 sales of ~4.8k BD and ~1.2 DVD giving it 6k for the week and a total of 69k.

If it follows Infinite Stratos' slow burn (~80% first week) then it'll hit about 80k in total, which is give or take at Bakemono levels.

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-1865.html

[Westlo]

I don't know why you guys thought it was going to buck every trend. It doesn't matter how good (you think) the show is, it's still a slave of the system. Some of you guys were being entirely unrealistic, applejuice was predicting 10-20k for the second week and 5-10k for the third....

Anime blows their load in the first week, Tsubusa Cat II did 72k week 1 and than 4k the second week, 1k the 3rd week and 500 the 4th... Madoka Vol 2 will outdo the opening week of Madoka Vol 1 but the sales will drop off quicker in the following weeks.

Originally Posted by applejuice

Nah, Japanese has the best taste.

Yeah you're right, that is cert *sees Jillian Michaels work out dvd outrank every anime bd/dvd on amazon a few days ago* .... never mind.

[zato_1one]

Originally Posted by Westlo

Some of you guys were being entirely unrealistic, applejuice was predicting 10-20k for the second week and 5-10k for the third....

You may not like his attitude and you may just waiting for this moment to look down on him. But in my opinion, the hardest prediction is the first week sale. For later weeks, you can just base on some previous statistics or just decrease the amount of the first week by xx%. He did a very accurate prediction for the first week sale which is impressive. IMO More importantly, he doesn't even boast about that in here (public forum) like a childish fanboy. I give him a credit for that and I think you should too. I've read your comments and it looks like you don't believe his prediction at all. That is totally fine though. But I think that it's better to praise someone too when he is right. Not just waiting for someone to fall and slam at him again.

I wouldn't post this if you didn't post the message in the quote. He only wrote that in his blog. Like I said, I don't see him boasting about it in here. So, it's better to discuss that in his blog if you want. The fact that you stated it in here makes me feel like you want other people to laugh at him. And I don't like it.

[MartianMage]

Would've prolly sold more if not for the earthquake but it's still nice to see that Madoka is doing well.

[applejuice]

2nd week sales for DVD+BD was 6,000 and I was wrong with my prediction, which was 11,000. But I really need to post this due to Westlo's extremely annoying attitude.

Originally Posted by Westlo

I don't know why you guys thought it was going to buck every trend. It doesn't matter how good (you think) the show is, it's still a slave of the system. Some of you guys were being entirely unrealistic, applejuice was predicting 10-20k for the second week and 5-10k for the third....

Anime blows their load in the first week, Tsubusa Cat II did 72k week 1 and than 4k the second week, 1k the 3rd week and 500 the 4th... Madoka Vol 2 will outdo the opening week of Madoka Vol 1 but the sales will drop off quicker in the following weeks.

You constantly call us 'unrealistic' and whatever shit when anticipating sales that you think is a bit higher than your prediction. Then I ask this, have you ever actually try to figure out the sales at all? Do you know how hard I was calculating just to get that value? It is not like I was not providing any evidence at all, I was trying to predict it using various factors that affects sales. You are basically overhearing everything I said, but only trying to bash without trying to cooperate and convince us.

Well shit. From now on, I will never, ever post anything about sales of any animation, when westlo is around. His ego seriously hurts me whenever I say anything about that matter.

[omimon]

Here is something that you guys might be interested in, especially for applejuice.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/0...0-shaft-anime/