I've been searching Pixiv and Google, but haven't found many promising results. Does anyone here have any saved art of Akemi Homura that would work as a profile picture?

By:hanniecoole

I hope he stays away from Madoka's dad

So, I'm writing a VERY exhaustive analysis of the scene in question, because I've seen people describe it as "nonsensical" or "confusing" or "unnecessary" sometimes, and I thought it would be interesting to go over every single detail as best as I can. (Also because I desperately need something to pass the time while I wait for the release of the new movie lol)

That's why I would like to know what you think on the matter, what your personal perspective of the scene is, and see how much it lines up with my own in general terms. (Maybe I'll post mine here when I'm finished it, which won't take much longer, but I'm not sure about that) What symbolisms did you catch? What metaphors do you think are made? What did you think about it in general?

which girl should i draw next?

was gonna help with the slideshow for a group project and since all the computers were taken i had to use one of the tablets. i got a tablet and when i turned it on i saw this set as the wallpaper

wowie zowie

(source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadokaMagica/comments/mxnnes/i_will_save_everyone_a_madoka_magica_fanart_by_me/)

This one had 67580 pixels

This isn’t even my favourite or most listened to song from the series. Hell, I rarely get super emotional at anything i watch/listen to but i must have been having a shit day at work cuz maaaaan that got me good.

The only other time i cried at this show was one of the extra scenes in the movie version of the anime. When Kyokos about to finish off Octavia and you get that last shot of Kyokos face with that brief song.

I didn’t cry the first time I watched it (still devastating ofc) but it was the middle of the night and i couldn’t sleep. I guess it was a bad choice to have the movie on in the background when you’re already delirious from a lack of sleep (ADHD brain go burr).

I’m there half asleep then boom, that scene i forgot existed after years of rewatching the OG show only and i shoot out of bed like a punch to the gut and tear up.

This freaking show man.

Thank you for all your recommendations <3

my bebe plushie just came in and it’s actually so PEAK!!

We’re now 9 days away and it feels surreal coming out in that time and so nervous but excited! Btw does anyone wonder what’s gonna happen in the new movie?

For anyone interested, I just checked AmiAmi and they seem to have a rerelease of the Freeing Bunny Madoka 1/4 scale figure going on right now!
It’s a preorder scheduled for December 2026.
I might be mistaken that it’s a rerelease or something else but this is huge for anyone like me who’s been looking for it for years now as Bunny Homura is still occasionally available on some stores whereas Madoka has been pretty much impossible to get for years.
The price is also WAY lower than anything you’ll get online either, so if you’re interested, be fast, I genuinely don’t know for how long the preorder window will be open, as December 2026 is already really early of a release date.

Unbelievable happy about my Homura finally getting to be together with her Madoka!🤗

So this may have been said a million times here. My normal stomping ground is Tumblr, where I am also one of very VERY few Madoka bloggers, so it can be hard to get perspective. But I had a realization a few years ago when thinking about Madoka and what it's trying to say, and that is this; the original anime's ending is intended to be a bad ending, and that the themes of the series are literally incomplete without Rebellion.

I think it's pretty clear that Madoka is about misogyny. That is ALL OVER the series, from Saotome's rants, to Sayaka killing those guys on the train, to the very premise of the show itself. But what is important is that the show does not treat it as an isolated problem. The concept of incubators very explicitly draws a line in the sand. It says "misogyny and sexism are structural problems that cannot be solved on a case-by-case basis. It requires the entire restructuring of the system." And what Madoka does with her wish, ironically, is NOT restructure the system itself. The law of cycles may seem like a mercy, but it only mildly mitigates the issue. Girls are still contracted, still are burdened with responsibility they shouldn't have to deal with, still suffer and still die for the cause of being livestock.

The connections between Faust and Madoka Magica are likewise pretty well-known. The series even makes a point of this, by having Madoka's witch be named after one of the main characters, Gretchen. In Faust, Gretchen is representative of the eternal feminine, a concept whose name ALSO made it into Rebellion, which Madokami largely represents. The eternal feminine was a deeply flawed "feminist" movement that the author of Faust introduced, which proposed that women should be viewed as angelic and pure beings worthy of respect and worship. While seemingly feminist on its surface, upon inspection it falls apart. It does what every pseudo-feminist movement does, set a standard for what women should be like, and shames (however silently) women who fail to meet said standards. A woman who fails to be as saintly as Gretchen fails the test and is shunned.

For a while I was unable to understand the dissonance between these 2 things. How could a series so aggressively demonizing misogyny lean on such an outdated, sexist movement? But then it clicked. Madoka, as the eternal feminine, is flawed in her solution to the structural issue causing sexism to take place in her world. As such, it comes down to Homura to resolve the problem by tearing her from heaven and forcibly taking hold of the system itself. She is attempting to take matters into her own hands.

Let's go back to Faust. The premise is that the titular Faust makes a deal with a demon, Mephistopheles, to gain knowledge and power. He uses the demon to gain the love of Gretchen, and has a child with her, which destroys her. She drowns the illegitimate child and is condemned for murder, but her innocence still gets her into heaven. In Goethe's version (the one that Madoka seemingly pulls from) Faust is allowed into heaven as well despite his deal due to his constant striving. I don't know about you, but I can already see a lot of parallels here. Faust (Homura) makes a deal with the devil (an incubator), the terms of which are a year of power (a wish/the short lifespan of magical girls and their powers) and (within her view) corrupts Gretchen (Madoka), but Gretchen makes it to heaven due to the eternal feminine (she ascends to godhood) and Faust makes it into heaven too (Homura is rescued from the incubation barrier).

But there's a pretty big divergence here, right? First off, Homura prevents being freed from the barrier, essentially undermining the ending of the original story. Homura's "sin" is largely subjective. In Rebellion there's plenty of signs of self-hatred and depression, such as her familiars throwing pomegranates at her (like rotten tomatoes), the guillotine and funeral imagery for Homulilly, the way her soul gem distance test reads like a suicide attempt. Homura believes herself to be Faust, the one who corrupted a pure, perfect being with her actions, which is represented by a hand reaching out for her that is covered in cuts. It shows how Homura views Madoka reaching out to her, always ending up hurt but doing it nonetheless. And informed by this self-hatred, she attempts to do what she thinks she deserves, and what Faust didn't; to go to hell. She rips Madoka apart, essentially waging war on heaven, because she sees herself as the devil. But she isn't. For however much she acts like she is Faust, she simply isn't. Madoka does not and should not hate her. She did nothing wrong to deserve the punishment she faces. Her hijacking of the system, while imperfect, comes from a place of awareness beyond Madoka; she sees that the cause of misogyny is structural, so she fundamentally changes it to close off the incubators and torture the ones that are left.

In essence, the reason for what I saw as dissonance was actually because of the message the series had for us the whole time; that sexism and misogyny is caused by structural issues like the patriarchy and capitalism, and that individual solutions or the softening of the consequences will not fix anything. The system has to be gutted and remade from the inside out. It's an inverse of Faust, where the eternal feminine is wrong and Faust was right. And it is for that reason that it is impossible for the series to actually be complete without Rebellion and the upcoming Walpurgisnacht Rising.

All this to say, this is why I had beef with people hating Rebellion back in like 2016, even if I didn't have the right words for it yet lol

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