Never forget.

I wonder what the Incubators' home planet is like.

How long is supposed to last the show?
Also, 2 people died in that ep, why am I not caring?

I miss Kyouko.

Waiting for Nutbladder is suffering....

>>46643740
Cutest.

Planet.

Ever.

>>46643749
>How long is supposed to last the show?

I don't know, how hard is English?

>>46643737

>>46643705
Yes. Shinbo's directorial style is HEAVILY influenced by Anno. It's no surprise.

>>46643749
>>46643765

>>46643776
Gainax and Shaft are pretty close in general, if I recall.

>>46643749
>How long is supposed to last the show?
Three episodes to go.
>Also, 2 people died in that ep, why am I not caring?
Bad taste.

If I wished for it, would QB let me fuck him/her/it?

>>46643776
Well, I hate to say it, but...
Which is why it's so good. You may hate NGE's plot to hell, but it's got great directing.

Goodnight, sweet princesses.

Please be happy together in heaven.

>>46643804
Be sure to file a form to the Galactic U.N. regarding cross planetary species romance

>>46643821

>>46643804
>filename

>>46643804
Welcome back, friend. Welcome back.

>>46643740
Full of these guys and those "Puchuu" aliens from Excel Saga.

>>46643740

I think the real question is, what are the aliens who created QB like? . There's no way an intelligent being could evolve to look like QB, clearly he was created by someone else to fulfill a specific purpose, the harvesting of little girls souls.

>>46643804
It's confirmed as an emotionless husk.
So yes, it wouldn't care in the least if you wanted to fuck it at all anyway so long as you made the contract

Okay.

Where is Madoka right now?

A) Home - Homura can stop time, so it's easy to sneak her in

B) In the Homuhomu house...waiting to be ravaged

is this now a sci-fi fantasy show?
someone go update Wikipedia

>>46643821

If Mami was here, Madoka would've sold her soul for cake by now.

>>46643705
>Anyone suddenly think of the same thing I did?

OH FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU

>>46643776
Anno?

>>46643794
>Three episodes to go.
Thanks, but I really can't see how they will keep that interesting with so few characters left.
>Bad taste.
The show has failed to make me care about those characters, not my fault.

Kyouko is fucking alpha.

>>46643829

IT BEGINS

I have never hated QB more than I have hated him this episode.

Am I the only one that laughs his ass off during most of the dramatic scenes due to the funky Shaft-style direction and scene composition? They abused it so much in SZS, Maria Holic, Bakemonogatari and SoreDemo that I've completely associated it with comedy and jokes.

See this heart? It's proof that Kyouko and Sayaka loved eachother. Yurifags were right all along, u mad?

>>46643751
>I miss Kyouko

I miss Sayaka. ;_;

I hate to be yurifagging but
>my face when kyoukos final attack contained an indirect kissu

What if Homu is another alien?

Blue & Red strong

>>46643934

Eh...that's sort of true I guess

Didn't we, like, call this a week ago?

>>46643821

>>46643950

>>46643883
>I really can't see how they will keep that interesting with so few characters left.
There's going to be LOTS of talking.

Which makes me happy, because it's what I signed up for. The crazy fights and shit were unexpected, and they were nice, but since before the show started I've been excited for the existential crises of being a magical girl, and lots and lots of people talking to each other.

>>46643950
What if Madoka mother was an alien? That would explain Madoka potential.

>>46643880
I suppose we'd better get the drawfags on this, if the japs don't beat 'em to it.

Aren't there supposed to be Magi all over the world?
How the fuck is Homerun the last one?

Sayaka....

>>46643883

Or maybe you're just making excuses..

I hope that QB is just lying, because I have a hard time believing that they can do the Interdimensional Space Alien with Different Morals Than You right.

>>46643905

JESUS

>>46643934
uh, you know that brooch she kissed was from her father´s right?

Haven't checked the last threads, anyone do the runes on the backs of the posters yet?

Clearly they were going for yuri subtext there, but that's all. Fans will forever be left hanging on the true nature of Kyouko's affection for Sayaka.

>>46643984

She's the last in the city.

And nobody's just gonna come without QB contacting them.......which he won't

THERMODYNAMICS
ALIENS

MADOKA IS NOW A SCIFI

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE

So the incubator is an alien?

I'm not sure I like that.

>>46643932
I miss both of them

So... is Madoka an alien?

>>46643749
Actually Sayaka died in episode 8. I cared a lot.
Not because I like Sayaka but episode 8 was the greatest
thing the anime industry accomplished in years.

>>46644019
Yeah, Just announcing a concert for Kyousuke using this episode's airing times.

>>46643996
Different /a/non, but I agree with him. The show has been based on character interaction thus far, and I can't see how the two least interactive characters can manage to drag things on for three episodes. The only explanation is "flashbacks" to the previous world.

>>46644019

>Kyousuke
>Classic Concert

>Osaka
>3/3 25:25

>Tokyo
>3/4 25:55

>Con Amore

The times are this episode's broadcast times in Kansai and Kanto respectively.

We also figured out that Sayaka-witch's name is Oktavia von Seckendorff

>>46643932
DAT NOSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSWHQrkta8

>>46643829
Implying heaven. Obviously God is a sham if aliens exist all across the universe.

Where did the relationship even come from between red and blue hair?
What the fuck? DURR THERE IS NO GREATER BONDING THAN FIGHTING WITH SOMEONE!!!!

>>46644020
I don't even understand why she liked her that much. Didn't care for their deaths.

>>46644064

>The backs

>>46643978
>There's going to be LOTS of talking.
More like, There's going to be LOTS of BAWING.
Madoka is gonna be whining for the whole next episode.

>>46643984
We got 3 eps, so unless they want to turn this into a black comedy ("Hi, my name is... *BAM*", "Oh, she died, but I am *BOOM*", "I will for sure save the *KABOOM*"), I can't see us seeing them.

>>46644060

Flashback + Big Fight + Conclusions/Epilogue

Enough to fill 3 episodes, not sure why you're worried.

Shit, Madoka could be sleeping in Homura's bedroom right now and we'll resume next episode right where they left off and get into Flashback right away

Thermo dynamics defying aliens == Satan's conceit against God in Paradise Lost.

Teenage girls as emotional batteries == Fourth wall breaking for the sad otaku who rely on child exploitation (even if not directly sexual) based on the genuine Lolita complex of a false projection onto a never real desired object.

IT IS IN NABOKOV AND MILTON PEOPLE.

FUCK THIS SHOW
FUCK THIS SHOW.

LAST EPISODE I WAS SO HAPPY AND JUST AGJOFHSIOGAHISODHGIOHG
FUCK THIS SHOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW

>>46644060
>The show has failed to make me care about those characters, not my fault.

So you also agree on that ?

As an engineer, the whole "lol entropy" speech made me grind my teeth and clench my anus.

>energy that defies thermodynamics, yet QB has infinite bodies (thus, infinite mass)

>>46644045
>Actually Sayaka died in episode 8.

Not really...witch Sayaka is still Sayaka.

Though I do agree that episode 8 was fantastic. This one was kind of sobering in comparison, but I don't mind. Hopefully next episode we'll get depressing Homu backstory...

>>46643804

Yeah that's a part of a larger image.

I"m gonna need that larger image.

So, who the fuck is the guy in the back?

>>46643984
In THAT town. Walpurgis Night is going to happen where there now is only Homura i.e, they're fucked unless Madoka transforms or plothax.

>>46644080

DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP

Still, willing to die for someone you met less than a week ago....Kyouko fell in love too fast man

>>46643829
>Please be happy together in heaven.

If only. Even if heaven exists, Kyoko's soul is shattered and gone forever, while Sayaka's is corrupted beyond redemption and in the next ep we'll be forced to watch Kyubey gleefully swallowing it ;_;

>>46644074
Why can't God exist if aliens do? It just means we translated our holy books all wrong.

>>46644123

Did he ever say he has infinite bodies? Besides, he could just be using the free energy from the mahou shoujo to create them.

What...what did anyone else make of this imagery here?

>>46644123

Not infinite, a lot. And nothing prove his incarnation have an actual mass.

You are too narrow-minded.

>>46644123
He makes forms a new body using the magic of a nearby Soul Gem.

>>46644123
I think it was stated in an interview that killing QB corrupts your soulgem. That's apparently a source of energy.

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this "QB is an alien fighting entropy" shit almost ruined the series. The upside is that there's 3 more episodes that can downplay this.

A better way to do the "entropy" thing: QB fuels the cycle of magical girls into witches, and then harvests grief seeds in order to remove their energy/emotion/whatever from "the cycle", and eventually remove both love and hatred from the world. Everyone will be more QB-like.

>>46644174
Kamijou

>>46644123
Therefore he is lying (duh) and Satan.

IT IS IN MILTON PEOPLE.

>>46644117
sigmundfreud.jpg
>>46644123
Did he ever say infinite?

>>46644193
Oh god, I was thinking the same exact thing as you man.

>>46644131
I think he meant the genki naive tomboy with high morals and abrassive attitude

She died a long time ago

>>46644123
QB doesn't have "infinite bodies"

is one of the requirements for being an engineer having to take everything so literally that you're practically autistic?

>>46644123
Not an engineer, but I just went
>wtf...
It would be better if they didn't explain and just left it open.

>>46644193

Red and Blue mixing together = purple

Homura is a mixuture of Kyouko and Sayaka's fusion.

>>46644193
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. Not that I have any idea what to make of it...

>>46644178
>Kyouko fell in love too fast man

She just wanted friends.

>>46643982
>madoka always cries like a little bitch
>emotions are energy

makes sense why kyubey wants her to contract now

>>46644081
She said it herself in this episode ...she cared for Sayaka because she reminded her why she wanted to become a PM in the first place.

Also, love that little QB/Kyoko interaction...
Hope you're all ready for your Reset end.

>>46644178
She had no-one before... Sayaka was her first. Of course she fell in love. She saw herself in Sayaka, and it was all over from there.

>>46644045

Tatami Galaxy episode 6 was much, much better.

>>46644193

BLEEDING TOGETHER

LOVERS FOR ETERNITY

>>46644193

Implied lesbianism

It's pretty common in anime nowadays. Too common in fact, if they want lesbians fine, stop with the "subtext" bullshit.

Oh boy, yet an other yuri pairing!
Isn't that show wonderful?

>>46644174

An illusion of Kamijou? Really,you can make up something for a simple image like that?

>>46644080

I agree

their relationship is not well developed in the show
because of that, Kyoko's death isn't that sad

Sayaka and Kyoko got wasted for almost nothing

Confirmed for ending:

Madoka was a strong Puella Magi and protects Homura and Homura looks up to her as an onee-chan. Madoka finally becomes a super strong witch. Homu can't take it, so she makes a wish and gets time travelin powers and tries to prevent Madoka from becoming mahou in the first place.

>>46644092
Madoka's been whining the entire show. I'm just waiting for one of those gainax whimpy-kid-becomes-badass moments. Probably not going to happen.

>>46644080
Suddenly, shounen.

>>46644288
What did you want, het? You gay or something?

extract from the manga

>>46644192
>>46644197
>>46644233

Now that I think of it, he never said infinite.

>>46644237

>is one of the requirements for being an engineer having to take everything so literally that you're practically autistic

How's that liberal arts degree working for you, son? Any job openings on your local starbucks?

>>46643964
>>46643964
I can't stop thinking of this.

>>46644090
>>46644019

Oh, sorry, didn't read >the backs

>Look at me

Well, fuck.

>>46644183
>It just means we translated our holy books all wrong.
>Not sure if troll.

Or that the books themselves are fucking fiction, written by mankind.

>>46643924
>>46643964
I wonder if homura and madoka will top this

>>46644266
who told you Kyoko is Sayaka´s friend?
What makes you think Sayaka looked at Kyoko as a friend?

>>46644241

>Red and Blue mixing together = purple
>Homura is a mixuture of Kyouko and Sayaka's fusion.

>mfw thermodynamics

Really, they should just leave it as magic. Even with the psuedo-scientific explanation, it's STILL magic because lolemotions = infinite energy source.

I'm beginning to get gloomy about the prospects of this show having a good ending. Not good as in 'GOOD END', but as in well-written. Sort of like Angel Beats where it just all fell apart in the last 3 episodes. We'll see.

>>46644227
In a couple of the previous threads a bunch of people stormed over that. We should wait and see if he's lying.

>>46644180
Given that this is all imagination, I'll use mine to say that both of them were saved from this damnation because it was incredibly unfair. Hubris begets Nemesis, but before Nemesis rains wrath down upon QB, she saved both their souls so that they may walk amongst the Elysium fields.

>>46644347

So you accept that space aliens can miraculously perform any miracle desired by a 12 year old girl...

...and bitch about Thermodynamics being violated.

>>46643964

Outlined it.

>>46644356

I'm studying on a scientific cursus.. I hate it want to know why ? Tooo much closemindness.. Well as you said it's a required kill so well..

>>46644227

Well just see the last thread. Aliens ruin the whole supernatural and mystical vibe of Witches, Magical Girls as would be Fausts, and all the classic literature being referenced so far.

>>46644193
Her lesbian blood is spilling out of her vagoo which causes her to die. What more to explain?

In actuality, there is now a love quadrangle. Or there would be, if two people weren't dead.

>>46644227

I like the energy shortage thing better. Human emotion isn't doing any harm to Kyubey's race so there's no real reason for him to want to eradicate it. Everyone needs energy, though. We're going to face an energy crisis ourselves at the rate things are going so I can somewhat see things from Kyubey's point of view.

I'm just wondering, where did QB say they had infinite bodies, they are only one race of creatures, just like humans. Each time one of them dies, another one just steps in right? Its not like one QB is spawning infinite bodies, just that there happens to be multiple QBs

a lot =/= infinite

>>46643964
>>46643924

I actually thought it was ridiculous how blatant they made this. I was watching the terribly animated fight scene and suddenly WAIT WHAT DAT SYMBOLISM

Let's see what Madoka and Homura can pull off....maybe disappearing in a flash of light together, restoring the ruined city to normal?

>>46644361
I'm not trolling. What I'm saying is that aliens don't preclude the existence of God. I'm not saying that God exists or does not by my statement. Calm down, no one is throwing a Jack Chick tract at you.

>>46644423

The show still has a supernatural vibe, Kyubey himself says that mahou shoujos defy all reason. He may be an alien but the magic is still just magic as far as we know.

>>46644358

HOLY FUCK, THEY'RE ALL "LOOK AT ME"

People are jumping to conclusions here, there was no "relationship" between Kyoko and Sayaka, and the episode didn't imply that there was. It was clearly one sided. Kyoko admired Sayaka because her idealism reminded her of the reason she became an MG. Pretty simple stuff, and certainly hinted at since ep 7.

>>46644080
Who said there was a relationship? It's all pretty clearly one sided on Kyouko's part.
She sees someone falling down the same route as her but still trying to do good. Kyouko has given up on herself to a degree but hoped that Sayaka could be saved.

>>46644423
> Aliens ruin the whole supernatural and mystical vibe of Witches
You ever heard of the Lovecraft Mythos? Plenty of aliens there, but still lots of supernatural and mystical stuff.

>>46644423
Agreed. Genre mixing just results in mixed signals. If this was done all with aliens from the start, it would be another cool retelling of Faustian principles, but if it then shifted to magic it would suck. There's nothing inherently wrong with aliens, just with using things in the wrong places. Genre should stay consistent.

>>46644397
Looking kinda Junko there, Madoka.

>>46644397
Don't even say such awful things. This is anime for God's sake. Of course than can easily happen ;_;

Madoka: I wish you Incubators had emotions!

QB: FFFU-

>>46644234
>>46644193
>>46644247
>>46644279
>>46644282
Here's my theory.

>>46644417

Yes.

Magic is magic, but you don't fuck with MY science, bitch.

If they leave the whole alien technology thing where it is, I'll be fine with it. It's still a mysterious, vaguely malevolent plot device. But if the next three episodes expand on it at all I will be very disappointed.

Entropy is death, a symbol of death.

Only Jesus Christ can save us (this is Faust and not the Mahabharatha... for the Mahabharatha please see Neon Genesis, "Krisna, tell me why I must kill my entire family..." [short answer: I'm fucking Krisna and have four thousand heads]).

So entropy is symbolic of death, and death is obviously the emergency into adult sexuality, ala changing from a _puella_ maji into an adult witch.

There is an incredible energy given off when a young girl becomes a full woman.

ENTIRE SHOW ABOUT BREAKING HYMENS

>>46644487
>admired
It did not seem that.

>magic
>becomes aliens
OH HO HO, GAINAX ENDING IS NOW A POSSIBILITY.

>>46644546
Mine too ;_;

>>46644568

And once again Freud was proven right.

>>46644487

Sure is in denial in here

So why do they have to be girls? Because they're more emotional? Nice implications there.

>People actually taking QB on face value
>Filename related

>>46644423
>>46644511
It's not like the next episode we're going to suddenly cut to a bunch of cute furry animals flying around in X-Wings blowing up space-witches or anything.

You guys need to chill out. like
>>46644509
pointed out, the Lovecraftian edge to this has always been apparent, and supernatural/magical horrors from space is one of the defining aspects of the Mythos.

>>46644568

>>46644485
SOMEONE CONFIRM THIS, THIS IS /x/ SHIT

>>46644487
Given this episode I can accept that, yeah, there was/could have been a one-side romantic interest between Kyouko and Sayaka.

>>46644611
So beautiful, yet so evil, inQBus.

>>46644622

>It's not like the next episode we're going to suddenly cut to a bunch of cute furry animals flying around in X-Wings blowing up space-witches or anything.

If they were willing to go that far, I'd be totally cool with it to be honest.

Keep in mind, coobie was talking to Madoka about this, the person he's been manipulating throughout this entire series.

>>46644485
The monster inside me...

>>46644610
Because then we'd have Star Driver with 10x more loldeep

>>46644622
>It's not like the next episode we're going to suddenly cut to a bunch of cute furry animals flying around in X-Wings blowing up space-witches or anything.

FUND IT.

Ok,so it would seem Sayaka isn't our witch appearing for Walpurgis night.

I keep thinking Madoka is that witch, but that doesn't make sense,and QB is using said witch to show up and lure Madoka into making a contract.Perhaps there is another magical girl around who had godly powers and became corrupted recently. Or maybe it's a combo of many fallen puella magi?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulthulthulthulthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Sorry, I stuttered.

You idiots stop arguing about genres. First you cream your pants because this isn't a typical mahou shoujo, and now you complain because its not a typical mahou shoujo?

What fucking difference does it make if magic exists in the universe along with science? Science exists along side magic in every piece of fiction with magic, this one just happens to utilize a little more science to explain Kyubey's origin.

If they start showing space ships or something then I'll be right on your boat, too, though.

>>46644425
>>46644421

Wallpaper

>>46644663
Yeah, to be honest, as I typed that, it kinda appealed to me too. I'm thinking Nibblonians, and what not. They were really adorable, in their tiny ships.

>>46644546
I told you "Wallawalla Night" was MS slang for menstrual periods. I TOLD YOU.

>>46644511
Actually, the fool-proof way to turn this anime into a shitfest is if they mention Faust/Mephisto in any plot related way. Just imagine:

Madoka disccovers she is 1/45 german, the last descendent of dr. Faust!

QB: You arer as stubborn as your grandpa, but I won´t give up-sign the contract!

>>46644487
Kyoko clearly had a bit more than mere admiration, if she didn't want to go on living after Sayaka couldn't be saved.

>>46644689
They should have stayed pure Faustian.
Genre-shifting is regarded as a symptom of Gainax Endings.

>>46644422

>spelling

not sure if troll, but anyways, theoretical physics is all about "close mindness", you can't just make shit up.

>>46644485
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

>>46644689
>>46644689

It is one thing to invert (ho ho, inversion, lesbians) a Genre and turn it into its own negation.

It is another thing to LOL RANDUM the plot.

mfw Kyubey and his infinite bodies trying to get all Borges in my Madoka

It isn't Yuri fucking faggots. Sayaka reminded Kyokou about herself, and that's why she cared about her.
It isn't fucking lesbianism, so stop with your fucking shippings.
Sayaka become a Magic Girl because Kamijou and her transformation into a witch was for the most part thanks to kamijou.

>>46644745
THESE WOOOOOOOUNDS THEY WIIIIIIIIIILL NOT HEEEEEEEEAL

>>46644684
>Perhaps there is another magical girl around who had godly powers and became corrupted recently.

Hitomi.
I warned you about Green Rangers, bro!!!
I TOLD YOU DOG!

>>46644684

Like many other /a/nons have speculated, it's QB who is busy incubating some super witches to cause massive shit.

>>46644689
The "magic is really aliens" thing is overused in anime, and rarely done well. To me, at least, it takes away something of the wonder of the concept of magic, replacing it with something much more mundane.

So has Japan made any interesting fanart related to this episode, yet?s

>>46644689
brofist man

I hopped on /a/ after watching the last episode hoping to see people talking about how good and interesting the episode was and I get this shit.

>>46644485

Sayaka didn't love Kyousuke, which is why she couldn't confess. She admired him and wanted to be loved and admired in the same way.

Who better to do that than a spicy red-head who sees herself in Sayaka? While I saw that Sayaka and Kyouko wouldn't be around when Walpurgis arrived, their departure was kind of abrupt for me, similar to Mami. I'm hoping for some closure in the next episode, and with 3 episodes left for the strongest love to grow, I can't wait.

>>46644704
Got that in 16:10?

I just hope QB wouldn'y explain more on his origin or race.

SnW did a good job in presenting a mysterious race of "invaders" that destroyed the world. But instead of giving a 15 minute monologue about their origin, their existence is just subtly referenced throughout the show, their faces not fully shown, the characters saying that "they' just happened to be there". Which gives the viewer enough curiosity to speculate what they are by piecing small hints scattered within the show but still leave the "invaders" as vague, unknowable creatures.

>>46644755
Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? They wouldn't just pull that shit out of nowhere. It's been planned since the very beginning.

Would you consider what QB told to Kyoko about saving sayaka a straight up lie or more of twisting of the truth?

>>46644689
>>46644735
I don't see the problem though. Nanoha went full magic=science and it had no issues with that.
Anime science might as well be magic, there is no functional difference.

For 7 episode, Madoka Magica has NEVER started a new episode from where the previous episode left off and always resorted to flashbacks to fill in the viewers in on what happened.

This changed in Episode 8, and again in 9, where we continued directly with Sayaka from where the previous episode ended.

It's highly possible that Episode 10 will resume directly at Homura's house, where she has presumably taken Madoka for the moment.

JUST FUCK ALREADY

>>46644728
I agree, that's clearly what the creators were trying to convey. It's pretty unambiguous in this case actually. There's no they could have been animating that scene and not thought "LESBIANS" at some point.

It's a pity they didn't develop the relationship a little better but what can ya do.

>>46644762
You seem to forget that yuri undertones are in ALL magical girl anime.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they had Homura and Madoka kiss on screen, since I don't think an outright yuri kiss has been done in this genre before.

>>46644485
Ther's some different text too, with a black outline

>>46644743

If you want to do research I seriously doubt physic or Math require to be close-minded. The contrary in fact, you can't find new theorem, way to prove them or oldest, grasp concept if you're close-minded.

>>46644762
Kamijo?

>>46644795
Well, it rather helped there that the invaders in SnW were long dead and gone and not actively attacking.

Coobie on the other hand is skulking about and actually talking to them.

>>46644860

That's probably bleed through from the front

>>46644735
>regarded as a symptom
By who? You seem to just be making shit up to justify not liking something.
Just say you don't like it and be done.

>>46644119
>LAST EPISODE I WAS SO HAPPY

WHAT.

>>46643804
Yes, yes he would, are you happy now?
You got the answer you've always wanted, you damn furry, yiff in hell.

>>46644808
I think it's more of a "Lol I don't fucking know" moment; he didn't specifically know if Sayaka could be saved, but he didn't say anything against it either.

Actually, I've no idea why you complain about the whole QB is an alien deal.

>>46644767
It's not "magic is aliens," it's "magic is an anomaly that exists in the universe that our species happened to discover and learn to manipulate."

That's like a thousand times cooler in my book.

>>46644704
Thx!

Am I the only one disappointed? After the great animation in Mami's death and Sayaka turning into a witch, this episode had really poor animation; I mean, it was par the course with Madoka, but it was really poor compared to the previous two "key-scenes" in the show. The episode itself was very awkward, too. The whole drama between Kyoko and Sayaka was unbelievable as fuck and the execution didn't sell it at all. Episode 8 elevates Madoka from good to great and episode 9 brings it down again.

>>46644762
None of that stops Kyouko from being gay for Sayaka.

>>46644864
You'd be surprised how dogmatic some scientists are. Not that they should be or all are.

>>46644801
Do you know how stupid authorial intention is as an analytical technique.

I'm not going to get post-modern and reader/reading supremacy on you, but in the hermeneutic interplay between reader and text this is simply BAD WRITING.
>finish lingling

>>46644871
That was the first thing that popped into my head when I read it. I literally sat there for like 2 minutes thinking "What the fuck does Touma have to do with Madoka?"

Felt retarded man.

>>46644509

Yes but Lovecraftian Horrors are chaotic evil monstrosities that cannot be comprehended by mortal minds.

If what I'm thinking is true, QB is a part of your generic space enforcers that try to keep balance within the universe ala Anti Spiral.

>>46644780
>Sayaka didn't love Kyousukewhich is why she couldn't confess. She admired him and wanted to be loved and admired in the same way.

>Who better to do that than a spicy red-head who sees herself in Sayaka?

Those yuri googles are clearly blocking the oxigen to your brain

It wasn´t the best platonic romance, but hey, not many have success and cheers in their first crush.

In case of troll, 7/10, you got me sligthly mad.

>>46644762

So what, you think they just dropped in all that yuri symbolism by accident?

I agree, implied yuri is fucking stupid, especially when it's as underdeveloped as in this case. But the undertones were CLEARLY intentional

>>46644918
BD/DVD fixes incoming

>>46644913
That's pretty much the same thing to me, and yeah, I don't find it as cool as you do. Aliens and magic (or more likely, technology that looks like magic) just isn't my thing.

Urobuchi here. I hope you guys didn't forget about Madoka's family.

>>46644818
Ok yurifag, Madoka doesn't show ANY kind of interest towards Homura. NONE.
So stop trying to shove your yurigoogles into everyones eyes.

>Sayaka, I've only known you for for a short time... but I love you!

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

>mfw when Kyouko really killed only Sayaka's familiar and Madoka will have a Witch's Kiss branded on her next week

>>46644957
While Kyubey isn't chaotic, he's clearly just as alien in thinking. To him, human girls are just an energy source, the same way we think of cows as a food source. Remember what Homura said?

>>46644762

Eh, nah it was pretty clear and intentional.

Kyouko and Sayaka were pretty into each other. Why you so mad over some animated gay people

>>46644864

I didn't imply that.
FUCKING MAGIC != creativity

I'm just saying that, as a scientist, you can't just accept new stuff without evidence.

That's kinda the same thing that happened when "imaginary" numbers were introduced, since classic mathematicians refused to believe without evidence (they couldn't support those theories back in the day), but now we're fully aware that imaginary numbers are part of math, and not just random shit.

I hope I've made my point clear.

Sayaka witch design was shit

>>46644704

>>46644996
We never said Madoka showed interest. Homura is the one who's clearly head over heels for Madoka.

>>46644901
They're upset because they didn't predict it.
At no point did any one ask where Kyubey is from and just projected the idea that he's evil.
Now he's an alien using weird pseudo science to save the universe and they have no idea what to think so the default to angry.

>>46644901

because it's just out of the blue
no foreshadowing, no clues

QB was actually an alien, U MAD?

fuck

>>46644996
Uh yes she does.

Give into despair and become a puella magi, Madoka. It is for the good of the universe.

>>46644990

You can't. You heartless monster.

>>46644996
True. But you can't deny that Homura has very strong feelings towards Madoka and this is a magical girl show. You don't need yuri goggles to see this.

Suleika is going to appear next episode probably.

The moon keeps getting more and more covered. It's going to be completely blacked out in a new moon by next episode.

>>46644939
>I'm not going to get post-modern and reader/reading supremacy on you, but in the hermeneutic interplay between reader and text this is simply BAD WRITING.
I would counter that making a judgment on a whole series before you've seen the whole thing is BAD ANALYSIS

>>46645034
I thought making her a mermaid was fitting.

>>46645025
>Kyouko and Sayaka were pretty into each other. Why you so mad over some animated gay people
No, they weren't.

>>46644782

what the heck is 16:10, wideface?
However, please post your desktop resolution. That should do the trick.

>>46644996
Ah you know I'm right deep down though. Why don't you go wallow in some more self pity

I'm eagerly awaiting attempted rape next episode.

Well Sayaka at least has a full and regonizable body for her funeral..

>>46645025
can't_tell_if_trolling_or_stupid.jpg

>>46645039
>Trolling.

"Oh, they must be angry because they didn't predict it would happen!"

There couldn't be any other reason.

So how about that foreshadowing, eh?

>>46645073
Yea they were. Why so stubborn, you're not white are you?

>>46645044
What did you think he was? A creature from another plane? Isn't that the same thing?

>>46644485
I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ME
NOBODY EVER LOOKS AT ME

jaysis, yurifags are ruining this thread.

Am i the only one dissapointed because they didnt exploited Sayaka regeneration to make a long and tortuous death scene?

>>46645077
It's a dumb resolution that's going the way of the dinosaur.
1440x900
Thanks.

>Implying Madoka isn't LOLDEEP loli shit for fat pedos without loves

>>46645000

／人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人＼ is watching you masturbate

>>46645073
>>46644762
Why u mad though?

As far as I understand it:

Emotions/souls are basically spiral energy.

Because it violates the third law of theromodynamics, Kyubee's race has found a way to harvest it and save the eventual heat death of the universe.

Humans are perfect because they're numerous with strong emotions and teenage girls are the most emotional.

So... If Madoka is the strongest of them all with the potential to "even bend the laws of the universe" is there some kind of TTGL ending coming?

>>46645115
When did Sayaka ever show a feeling of affection for Kyoko?

>herp derp let's fight to the death!
>now I care for you!
poorly written characters are poorly written.

>>46645125
No. She should have been magical girl wolverine.

All the most emotiv part is between girl, that is more importand that a fail crush

>>46645123

>jaysis

Irishfag?

>>46645111
I don't think that counts as foreshadowing unless you mean something other than what she's saying.

>>46645150
More like everyone gets tanged end coming
but except actually sad

>>46644957
>Yes but Lovecraftian Horrors are chaotic evil monstrosities that cannot be comprehended by mortal minds.
Not all of them were. In fact, Kyubey's revelation in this episode reminded me heavily of Whisperer in the Darkness.

It fits even more so when you realize the whole point of that story was aliens tempting a human with a proposition, the downside being that you had to shed your body and place your consciousness inside a physical object (brain in a jar, as it were).

I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was one of Urobuchi's influences for this series.

QB really needs to work on his speeches.

Oh man, I laughed so much during QB's explanation.

It basically said Madoka is the most emotional girl he's seen.

>>46645159
Agreed.

>>46645135
It's Park Ranger!

Throw in your meaningless copypasta dumps, we need them right now to dilute this yuri vs no-yuri argument some more.

Shitty episode was shitty, i felt nothing when they died

>>46644996

Just wait until her memories come flooding back.

>>46645150
>teenage girls are the most emotional.
If that were the case, why is the MC of TTGL a man?

Manly men have more spiral energy, therefore, they should be the magical characters.

I think it has more to do with instability to keep up the mental game going that the incubators use to their advantage.

>>46645183

She was talking about her family, something is going to happen to it and I bet QB will be behind it.

I'll uninstall my Opera.

>>46645071
Sure sure, they're going to manage to unfold the fact that QB was the Prince of Lies all along and pretend they're playing to the fourth wall.

With how much fucking foreshadowing they've used they're not going to pull a trick like that, this is a simple plot, not a mystery novel, and the evidence is being _withheld_ artificially from the reader rather than being presented to the reader at the same time as the detective.

They establish early on that they're inverting or subverting genre, not playing multiple of cross genre. Suddenly adding cross genre elements at the end = bad writing.

>>46645217
>Kamina as a magical girl
...
I wouldn't mind seeing this.

>mfw I realize Kyouko's final prayer was for Sayaka

>>46645184
not poorly written. and kyoko was only fighting t injure sayaka (which was basically impossible) and did you see ep. 7? kyoko really is just a person who's given up on herself and ideals. that's why she wants to save sayaka. she sees some of herself in her.

>>46645210
Some deaths are sudden on purpose you know.

>>46645155
When he told her to fuck off....no, wait.

When he rejected her apology and threw her food....uh, that´s not right.

I know, how about when they try to kill each other after meeting for the first time?.....shit.

inb4 Yurifags says Sayaka was just being tsun

So far this show has got 4 genres covered (magical girl, horror sci-fi and yuri)

I wonder what's next.

>>46645217
>Kamina as a magical girl

FUND IT

>>46645159
>Lets fight
>Then Kyouko learns about Sayaka's wish
>then they both learn they're zombies
>Then Kyouko tries to make amends knowing they're stuck in the same boat
>Then she sees a girl she's tried to befriend lose her shit
>and then become witch

It's like you didn't watch their interactions.

>>46645210

You're making excuses for your evident lack of taste.

>>46645199
And Homura suppresses her emotions all the time, and has the weakest magic offense.

>>46645123
More like people who have a problem with yuri are.
Yurifags were happily frolicking and they had to come in and whinge and moan.

>>46645198
Hey it works for al-Qaida.

>>46645035

extendet version

>>46645271
Actually most /u/fags agree, it was one sided which just makes it all the more delicious.

>>46645272
hentai

>>46645249
What genres are being crossed here
It's all speculative fiction

>>46645303
>mfw i just realized yurifags don't like actual lesbians in anime but simply implied (fanfiction) ones

>>46645044
What >>46645116 said. At least I didn't believe he was Satan or anything.

>>46645321

lol no. don't claim you know an entire board, even one as slow as /u/

>befriend Madoka
>die
I guess this is why Homura hides her emotions.

Also, what happened to "She had her mind wiped"?

Given that Madoka really hates coobie now its going to take something big to make her contract.

>>46645249
see:
>>46645186
There is a rather obvious piece of intertextuality going on in this work, beyond simply Faust; just because you aren't familiar with the references being made doesn't automatically make it bad writing. It just means you merely lacked the faculties to pick up on what was being suggested.

thank goodness kyouko went down a badass.

i don't think i would have been able to accept any other way. not like i want to accept this one. ;_;

>>46645375
You mean like Walpurgis night?

Useless death. She sacrificed herself for a smaller good, when she could have helped Homura beat Walpurgis.

Tch.

>>46645378
It's faggots like you that give all us madoka fans a bad name you know that, right?

>>46645358
I was just using it as shorthand for yurifags.

>>46645265
Lol, Zuko + Mello.

>>46645399
what a meaningful and persuasive response

>>46645395
But she sacrificed herself out of love.
Fuck the world, we're dealing with Entropy here.

About the whole yuri argument, this Anon also thinks it's one-sided.

See >>46644704

Take note that it's Kyoko reaching out to Sayaka, who is not reaching out in return.

>>46645249
> They establish early on that they're inverting or subverting genre
And what better way to subvert it than to have the magical girls be power sources for some other species?

...Hell, it truly isn't much different from when we thought that Kyubey and his kind ate Grief Seeds. It's just that instead of eating them, they use the despair and negative emotions contained within as fuel.

>>46645352

There was clue he was an alien. There is a lot of him. In other word a specie of QB.

He is also shown eating a grief seed and is called incubator.

It's not out of the blue. I'm wondering if you guys actually watch it..

>>46645130

here you go. I hope you don't mind that I use this new wallpaper version.

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new thread

I really want to believe that everything QB said to Madoka in this ep was a lie, I don't want to believe that SHAFT fails that hard at physics.

I'm finally on the 'QB needs to die a horrible death' side after this episode.

>>46645395
She's selfish it's one of her character traits.

>>46645444
S'all good. Thanks.

FUCK THIS SERIES

GODDAMMIT ;_;

I almost shed a tear except that commercial at the end came on...

>>46645428

She wants to help Sayaka. Really she wants to help Sayaka because she sees her as a sort of second chance to live up to her own ideal she had before her father went insane. No yuri. Kyoko is jsut a very kind person at heart.

>>46645444

and one version less damaging to the eyes

>>46645434
>There was clue he was an alien. There is a lot of him. In other word a specie of QB.
Or, he could just have multiple bodies. Which happens a lot in magic. Decoys are everywhere, man. It's sort of a necessity when you're 2 feet tall and seem to have the strength of a regular house cat.

>He is also shown eating a grief seed and is called incubator.
I don't remember the last alien I saw that ate grief seeds and was called incubator.

>>46645271

If she wasn't interested, she would have left. Kyouko called Sayaka's bluff right off the bat, something that hadn't been done before. She also shook her foundation of beliefs in their first meeting. I think Sayaka was shocked to find someone like that, and didn't really know how to react at first, unfortunately we didn't get to see that seed develop. But that it was cut short so early makes it even more tragic for me. Sayaka might not have accepted Kyouko's friendship/love, but she certainly did not reject it.

Sayaka's labyrinth was very pretty.

;_;

>>46645517

Shut the fuck up.

>>46644901

Sorry for being a slowpoke, but had to fix that image for ya.

I don't think Kyoko loved Sayaka. She just couldn't handle that she failed to help her.

She spent a long time deciding to live only for herself after her wish backfired. Than the first person she tries to help avoid her own mistakes meets a fate worse than death. It was too much for her.

>>46645378
Of course there's a greater level of intertextuality going on, but referencing purile male japanese fascinations with entropy avoidance and Haruhi when they DON'T ADVANCE THE PLOT is bad writing.

They've moved out of Faust and into Milton and Parsifal a couple of times. As I said Nabokov is featuring heavily here too. All these works are about post-enlightenment reactions to the loss of the western "magical land" that still persists within Shinto and Japanese folk animism. Some theorists point to the loss of Jewish folk animism in Europe as the Holocaust, but unlike the Western folk animism, and Japanese versions, these never entered a literary cannon to any depth.

So no: cross referencing Gurren Lagann and Haruhi isn't good writing, it is shit. American Psycho doesn't suddenly stop using US Advertising as its non-literary text source and jump into European philosophy: it keeps a consistent texture.

>>46645513
>I don't remember the last alien I saw that ate grief seeds and was called incubator.

Nah him being an alien who wants to fight entropy (surely not all) explains why he ate the grief seed/is called incubator.

Try to use your brain..

>>46645677
You were using that as reasoning for why "lol QB is an alien" is apparently obvious instead of say, a magical species living on earth or something.

>>46645755

Nanoha did this exact same thing and no one complained.

>>46645813
Why do it again tho?

Better shot of the ending Sexyouko eyecatch?

>>46644539
This would lead to a fantastic ending, and I am shocked not more people here have acknowledged this.

That would be one powerful scene if Kyubey were to understand the pain and suffering he had caused in one single forever lasting blast.

I want a doujin where kyoko saves sayaka but they still end up in a hotel

>>46645919

wait a minute, how is qb collecting up the immense energy that is dispersed when then change into a witch? the grief seed is like the spent up part isn't it?

>>46646220
>the grief seed is like the spent up part isn't it?

Oh, is that what believe?

>The mermaid, or syrenka, is the symbol of Warsaw. Images of a mermaid symbolized Warsaw on its crest since the middle of the 14th century. Several legends associate Triton of mythology with the city, which may have been the mermaid association's origin.

Triton carried a trident, as does Kyouko. She's frequently depicted with Taiyaki, too.

>Warsaw is also known as the "phoenix city", as it recovered from extensive damage during World War II

Sayaka also recovered from extensive damage.

>>46643880
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blld6o0D2gs&feature=watch_response

>>46644205
IOTW, QB uses your soulgem as fuel to spawn another body.

>>46645937
"Contract, Madoka! There's no other option!"

"All right, if that's how you want to play it: I wish you and your entire race could feel all of the suffering you've inflicted, tenfold! Every last one of you feel what you've done to Mami and Homura and Sayaka and Kyouko, and every other girl whose soul you've ripped out and crammed into an accursed stone, as if you had any right to decide where one's soul should reside!"

".......Is this what I have wrought?"

>Madoka's face when, in one fell swoop, she just thoroughly decimated QB's keikaku and damned him to an eternity of regret and suffering

;_;

>>46646960
If this is the ending I'm going to be pissed.

>>46646960
Not to mention redeemed herself for whatever bad traits she showed, a thousandfold.

Kyubey: no :3

>>46646960
I'd prefer she just wished for the xenocide of their species. And that they accept because it would "save the universe".

So, uh...What's going to happen to Sayaka's body?

>>46647176

It'll get cold, and eventually decay.

>>46647176
It's going to decompose now that Kyouko isn't maintaining it.

>>46647176
they're going to sell it

>>46646960
>yfw they already have emotions and have decided to supress them for the greater good

As soon as Madoka contracts, her family is dead. It would overwhelm her and she'd become the strongest witch.

>>46645206
>dilute this yuri vs no-yuri argument some more.

Whether one buys it or not, it's painfully obvious that this is what SHAFT was implying.

>"Sayaka is the gear witch" fags status?

[ ] Not Told
[ X ] Told

>>46647491
>Dem socks

They're just friends. You people are fucked in the head.

>>46647491
And classical music conveniently playing in the background...

Becoming a witch isn't so bad.

>>46647607
You know. it's teasing like this that actually makes me appreciate the ending of (the otherwise entirely awful) Kiddy Girl-and.

At least now Kyouko can have a DDR partner, dancin' in heaven. I'm looping that track. ;_;

>>46647859
This eyecatch begs to differ.